Franz & Shape are coming to wipe your synapses of mundane and predictable sonic sequences. Embracing the principles of our retro musical forebearers, they aim to deliver bona fide alternative dance music fused with up-to-the-minute synthetic sensibilities. Their sound though isn't one of yesterday's future; it is the past reflected through the present. Sometimes you really do need to look back in order to contemplate the here and now or determine just where it is you want to go.

Acquire Franz and Shape's retro-futuristic instant classic Acceleration at the Relish Recordings website. Including collaborations with some of today's most forward-thinking dark matter visionaries [Perspects, Matt Sims, G.D. Luxxe, David Carretta, Chelonis Jones, Dirk da Davo of The Neon Judgement], this album brings some much-needed dynamism to the current morass of homogeneity.

Franz & Shape - Tightropes feat. Perspects

Following in the footsteps of my Northern Cali co-hort, Logan 5, I present RobotSound's first "threesie," i.e. 3 songs mixed together, accompanied by some thoughtful and often witty commentary. Only I didn't really bother mixing these songs together, instead favoring the "radio technique." Maybe next time =P