Seems like the summer heat has rendered the 'bots at RobotSound HQ lethargic as of late. It's evident that they'd rather sit around watching bad Reality TV programming and getting their snack on than producing anything in terms of meaningful content for y'all. Nevertheless I've managed to coax them into uploading my set recorded live at the recent Hot Box Summer Solstice event. A potent synthesis of love and war, this mix attempts to address the uncertainty of the times in which we live by incorporating both the chaos of today with (hopefully) the promise of a brighter tomorrow.

HotBox 6.21.08

Shit Robot - Lonely Planet
Water Lilly - The Sleepwalker
Franz & Shape - Forgotten Days (Memory Boy Remix)
8-Bit - The Robots
Hell - Suicide Commando
Kano - It's A War
GTO - Love Is Everywhere (Live & Love Mix)
Steril - Electrostatic
The Clone Machine - Clone Machine (Empire Mix)
Der Zyklus - Roche Limit (v3)
Millimetric - Where
David Carretta - Shocktreatment
Nitzer Ebb - Murderous (Phil Kieran Mix)
6blocc - Digits
Anthony Rother - Mathematik
MOTOR - 1X1 (Phil Kieran Remix)
Kiko - Slave Of My Mind
Romina Cohn - The Night
Ectomorph - Lost Angles (Manyangles Version)

>Robotsound™ proudly presents:
dr™ @ Hotbox. 8.04.07

nu beat music for the sexy

fast eddie - acid thunder / 1988 DJ International
miss nicky trax - acid in the house / 1988 Kaos Dance
tricky disco - tricky disco [lützenkirchen remix] / 2007 iO
trance trax - get on / 1991 Beat Box International
major problem - acid queen / 1988 Kaos Dance
human body - acid bizzard / 2005 Goodlife
prince - erotic city / 1984 Warner Brothers
photocall - silver clouds / 2004 Computer Life
plus device - body heat / 2006 Hefty
kiko - running in the city / 2001 Goodlife
egyptian lover - make it hot / 2006 Egyptian Empire
anthony rother - moderntronic3 / 2007 Datapunk
huggotron - gasoline / 2006 Confused
franz & shape - tightropes [kissy sell out's bethnal green dub] / 2007 Relish Recordings
jun-x - balltraxx / 2005 Brique Rouge
millimetric - where / 2006 Goodlife
steril - grey / 2001 International DJ Gigolos

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"