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Smersh

NJ residents Chris Shepard and Mike Mangino shaped commercial duo Smersh in 1981, recording loud proto-techno tracks in primitive analog synthesizers and drum machines within their cellar studio room in Piscataway. The duo convened every Mon, wrote a music from scratch, documented it, rather than performed it once again, existing …

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