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Robot Rock du Jour: Hooray For Earth – True Loves (Cereal Spiller Remix) (2011)

beaker — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:28:53 +0000

While this song is uncomfortably close to mainstream for my circuit boards, this deconstructed remix by NYC incognitos Cereal Spiller is just off the beaten path enough to ensure safety. The real winner here, tho, is the animation created by UK-based artist Cyriak Harris.

SCHEMATIC: True Loves (Album Version) with another great video…

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Robot Rock du Jour: LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great (2007)

beaker — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:21:32 +0000

So, I pretty much avoid big time acts and there are very few “modern” bands that make what I deem to be exceptionally rad music. LCD Soundsystem, however, is the king + queen of them all.

I created this stop-motion video as part of my graduate program thesis work. 100 hours of wood cutting and photographing. If you dig it, peep my process photos.

SCHEMATIC: Videos for Home, Daft Punk is Playing at My House…

Home

Daft Punk is Playing at My House

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Equipment: 3-2-1 Contact with Suzanne Ciani (1980)

beaker — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:04:19 +0000

Hot damn!

What a wonderful (and sultry) explanation! Geared toward kids, this is a clear and ultimately human view of our relationship with synthesizers.

Embedding was disabled on the higher quality video. Lame.

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Robot Rock du Jour: Daft Punk – Derezzed (2010) (TRON: Legacy)

beaker — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:58:54 +0000

TRON: Legacy + Daft Punk. Full coverage of the original film and remake soon.

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Robot Rock du Jour: Alexander Robotnick – Problèmes D’Amour (1983)

beaker — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:56:22 +0000

Close your eyes.

Picture Rusty Griswold at a topless disco in National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985). Do you hear that song playing in the background? How awesome is it??!! Well, this was the track.

Alexander Robotnick, aka Maurizio Dami, rewrote Italo by attaching a ground wire to Electro and letting the current rip. He also set the bar for performance names. This fellow is a legend who still exercises his servos and gives one hell of a live performance.

SCHEMATIC: Rare dub and live versions, an interview and a very special song…

Problèmes D’Amour (Dub Version)

Problèmes D’Amour (Live Version)

Obsession for the Disco Freaks

Interview

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Snort: Sesame Street – Yip Yip Martian Radio

beaker — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:22:24 +0000

My genesis moment…

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Robot Rock du Jour: Tik & Tok – The Tube (1982)

beaker — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:51:54 +0000

This is probably the last robot dance outfit I’m going to post for a while.

UK’s Tik & Tok were pretty far out there, looking more like Fischerspooner predecessors than robots. Luckily for them, their darker, more minimal synth tracks were way, WAY better than their robotic dance routines. The only place I’ve ever seen The Tube is on a 2004 Rephlex pressing that has all of Tik & Tok’s better (i.e. more minimal) tracks and sells for under $10!

SCHEMATIC: A couple more videos and some album artwork…

Crisis (1982)

Soulless Synthetic Heart-Steps Of Unconcerned Androids (1983)

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Robot Rock du Jour: Fotostat – Fotostat (1983)

beaker — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:56:44 +0000

Machines that think they’re human pretending to be robots. I-R-O-N-Y. Love it. The track is decent, but nothing mind-bending.

SCHEMATIC: Fotostat strut their circuits to Kraftwerk, more vids, technics ad, 7″ tracks, album artwork and label scans…

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Robot Rock du Jour: Marcello Giombini – I Adore Commodore (198?)

beaker — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:20:17 +0000

Italian film composer and experimental synth maestro Giombini put up this track sometime in the early 1980s as a promo for the Commodore 64. I wonder if this video somehow inspired the seminal film, Weird Science?

SCHEMATIC: Cuts from Giombini’s landmark 1981 LP Astromusic Synthesizer…

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VIdeodrome: Patrick Jean – PIXELS (2010)

beaker — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:14:07 +0000

This video is remarkably awesome.

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