Cybotron - Techno City

TK2, Apr 09, 2006

This record shows an exciting tension in todays listening experience. In spite of a romantic kind of irony the music has a futuristic, utopian appeal to it. The irony must have already been there for the listener of 1984 (think also of an album like Kraftwerks Computer World). But for todays listener an awareness of things past is added to this. It is not so much an awareness of older times and art in general, but especially a recognition of the period in which this record was made. The sound of electronic music of the 1980s is nowadays tapped into from a new perspective (or it is bluntly copied). A track like Techno City at the same time directs us towards the future and the past. It is however only able to do this under one condition, that it is and remains to be astonishing and beautiful music.

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