― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 30 April 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― prima fassy (mwah), Friday, 30 April 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
WOW
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 1 May 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
remixes on the way as part of the juno 10th anniversay thing (which produced the faze action/carl craig thing). cobblestone jazz!
― haitch, Monday, 4 June 2007 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
totally classic
― latebloomer, Monday, 4 June 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
no question
― sanskrit, Monday, 4 June 2007 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
fucking pathetic. This 12" is going to be some serious bullshit.
― Display Name, Monday, 4 June 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i kind of want to hear these 2 mid-90s albums. they're terrible, right? just their very existence intrigues me.
― so confused (blank), Monday, 20 June 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
I was just playing "Clear" the other night, and while it was spinning, I saw the words "Berkeley, California"--I thought I was hallucinating and then I realized, of course! Fantasy Records, Berkeley, that elusive Cybotron-Berkeley connection
― geeta, Monday, 20 June 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
Truly bizarre that Cybotron shared a label with Creedence Clearwater Revival, and (via the Reality imprint) Doug E. Fresh.
― henry s, Monday, 20 June 2011 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
Sylvester too
― so confused (blank), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
(the plot thickens)
― henry s, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
Wow it just hit me recently that the Dirtbombs' "Cosmic Cars" was actually a cover off of this album...I mean I should have known, but I didn't make the connection.
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the Dirtbombs definitely must be the only rock band ever to cover two Cybotron songs -- on the same album, no less.
Anyway, I have one of the '90s Cybotron albums on CD -- Empathy, from 1993 -- and while it's not on the level with the early stuff, it's sure never seemed terrible to me.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
Is it sonically similar to the 80s stuff much?
― so confused (blank), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
Even their classic first album (Enter, from '83) had some filler--c'mon, "Industrial Lies"? The best thing I can say about "Industrial Lies" is that it was the b-side of "Clear"
― geeta, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 01:50 (twelve years ago) link
nonsense - Industrial Lies is great - one of the best songs on Clear. Reminds me of Ultravox for some reason, in a good way of course
― the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
If you mean in the electro/Kraut/space-rock/prog/noise/free-jazz sense, yes, absolutely...Or, at least, it sounds more Cybotron than non-Cybotron. Playing it now, and it sounds great.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Also, fwiw, there are pretentious skit and/or talked interludes about childbirth -- "Millenium Embryo (Child Of The Waters and Beyond)" and ethnic cleansing -- "Sarajevo Boogie." My favorite cut is probably "Spirit Of the Moon," which is 5:23 long and probably the most metal thing on the album. (Cybotron's most metal '80s track was "Eden," I think, from 1986. Or at least it's the one that I listed in the singles appendix in the back of my heavy metal book.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
"Eden" is pretty great. It sounds like Robert Smith over late 80s maximalist Depeche Mode.
― so confused (blank), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
It sounds like Robert Smith over late 80s maximalist Depeche Mode.
Ack! See, this is where I disagree. The fewer vocals the better, as far as I'm concerned. And if there are vocals, for goodness' sake, put them through a vocoder
― geeta, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
the low whispery vocals on 'Night Drive' work imo (altho you can't really make them out half the time)
― blueski, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, the less you can make out the vocals, the more 'mysterious' they seem, the better--neither of these guys can sing
― geeta, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
eh it's a much different vibe than "cosmic cars" or what have you. Dystopian rage rather than soma-induced resignation
― so confused (blank), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone heard the ambient electronic tracks that rick "3070" composed in the late 1970s?
the only release i know is from 1978, and it's insanely rare--not on youtube either
― geeta, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
CLEAR
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 July 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
TODAY
― shaqiri tip (nashwan), Sunday, 8 July 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
No mention of the strikingly similar 'Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)' on this thread, also released in '83 but was it recorded and/or released before 'Clear' or not?
― shaqiri tip (nashwan), Sunday, 8 July 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link