Today I've got special treats for you androids out there. No, they're not Ding Dongs, those round chocolate cakes with a flat top and a white creamy filling...Nope, I don't have advance copies of Google's forthcoming iPhone challenger, the G1 "Android" phone (Sorry, I know, that would've been nice)...What I do have are your very own RobotSound™ Ringtones!

A couple friends appreciated my Galaga ringer, so I thought why not make a few more to share amongst like-minded folks. Since most commercially available ringtones don't cater to my tastes, I tried to find sounds that kept the robot in mind which worked well in the cell phone context. Most are arcade game-centric but the few that aren't still sound like they could have been from games. All were made on Cellsea, which also lets you to upload wallpapers, video and games. If you want to make your own from your favorite coin-op game of choice, Digitpress has a great stock of vintage mp3s and sound effects you can use.

Game Ringtones
Computor Rockers - Galaga
Computor Rockers - Burgertime
Computor Rockers - Pengo
Tapper
Berzerk [My current ringtone]
Steve Claydon [ex-Add N to [X]] - Arkanoid

Non-Game Ringtones
Dis*ka - Being Boiled
Dis*ka - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Frederik Schikowski - Rubik's Cube
Frederik Schikowski - Utopia Brasilia
Le Car - Audiofile 10
Le Car - Flame Job

All of the above, plus several more can be found on this page. If your phone doesn't allow you to visit the site (like mine didn't), you'll have to find a program that lets you copy files directly to your phone, via USB. For my now-ancient RAZR V3 I used P2K Commander, which also allowed me to make space by deleting some of the crappy default ringtones the phone came with...

And so let freedom ring from the pixelated screens of Silicon Valley.

Let freedom ring from every byte and kilobyte of your carrier's Coverage Area.

...and sing in the words of the old robot spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank Bot Almighty, free tones at last!

Thought I'd randomly mix together some slabs from a recent cratedigging mission.

Enjoy!

Tracks
kiko - maximale
gto - love is everywhere [heartcore mix]
herman schwartz - nothing to lose
mark du mosch - faith
colder - to the music
umek and I turk - sun drenched land
the seducers - unavoidable infiltrators
transparent sound - slang city
2020 soundsystem - tape [bom bom digert rom miks]
cristian varela - your body experiences [sergy casttle rmx 2]
hac[k] the tab - ...is back

I finally got around to doing something about the abysmal navigation of this site by adding the Tagadelic module to it. Having now gone through the site and added tags to each post denoting musical styles, artist names and post types, I can now say there's some kind of structure to my insane ramblings. Tag Clouds can now be found on the side navs; Click the "more tags" link for the entire category. For a list of the most widely used tags, you can go here. Additionally, there are links in the main nav now to Artists, Post Type and Sound Like (musical styles). Not every artist on the site has been tagged but a good number of them have.

So, whether you are new to the site or have been lurking since the early days, enjoy exploring the sounds the robots like to hear.