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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 …

Diseño Corbusier were an experimental industrial/minimal influx group from Spain who have been active through the 1980s. Making use of primitive drum devices and keyboards and utilizing Burroughs-inspired cut-up vocals, their Dadaist recordings dropped somewhere among Esplendor Geométrico and Cabaret Voltaire at their first and strangest. Javier García Marín and …