[4] He was part of Juan Atkins's Deep Space DJ collective which included Art Payne, Keith Martin, and Derrick May, who was also Fowlkes's roommate.
[8] After hearing a Cybotron performance, Fowlkes moved from being interested solely in DJing to creating his own records.
Borrowing equipment from Atkins, he trained his ear and taught himself to play the keyboard over a couple of months.
"[6] This was followed by the 1993 Tresor release The Birth of Technosoul, featuring 3MB (Moritz von Oswald and Thomas Fehlmann).
Eddie Fowlkes's handprints are cemented on the Detroit Historical Museum's Legends Plaza as a techno music pioneer.