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Cybotron - Techno City (Fantasy, 1984)
Alleys of Your Mind, Cosmic Cars and Clear are all classics but Techno City is the one where it all comes together. It could easily soundtrack Blade Runner or Metropolis, the classic Fritz Lang silent film that gave Richard Davis the track’s underlying concept: “Techno City was divided into different sectors, the privileged sector in the clouds and the underground workers’ city.”
“The idea was that a person could be born and raised in Techno City, the workers’ city, but what he wanted to do was work his way to the cybodrome where artists and intellectuals reside. There would be no Moloch, but all sorts of diversions, games, electronic instruments. Techno City was the equivalent of the ghetto in Detroit, which is overlooked by the Renaissance Tower.”— Jon Savage on Cybotron: Techno City (Guardian, 2010)
