The best-of-the-best from the ROBOT Lab. Enjoy!

ROBOT Labs Electro Collection

What if, instead of Skrillex, tiny wind-up robots made dubstep using toy keyboards and a Gameboy?

A little soft-core dubstep/techno inspired by Atari, Casio, and 60's sci-fi.

Instruments used:
Yamaha DSR-2000, FB-01, PSS-480, & DD-10. 
Roland JV-35 and JUNO-106.
Korg Volca Bass
Arturia MICROBRUTE.
Realistic MOOG MG-1
Pearl DRX-1
Roland TR-707 (Triggering Juno-6 and DRX-1)

Nux Phaser Core, JOYO Analog Delay, Alesis Microverb III, Roland VF-1

Music For Toys

Lo-fi Robots Dubsteppin' on Video Games

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Lo - Fi ROBOTS Dubsteppin' On Video Games

Just a lo-fi acid track for your listening pleasure. No editing or fancy sequences just me messing about in the studio while I drink my coffee.

Made with vintage Moog MG-1 and contemporary Volca Bass and Microbrute synthesizers. Drums courtesy the mighty Yamaha DD-10.

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Moogled

MOOGLED

Fun tune inspired by Atari and Intellivision (look 'em up kids) made using a bunch of vintage gear, recorded to 4-track cassette, lost in time, found & digitized for your listening pleasure.

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Springs-n-strings

Springs n Strings

Just messing things up a bit while I drink my morning coffee. 

This is a "live" jam recorded in one take using a Volca Bass passed through an EH Bass Micro Synthesizer and a $10 analogue delay pedal as the lead. Baseline courtesy of the Juno-6 sync'd to a TR-707. I threw in a couple random samples to spice things up a bit. MIDI be damned! 

Listen LOUD to amuse your neighbours...
(and scare their cats)

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Barbara Walters on Acid

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This was part of the score to a very, very, very low budget short fantasy film that had something to do with cowboys, ninjas, and a pizza. ...Don't ask.

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Ninja Cowboys

Synthwave-esque Deep  House track improvised using vintage hardware synths and sequencers. 

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For the synth nerds:

Yamaha PSR-36
Yamaha FB-01
Yamaha PSS-290
Roland Juno-6
Roland TR-707
Roland MSQ-700
Alesis Microverb III

Space Beach (live improvisition)

Just a little Minimal Synth with a dash of Acid House composed while my kids were taking a nap. Road music for an afternoon in Dad's space-cruiser. Enjoy!

Dad's Space-Cruiser

Live jam, no computer sequencers or MIDI, just a JUNO-6 arpeggiator sync'd to a TR-707 drum pattern with some improvised pads etc. on an HS-10 (Alpha Juno-1). The "found audio" is taken from the US Coast Guard VHF radio recordings of the 2010 sinking of the fishing vessel Northern Belle. It was layered over the "live" recording in Audacity.

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Robot Coffee

The Sinking of Northern Belle

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The Sinking of NORTHERN BELLE

This is 14 minutes and 14 seconds of me improvising with a bunch of vintage synths. There's no real musical idea or manifesto I was just experimenting with some loops and riffs and combinations of instruments. I didn't realize I was recording myself but decided to keep the track anyway, just because I could. Listen at your own peril.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG6U_ApuI58 

For the synth nerds:

Roland  MSQ-700 Sequencer, Juno-6, Juno-106, SH-2000
Korg Volca Bass, Volca Beats
Technics SX-K350 (for analog strings)

New Works 2017

Fourteen Fourteen: Vintage Synth Jam

Techno tune produced entirely on the Nintendo DSi using the KORG DS-10+ synthesizer/drum machine.

The 1-bar components were composed while sitting on ferry boats. The final track was assembled while sitting on the pot.

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Bathroom Sessions

Tiny NINTENDO

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Sunday afternoon with a cup of coffee, fire in the fireplace and a bunch of synths....

The Juno Project

Synth Sunday 002

Synth Sunday No1

SYNTH SUNDAY PROJECT:  Improvised electro track built around a marine distress call from SWAMP BOAT YANKEE.

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Synth Sundaes

Swamp Boat Yankee

Got a NEW toy!!. Using an Arturia Beatstep Pro to drive a vintage Roland aJUNO-1 and an old Roland JV-35. I'm working out some riffs and instrument combinations for an upcoming live show. This is really just a sketch and has not be mixed, mastered, or even EQ'd. Nonetheless, I hope you hear something you like.
Cheers!
LRB

Synth Sunday No3

Originally one of my "Synth Sunday" tracks this tune is being reworked to be part of the Liquid Zoo soundtrack album.  The track features a Roland alpha JUNO-1, D-50 & JV-35 plus a Yamaha FB-01 and PSS-480.

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Liquid Zoo

Atmospheric synthwave track from the Liquid Zoo soundtrack.

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Captain Sausage Fingers

Sometimes even Robots with Keytars get the blues.

Lost Cassettes

KEYTAR Blues

Gnarly Narwhals are a little like lo-fi ROBOTs !

Just a bit of good ol' fashion hardware acid house.

Analogue Drums: Pearl DRX-1 (Drum-X)
Hand Claps: Roland HC-2
Rhythmic Baseline: Roland JUNO-6
Squishy Baseline; Roland JV-35
Pads and Strings: Roland D-50
Sequencer: Arturia BEATSTEP Pro
Caffeine:  Extra-strong Coffee!

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Gnarly Narwhal - Part 1

A bit of dreamy synth-pop written on a rainy winter afternoon somewhere on the west coast of British Columbia.

A Few Chords

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Yet another orphan track from the "NOTES - Sketches from the ROBOT Labs" series. Like it's fellows this is a work in progress, a quick sketch to get some ideas down so I can come back to them later if I feel so inspired. Constructive criticism  is appreciated and encouraged.

For the synth nerds...

This track was sequenced using an antique copy of Cakewalk Pro from 1991 running on an equally ancient Windows 95 PC. The synthesizers and drum machines were all hardware, mostly vintage and include the following:

Roland JUNO-106, alpha JUNO, D-50 & JV-35
Korg Volca Beats & Microkorg
Novation Bass Station
Realistic (Moog) MG-1
Yamaha FB-01
Alesis Microverb III
NU-X Phaser Core

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Sketches from the ROBOT Labs

VIDEOSPHERE

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A little Chillwave noodling using vintage instruments.

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2o2o Music

Night Ride

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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!

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ROBOT Labs Electro Collection

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