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If you don’t know Towa Tei, you might recognise him from Deee-Lite (“Groove is in the Heart”). Personally, I prefer his side project Sweet Robots Against the Machine. But he’s also an excellent DJ, YouTube throws up a load of clips of him having fun on the decks.

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You might also recognize a few samples from/shared with "Groove is in the Heart" (at 0:30 and 3:39) in "GBI (German Bold Italic)" (at 0:25 and 3:19). (Timestamps are for the YouTube music videos, which have short introductions not found on the album tracks)

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/8483/Towa-Tei-Kylie-Minogu...

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/426057/Towa-Tei-Kylie-Mino...

This story always cracked me up, but SEGA totally got away with it..

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/deee-lite-singer-loses-seg...

Both Towa Tei and Minogue super futuristic if not cyberpunk before it even was a thing.

Kylie Minogue's first album was released 4 years after Neuromancer was published.

technically, you are right. whats more

"The word "cyberpunk" was coined by writer Bruce Bethke, who wrote a story with that title in 1980."

but this was not even as subculter, yet alone a thing people recognized. to me Neuromancer also marks the onset of cyberpunk culture, but Kylie Minogue was among the few artists such as Bjork, who seemed to be bold enough to explore it artistically.

> super futuristic if not cyberpunk

Probably closer to retro-futurism x club culture

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