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Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot is, in many ways, as pure DFA as anyone else. He’s been here since before the beginning, a centrifugal force pulling everyone together, an anchor of no-nonsense style and humor that is as core to our being as the fucking lightning bolt.

We’ve put out a lot of Shit Robot records. They’re all great. But it’s been a minute since the last one. (Life happens.)

Earlier this year, the drought ended when Marcus sent us some demos he’d been toiling away on in the attic. We loved them immediately. They were raw and rudimentary tracks that felt completely unbothered with where they might fit in and what year it was. They were sharp and smart, the sound of the party where we wanted to be.

He went to Al Doyle’s place in London to finish them off, and then James mixed everything here at DFA. Bob mastered it in Chicago. Somewhere along the way, Suzi Horn from Prinzhorn Dance School and Mutado Pintado from Warmduscher added two incredible vocals as only they could.

It’s 5 Songs, both the name of it and the thing itself. Nominative determinism. 5 complete belters.

Credits:
Marcus Lambkin: synths, drums, and vocals
Al Doyle: additional synthesizers
Kenny Space : electric bass

Recorded at the No Hassle Castle in Riet by Marcus Lambkin and RAE in London by Al Doyle
Additional recording at DFA Studios in Brooklyn by Korey Richey
Mixed by James Murphy for the DFA
Mastered by Robert "Sparklebear" Weston
Photography and hair by Mary Lambkin
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5 Songs

Shit Robot - Breathe (Looking At Gibraltar) (feat. Suzi Horn)

Naum Gabo - Schinokapsala

Jayson Green and The Jerk - Local Jerk

Dickie Landry - Hang The Rich

Bayou La Chute

I Got, She's Got (Remix)

I'm Hot For Your Body

Infinity Machine - COEX System

Museum Of Love - After Us

céilí

The first single from JJULIUS' Vol 3., out March 7 on DFA / Mamma's Mysteriska Jukebox.

Brinna ut

House remix of Mermaid Chunky single "chaperone" by Peach. Includes extended edit.

chaperone (Peach's 2Good 2Be Remix)

Deep clean your house EP

Gluten Free (GF)

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High horse (DFA DJ Edit by Matt Cash and James Murphy)

The DFA DJ edit of “High horse” has been kicking around for a few weeks, but now we can officially say Proper Monday Number are a Brighton, UK-based electronic duo featuring Suzi Horn (alumnus of the Prinzhorn Dance School) and producer Christoph. Their Deep clean your house EP is out June 6. You can pre-order it now via the buy link. It has more drums, wobbly bits, and phrases that belong on the front of t-shirts.

High horse

“No Cigar” is a track that didn’t make it onto 2023’s 5 Songs, which was, technically, five songs, so there wasn’t room. It’s a pokey, plonky bit of dance music from Shit Robot (aka Marcus Lambkin), made with Joe Goddard and Al Doyle at their RAE Studios in London.

It sounded… dubby. Like “what if Adrian Sherwood got his hands on this?” dubby. So we asked. And he said yes!

The b-side is classic Sherwood at the controls—a version that’s not fully exploded, but submerged, warped, a little demented. We’re honored and still hearing crazy new sounds every time we play it.

The “No Cigar” 12-inch is out July 25. Pre-order it now before you can’t.

No Cigar

No Cigar (Adrian Sherwood Dub)

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Eric Broucek was the ur-engineer of the most fertile era of DFA Studios, from about 2003 to 2008 (no one knows anything precisely about that time, as it’s all lost in the fog of chaos). His hand was on all of the remixes, LPs, dance 12s. He was there in that over-designed gear dungeon almost every day, recording, mixing, struggling to not roll his eyes at Tim and me. And somewhere in that fog, he quietly dropped limited runs of three 12-inch delayed reaction bombs on his own label Stickydisc Recordings—two under the name Babytalk, and one as Watussi with another DFA regular, Morgan Wiley.

Back in the day, Eric did not want his music released on DFA. He wanted to forge his own identity, which he did, sending out music that wandered from the DFA path with its uniquely wonky, upended and understated power. His music is so unlike everything else of that era, so profoundly singular, that it still sounds completely out of time.

A few years back, I started DJing the tracks again, and saw how the world was still surprised by what Eric had made, and the idea of this compilation was born.

So, in the end, Eric, we totally got to release your records anyway. We heart you, man.

-James Murphy

Babytalk - Keep On Move (Original Mix)

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It wasn’t really hiding, just sitting quietly online. But Tom Sharkett’s edit of “Home” was too good to ignore. Originally a bootleg we first heard played on Flo Dill’s Breakfast Show on NTS, it wormed its way into our hearts and never left. So we made it official. Sometimes the internet actually makes your life better.

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