First ever concert by the techno-pioneers Cybotron

Detroit techno pioneers Cybotron held their first ever concert last weekend in London's Barbican producing a show that was "as much about the eternal verities of the dancefloor as about high conceptualism or museum-piece reverence". Next to band's original member from the 1980s Juan Atkins, there were Laurens von Oswald, nephew of long-time collaborator the German techno aristocrat Moritz, and fellow Detroiter Tameko J Williams, AKA DJ Maaco. The three came on stage "one by one, dressed in matching boiler suits and a sci-fi version of welding masks, as lasers trace out geometrical patterns on the vast projection screen behind. It is a nice summation of techno’s roots: inspiration from the production-line aesthetic of Motor City’s car plants, and afrofuturist dreams of motherships and technological emancipation". The Guardian was there.