I threw together a short, nostalgic mix yesterday—'90 to '92 bleeps n' beats, with a couple modern tracks included for good measure. Enjoy the flashback.

Trax>>>
i - l.t.b.c.y.b.
Sweet Exorcist - Per Clonk
Cyclone - Stream
LFO - We Are Back (Remix)
Mental Cube - Q
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Party In My Head
Fortran 5 - Heart On The Line (Voodoo Child Remix)
Ectomorph - Lost Angles (Manyangles Version)
Lowfish - 8_Op

Download: Bleeps n' Beats

Sorry for the long delay. I'll try not to let it happen again.

Time to bring back our Random Robot Selecta which I'll attempt to make a regular feature moving forward. From the ever-prolific Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart, Lassigue Bendthaus, Señor Coconut, etc.), this nearly 20-year old track is the only release he made under the Slot moniker. The first release on early 90s Frankfurt label, Cyclotron (also home to several Hypnotist releases), we get a nice bit of bleep techno very much in line with what GTO (as Tricky Disco) were doing at the time. Enjoy, and DANCE!

Autechre - Incunabula
Le Seduction Des Innocents - Chapitre I
Miro Miroe - Knights Of Arabia
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart [Foxbase Beta Mix]
Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath
Boyd Rice - The Way I Feel
Our Daughter's Wedding - Lawnchairs
Padded Cell - Moon Menace
Rustie - Bad Science
Tamaryn - Led Astray Washed Ashore
Raiders Of The Lost ARP - Tema5
Doctor's Cat - Feel The Drive
Fashion - Fabrique
The Human League - Boys And Girls
Jimmy Edgar - Bounce, Make, Model

We are the robots who have emotions
We are what you see

We've come to help you with your problems
So we can be free

The RobotSound Krew is about ready to continue the madness with next month's musical adventure, Mr. Roboto. Celebrating Gomes' date of manufacture, we'll be throwing down the Italo/Electrodisco, Synthpop and the forgotten pleasures of Bleep.

So all you Los Angeloid Robots and Robettes - get thee down to K-Town, look for the blue neon ghost at 371 N. Western Ave. and dig the grooves no one else in this city plays.

For a taster, download the Mini-Roboto Mix.

The Rorschach Garden - The Robot Song
Shock - Dynamo Beat
Teach In - The Robot
Midnight Star - Freak-a-zoid
The Droids - The Force
Mr. Roboto

A RobotSound favorite since the heady daze of yore has been seminal bleep techno "band" LFO (previously mentioned here or heard in this mix). I won't re-hash LFO's history here - you can Google them to get caught up on that (just make sure you're researching the LFO on WARP Records from the UK, not the utterly forgettable boy band, Lyte Funky Ones). I do, however, want to offer some "forgotten" LFO tracks from their early days (1990) that they performed for John Peel's legenday radio show. Gleaned from "someone else's hard drive" from a cassette recording, these songs were never commercially released (makes you wonder just how many more tunes Mark Bell has kept to himself).

LFO Peel Session 1990

Seeing that we're already in that time period, it's time to honor a small, yet noteworthy subset of early techno, namely Bleep. Centered around the Yorkshire towns of Leeds, Sheffield and Bradford in the UK, it briefly made it's name during '89 - '91, before the ravey piano anthems and hardcore breakbeats took the spotlight. We all know that Robots Love Bleeps (or anything Bleep-related for that matter), so it should surprise no one that this particular electronic dance music sub-genre deserves a post of its own.

Here's not one, but two mixes of Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass courtesy of Sheffield Bleep, an internet radio station broadcasting the very best electronic, dance & experimental music, non-stop, 24/7 - tune into their SHOUTcast stream here. Mix 1 mainly focuses on Bleep put out by Network Records while mix 2 consists of early WARP releases. Tracklistings and places to buy after the jump. Now you'll never accuse me of causing you bleep deprivation.

Network Bleep

Sheffield Bleep

>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