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Minimal Is Not Ubercoolische
Submitted by dr™ on January 29, 2006 - 2:30am.
Magda might make the tea, and everyone might be into it at the moment, but Minimal is certainly not Ubercoolische. It is SOOOO BORING. What started in the mid-90's with labels like Basic Channel, its successors Chain Reaction and Burial Mix, and currently championed by labels-du-jour Trapez, Shitkatapult and Kompakt, and such "artists" as Ricardo Villalobos and Canadian ex-pat-turned-Berliner-with-a-bad-haircut Richie Hawtin, Minimal has now become ubiquitous. You might say it is the current "It Girl" of electronic music, akin to IDM in the late 90's and Electroclash a few years ago. Problem is, Minimal is nowhere near as interesting as either of those genres.
Robotsound's A - Z of electro
Submitted by dr™ on January 21, 2006 - 9:28pm.- Add N to (X)
- Anthony Rother
- Artists
- Black Strobe
- Cursor Miner
- Dance Punk
- Dark Matter
- Detroit Electro
- Drexciya
- Electro
- Electro Breaks
- Electrocla$h
- Electronicat
- Freddy Fresh
- GD Luxxe
- It & My Computer
- Jedi Knights
- Kiko
- LFO
- Minimal Wave
- Modeselektor
- NYC Survivors
- Out Hud
- Perspects
- Robots
- Steril
- Synthpunk
- Techno
- The Hacker
- Two Lone Swordsmen
- Ultradyne
LA robots! Robotsound 2.0: Diskotec 2.16.06 - TONIGHT
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Mark your calendars for Diskotec, a new monthly from the inimitable Gomes and the dr™
This will happen TONIGHT, Thursday, February 16 at The Sportsmen's Lodge in the San Fernando Valley. The [robot]soundsystem will invade The Valley.
Anonymous Disko
Submitted by dr™ on January 10, 2006 - 12:18am.As much as we like "person"alities, here at Robotsound™ we prefer our machines to remain anonymous (or at least use several pseudonyms so as to keep the public at large guessing). Until very recently (tonight, in fact), I had no idea who the person behind Creme de Menthe was. There was no website back when his one and only EP, Plastique, came out way back in 2001 on the limited Optimo Singles Club label, then re-released a year later on Disko B. Five years later, Scotsman Matthew Aldworth, Creme de Menthe, has finally released his debut LP, The Impossiblity of Eroticism in The Suburbs. Apart from his name, I still know next to nothing about this artist, but that kind of thing never bothers me.
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Submitted by dr™ on January 3, 2006 - 11:21pm.I thought I would take this opportunity to announce my New Year's Resolution. Mind you I've never kept any previous year's resolutions, but I think it's probably best to keep this one, if not for the sake of my sanity then at least for that of my co-workers.
I shall limit my intake of Benny Benassi songs/clones/remixes to no more than one per week.

