of R&S Records. In 1999, Beltran released a self-titled album on Transmat as part of the production trio Indio. He resumed releasing albums under his own name with two albums in 2002, Americano and Sun Gypsy, followed by In Full Color in 2004. – John Bush, All Music Guide. John Beltran is one of those producers that always seems to elude being pinned to any one category. His early work on Carl Craig’s seminal Retroactive imprint sculpted a Detroit classic with hints of Derrick May, … Of the four individuals responsible for establishing techno as a genre in its own right, it is Juan Atkins who is recognized as the originator; indeed in 1995 American music technology publication Keyboard Magazine honored Atkins as one of 12 Who Count in the history of keyboard music; at that time Detroit techno was still relatively unknown in the United States despite its notoriety in Europe.