Music By Robots

39 Song Mashup!

2012-01-04T16:52:00.000-08:00

Electronic music does not make itself, it takes great human talent. This song will blow your mind, and get this, he is only 17 years old!

Here is the tracklist of this 39 song mashup:
Alphabeat - Boyfriend
Alphabeat - Fascination
Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars
Black Eyed Peas - Gotta Feeling
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
Capsule - Can I Have A Word
Chromeo - Momma's Boy
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
Daft Punk - Around The World
Deadmau5 - Raise Your Weapon (Madeon Remix)
Deadmau5 - Right This Second
Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed
ELO - Mr. Blue Sky
Girls Aloud - Biology
Gorillaz - Dare
Gossip - Heavy Cross (Fred Falke Remix)
Gwen Stefani - What You Waitin For (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
Housse de Racket - Oh Yeah
Justice - DVNO
Justice - Phantom Part II
Katy Perry - One Of The Boys
Ke$ha - Take It Off
Kylie Minogue - Wow
Lady Gaga - Alejandro
Linkin Park - Crawling
Madonna - Hung Up
Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette - Boys and Girls
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Nero - Me and You
One Republic - All The Right Moves (Danger Remix)
One-T - Magic Key
Ratatat - Shempi
Solange - I Decided (Freemasons Remix)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
The Killers - Losing Touch
The Who - Baba O'Riley (SebastiAn Remix)
Yelle - Que Veux Tu (Madeon Remix)

Kaskade - Empty Streets

2011-10-07T10:20:00.000-07:00

A little Kaskade for your Friday. From his refreshing 2010 album "Dynasty", and he already has an album coming out next year!

Deadmau5 - Sofi Needs A Ladder

2011-09-16T11:28:00.000-07:00

Deadmau5 continues to impress and is quickly becoming a major superstar in the electronic music realm. If you have some good subwoofers, this tune will put them through a major workout!

Freestylers - Push Up

2011-09-15T10:36:00.000-07:00

Fun, sassy, sexy and extremely danceable. The Freestylers rarely disappoint.

SKRILLEX - SCARY MONSTERS AND NICE SPRITES (ZEDD REMIX)

2011-08-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

128 beats per minute of electro house goodness. Heard from Deadmau5's MEOWINGTONS HAX TOUR.

New Electro Pop for you

2011-08-12T09:19:00.000-07:00

I love me some good electro pop.

Electronic Emotions

2011-06-24T09:03:00.000-07:00

When people find I love electronic music, often they instantly label it as being cold, mechanical and unemotional. It is beautiful songs like this that show electronic music can evoke all kinds of emotion, with much heart. Make me want to lay back, close my eyes, fly away and dream.

If Heaven Has A Soundtrack

2011-06-10T09:16:00.000-07:00

I'm pretty sure the background music in heaven will sound like this.

From the albums:

The Minogue Sisters

2011-04-29T16:25:00.000-07:00

Anyone with any interest in electronic music has certainly heard of Kylie Minogue. But have you heard of her younger sister Dannii? Following in her big sister's footsteps, and sounding quite similar, which is not necessarly a bad thing, Dannii puts out a tune that is quite soothing for a Friday evening. Though the video visuals are on the cheesy side (is it me or do all female electronic vocalist videos look the same), the song is great.

And her older sister Kylie, with one of her best tunes. Poor girl has battled breast cancer but is still going strong and looking great for 42. I absolutely love her 2002 hit song "Love At First Sight" which she has said talks about falling in love with electronic music a DJ played and forever being hooked. Not so much different from my story falling in love with electronic music as a kid.

Bellatrax in the Mix

2011-04-27T11:31:00.000-07:00

Bellaxtrax is a talented remix artist and DJ I have been following who often creates fun happy house music. He just released his latest hour+ minute mix and it is sure to keep you grooving.

Bellatrax Podcast 16 by Bellatrax on Mixcloud

Tron Legacy: Reconfigured

2011-04-08T09:24:00.000-07:00

The Oscars are only confirming to me that it is just elitist back-patting with Daft Punk being ignored for even a nomination in the best movie scores of 2010. Tron Legacy was an excellent movie, but the soundtrack was simply superb, with nothing but critical acclaim. These two extremely talented robots mix drum machines & electrons with strings & trumpets to create the acoustic Tron universe that stirs as much emotion as it does disc battling conflict.

"Tron Legacy: Reconfigured ", a remix album, has been created for Daft Punk's Tron Legacy soundtrack by some electronic music heavy hitters such as The Crystal Method, Photek, Moby, Paul Oakenfold and Pretty Lights. Lets keep hoping the rumors are true and another Tron movie is green-lit with Daft Punk back at the musical helm, so yet another remix album will come about.

Deadmau5 - Playing To A Packed Crowd

2011-03-29T09:17:00.000-07:00

How cool would it be to play in front of a huge packed crowded? Deadmau5 gives us an idea of how it feels.

Why Guitars?

2011-03-25T14:47:00.000-07:00

"Call My Name" by Sultan and Ned Shepard. Great song, but I find it hilarious that they feel the need to have a guitar player on stage when one can clearly not hear a guitar in the song. The same goes for many electronic bands that play on stage by having a drummer when nearly all of the actual drums come from a drum machine. I sort of understand the logic as there is a lack of physical presence due to nearly all the music being made inside a computer. Yet some can accomplish a great physical presence without faking the actual creation of the music such as with Daft Punk or The Crystal Method.

Stanton Warriors - Get Wild

2011-02-09T08:30:00.000-08:00

Breakbeat is one of my personal favorite sub-generes of Electronic music, and Stanton Warriors knocks out a winner with this one. The driving yet poignant synth that kicks in at 2:20 is very reminiscent of the computer MOD scene from the 1990's. For those not familiar with the MOD scene, I'm sorry, and will have to do another post about it in the future. Until then, get wild.

From the following mix album, even though the mix on the album is different than the single above.

Love Has Gone - Fonzerelli Remix

2011-02-08T16:09:00.000-08:00

Maybe not the most appropriate song with Valentine's Day next week, but here is a great remix by Fonzerelli with a super slick playful bassline.

Stardust: The Music Sounds Better With You

2011-02-02T09:01:00.001-08:00

I. FREAKING. LOVE. THIS. SONG. Released in 1998, this was the only song the band ever made, and consistently ranks as one of the best, if not the best, dance anthem of the 1990's. One Daft Punk member plus two of his friends, and you get this legendary track. The music video, I don't like as much, even though it is directed by the extremely talented Michel Gondry (numerous music videos, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Green Hornet). The track still gets people dancing 13 years later.

Richard Grey, Erick Morillo - Say The Word feat. Maboo

2011-02-01T14:17:00.000-08:00

Some fanciful synths for your Tuesday.

Best Albums of 2009

2010-01-01T07:30:00.000-08:00

Royksopp - Junior
A stunning 3rd album with no signs of slowing down.

Little Boots - Hands
Newcomer with all the right makings of an international pop star.

The Crystal Method - Divided by Night
Can they make a bad album? No. These electronic heavyweights are as strong as ever.

Sahsa / Airdrawn Dagger

2008-11-09T23:57:00.000-08:00

Sasha is one of the most successful DJs in the world, and after many years of playing house, trance and club music he announced he would be creating his own album. What was received was not expected, which left some fans abandoned, but others (myself included) admiring such a beautifully crafted piece of work that builds and grows throughout the album’s journey.

The moment I first heard this album, it has a hauntingly striking resemblance to Musicdisk created by Mellow-D back in 1998. For those completely unfamiliar with the "Tracking" scene, it was a way to create music inexpensively on the computer using samples and having the computer sequence them back, until MP3s took over and killed the scene. Some of the most popular groups being Kosmic, Future Crew and FM. I listened to Musicdisk more times than I can count, and it is a rare gem the sadly is lost in the avelanche of music and progress of technology. In fact, I would be suprised if Sahsa DIDN'T listen to this album to gleen inspiration from. You can download the album here, but you will need WinAmp to play the XM files back.

ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/fm/fm-disk.zip

ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/fm/fm-dplus.zip

Back to Sasha, Airdrawndagger is spectacular. You can dance to it, you can chill to it, and its sound is very unique. Easily one of my favorite albums to come out this decade.

Evil Nine / You Can Be Special Too

2008-11-06T11:58:00.000-08:00

I first heard of Evil Nine listening to a mix by The Crystal Method. Though I liked what I heard, I never purchased a full album of theirs. Listening to The Crystal Method's weekly radio broadcast, Community Service on Indie 103.1, I live chatted with them and asked for an album recommendation. They recommended the new Evil Nine album, but at the time had not been released yet, so I picked up their older one, You Can Be Special Too.

Incredible. Evil Nine pushes big beat music into other genres such as rap and each song is unique. Some of the standout tracks are Crooked, Devil Stuff, Pearl Shot, You Are Not Through, For Lovers Not Fighters, and Restless.

Here their music videos for Crooked. The art style is clever, solid rap and tough beats with beautiful backup synths:

Having listened to it many times, the album is very enjoyable and their talent is heard in the attention to detail. With the recent release of their new album, They Live!, I will post that review once I have had some time with it. Until then, remember that You can Be Special Too.

Dub Pistols / Point Blank - Still Good After 10 Years

2008-11-06T11:48:00.000-08:00

I only got turned onto this album a few years ago. Listening to this last night I checked the cover and to my suprise it was released in 1998. Ten years later it still sound fresh. Tracks like Ghetto and Blaze the Room are hard hitting and well crafted. An album well worth picking up, Dub Pistols / Point Blank.