| Clear | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Cybotron |
| Album: | Enter |
| B-Side: | Industrial Lies |
| Released: | 1983 |
| Recorded: | April 1982 |
| Length: | 4:54 (radio edit) |
| Label: | Fantasy |
| Producer: | Juan Atkins |
| Prev Title: | Cosmic Cars |
| Prev Year: | 1982 |
| Next Title: | Techno City |
| Next Year: | 1984 |
"Clear" is a 1983 electro song performed by the American group Cybotron, and composed by Cybotron members Juan Atkins and Richard Davis.
Dennis Romero of Los Angeles Times in 1993 described the "Kraftwerk-sampling song" as "[i]nspired by Afrika Bambaataa's [...] 'Planet Rock and filled "with high-flying synthesizer loops, hard-driving beats and sparse, Chipmunk-style vocals-all elements", used in later techno songs as of September 1993.[1]
At least fifty thousand copies of the "Clear" single were sold, according to a 1997 article in The Wire, which describes the song as a "groundbreaking…first-generation piece of pure machine music."
Cyclone Wehner of the Gold Coast Bulletin in 2005 described the song as precedence of Detroit techno and "Timbaland's tech-hop".[2]
The song's instantly recognizable loop has been sampled by many rap and hip-hop artists such as Missy Elliott's "Lose Control", and Poison Clan's "Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya".