Clear (Cybotron song)

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"Clear"
Single by Cybotron
from the album Enter
B-side"Industrial Lies"
Released1983
RecordedApril 1982
Genre
Length4:54 (radio edit)
LabelFantasy
Songwriter(s)Juan Atkins Richard Davis
Producer(s)Juan Atkins
Cybotron singles chronology
"Cosmic Cars"
(1982) 		"Clear"
(1983) 		"Techno City"
(1984)

"Clear" is a 1983 electro song performed by the American group Cybotron, and composed by Cybotron members Juan Atkins and Richard Davis.

Production[]

As part of the song, Juan Atkins sampled "The Hall of Mirrors" (1977) and "Home Computer" (1981), both by Kraftwerk.[6]

Commercial performance and reception[]

Dennis Romero of Los Angeles Times in 1993 described the "Kraftwerk-sampling song" as "[i]nspired by Afrika Bambaataa's [...] 'Planet Rock' " and filled with "with high-flying synthesizer loops, hard-driving beats and sparse, Chipmunk-style vocals-all elements", used in later techno songs as of September 1993.[7]

At least fifty thousand copies of the "Clear" single were sold, according to a 1997 article in The Wire, which describes the song as a "groundbreaking…first-generation piece of pure machine music."[8]

Cyclone Wehner of the Gold Coast Bulletin in 2005 described the song as precedence of Detroit techno and "Timbaland's tech-hop".[9]

Later uses[]

The song's instantly recognizable loop has been sampled by many rap and hip-hop artists such as Missy Elliott's "Lose Control", and Poison Clan's "Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya".

References[]

  1. ^ "Break Dancin' to Da Old School - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. ^ "The Definitive Electro & Hip Hop Collection - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  3. ^ "Electro Funk, Vol. 2 - Various Artists - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  4. ^ Discotheque, Vol. 1: The Haçienda - Various Artists | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic
  5. ^ "Enter - Cybotron - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  6. ^ Simpson, Dave (May 7, 2020). "Kraftwerk: their 30 greatest songs, ranked!". The Guardian. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  7. ^ Romero, Dennis (September 5, 1993). "Ready Class? Old School Hip-Hop's Back in Session". Los Angeles Times. p. 68(?) – via ProQuest. This was a Sunday issue. Probably at either one of sections or Los Angeles Times Magazine.
  8. ^ Shallcross, Mike (July 1997), "From Detroit To Deep Space", The Wire (161), p. 21
  9. ^ "spins". Gold Coast Bulletin (G Go Magazine ed.). July 21, 2005. p. 6.

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