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

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

Edgar Um Bucholtz is a DJ, multi-media artist, event producer and improvising musician living in Pittsburgh, PA.

He is the co-founder and co-resident (with DJ Dad Time!) of Pgh Bro Club, a monthly trash pop, anything goes, changing-theme dance party at the Brillobox in Pittsburgh.

Since its inception in 2010, he has served as a general advisor and music curator for the internationally-acclaimed annual VIA Music & New Media Festival in Pittsburgh.

He was a full-time music and event curator and resident DJ for The Andy Warhol Museum from 1999-2004. He has served as an events consultant for the last four Carnegie Internationals (1999-2000, 2004-2005, 2008, 2013-2014) at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

He started collecting vinyl records and playing records at parties while in high school in rural southwestern Ohio. While an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, he was a DJ on WRCT FM (and for a few years after.) He credits WRCT's record library and many of his fellow WRCT DJ comrades with giving him as much or more important information as his professors at CMU. In addition to DJing at WRCT, he produced a long-running weekly live experimental improvised radio show called "Radio For The People" in collaboration with fellow CMU technology-focused art students as well as with bands and noise musicians from Pittsburgh. He also produced a weekly critical and cultural theory radio show called "Inside The Beast: Theory In Transmission" in collaboration with professor Camilla Griggers and graduate students in the CMU English Department.

Edgar Um Bucholtz makes sounds in Fuck Telecorps, a long-running electro-acoustic improvised experimental sound/performance project, and in an occasional power-electronics noise project called Cock Scene Investigator.

Edgar Um Bucholtz is a freelance curator of art and music events in Pittsburgh, PA.