My Robot Dance
Robots are not your friends, haven’t you read any science fiction? They are made to protect you from yourself with their superior intelligence in subtle and devious fashion. My Robot Friend – I Am The Robot is the opener on Hot Action! the latest album by My Robot Friend on Proptronix. Hot Action! also contains Walt Witman and The Fake, and can fit easily in your genresized record collection near other electronic weirdoes Cursor Minor and daft sid station chart toppers Zombie Nation.
My Robot Friend – I Am The Robot
In I Am The Robot My Robot Friend calls from his memory banks the spirit of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank of Yello for a beat mismatching glitch stomp workout. It also sounds like this robot in your town has a case of indigestion. Nice to see a song about robots with no vocoda but we all know robots will speak vocoda surely? How else will they communicate with the ultimate leader the Cher Robot.
Want more? How about a whcky racers style animation made by Adam Shecter.
My Robot Friend also has other skills, and is the striping Devo dancer on the left in the video for Le Tigre – Deceptacon.
Other amazing transformer dancers have been seen in that car advert with Jack Your Body Make Me Sweat, which sounds so contemporary its scary. Another car add on uk tv that keeps making me shuffle my bum on the soffer features another stop start mismatching beats number by Renee, Valerie, and Marie Scroggins with help from Leroy Glover, more commonly known as ESG.
Dance is from ESG’s great album South Bronx Story which you should get from SoulJazzRecords.
Soul Jazz brought ESG to the uk a while ago and I was lucky enough to go see them funk the place down. It was like GrandMaster Flash and Africa Bambaataa and DJs and sampling and stuff never happened, but people just had to get more imaginative and looped with the use of live instruments in rap. Awesome.
Dance is one of the scratchiest, catchiest groves in the world and i’m glad it’s being aired on mass and ESG might be making some cash (sample don’t pay nobodies bills) at last, even if it is to sell shitty cars that don’t transform or dance or anything.
Respect goes out to Stazi whose tunes will one day be used in adverts for personal teleports so you don’t have those messy moments walking home chewing your cheeks to bits.
robots! that’s pretty damn lovely, it’s like a remake of Back To the Future in which every character is played by KnifeHandChop in a different hat..
Re: ESG- saw them last year too, bloody amazing. If ‘Dance’ were to get re-released on the back of this and storm to number 1 for 15 years, surely a lot of the world’s problems would be solved.
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 4:10 amloz
Now that is a plan, esg re-release he he,
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 8:15 amLets get em on top of the pops now!
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Wednesday, March 2, 2005 8:20 am[João M. Gonçalves]
Yes, this is a great blog…the greatest.
Salutations from Spain mr.Juan, you are my “guru”
Desconvencido rules!!
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 9:01 amAnonymous
Heh. The Cher-Robot. I laughed myself silly.
P.S. Your chocie of music is incredible! Keep up the VERY good work.
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 11:24 pmdjaugust