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

"Clear"
Single by Cybotron
from the album Enter
B-side	"Industrial Lies"
Released	1983
Recorded	April 1982
Genre	Electro[1][2][3] Detroit techno[4] techno[5]
Length	4:54 (radio edit)
Label	Fantasy
Songwriter(s)	Juan Atkins Richard Davis
Producer(s)	Juan Atkins
Cybotron singles chronology
"Cosmic Cars" (1982) "Clear" (1983) "Techno City" (1984)

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 high-flying synthesizer loops, hard-driving beats and sparse, Chipmunk-style vocals-all elements", used in later techno songs as of September 1993.[6]

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."[7]

Cyclone Wehner of the Gold Coast Bulletin in 2005 described the song as precedence of Detroit techno and "Timbaland's tech-hop".[8]

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". The song appears in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in the radio station Wildstyle Pirate Radio.

References

External links

• Jon Savage on song: Cybotron – Techno City The Guardian Music Blog

На других языках

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[es] Clear (canción)

«Clear» es una canción de electro compuesta por el grupo estadounidense Cybotron, formado por Juan Atkins y Richard Davis (bajo el alias 3070).

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