lo-fi ROBOT Boy's Musical Sketchbook.

A collection of rough tracks, works-in-progress, and music ideas for future tracks. An aural scrapbook.

Sketches from the ROBOT Lab

A collection of the electronic sounds that have been rocking my world in recent weeks. Do follow-up on some of these superb artists.

Bring Me Sunshine...

Tuesday Tunes 💜

Kittenhead's second album, a selection highlighting the band as it settles into a songwriting standard, showing all the colors of their palette.

Tuesday

Written, recorded and all instruments are played by The Cruel Horizon, musician of a One Man's Band. Check the video filmed in Ireland on my You Tube Channel. A BoysRoomRecords® Production 2017

Crookstown

Relaxing meditative track, enjoy the spring.

Breath Of Spring

Featuring a chopped up Uillean Pipe sample from Planxty's wonderful 1973 LP 'The Well Below The Valley'.

Dance Of The Sidhe

A little "lo-fi acid house nobody-reads-this DAW-less" jam.

Novation Bass Station
Korg Volca Bass
Pearl DRX-1
Roland D-50
Arturia Beatstep Pro

Liquid Zoo

NOTES No.1

NOTES No.1 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

Jungl Purti

Written, performed & mixed by
André "pixelorb" Brandes © 2018

Mastered by Steve Corrao at Sage Audio,
Brentwood, Tennessee (USA).

Image: pixabay.com (CC0 Creative Commons)

Instruments:
- The Legend
- u-he Repro-1
- u-he Repro-5
- Sylenth
- TAL Noisemaker
- Thorn

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System Error

Another late-night synth jam, recorded dry and archived here.

This is a little chord sequence I was banging out on the piano for the last few days. It began to sound like it could be a good synth-pop tune so I put together a very rough cut so I wouldn't lose the idea. I'll go back and rework it a bit and it may end up on my next album.

As always, Listen. Share. ENJOY!

Cheers!
LRB

NOTES No.2

NOTES No.2 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

I fell right into this again
There must be something wrong with me
I’ve been here many times before
And maybe many more to be
Am I doing something wrong?
Or is this where I’m supposed to be?
Will I ever get it right?
Is it even up to me?

Why was I saying prayers
To a god who won’t care?
Why was I saying prayers
To a god who’s not there?

I’m losing certainty again
I’m almost ready to concede
The little voice inside my head
Is ready to take over me
I cannot manage a defense
Surrender would be a relief
But something greater than myself
Is telling me I can’t believe

Why was I saying prayers
To a god who won’t care?
Why was I saying prayers
To a god who’s not there?

Prayers - Single

Prayers

Synth Sunday!
Messing around with my "new" Novation Bass station plus my trusty ol' Roland D-50 and JV-35. Very rough track that may be massaged into part of the upcoming Liquid Zoo album.

Listen, share, ENJOY!

sketches from the ROBOT Lab

NOTES No.3 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

The first track from my album Two Monologues, available in most online music stores and streaming services.

Two Monologues

Anthem for an Empire

Anthem For An Empire

Tangerine Dream-inspired sequence produced using a Novation Bass Station, Roland D-50 and Moog MG-1. We're "all vintage, all the time" here at the ROBOT Lab. Well, except when were not. Anyway...

Listen. Share. ENJOY!

NOTES - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

NOTES No.4 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

Have a listen. If you like what you hear please consider supporting the effort.

NOTES No.5 came about one rainy Sunday afternoon while I was testing out a newly acquired Novation Bass Station. I sequenced a simple baseline on the JUNO-106 and then started experimenting with lead sounds. I added 808 drum samples from a Roland JV-35, started playing chords with cheesy choir samples and before long I had the makings of a little synth-pop ditty.

NOTES - Sketches from the ROBOT Labs

NOTES No.5 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

Support Indie Art

Another demo for our upcoming debut. We love the flow of this song! Let us know what you think! We hope you enjoy it! Keep on making good music!

The stars are shining bright tonight
Let them shine
The moon has never looked so kind
I don't mind

We don't need the starlight
Escaping from the past
We leave the town at last

The ocean looked the same back then
I don't mind
The radio plays our song again
All the time
And we can build a future
Escaping from the past
We're coming home at last

And if you still care for me
Then I will be around
And if you take care of me
then I will stick around
then I will stick around

And I can be alone tonight
I don't mind
The stars have never been so bright
Let them shine

The words that build our future
Can cover up the past
we leave it all at last

And if you still care for me
You know where I'll be found
And I will take care of you
Just you stick around
Just you stick around

Demos 2018

Starlight

Experimental Electronica and Synthesizer Cheese.  lo-fi ROBOT Boy makes music using hardware synthesizers, sequencers & drum machines collected from flea markets, yard sales, and the dusty back rooms of music shops. Everything has knobs, sliders & smells like ozone. VSTs and blue LEDs be damned!

Artist with Pink Dolphin Music Ltd.

NOTES No.5 - sketches from the ROBOT Lab

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