Clear (Cybotron song)
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| "Clear" | ||||
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 Side A of the retail 12-inch US single | ||||
| Single by Cybotron | ||||
| from the album Enter | ||||
| B-side | "Industrial Lies" | |||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | April 1982 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 4:54 (radio edit) | |||
| Label | Fantasy | |||
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| Producer | Juan Atkins | |||
| Cybotron singles chronology | ||||
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"Clear" is an electro song performed by the American group Cybotron, and composed by Cybotron members Juan Atkins and Richard Davis. It was released in 1983 by Fantasy Records as the third single from their debut studio album, Enter (1983).
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, hip-hop and freestyle music artists such as Missy Elliott's "Lose Control", Poison Clan's "Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya" and Stevie B's "When Your Heart Is Calling".
