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Hugh O'Donnell's List: Arts-Books
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Jul 22, 09
Discovered this from an article in The Observer Music Monthly about early rave culture.http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/12/90s-spiral-tribe-free-parties
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Aug 08, 09
Referenced in: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Natural-Born-Cyborgs-Technologies-Future-Intelligence/dp/0195148665
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Sep 19, 09
While the song "Steel and You" is a spirited re-write of "Return to Zanzibar"
from the 1977 debut album by San Francisco sci-fi obsessives
Chrome
,[
citation needed
] other
major influences cited for this album's overall sound include
David Bowie
(both
'Ziggy'
and
'Berlin'
eras),
early
Roxy Music
and
Brian Eno
,
Lou Reed
and
The Velvet Underground
, and early
Ultravox
.
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It was also the first album of what Numan later termed the "machine" phase of his career[1], preceding The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, a collection linked by common themes of a dystopian science fiction future and transmutation of man/machine
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set in a not-too-distant future metropolis where Machmen (androids with cloned human skin) and other machines keep the general public cowed on orders from the Grey Men (shadowy officials).
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