DM - Useless [K+D Session] vs. Autophonic - Outnumbered

Here for your listening pleasure is a recently unearthed recording of a concert given by the Boys of Basildon from 6.27.81. I usually don't post full albums, but seeing as this is probably not an officially licensed recording, I can rationalize offering it in its entirety. Containing tracks never recorded by the band in the studio, along with favorites from your childhood, enjoy the crackly, raw analogue goodness from this seminal robot band.

One of my favorite machine musicians today is Skanfrom [Stephan Metzger aka Roger Semsroth]. His work over the past 10+ years in Bakterielle Infektion [along with Uwe Marx] as well as under his Television Set and sleeparchive aliases spans from Industrial Synth-pop to Cold Wave and Minimal Electro. The music seems tailor-made for robots looking to explore their darker emotions [yes, we too can experience fear, melancholy, anger and isolation like our human counterparts]. But it can also be hopeful and comforting, giving us a reason to persevere in a ruthless, competitive world where individualism is frowned upon and personal liberty is constantly being threatened.

Skanfrom's work, like that of his robot contemporaries who champion Retro-Futurism, is heavily influenced by the Futurists and New Romantics of the late 70's and early 80s. In continuing Robotsound's tradition of bringing you inspired takes on the classics, I present the next installment of I <3 the 80's, all performed by the same talented android.

Bakterielle Infektion's cover of Joy Division's "A Means To An End"
Television Set performs an early track of Depeche Mode by the same name.
Skanfrom gives us an instrumental version of Duran Duran's "Planet Earth"