C Y B O T R O N 'Alleys Of Your Mind' (Deep Space 1981)

[gjg442]

mo jo rules Detroit.

[ponydownboy]

THE DANCERIE STAIT TO 3s A CROWD, BIG MANS THAT IS 247 BOYZZZ ALLLLLL DAY!!!!!!!!

[cheddabob808]

now all the bullshit on the radio in the d suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!crapmusic

[pretty4life313]

Detroit all the way love this song

[dman644]

this is the first techno song ever made

[Jakobsberg]

@dman644 wrong

[gmercado]

so is this version different than the LP?

[2maxxjazz]

1981 ........wow  futuristic ....its all NASA's fault !!! early electro was so experimental .. when making money from artist was the last thing their mind !!.

[MrAPRO66]

i remember when mojo used to play this. i still got my midnight funk association card .

[RAADONAI]

puto el que lo lea

[PeraDjordjevic]

Classic techno.

[raj1ladyblueangel]

Dude! You were only 10 years old. I am 53 and just now hearing this. I am also a native of Detroit. Better late than never. Peace.

[coreyniz9]

@raj1ladyblueangel did you just say peace at the age of 53... people on aarp should never say peace. it could be there last

[boccaccio1970]

Ma va la', il classico americano che scopiazza l'europeo pretendendo di essere novita'. Questa non e' che una versione semplificata di Kraftwerk, quellli si' veri genii.

[outsider4444]

Genio

[djdaisentertainment]

This technically predates techno.

[wandererlain]

Farout. Just played a game with the same name as this band. It's good synched with it, too.

[Pdog89gt]

riding around detroit when mojo use to play this and everybody in the city played the same radio station.........EPIC WIN

[eleesmith]

@Pdog89gt Dam i remember those days.you just dont have fun like that these days

[JEDI7ACEN]

Compared to today's music, this still seems like it's from the future.

[barf245]

Detroit Techno is cool

[opedroefeio]

2 persons were beaten up in the alleys of their minds

[trckfl1f2lds3]

thanks for sending this track into the alleys of my ears.

[tlbernel]

dis is da shiet.

[313rdub1]

this is still the shit 313 all day, mack and bellvue , better days , the firehouse, chop shop one x the whorehouse, packard plant the scene died out bring it back

[xactleeryt]

This cat lived down the street from me on Hartwell in Detroit....

[patchchrist]

It almost sounds like a hybrid of Joy Division and Afrika Bambaata.

[blackpixieful]

@patchchrist crazy how much electronica house and techno borrowed the aesthetics of post punk. reification of the themes of disco by kids who grew up listening to italo disco and kraftwerke, in the very city that influenced that german group.

[TheTayedrums]

this is all DETROIT 'BEATS'..MAINLY. HIP HOP-TECHNO-ELECTRIC FUNK-HOUSE-BOOTY MUSIC HOW EVER YOU WANNA SWING IT -IT IS FUNKY AND SOULFUL AND HAS A COOL BEAT..AND THATS WHAT WE ALL LIKE TO HEAR IN MUSIC PS AND I AM FROM DETROIT! YEAH! HAD TO TOSS THAT IN THE MIX

[TheTayedrums]

this is all DETROIT 'BEATS'..MAINLY. HIP HOP-TECHNO-ELECTRIC FUNK-HOUSE-BOOTY MUSIC HOW EVER YOU WANNA SWING IT -IT IS FUNKY AND SOULFUL AND HAS A COOL BEAT..AND THATS WHAT WE ALL LIKE TO HEAR IN MUSIC

[mta415]

the Electrifying Mojo used to cut this joint up to pieces! Go flash your porch lights! It's a Mojo thing if you don't get it.

[morborecords]

EL 1ER DISCO D TECHNO D LA HISTORIAAAA

[mrbrockpeters]

Black Eyed Peas totally ripped off (or borrowed) heavily from the sound of Cybotron.

[OfficialPhatKid]

here is an interview with the creator of this masterpiece

vimeo . com/19741733

[OscillatorCollective]

GHOST IN THE MACHINE...

[allstarollie2]

This is so badass. so much swagger.

[DGOTTI67]

this was the joint i remember this back in 1982, plus juan atkins is a hometown boy from Detroit!!!

[worldmeon]

Juan Atkins a King of The Future!

[my1rule]

My knees itch when I shit!!!

[MuzakConcrete]

*makes a stupid throwaway reductive argument about music condensed in a mathematical syntax* (then makes an unrelated reference to show off awesome music knowledge acquired from google search)

[basementdweller1]

@MuzakConcrete *Agrees in an overly obnoxious, cliched manner* (Shows retrospective sentiment about said music).

[MuzakConcrete]

@basementdweller1 *finally begins to understand said comment but then HEAD EXPLODES!!!!!111* LE FIN.

[blacknganga]

Kraftwerk has not the funk, well not funk at this level, anyway. Kraftwerk+Parliament=Cybotron! (Not to be confused with the Australian/Norse progressive rock band).

[blacknganga]

There was two types of relevant white folk dance in the seventies, the first was the punk-pogo-thrash: jump up and down, thrashing people on your trajectory, run back and forth across the room, arms flailing - too much fun. The other one is what middle-class aspirants and "yuppies" did in their fine threads when disco went "hetero" in the late seventies - whatever.

[blacknganga]

But there is another evolution at play here: Blues music slowly "jazzifies" itself through the thirties and forties, by increasingly incorporating tribal, ethnic and organic components, until it becomes "R'n'B", a highly danceable sound that eventually leads to what is effectively "Soul music", which births the guttural and fully Jazz/tribal "Funk music". Funk music is then further "filthified" in the Seventies, and merged with "the Kraftwerk sound" in '79/'80 for full mind/body "Electro".

[SunbeamsSting]

Great music, classic techno from Detroit.

[SUSANOSSS]

Copy from german group Kraftwerk

[blacknganga]

@SUSANOSSS Kraftwerk has not the funk. Well, not funk at this level anyway.

[MuzakConcrete]

@blacknganga you gonna tell me a track like numbers isn't funky? ...didn't think so.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete Numbers has been probably my favourite Kraftwerk track for years, it's incredible and yeah, funky, but it's a far cry from Planet Rock and Alleys. I think Kraftwerk may have invented the breakbeat simultaneously to the breakbeat in funk music. I suppose Kraftwerk invented electronic funk, but this new music quickly turned into something completely different as it fused with the Parliament thing.

[blacknganga]

@blacknganga Certainly not a copy of Kraftwerk, though, I'm sure you'll agree. Cybotron are SO important within the history.

[MuzakConcrete]

@blacknganga I respect that, I still feel that numbers was the blueprint to this music but I agree, it obviously changed over time.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete You could DANCE to Kraftwerk, but would you? I would certainly be hard-pressed to find a Kraftwerk track made before '82 that would make me want to dance. I can see the electronic continuity that YOU can see, that began with Kraftwerk, went into synthpop/hip hop/electro, then pop, techno, house, rave, psy, drum and bass and then back to the origin with SoCal then UK breaks and Electroclash, then was reinvented as Electrohouse in 2004 and Indie/Nudisco in 2008.

[MuzakConcrete]

@blacknganga There are plenty of Kraftwerk songs that I would love to dance to before '82, whether they are funky is another question!! And anyway, the Computerwelt was released in 1981. Your general argument regarding the evolution of music throughout the 20th century strikes me as teleological and rather neat - it's nice but it doesn't tell the real story.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete Yes I might have left out "the Jamaican Factor", but other than that, I feel that I have the dance story nailed, without even havind to mention Disco. A real story that would be impossible to tell, but my story is simply a collection of stories that are all at least somewhat true. Are you suggesting that there IS a real story to tell and that I'm clueless, or more along the lines of: "this would be an impossible story to tell, and nobody should be thinking like that, anyway" ?

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete You've already forgotten to mention the black influence behind this track (which was produced by an African American), so I'm already suspect on the bizz, but tell me something good, please. Teleological? Yes, to get arses moving! That's it. There is no end to this dance thing, just cycles and revelations from the underground. If you want to scrap you picked the wrong person, but you don't seem to have much oomph in your punch.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete What songs would you dance to by Kraftwerk? I'll try not to laugh if you tell me. Even Cybotron is so dry to dance to it seems funny. Good dance music has been cut every year since the early days of Chicago Blues, but I never thought of Kraftwerk as a dance group, way to dry. Electronic genius, yes, but they got NOTHING on Motown. NOTHING!

[MuzakConcrete]

@blacknganga I picked the wrong person? No blacknganga, I have enough knowledge to make anyone look like a fool. But I'm honestly not here for that. I do think your argument is a teleological one and I have serious problems with those kinds of arguments. Another undercurrent that I am sensing in your responses is the african american vs. white european argument, which I am not at all interested in, so forget it. best wishes.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete You have a new word in your arsenal; teleological. Why hide behind arcane language instead of getting to the point? I never suggested that "there is some future ends to music, and that all this is just an ends to get to some vague end point", whatsoever. Stand behind your statements, instead of scrapping pointlessly. Music evolves, end of story. I look into these evolutionary forces, and will tell you categorically, to see people dancing to early Kraftwerk would be hilarious.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete Sure it's Afro vs Euro! I've never danced to The Beatles, The Stones, etc. Ridiculous! Maybe back in the day they had a few dance numbers, but pretty well much entirely, music made by white folk before about 1979 was sort of undanceable. "Oh heaps danced to it!"' you cry. That's funny, thinking about people dancing to "Jumping Jack Flash" or the like. Good on them, punters and bands, that's not to say they new much about the best way to get ones arse moving.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete The music of Cybotron , Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa makes Kraftwerk look pedestrian by comparison. "Clear", "Scorpio", and "Planet Rock" is the mind/body music that rewrote the books. Not to say that Kraftwerk weren't "exquisite electonics" and "the founders of electro", but times moved fast for dance music in 75-80, and what Kraftwerk started was quickly seized upon by Americans and "funkified"; "fortified" with bass, turned on it's head for all time, "parliamentized".

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete Finally, you do not have enough knowledge to make ME look like a fool, I'd eat you for morning tea, boy. Those who speak sometimes don't know, and those who know sometimes don't speak, you though, are full of scrappy half-knowledge.

[MuzakConcrete]

@blacknganga with all due respect blacknganga, you don't even understand the word teleological and you've only thrown shitty ad hominem arguments in our last few exchanges. You think that name dropping afrika bambaataa and talking about how awesome african americans are passes for knowledge? I would destroy you in a face to face conversation concerning any topic in regards to culture, let alone music. You're a joke.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete You're a relatively unintelligent, pretentious twit. I don't doubt you would PHYSICALLY DESTROY me in person, out of frustration, because you would be unable to do it with your substandard intellect. Yet another English, no doubt; there's so many scrappy, nerd Poms on Youtube that it ain't funny. I'm yet to have an argument about music with an American, however. Hey, why don't you go and crank on "Uranium" or something, and have a little bedroom party for yourself, nerd?

[MuzakConcrete]

@blacknganga It's not my fault that you don't have an adequate grasp of the English language, it's only arcane if you're an underread rusty middle aged idiot, wait...That would be you!!! Can't even hold your own in your native language, come on son!! You get your kicks provoking people in the youtube comments section? And how many times have you brought up race and nation in our exchanges? These things point to the fact that you are simple minded and have some real issues to deal with.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete Ho ho ho.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete Next time, don't use words with arcane meanings, words that you seem to think you have some sort of patent on, it detracts from your ability to get a point across.

[blacknganga]

@MuzakConcrete Oh, I left some out: at the same time as the "Electroclash sound" was developing, and shortly after the UK Breaks sound was coming to the fore, some (mainly Continental Europeans) were stripping back and slowing down the techno sound to form the origins of the new "minimal/techhouse" sound. Also, at the same time as the Electohouse onslaught was being felt, the new UK sound, "Dubstep" was helping to entirely usurp the spirit from D'n'B & Breaks, which are presently dead.

[jerrycking]

I'm gonna do something similar to this...it's hot

[bigdaddylvbt]

MY HOMEBOY DETROIT NATIVE JUAN ATKINS(THE ORIGINATOR)

[groovechaser]

They DEFINITELY were listening to Ultravox- Mr X before making this. Good imitation! 

[blacknganga]

@groovechaser Bollocks they were imitating Ultravox. Ultravox and the other synthpop rarely had bass like New York/Detroit Electro. Electro and Techno were INVENTED in the US, by way of their meaty bass component. Parliament-Funkadelic + Kraftwerk = Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash & Cybotron. Of course Moroder's works predated these acts, but technically that's disco music.

[underlinelabel]

brilliant juan!

[trdidion]

thats awesome shit...gotta admit!

[Polyfusia]

I've decided I don't really like electro, excepting Gary Numan, who is more synth-pop.

It's too boring and dated sounding. I get all these images in my head of deformed eighties kids with fucked up hairlines, and Breakfast Club posters on the wall. It makes me want to kill myself.

Time to throw on some Biosphere. 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.

[qaliqo]

Oh to see that label looking back at me in a 45 bin...

[mfuji02]

81'!? goed daem

[intromix]

This is a pure treat, much thanks for posting!

[RippenRoblez]

: o )

[marcomira80]

Sounds really close to Krafwerk style. How could this be such innovative?

[CBRMackie]

pdog8gt...I can't believe you mentioned Jeff Mills (the wizard). I was listining to one of his mixes when I said to myself...I gotta find that song.

98 WJLB takes you back don't it

[Pdog89gt]

Detroit memories, the wizard (Jeff Mills) use to cut this ish up on the real.....

[megacorona100]

@Pdog89gt driving down jefferson to belle isle after the club at shelters or legends ,,,greek town and the detroit river front ! 1980s waz live detroit motor city for life * yea baby !!

[lordllidan89]

penso che gli attuali ascoltatori di musica techno la troverebbero molto noiosa..

[HaveATacoGringo]

pretty good

[apresmidi505]

very real. the realest

[wongawonga1]

i bought colossus back in 1979 still good now

[Socko973]

different cybotron!

[darkembassymusic]

obviously man! It's cybotron!! These lot made music that'll be alive for many many years to come!!!

[TANKDOGTROOPS]

i dont care if its techno or belly dance this is f***ing bad azz !! wow the beats are so damm tight i waz born 1971 and i still missed out damm !! its never to late to find the best of the best !!

[SuperTdj]

forse il primo brano techno della storia

[masterofpuppets186]

this is real techno