"Clear" is a 1983 electro song performed by the American group Cybotron, and composed by Cybotron members Juan Atkins and Richard Davis.
"Clear" | ||||
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Single by Cybotron | ||||
from the album Enter | ||||
B-side | "Industrial Lies" | |||
Released | 1983 | |||
Recorded | April 1982 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 4:54 (radio edit) | |||
Label | Fantasy | |||
Songwriter(s) | Juan Atkins Richard Davis | |||
Producer(s) | Juan Atkins | |||
Cybotron singles chronology | ||||
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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]
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".