Cybotron - Maintain

Preorder 'Maintain The Golden Ratio': 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 “