from the LP Enter, Fantasy Records, 1983
If you wanna know, walk through the door: this is the place where Kraftwerk met Afrika Bambaataa on the Dark Side of the Moon. The Earth shook when this album dropped… well, many big asses shook anyways, so presumably the ground moved a bit. Make no mistake, this is no ordinary electro album---the most subterranean roots of what the world has come to call “techno” all tap down to Cybotron (the name is a combination of the words ‘cyborg’ and ‘cyclotron’), the duo of Juan Atkins & Richard Davis. Most of today’s young techno heads look to Germany as the pinnacle of the scene, but it all began in Detroit; while Chicago took their inspiration for house directly from the disco and post-disco underground, Motown connected more with the dark, cold, steely vibe of electronic music, of both the experimental and electro variety; Mr. Atkins has been quoted as saying, “…when I first heard synthesizers dropped on records it was great…like UFOs landing…” Extra points for the charged reference to the civil war in El Salvador during the ‘80s, a horrendous situation in which America was deeply implicated.
from the LP Enter, Fantasy Records, 1983
