Sheffield, 1973. Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson wired tape loops, shortwave radio and paranoia into shapes you could dance to, and spent the following decade dragging avant-garde method into pop. The Crackdown is post-punk discovering the sequencer. Draw a line from it to the city's bleep techno and it barely bends.
- Number 148 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century
1983
Ranked on the genre lists
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- Number 15 on The 10 Best Industrial and EBM Albums
1984
