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Clear (Cybotron song)

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B-side
  
"Industrial Lies"

Format
  
12" single, 7" single

Genre
  
Electro

Released
  
1983

Recorded
  
April 1982

Length
  
4:54 (Radio edit)

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

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Sampled versions

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 loop was originally created and/or inspired by Kraftwerk as used in their composition "Hall Of Mirrors."

50,000 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."

Trivia

  • The song appears in video games Grand Theft Auto Vice City and Watch Dogs 2.
  • References

    Clear (Cybotron song) Wikipedia


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