"Clear" is a 1983 Electro song performed by the American group Cybotron, and composed by Cybotron members Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins is an American musician. He is widely credited as the originator of techno music, specifically Detroit techno along with Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson...

 and Richard Davis.

Sampled versions

The song's instantly recognizable loop has been sampled by many rap and hip-hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 artists, including Splack Pack ("Shake That Ass Bitch"), Missy Elliott

Missy Elliott

Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott , is an American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actressA five-time Grammy Award winner, Elliott, with record sales of over seven million in the United States, is the only female rapper to have five albums certified platinum by the RIAA, including one...

 ("Lose Control

Lose Control

- Albums :* Lose Control, a 1992 album by Silk* Lose Control, a 2001 album by Ricky J- Songs :* "Lose Control", a song by James from their 1990 album Gold Mother* "Lose Control", a song by Missy Elliott, from her 2005 album The Cookbook...

", 2005), Poison Clan

Poison Clan

Poison Clan was a Southern hip-hop group signed to Luke Records from 1990 to 1995, the group had a various line-ups and members were JT Money, Debonaire, Uzi, Madball and Big Ram. Poison Clan played an important role in the development of the Dirty South movement that developed late in the decade...

 ("Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya

Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya

Created by the Poison Clan in 1992, which contained sounds of long, low-note basses, rapid hi-hats, and short snares which all accumulates to the basic sounds of Miami Bass. The song was a big hit in the South, with its bouncy, electro sounds and up-beat tempos that caused a raging excitement in...

", 1992), D'Suave ("Shake It"), and DJ Kizzy Rock ("Can't Stop The Rock").

50,000 copies of the "Clear" single were sold, according to a 1997 article in The Wire

The Wire (magazine)

The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music...

, which describes the song as a "groundbreaking…first-generation piece of pure machine music."

External links

• Jon Savage on song: Cybotron – Techno City The Guardian Music Blog