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Wendy Carlos: Switched-On Boxed Set (East Side Digital ESD 81422 4xCD)

David Toop, The Wire, December 1999

GOD KNOWS, there are enough CDs out there that clamour to be recognised as expressions of posthuman synthesis and the 21st century Zeitgeist. Then a box like this comes along, a reissue project no less, that seems determined to mask every science fiction notion that it cannot fail to stimulate.

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