Maintain The Golden Ratio, by Cybotron

Maintain The Golden Ratio

by Cybotron

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chickywashere this track practically kickstarted my interest in electro and to that i thank ya. oh and this track gives me some old skool 90s hacker vibes. Favorite track: Maintain.

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DJ-1 Cytoplasm This is ‘Origin of the Species’ type Techno! The masters return! 🫡 Favorite track: The Golden Ratio (Version).

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1.	Maintain 04:56	lyrics	buy track
Travelling in the fastlane future techno on my brain nothing stays the same but human I’ll remain we will maintain although I see the light shining brightly through the night a must to be aware darkness everywhere I’ll illuminate the path with a sword and a staff through the electromagnetic storm that surrounds us like a swarm we will maintain looking to the skies into the all seeing eyes the question will remain humanity we will maintain we will maintain travelling in the fastlane future techno on my brain nothing stays the same but human I’ll remain we will maintain although I see the light shining brightly through the night a must to be aware darkness everywhere I’ll illuminate the path with a sword and a staff through the electromagnetic storm that surrounds us like a swarm we will maintain looking to the skies into the all seeing eyes the question will remain humanity we will maintain we will maintain.
2.	The Golden Ratio (Version) 04:42		buy track

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Cybotron has re-emerged in our contemporary cybercultural age when artifactual futures begin a transition into a new era of "Meta".

By combining their knowledge of philosophy, science fiction, and mechanical engineering, at a time when electronic instrument companies were only just beginning to distribute their products to the masses, two prosumer audio technicians named Juan Atkins and Rik Davis were able to re-engineer Cybotron – a combination of the words “Cyborg” and “Cyclotron” (an atomic particle accelerator) – to be used as a home studio performance music that would change the course of independently produced and distributed electronic music.

Dissolving the boundary between singer, songwriter, and producer, Juan Atkins named Cybotron’s future forward funkadelic sound “techno” in reference to Alvin Toffler’s concept of unlikely “techno rebels” against technocracy. Techno is music that sounds like technology, and its purpose was to help society survive our collision with a universally felt “future shock” by inserting an audio virus into the cultural matrix.

Techno’s blueprint spread across the Detroit-Berlin Axis between Metroplex and Tresor. As human society began its transition from a post-industrial to an information-based market economy, Cybotron enabled a thorough system override of the human senses towards a tangible man-machine hybridity and showed the world how to channel their emotions and imaginations into new sound technologies and create new ‘sonic’ spatialities where listeners can transport themselves out of the physical world into the future. The cover of their debut album Enter (1983) transmitted a fragmented view of a body in motion being digitized mid-stride, dissolving physical and virtual reality into sonic fiction.

Today, the man-machine hybridity of Cybotron is still the truest form of techno, coevolving in conversation with the technological music they created and inspired. The latest data disk marks a new chapter that reflects a techgnostic musical expression of the knowledge acquired during their decades-long hiatus. Unlike the dance music industrial replications of the Model 500 formula, acknowledging the content marketing expectations that segments music into specific, sellable genres, this techno music is self-aware.

Cybotron processes dance music tropes spawned from its very own blueprint with a meta-tactical precision out of sync with our current rave new world.

Cybotron’s return demonstrates a studied engagement with what techno was and should be with a peerless update of Juan Atkins’ initial inventive idea of do-it-yourself electrically reengineered music xeroxed onto both sides of the 12” – uploaded directly into the alleys of your mind.

- The Rhythmanalyst

credits

released October 13, 2023

All tracks written and produced by Juan Atkins and Laurens von Oswald.
Performed by Cybotron.

Mixing on A by TJ Hertz.
Mixing on B by Laurens von Oswald & Thomas McAlister.

Mastering and Cut by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering.
Artwork and Layout by Johannes Schnatmann.

Text by The Rhythmanalyst aka DeForrest Brown, Jr.
Letter leaked by The Rhythmanalyst.

(P)&(C) 2023 Tresor Records
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When Tresor opened on March 13th 1991 in a shack on Potsdamer Platz, beneath which the vault of the Wertheim department store lay, no one would have thought that from there would arise an institution that one day would celebrate 33 years of existence.

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