Get ready to return to our prime directive - robot sounds - specifically, Electronic Body Music, or EBM for you acronym-minded types. The industrial machinations which began in the latter half of the 80s with groups like Front 242, Frontline Assembly and Nitzer Ebb have continued to aurally impact us through the present day with artists like The Hacker, David Carretta and Terence Fixmer manning the controls.

This playlist combines the classics with the recent offerings, as well as presenting some tangentially related pieces. As you listen, don't be afraid to start stomping along to the music. Keep in mind that the beat is meant to kontrol your body. We're here to let you know that: It's okay...to dance like a machine.

5/21/08
Acid303LSD

To commemorate the recent passing of Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman, the first man to synthesize Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), this RobotSound Jukebox is all about thee Acid. From 1987 to 2008, here are 33 (30+3) choice 303 trax for your trip. Yes, the Silver Box called the TB-303 Bass Line manufactured by the Roland Corporation (and its subsequent clones and software emulators), which once spurred the Acid House movement, continues to jack the masses worldwide.

In the beginning there was Jack...

3/12/08
Paroxysms of Ecstacy

This summer will mark the 20th anniversary (!!) of the Summer of Love. This month's RobotSound Jukebox features some crucial moments from '88 - '92, together with a few earlier or more recent selections that keep with the spirit of the times. This is dedicated to everyone who was lucky enough to experience it when it was happening - enjoy revisiting some truly good times. For those of you whose date of manufacture prohibited them from experiencing the magic of those heady years, here's a taster of what you missed. The dr's prescription: Take two (hits), listen to this playlist and call me in the morning.

[Technical sidenote: Since many of these tracks came out so long ago (during the Pre-Digital Era), you will have to turn up the ones which weren't re-mastered when they were digitized.]

2/12/08
In Sounds From The Outside

Continuing the Black Friday theme from the last post, it's time to press on with our retro trip to the moodier end of the sonic spectrum. Here are 50 dark-ish cuts (sprinkled with a few lighter ones) sure to help you embrace the evil inside. This marks RobotSound's first static page which I hope to update on a semi-regular basis, so don't forget to check it every so often (a menu item has been added for your convenience). It will feature more robot-orientated tracks in the future; For now it's mostly guitar-based since that's the current disposition here at RobotSound HQ. Please note that playlist songs are pulled from other sites, so at some later date you may run into songs that have been removed. Hats off to the fine folks at Playlist.com for creating a rather nifty jukebox widget. Make a playlist of your own so that you're no longer limited to one song on your MySpace/Facebook page, nor must you endure questionable musical selections at your friend's pad ;)