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TIL The first techno album, 1983's Enter by Cybotron, used earlier singles that had been financed by Richard “3070” Davis's army disability pay. Davis, who had fought in the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive, started Cybotron after meeting Juan Atkins in music class at a Detroit community college.

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