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By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  September 8, 2008

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ELECTRO-HARMONIX ELECTRIC MISTRESS | Keith Levene of Public Image Limited on “Careering” | The Mistress was the sound of late-’70s/early-’80s postpunk. Its off-kilter filtered chorus is key to Levene’s eerie shimmer, which inverted the norm of the guitar as the beefy riff-generator.

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