Barton’s group brought live electronic music to the US rave scene in the 90s.

Dennis Barton, one of the founders of Orange County, California three-piece Skylab 2000 passed away over the weekend, his family confirms to LA Weekly. No cause of death has been disclosed at this time. Barton was in his 50s, but no exact age has been verified.

Barton, alongside his bandmates Stuart Breidenstein and Alissa Kuecker, were among the first to play live at American raves in the 1990s, performing with synths, drum machines and samplers instead of DJing. LA Weekly notes the group played “techno, breakbeats, trance and hard house” and “appeared in the DJ sets and on mix compilations from the likes of Sasha and Digweed, Carl Cox, Pete Tong” and others.

Listen to Skylab 2000’s ‘Auburn’ and ‘Roller Girl’ below.