. "Like other 1970s European electronic rock artists from Heldon to Conrad Schnitzer, Ilitch owes more to the avant-garde experiments of Stockhausen and Xenakis than to the rock and roll of Chuck Berry or even the Beatles??? Ilitch came out of France, was the work of mostly one person, Thierry M??ller, using unconventional guitars as well as keyboards and other electronics to create strange textures" . . .