"Cyberpunk OR AS BILLY THE CONTROL OVER TOOK"

Cyberpunk formed from Cyber ​​(old Greek: taxes, direct) and Punk is a dystopian direction of science fiction literature, which emerged in the 1980s. The term was coined by Gardner Dozois, to describe the works of William Gibson (Neuromancer specifically). Unlike the classic utopias of many other science fiction genres the world of cyberpunk is not shiny and sterile clean but grim, and marked by violence and pessimism. Created in the 1980s, it reflects the growing criticism against the perceived increasingly as commercialization and urbanization. In this dystopia states are controlled by large corporations that abuse the state monopoly of power for their own purposes, which has been lost (in developed countries previously existing) physical and economic security of the individual. The promise of a better world through the technological progress has not been redeemed. The high technology does not serve the benefit of the people, it is the general monitoring and tuning of living organisms used by cyberware. Critics see in this scenario influences the critique of capitalism: the corporations have taken power, governments, there is no more or play a subordinate role. For order make private, paramilitary security services. The boundaries between reality and fiction often become blurred with technology as having coined by William Gibson concept of cyberspace. Against this background, cyberpunk often draws the picture of a subculture that originated as it were as a counterpoint to a new world order without social and personal security. The main characters are mostly the losers of this development. There are fortune seekers and adventurers, often unintentionally lead a life away from the large corporations in the shadows of society. Many stories set as protagonists of power and ruthlessness against the unfettered corporations. For this reason, hackers popular figures in the cyberpunk literature. Meanwhile, cyberpunk themes through the detour movie, novel, comics, music and computer games were ever penetrated into mainstream pop culture. In the 1960s, Philip K.Dick took the novel to "Blade Runner" yielded many important issues of the future cyberpunk anticipate, although he was not a protagonist of cyberpunk. As cyberpunk in the strict sense can be referred to from 1980 to 1994 initially only films and novels of the period. The first works that have been used for the term cyberpunk, are probably the movie "Blade Runner" (1982) by Ridley Scott and the novels "Neuromancer" (1984) by William Gibson and "software" (1982) by Rudy Rucker. Since 1986, Billy Idol was a heroin addict and had consequently massive drug problems. Several court cases for derailments and brawls in the noise gave him negative headlines and probation u. Fines. Only after an overdose of a drug-u. Drug cocktail in early 1993, which would have cost him a hair's life and brought him again for a long time on the intensive care unit, pulled Idol shortly before the impending physical and financial ruin just in time the emergency brake, and made a successful withdrawal. His drug experiences he worked in part on the data published in the same year, self-contained concept album "Cyberpunk", which stylistically distinct from the rest of his works. Instead handmade rock or punk sounds is his music a mix of electro beats, mixed with rock rhythms and psychedelic overtones, is musically and lyrically inspired by the works "William Gibson". Booming techno beats, screeching guitar riffs, the computer sampled voices represent an interpretation Idols of cyber culture. The album was created in Idols home studio in LA. At the heart of the artistic photographs was a Macintosh computer with the corresponding music software. Inspired by his personal interest in art, this was his first attempt to use computer in the creation of his music on the basis of Cyberdelic subculture of the later 80s and early 90s. Strong in his experimental style, the album was an attempt Idols to take control of the creative process in the production of his album. The album knows draws a cyberpunk-style narrative and synthesized vocals with techno influences. Idol put then consequently several precedents in the process of promoting his album, like his use of the Internet, e-mail, virtual communities and multimedia software. The aesthetics of cyberpunk themes he had in his music videos, fashion style and stage shows incorporated. He felt instinctively that the many years of work his personal vision narrowed by a team of producers and engineers of his music in the previous albums too, and was now even willing to take control of his future work. For him, the production of cyberpunk was thus pure rock and roll, even if this is not understood his critics, and zerriessen the album in the air as Kommerzanbiederung. This great album is now in any case as an exceptional figure in the creative range of Billy Idol there, and is probably still regarded as his most personal album, on which he first took over the control / steer with the production of his music.