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An article about the importance of Cybotron's Alleys Of Your Mind send in
by T.Dancer from Kalamazoo, MI

Listen to the song here while reading

Who'll cry for modern man

Lost without a chance

Go fight eternity

Don't tell what you see

Lies and Truth side by side
 
Glazed eyes from some high

Anti Love is the word

No others ever heard
  

Alleys of Your Minds

Paranoia right behind

Alleys of Your Mind

Out of Sync Out of Rhyme


Stars of hate warp your mind

Where is your sense of time

Lazer beams cloud your dreams

Pop your mind at the seams

Take your faith in your hands

Do what your faith demands

If you do what you are told

Blame it on thought control

Alleys of your Minds

Paranoia right behind

Alleys of your mind

Out of Sync Out Of Rhyme

(Lyrics of 'Alleys of your Mind' by Cybotron 1981)
Alleys of your Mind is the very first Cybotron song and one of the most
important/influential dance music tracks of all time.

It is one of the songs that became a main ingredient in inspiring Techno.
It came out in 1981 and was a hit in Detroit. It played on the Electrifying
Mojo show frequently. People now would call this Electro but back then it
was Techno before Juan Atkins actually gave a name to the genre.

Most people know Rick Davis and Juan Atkins (who became MODEL 500 later)
were in CYBOTRON but there was also another artist in the band at the time.
He was named John “Jon 5” Housley and was a Vietnam war vet. He was and
still is very eclectic.

There was a local article that told more of his side of the story this past
year (2016) but it is not available online. *Bonus points if you can find it*

Vietnam quite possibly influenced the lyrics as Mr. Housley has a very
beautiful mind when it comes to processing events and translating it into poetry.

Later Cybotron went on to create similar powerful sounds on the Enter LP which
was the first Techno LP. It had Clear which is one of the most sampled songs of
all time, R9, and other really funky but dark tracks that set the stage for
the future of Techno artists.

As Anthony “Shake” Shakir says:
"Juan started it, Derrick (May) sold it, Kevin (Saunderson) had a hit,
and Jeff (Mills) reinvigorated it.”

It all started with Alleys of Your Mind