Alexander Robotnick

Just to celebrate 30 years of Problèmes d'Amour. 
Free download! Enjoy it!

Problèmes D'Amour (Ah Ou Ah Version)

ARTIST: THE ANALOG SESSION
TITLE: BLACK GROUND
LABEL: HOT ELEPHANT
CAT. NO: HEM1511
FORMAT: CD / DIGITAL 
RELEASED: 11 MAY 2015

Italian electronic pioneers, Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky deliver their second album as The Analog Session. 'Black Ground' is a journey into electronic music, from the early 70s to modern techno, performed only with vintage analogue synths.

Wires, cables, knobs, keyboards: they are still a vital part of The Analog Session’s improvised world. But as opposed to 2013’s ‘April’ album, ‘Black Ground’ is more dance orientated in its vision. Although most of the tracks originate from improvisation, there’s more editing work on their individual parts so that they sound more structured and danceable than usual.

Initially conceived as a video project (currently with over 320,000 hits on Youtube), The Analog Session then became an album project and finally a live performance. For Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky it’s not about being nostalgic for an era they represented but is more a progression and improvisation in the present music scene currently dominated by computers. Like the vintage analog gear the pair use, the Analog Session is a living, breathing entity. On the one hand capable of organic brilliance and on the other, breaking down at a moment’s notice.

The new album tracks range from electro-disco to techno, opening up to melody and chord arrangements throughout. ‘My Dream’ for instance is an introspective theme that is developed through different arrangements, alternating with an almost electro-house rhythm. ‘Lonely Dancers’ is made up by a sequence of synth notes whose sound transforms and becomes the backbone of a track that could be perhaps be seen as ‘minimal-electro’ whilst ‘We Are Here’ has a style that's more difficult to define. As in ‘My Dream’, here too a dream-like theme disrupts the minimal atmosphere that provides the tracks structure.

‘Space Circle’ is built on an harmonic progression of four chords, repeated throughout the track whilst undergoing continuous variations - inversions and substitutions - where the tone-colour of the analog synths fully capture the alternating soundscape. ‘Shure I Like’ injects an element of 80s synth pop with its infectious melody providing a link to the duo’s long-estbalished past but ‘Wild Electrons’ takes us further into future-space as the duo explore the sound potential of the latest (polyphonic) synth assembled by Ludus Pinsky.

Finally ‘Black Ground’, the title track, brings us back to planet Earth where the analog sound reveals its concrete, earthly nature. The CD also includes two previously digital only remixes: ‘Ascension’ (Late Night Rmx) and ‘Effai’ (Late Night Rmx).

Tracklist

1. My Dream
2. Wild Electrons
3. Space Circle
4. Black Ground (Club Mix)
5. Lonely Dancers
6. We Are Here
7. Shure I Like
8. Black Ground (Original)

The Analog Session - My Dream (cut)

01 Nite Rite - Ten 
02 Soul_of_Hex_-_The_Muth_(Henry_Wu_remix)
03 Kapote_-_Fuck_Music_(Session_Victim_remix)
04 Theus Mago - Wrong Spell - Duro 
05 Tensnake_-_Keep_On_Talking_(Gerd_Janson_Raw_mix)
06 Meda_-_Shadow_Play_(Original_Mix)
07 Moonwalk_-_Echoes
08 A_Sound_Stealers_-_Damage_(The_Deals_remix)
09 Electronic_Youth_-_E-Tronix
10 Jamie_Brennan_-_Been_Done
11 Mike_Millrain_-_Signs
12 Carreno is LB - Control - MFRR
13 Patrick_Branch_-_Disco_Beat
14 Jay_Lumen_-_Spin_That_Wheel
15 Hector_Moralez_-_Ten_30_One_33_(DJ_Sneak_remix)
16 Alexander Robotnick - I Love This Clive

It's Only Tech-House But I Like it (DJ-Mix)

Alexander Robotnick - Problèmes d amour

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 Undicidisco fresco mix

All tracks by Alexander Robotnick & Ludus Pinsky - The Analog Session
PLAYLIST
The Analog Session: Lonely Dancer
The Analog Session - N5 From Outer Space (Summer RMX)
The Analog Session - Distant Voices
The Analog Session - Funfare (Summer RMX)
The Analog Session - My Dream
The Analog Session - Amigos
The Analog Session - Effai (Late night RMX)
The Analog Session - Strange Fruits
The Analog Session - Concrete seq1
The Analog Session - Sunday Morning
The Analog Session - N5 From Outer Space (CD version)

From the CDs: The Analog Session - April - Black Ground

The Analog Session - DJ-Set

It's a Journey into the present time techno. Here is the PLAYLIST
01 Hector_Cooper__amp__Koloniari_-_Deeper__Original_mix
02 Information_Ghetto_-_Rumba_Time__Original_Mix
03 AX Folic-State_Mashita_Original-Mix
04 Synister_Eastern-Dream
05 Arnaud Rebotini - Sieg! - Blackstrobe Records
06 JunoJuno_-_Quentins_Sleep_Regression__Original_Mix
07 Alex Young  Deetech - Holohoax
08 Christopher Kah - Consciousness
09 Raf_Dask_-_Prince_Adam
10 Enrico_Sangiuliano_-_Moon_Rocks
11 BAM_aka_BOZANDMONSTRR__-_Preacher
12 Deborah_De_Luca__-_Deep_Inside_Me__Dandi__Ugo_Remix
13 NMM003_Bugz__-_The_Journey__(Original_Mix)
14 Phil_Moffa-Rolling_Boil_B1
15 Andres-Feles_-__Segunda_(Original_Mix)
16 Artefakt_-_Mirage_(original_mix)
17 Simian_Mobile_Disco_-_Bubble_Has_No_Answers
18 JP_Lantieri_-_Leo__Esotera_Remix
19 Mikron - Foresight - Zone
20 Josh_ Caffe_ &_ The_ Subbs - Revolution (Posthuman Remix)
21 Intergalactic_Frequencies_Chapter_101 PLANETX
22 P-Ben-DGTLS
23 Shlammo_-_Vertigo 
24 Intergalactic_Frequencies_Chapter_101_Cosmos

Podcast

A Journey into the present time Techno

Alexander Robotnick DJ-Set May 2017
PLAYLIST:
Mr. Tea - Vanishing Point - Discotexas
 Rojan_-_The_Fieseler_(Original_Mix
 Mike Spaccavento - Leave The Ground - Original Mix
 Wellsince_-_Purplee_Mood_(Original_Mix)
Metodi_Hristov_-_Behind_(D-Formation_Remix)
Joe_Red__SP1DER_-_Groot_(Original_Mix)
Kocleo - Get It On - Integrity Records
Kade_B_-_Danger__Werner_Niedermeier_Remix
Killian's_-_Check_It_Out_(Original_Mix)
Joe_Red_-_Couldn't_Find_A_Better_Name_(Luigi_Rocca_Remix)
Atnarko_This-Feeling_Approved-Electronic-Device-Remix
Giaryk - Spectrum (Original Mix)
Bobby-Duron_Say-What_John-Mork-Remix
BOZandMONSTRR_-_In_A_Hope_World
Akshat_Joshi_-_Mirage_(End_To_End_Remix)
Lelu__Black_Judgements_(Phunk_Investigaton_&_Jean_Aita_Remix
Joseph_Gaex__Alaan_H_-_Secuense_(Original_Mix)
Brett-Johnson-feat.-DJ-Red-Eye_Dramarama
Junior_Lopez_-_We_Like_To_Party__Terry_Francis_Remix
Josh_Butler___Bontan_-_Call_You_Back
Marcelo_Demarco_-_Engualichado__Original_Mix
DI.CAPA_-_Violent_Delights_(Original_Mix)
Nnatn_-_Brothers_in_Rhythm_(Original_Mix)
Adam_Helder_-_She_Wants_(Original_Mix)

ENJOY it!!!

It's Only Tech-House but I Like it (episode 2 - May 2017)

PLAYLIST:
Tulioxi - Apollo 409 (original)
Ariel Lanfrit Pine Way 
House_Clan_-_Funk_Vision 
Gabriel_-_La_Noche_(Original_Mix)
Kellini___Saskin_S_-_Break_A_Leg
Phunktastike & Sanza - The Future (Ariel Lanfrit Remix) 
Robotnick-LoreJ_A_fleeting_visit_to_the_fair (J Vision mix) 
Black_Spuma_-_Ceephab 
Oh_Yeah_-_Still_Ill_(Dicky_Trisco_And_JKriv_mix) 
Ziggy_Phunk_-_Baseline_Nation 
Pandreas_-_Back_2_School 
Snax_-_Turn_It_(Sleazy_McQueen_dub) 
Kenny-Summit-Nino-Bellemo_Moving-Forward 
Funboys_-_Gnarlivale_(Roe_Deers_remix) 
Rodion & Local Suicide - Abu Dhabi (Los Mekanikos Remix) 
Kiu_D_-_Small_Steps 
James_Curd_-_Free_Yourself
Hamza_Dopa 
Midnight_Magic_-_Sea_Of_Love_(Michael_The_Lion_remix)

New Disco - Indie Dance - October 2017 DJ set

According to data from the 2011 Census, India continues to be overwhelmingly young, with 41% of its population below the age of 20. 
Moreover by 2020, the average age in India will be 29 and it is set to become the world’s youngest country with 64% of its population in the working age group.

This indicator points to the widespread vitality of Indian culture in all art field such as cinema, music, design and architecture.
A large young population also means the entertainment industry is rapidly developing and dance music plays a major role in it as the natural social aggregator.
Clubbing is booming everywhere , first of all in the big cities and then also in smaller ones. Numerous festivals , often very well organized, pop up ; many young musicians are active in the field of electronic music. 

Indian TechExpress is a sample from the future of electronic dance music. You won't find much "Indian sound" in it , as traditionally defined. Paradoxically you'll find more Africa in it. Indian youths look at the world and Africa seems to attract them more than their own music tradition. Most of them are young artists , some actually very young, and very well represent a movement that is developing in the fascinating and creative chaos that contemporary Indian society is. 
Alexander Robotnick 
PLAYLIST IN THIS MIX
01 – D80 - "I'm hot for YOU" 
02 – Pawas & Unnayanaa - "P-2"
03 - Hamza - "Discotello"
04 – Hybrid Protokol - "Kenebo" 
05 - Weird Sounding Dude - "Echoes" 
06 - Aqua Dominatrix - "Cant touch me" 
07 - Diatonik - "Morphosis" 
08 - Stalvart John - "Thabo Mbeki" 
09 - ToneFabrik - "Solar Fields"
10 - 5volts - "Slowfly"
11 - NoLatency - "Dream Are Made Of"

Indian TechXpress

Alexander Robotnick presents: Various - Indian TechXpress

Most of tracks included in this selections are promos I received recently
Play-List:
DRuben___Ra_-_Give_You
Tulioxi - Apollo 409 (original)
Tulioxi - Animal Funk (Robotnick RMX)
Bertrand_Burgalat_Yuksek_-_Icare_(Yuksek_remix)
Alex_Zuiev_-_Afro_Magic
Zeitmaschine_-_Breakout 
TenGrams - Disco Dub - N.O.I.A. Records
Roliva - Rudio Capital (Damon Jee Remix) - Night Noise Music
Legs-11_The-Rhythm_Kellini-Rett-Hjem-Remix 
Mordisco - Tropico - My Favorite Robot
Ambiance - Hombre Arana (Club Duro Remix) - Duro
Alessio Collina - Acid Paradise - Trend Records
Flight_Mode_-_It's_So_Nice
Demuja - Come To Me
Demuja - Come To Me (Folamour Lost In Eden Remix) - Madhouse Records
Frag Maddin - Focus - Madhouse Records

April 2018 DJ Mix

Most of tracks included in this selections are promos I downloaded recently.
Playlist:
My Favorite Robot - Pink Horror - MFRR
Ursula-1000_Chess-King_KLM-Remix
Valerio_Bianco_-_Back_Stage
Ismael_Rivas_-_Full_Moon_(D-Formation_remix)
Aldo_Gargiulo_-_Crash_(Shawn_Jackson_remix) 
Garry_Todd_-_Wait_For_Me_(Zoo_Brazil_remix)
Gina Breeze - Pressure (Original Mix)
Space - Magic Fly (The Orb Remix) - Nang Records
Tuff_City_Kids_-_Nordo_(SCB_Inversion)
Kittin - EACID (Truncate Remix) - Zone
Burnski_-_Get_Up
Davies_Gene_feat._Paris_The_Black_FU_Gareth_Whitehead (Oliver Way)

April 2018 DJ-Mix Part 2

Pippon, the title of this track, expresses A.R.'s and Lore J's extreme intolerance to the  names  usually given to electronic music tracks: like “Morning Star” to evoke  music feelings, or some  mysterious acronym or  obscure numbers like k451, or some tentative description of music styles like “late-night-afro-punk” and so on. 
Sick and tired with all that, they decided to go for a totally non-sensical title like Pippon. The music is once again made up of different versions of techno-progressive: Lore J's one develops in a decidedly progressive way, whilst R.'s is more linear and static.
The third version is more dance-floor oriented and is the result of a post production edit. 
129 bpm.

Pippon

Alexander Robotnick and Lore J - Pippon (cuts)

Playlist:
1) Early Morning Raga (Original)
2)Early Morning Raga (Pawas rmx)
3) Early Morning Raga (Tulioxi rmx)
4) Early Morning Raga (Lore J rmx)
5) Early Morning Raga (Diatonik rmx)
6) Early Morning Raga (Hamza rmx)

"Early Morning Raga" is the new single by The Analog Session , produced by Alexander Robotnick's label, Hot Elephant Music.
Www.hot-elephant.com
With this track, the two artists tackle a style which , just like Jazz, is considered the most profound
and refined expression of melodic improvisation in music: Indian Raga.
Robotnick and Pinsky never claimed to compare with Indian classical music Masters who
traditionally spend up to 10 years studying and practicing before playing in front of an audience.
Anyway, drawing on their long experience with modal improvisation, they decided to pay tribute to
a music style which is only superficially known to the Western public.
In this project they were supported by the remixes of two Italian producers (two Florentines
indeed!)
Tulioxi
https://soundcloud.com/tulioxi
Lore J
https://soundcloud.com/lore-j-tracks
and three emerging Indian producers, already featuring in the compilation "Indian Tech Express".
Pawas Gupta
http://soundcloud.com/pawas
https://www.facebook.com/pawas
Diatonik
https://soundcloud.com/diatonik-ind
https://www.facebook.com/djdiatonikofficial/
Hamza
https://www.facebook.com/hrahimtula

The original track is accompanied by a video-clip produced by A. Robotnick ,with the support of Gianni Manetti's graphic art.
https://youtu.be/2K-IYQykSXQ
The central element in this clip is a Wasp, the synthesizer designed in 1976 by Albert Wagner ,
who unfortunately passed away recently, whose technical characteristics, in Robotnick's opinion ,
magically blend with the Indian style.
In this clip the Wasp looks like a sort of UFO, symbolizing electronics' intrusion on Indian tradition.
It is therefore with great satisfaction ( although maybe a little bit pretentiously) that Hot Elephant
Music opens this window onto Indian electronic music to the Western public, in the hope of
encouraging some other Indian producers to deal with their unique and matchless roots b because
if something must be saved from the pervasive standardization deriving from wild and super fast
globalisation , it's indeed the artistic expression of different cultures, as this is peoples' true and
invaluable wealth.

The Analog Session - Early Morning Raga (cuts mix)

Soundtrack of the homonymous video-installation produced in September '86 for the "Arte degli Ambienti" Festival in Pantelleria. Later it was staged also in Firenze (October '86), Perugia (April '87) and finally in Palermo (June '87, part of the collective exhibition "Per amor del Cielo" at the Modern Art Gallery).
The installation is a ever-changing landscape of memories dedicated: 
"...to the black island, where a beloved shipwrecked friend, after having suffered for long time has been turned into a fish”.

The theme of the work is the shipwreck in all of its allegorical meanings. Mixing music, electronic images, voices, scenographic materials, GMM re-proposes the poetic reconstruction of a seascape populated by fishermen, castaways, wrecks, hallucinated backgrounds.

Music: Maurizio Dami (Alexander Robotnick)
Video-art: Antonio Glessi
Lyrics: Andrea Zingoni
Scenography: Loretta Mugnai

Vocals: Andrea Zingoni, Maurizio Dami, Antonio Glessi, Eva Ciucci, Cristina Lopez Dupuy, Francesca Meucci

Movimenti Sul Fondo

Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici - Movimenti Sul Fondo - Part 1

Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici - Movimenti Sul Fondo Part 2

Giovanotti Mondani Meccanici - Movimenti Sul Fondo- Instrumental

1 - I love my house (127 bpm)
One more TB303 based track. Something between
Acid-house and Deep-house.
The original recording dates back to 1995. The bass line
has been recently remade using the real TB303, because
at that time Robotnick used to play mostly digital gear.
2 - Submarine (130 bpm)
It's a kind of Ambient Break-beat. It was originally
composed for a soundtrack in the early 90s. Robotnick
had no9thing but the midi file. All the sounds were
produced last year.
3 - Disco Acha (128 bpm)
This track is quite recent as it dates back to 2008. It
represents Robotnick's renewed interest in Disco music.
Philadelphia strings give "disco flavour" to an electro-bass
groove. The title means nothing . It's a kind of " exercise in
style" but may turn useful for clubs.
4 - Minore Terzo (Electric Prince rmx) 128 bpm
Producers Lia Organa and Electric Prince met in 2006 in
a recording studio. Their passion for music and their
similar influences and style brought them together to
create the project Lia Organa & Electric Prince (LOEP).
Since then they have been producing music together.
Labels: Music Control, Advanced Synergy, Goog,
Guilhotina, super6 records, electrico records ,Keep On
Techno, TechHead, Amigos, Capital Techno, Phunkation
Contact Info
Websitehttp://myspace.com/loep
http://www.facebook.com/LiaOrganaElectricPrince/info
5 - TB Maniac (Tulioxi MiniManiac rmx) 124 bpm
6 - TB Maniac (Tulioxi rmx) 120 bpm
Mattia Pea Tuliozi (Madame Wish/Tulioxi) is a producer
and artist
Born in Florence (Italy)
At present he's involved in several projects like
Clearound, Global kan
kan,Tuda Mama and his solo project as Tulioxi
He released tracks for TotalWipes, Minus Habens,
Insectorama,
Grogg, Stirsound, Manual Music, Labella, Multivitamins,
Minimal kidz


Alexander robotnick - I love my house

When Machines Get Funky

01 - Achtung Asteroid!
02 - When Machines Get Funky
03 - Until Emergency Is Over
04 - Lonely Dancer (2018 re-work)
05 - Black Ground (2018 re-work)
06 - Burning Sun 
07 - Traveling to the hidden space
08 - Early Morning Raga
09 - Intermezzo


These tracks are derived from some improvisations recorded at Robotnick's studio in Summer 2018.
In the editing the most significant parts were saved ; others were cut out to give shape to  7 tracks where improvisation plays the main role while adjusting into a dance structure.
Modal music as  usual where the continuous variation in tone-colour leads to a hypnotic state . Liquid yet dramatically metronomic music. Growing out of the history of electronics we humbly contributed  and feel to belong to, here and now.  

No need to stress the analog origin of most of  our sounds. You can immediately feel it : analog synths produce a kind of sound which, although synthetic is perceived as real and therefore the emotions it gives -if any -are much deeper. 
Two tracks already released in "Black Ground" are here presented with a new look. "They sound differently every-time we improvise them live". The versions presented in this EP come from a Summer night in my studio while rehearsing before a concert.
On that occasion we wrote the sequences of 3 new tracks “ Actung Asteroid “ “When Machines Get Funky “and “ Traveling To The Hidden Space” upon which we improvised in a couple of takes together.
We then added to the project some tracks made with traditional overdubbing in studio production style : “Until Emergency Is Over", "Burning Sun"
"Early Morning Raga" , already released as a single with a number of remixes closes the album.
Intermezzo is a bonus track . It’s an improvisation by l p where he exclusively used the modular synth he  put together by himself . Pure analog electronic music for die-hard fans of that sound .
Alexander Robotnick ,well known for his track”Problèmes d'Amour” released during the early 80s’ Italo-disco age, boasts a fairly broad music experience ranging from electro disco to rock and world music , ambient and soundtracks ,as making music has been his only job and passion in . The same applies to Ludus Pinsky who experimented with Punk , reggae and ambient in the past .
Their multi-faceted music background inevitably impacts their current work which is further enriched by their long time familiarity with improvisation

When Machines Get Funky

The Analog Session - When Machines Get Funky (Snippets)

Release preview - The Analog Session REMIXES 2
Hot Elephant Music

Alexander Robotnick

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