Alexander Robotnick

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Follow the white rabbit (original mix)

"Indulgence" results from the meeting of some alcoholic
musicians at AA sessions. Our heroes decide to spend
their last boozing day together before giving it up forever.
The memorable day is celebrated with an EP that could
only be titled "A boozing day".
The five tracks reflect the alcoholic theme of the day;
indulging on cocktails, funky guitars, Philadelphia violins
and disco bass lines. The band's motto is: "tomorrow I will give it up"

Evening Margarita

Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness
Out January 26 2015 on Strut
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Strut return to the archives of seminal Chicago house label Dance Mania in January for ‘Dance Mania: Ghetto Madness’. The follow-up to Strut’s acclaimed Dance Mania label retrospective ‘Hardcore Traxx’ from early 2014, this new installment places the spotlight on the raw, stripped back, hyper BPMs of ghetto house and the rise of the movement’s fresh generation of stars during the mid-‘90s including DJ Deeon, DJ Funk, Jammin’ Gerald and DJ Milton. 

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Paul Johnson - Give Me Ecstasy [from: Dance Mania - Ghetto Madness]

Max Vangeli - You & Me [OUT NOW]

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You & Me

Max Vangeli - You & Me

Birds and the Diva

playing with sadness

vocals by karen vogt

The Darkness Cry

'The Sphere 02C (Tool)' will be available on vinyl only!!!

[NSTX102] Björn Torwellen & Cortechs - The Sphere Part 2

Monoloc & Daniel Wilde - Its Mine (Monoloc Dub Edit)

There have previously been a couple of occasions at which Los Angeles-based artist Ken Rangkuty (Keenhouse) contributed genius-like moments for Emerald & Doreen Records. Most prominently his re-working of go nogo’s „Things Ain’t Right“ produced an athmosphere full of suspense with skewed vocal tunage, minimalistic, impressionistic piano motifs and sparse drum-programming. This interpretation is a fine example of how Keenhouse successfully marries the worlds of traditional instrumentation and electronica. 
Having released his third full length record „A Future Past“ in January, Keenhouse propelled his approach to style in a series of songs that feature brass- and lush string-arrangements, live-drumming plus vocalistic traits of colloborators. This enriched formula has produced an album that more than ever introduces compositional talents of someone who can weld pop, classical romanticism and electronic playfulness together.

Having established an artist-roster which constantly exchanges talents in the guise of remix swaps,
Emerald & Doreen pays a tribute to the talented „Mr. Keenhouse“ in having some label-greats remixing „A Future Past“ almost entirely.

Netherlandish disco don Auxiliary Tha Masterfader is keeping the original dreamy and balladesque quality of „Time“ intact, though adding an extra-amount of synth-nostalgia. This is kitsch in the best sense, like driving with an open canopy into the sunset, reminiscing of a long-forgotten teenage love affair. 
Go Satta’s British Amtrack Version of “Evening Return“ reveals a stellar song-interpretation of the ethno-ambient-tinged instrumental you hear from Keenhouse. Moriah Nixon’s pop-lyrics add up to the band’s charming indie-pop vibe which they have become associated with. The euphony is highlighted with ethereal pad sounds and lean guitar arpeggios that conserve a shimmering character.
The West Coast-ish easy living streak of „Into Silence“ turned Rubberlips on to create a string-laden, funked-up nu-disco bounce. As the track is indulging in layers of synth- and violin-sweeps, the whole affair turns into a vivid jamming. It seems like there’s an endless sky of vibrant red and orange.
The first track released from „A Future Past“ stirred label-associates go nogo to have a „go“ on the remix-project. They eliminated almost every aspect of the celli-driven, rhythmic complex original „Argon Decibel“ and hooked-up the chopped vocal-line with some broad sleazy bassmotif. There are streaks of psychedelic guitar-licks, shades of percussion-delays and pulsating sine waves all over the place, so that you cannot really pigeonhole the stylistic approach, but that’s the way these Krauts artistically work. 
Haioka picked the introspective, wonderfully mastered piano-piece „Gravity“ from the tracklist and bathed the melancholic chords in quirky rhythms, vapour-like filtersounds and faint rewind-noises. Known for his tasteful balance of experimental and yet very tuneful compositions, the Japanese border crosser has delivered another Zen-like masterpiece.
The second interpretation of „Argon Decibel“ is delivered with straight-laced disco beat and a lot of appreciation for the original, since Keenhouse’s Sunlinxx records labelmate p e a c e Fire features all central elements of the playful original. This subtle funkiness combined with the strings, brass and empyrean vocals is a celestial event in the cathedral of slo disco.
The Elektromekanik Remix of „Into Silence“ is breaking the silence with a beefed-up Disco-House vibe which is basic for a track to lure the ladies on the dancefloor. The breezy track is keeping the easy-going feelgood vibe of the original alive, but shifting the attention from the chill of the melody-centered to the thrill of the groove.
Chilean’s prodigious Statickman, who has become the busiest man in the E& D Remix-canon, breaks his habbit of trimming the original with punchy synthpatterns.

Keenhouse - Time (Auxiliary Tha Masterfader Remix) clip

Robotnick's Archives:
Active on the music scene for about 30 years, Alexander
Robotnick has produced an impressive amount of music.
Starting with ¿Avida¿ the first band he put together
,whose early 80s unreleased tracks have been recently
published by Creme Organization) to the latest digital
releases by his label ¿Hot Elphant Music¿.
Being a musicaholic , Robotnick has been stacking a
huge amount of supports: tapes, floppy disks, dats,
CD-roms, hard-disks . Last year, as he turned 60, he
decided to put some order into his archives , getting rid of
much of them but saving some projects that hadn¿t got
to the stage of being released but contained some
interesting ideas that he deemed worth developing and
completing. This is how the idea of Robotnick¿s Archives
came about.
Starting from December 2011, every mont h Elephant
Muisc is releasing a digital EP containing from 3 to 5
tracks , under the title ¿Robotnick¿s Archives¿. It¿s a
production that embraces different styles, from disco to
techno, as the author never identified with a given
genre for good. In some cases these tracks are actually
re-works, in other cases they are true remixes. With a
better equipped and more professional home-studio
(A.R. recently moved from his countryside hideout to an
urban bunker..) and thanks to the collaboration of
Tommaso Bianchi , an extremely talented
sound-engineer, who¿s been recently mastering A.R,¿s
tracks , Robotnick is convinced that , lost in the darkest
corners of his studio, there are indeed some forgotten
gems worh rescueing and publishing.
Robotnick's Archives n.1 features 2 tracks; ¿Morning
Theme¿ ,
- something that could be described as
¿disco/progressive¿ although it comes in 120BPM - and
¿Undicidisco¿, the second one, in two different
versions, both echoing the Electro-house mood (123
bpm)


Alexander Robotnick - morning theme

Second release of Robotnick's Archives.
Robotnick's Archives vol2 features 3 tracks:
Waiting For You that includes vocals by mr. Robotnick
(120 bpm)
Broken Guitar : A nu-disco track that comes at 120 bpm
Can You Hear Me? - Space-Disco that includes vocals by
Donatella Baggio (124 bpm)


Alexander Robotnick - Broken Guitar

Alexander Robotnick - Can you hear me?

4th episode of Robotnick's Archives series. This time
Alexander
Robotnick has rummaged in his DATs from 1995 (when
he was working with Windows 95!!). He picked some MIDI
and samples and re-arranged them in his new studio .
This is how "It's all right baby" came about, a mocking
swinging funky track that also includes arpeggios and
electronic stabs. 120 bpm
N.2 "Disco Action" comes from a more recent era, 2005,
precisely, when
Robotnick found and bought the same synths he 'd used
in the early 80s.
The original recording was just a "test-track". 126 bpm
N.3 "Minore terzo" dates back to 1998, it was recorded at
a time when
Robotnick was probing the typical scale/mode ("third
mode") of trance
music. This particular mode creates a "moody" sound that
Robotnick developed and transformed into dreamlike
techno groove. 126 bpm.

Alexander Robotnick - Minore Terzo

Here some edits of Kraftwerk' I made in 2003 when I started playing as a DJ. I played them a few times during my DJ-Sets. You can dance this mix but please buy the original records, they are great!

Alexander Robotnick - Homage to Kraftwerk

Mulder - Natural High (Joris Voorn Edit)

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Changed (Original Mix)

Alexander Robotnick is the artist name of Maurizio Dami, an electronic musician, DJ and producer living in Italy.