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Recruiting a bevy of oddball-celebrity sidemen and guest vocalists — sampled or elsewhere — somewhat blurred the backbone of the group, but David Barker and Simon Leonard documented several albums of motivated ambient-techno as Fortran 5. Indebted to such culprits of United kingdom whimsy as Syd Barrett and Monty Python, …

The North London group Komputer began its career in the later ’90s as an electro-pop act modeled largely after Kraftwerk but changed its design considerably in subsequent years, moving toward a far more original sound. Made up of Simon Leonard and David Baker, Komputer in fact began being a trio, …