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A little multi demo of my first (very minimal)2-osc  Doepfer modular. Well, Doepfer except the second oscillator which is a Tiptop Z3000 MkII (not installed on the picture)

Doepfer Multitrack synth pop demo

Arp Sequencer

"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

This track is a brief demo of some longer sequencer workout I created on New Year's Day 2015. Basically, it is two Oberheim SEMs controlled by two ARP Sequencers, multitracked onto eight-track using a clicktrack and a Friendchip SRC Synchronizer for overdubbing. The eight tracks were mixed down to stereo while additional sequencers were also tied into the mix. Apart from some delay,  reverb, and Dimension D simulation (Roland 330 series), no effects were added. The ratcheting was also done using two ARP Sequencers in conjunction.

I can't help thinking what a beautiful-sounding and extremely useful little synthesiser the Oberheim SEM is -- hats off to Tom Oberheim!

Dual Oberheim SEM and ARP Sequencer with ratcheting Excerpt

Spark 2 2014

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

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

5th episode of Robotnick's Archives' series.
"Funky Skunky" is a track originally composed in 1996
but completely re-made a few monthes ago. . The original track, made
with MIDI system and virtual synths, was based on a vocal sample taken
from one of the first vynil collections of acappella voices but it sounded
weak and not convincing enough. Therefore it was abandoned and slept
on a forgotten CD-Rom for about 16 years. Robotnick, using analog
synths and triggers, brings it back to life with the energy it deserves. 122 bpm
"Infinite Solitude" is a track that was originally composed
in 2001 for "Oh no ..Robotnick" but then discarded because deemed
to sound too melancholic. In this case too, the recent analog re-writing
gives the track a vintage flavour and rightly puts it back into the
authour's original music process. 128 bpm
"It was like a dream" is more recent, dating back to 2008
but it sounds as if it came out of one of Robotnick's early 80s tapes,
when the author insisted in working out sounds and atmospheres
that would distinguish his style from the music produced in those
days. 124 bpm Finally there are 2 remixes of "Can you hear me?" , a
track released in Archives 2 , signed by young producers from the
"New Disco" scene : "Things happen" and "The Robot Scientists"
present the continuity of a sound that comes from far away but is still
capable of attracting and involving the new generations.
THINGS HAPPEN
The 21th century's freshest trip into the wild world of
electronic music, from magnetic disco to tech-house.
Reporting from the borderline, a new fragrant way of
feeling music without forgetting "the" old school sound.
This all-italian trio put together their personal musical
experience into unique and special atmospheres
mixing bright synthetic sounds and deep basses with pure
instrumental parts.
THE ROBOT SCIENTISTS
The Robot Scientists are Markus Schneider, Stefan
Maurer, Markus "Fred" Scholl, Eric Schemer and Oliver
Schneider.
Label: Space Factory / Emerald & Doreen.
Emerald & Doreen (Saarbrücken/Germany) features and
releases outstanding music from a variety of international
artists influenced by Krautrock, Funk, Synth Pop, New
Wave and Italo Disco


Alexander Robotnick - It Was Like a Dream

Cement, one of the  best friends of the modern era is showing its limits.
Do you remember the fantastic architecture portrayed by  comics in the 60s, with cities raising to amazing heights , overhanging bridges connecting towers....Well, forget it.
Cement doesn't seem to be reliable in the long run. What a shame, it was such a beautiful dream, a dream called cement.
Alexander Robotnick & Ludus Pinsky once again together with their  Italcimenti project introduce  this EP containing 4 tracks:

1 - A Dream Called Cement
2 - Suspended City
3 - Step by Step
4 - Unavoidable Crash

It's a kind of Post-Italo stuff. 
1 In "A Dream Called Cement" an Italo sequence-riff challenges a suspended pad: it's like opposing  the appeal of cement to the entropy of time.
2 "Suspended City" is a tribute to our imagination. Maybe  progress has slowed down a bit..;) But we still keep those  dreams firmly  in our mind.
3 "Step by Step" is built around a fragment of a dialogue: "Everything 's gonna be all right" - "Oh...I know you) It points to some responsibilities or at least carelessness whose consequences are emerging today.
4 In "Unavoidable Crash"a very fast arpeggio draws the fragments of instability produced by an unstable planet. Chords spring out  suddenly, acting like an alarm and creating tension until the groove is back and  the dream goes on.
Music: Alexander Robotnick - Lapo Lombardi
Produced by Alexander Robotnick
Addictional production: Niccolò Caldini
Mastering: Niccolò Caldini

A Dream Called Cement

Alexander Robotnick – The Four Seasons
It’s high time for seasoned Alexander Robotnick to tackle an Italian classic: The Four Seasons ….before seasons are definitely wiped out by the dramatically famous climate change. We grew up with a sort of mantra that went: “Seasons are no longer the same…” , a mantra that existed even before we were born. But Winter is still Winter and Robotnick’s desire has always been that of a Winterless year. The Four Seasons represents a sort of wishful thinking (by contrast).
Four ultra classic titles : Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. All of these tracks (apart from Winter) share the same origin: : they are born out of three very fast arpeggioes (32mi) where the note sequence is so quick it almost sounds like a continuous chord.
Impressionist music , without any real theme (except for Fall). Deep House that never falls into style clichés . No parallel harmonies, no one key chords, but a seamless flow that opens into modal scales and finally chill-out listening . Only in Fall the arpeggio sometimes tends to reveal itself , grows frenzied and introduces a somewhat
melancholic theme.
Fall has always been an intense and creative time for Robotnick , animated by a powerful energy flow, probably
to exorcise Winter which is looming on the horizon. In Winter the arpeggio is replaced by a sample from Wagner’s Master Singers that creates a music background with a meditative pace despite the pressing rhythmics.
All tracks composed and produced by Alexander Robotnick (A.K.A. Maurizio Dami) 120 bpm

The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons - Snippets

Alkemya (1997) was a trio of musicians tired of spending hours sitting in front of the PC to democratically decide the direction to follow. They therefore decided to turn back to improvisation yet without giving up the opportunities provided by the use of the computer. Thanks to technology it is possible to see and edit the result of a real interaction among musicians on the computer screen.
So, Alkemyas music is substancially "live-performed", it’s a reaction against the unbearable coldheartedness of so much electronic music, generated exclusively by the process of superimposing and editing different tracks.
Alkemya was performed by : Maurizio Dami (Alexander Robotnick) - Lapo Lombardi (Ludus Pinsky) - Ranieri Cerelli
It can't be classed in a specific genre, fluctuating among ambient music, electronic music, trance and sampledelic music.

Alkemya

Alkemya - Zakir (1998)

From the album "Melt in Time" - 2003 - digital release 2019
SAAZ AND VOICE (Nazar - Kurdistan - Iraq) : this is an Oriental lute with strings producing  a very open and distinctive  sound. Some keys are at the interval of a fourth of tone according to the tradition of a large region that includes the Middle East and part of the Mediterranean. The tunes that Nazar sings and plays are very ancient but sound extremely lively even to our modern ears.
KEYBOARDS (Maurizio Dami - Firenze - Italy): they represent the “primordial soup”, the sound of “reality as it is”, unaffected by history and culture. They provide the “glue” and  create the environment where  tunes can swim like fish in the water.
KEYBOARDS and VOCAL (Smail Kouider Aissa, Algeria) : They represent the dialogue amongst different Mediterranean cultures and the gateway to the Arab world. Smail comes from Algerian Rai.
TABLAS ( Arup Kanti Das, Rashmi v. Bhatt, India): the most typical and universally famous Indian percussions need no further presentation. Due to their precise tuning they are not only rhythmic but also harmonic instruments.
DAF, DARBOUKA, Jembè (Paolo Casu - Italia) : The rhythmic colours of Africa and the Middle East.

Melt In Time

The Third Planet - Lorke (2003)

(That is the tracks I would play when I was not required to play italo disco..;)
Marius-Glow_Of_Filter_Dub_(original_version)
Phunktastike - Inferno_Amore
Kraak Smaak_feat_Luxxury -Keep_It_Together_(Vhyce_remix)
Ambiance - Hombre Arana (Club Duro Remix) - Duro
Kenny-Summit-Nino-Bellemo_Moving-Forward
Dirtytwo_-_Back_In_The_Day
Nick_Morris_-_Funky_In_The_Sky
TYU - Afecto - Duro
Todd_Terje_-_Ragysh_(original_mix)
Kellini_Saskin_-_What_She_Said
Huxley_-_Box_Clever
Leon_Vynehall_-_Butterflies
Mousse_T_Feat_Taz___Inaya_Day_-_Rock_The_Mic_(Kon_remix)
Flight_Mode_-_It's_So_Nice
DJ_W!ld_-_News_Z_(Original_Mix)
Dima_Greshnikov___DJ_Sall_-_Lenalena_(original_mix)
Phaxx, Magnus Wallberg - What's Going On_Original_Mix
Midnight_Magic_-_Sea_Of_Love_(Michael_The_Lion_remix)
Big_Danny_Kane_-_Octopussy
Myles_Bigelow_Dawn_Pemberton_-_You_Got_Me_Spinning_(original_mix)
Phoenix_Knight_-_Private_Eye
Wellsince_-_Purplee_Mood_(Original_Mix)
Todd_Terje_-_Strandbar_(disko_version)
Nacho_Marco_-_Rising_(feat_Aqeel)
Eclectic_Sound_-_Space_Travel_(Phunktastike_remix)
3881278_No_Way_Out_Original_Mix
Dario_DAttis_-_The_Good_Old_Days
Mike Spaccavento - Leave The Ground - Original Mix
Alexander Robotnick - Undicidisco (JV edit)
Simian Mobile Disco, Bicep -Sacrifice_Original_Mix
Kiko_Navarro_-_Dope_High
Nickodemus-ft-BAM+The-Real-Live-Show_Back-In-The-Days_Original-Vocal
Baba_(Italy)-My_Dream-(Original_Mix)
Cinthie - Together - 803 Crystalgrooves
Kevin_Saunderson_Presents_Inner_City_-_BIG_Fun_(Matt_Smallwood_Remx)
Killian's_-_Check_It_Out_(Original_Mix)
DJ_Dozia_-_Pop_Culture_(KiNK_mix)
Christian Smith, Wehbba -Make_U_Move_Original_Mix
2raum Wohnung - Mir kann nicht passieren (Glove grand disco rmx)
Ludovic LIorca - The world as I live it (original pitched)
GUR014_Up-Yours-ft-FERAL-is-KINKY_London_Donkie-Punch-Dub-Down-Mix
Cozzy_D_-_At_The_Rave
Dishop_-_Felicidad
Subb_An_feat_Frank_Carter_Iii_-_What_I_Do_(Burnski_Tulum_remix)
Junior_Lopez_-_We_Like_To_Party__Terry_Francis_Remix
Ed_Davenport_-_Somewhere_(Roman_Lindau_remix)
Nightrhymes_feat_Keith_Thompson_-_Lose_Your_Shhht_(original_mix)
Nightrhymes_feat_Keith_Thompson_-_Lose_Your_Shhht_(original_mix)
Bertie_Bassett_-_Hip_House
Josh_Butler___Bontan_-_Call_You_Back 
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Alexander Robotnick is the artist name of Maurizio Dami, an electronic musician, DJ and producer living in Italy.