ROBOTKILLER

ROBOTKILLER is the new project and brainchild of drummer Salle de Jonge (aka Salomon) — a deep-space explorer with a backbeat. It’s where his lifelong love for jazz collides with his 90s hip-hop obsession, creating grooves that feel both vintage and futuristic, earthy and stellar.

“Ever since I started out, I’ve wanted to write original songs in a band setting with me as leader and composer,” Salomon explains. The idea simmered for years but crystallized during the global pause, when the noise of everyday life dimmed and space opened for bold creation. 

What emerged is ROBOTKILLER: a trio that sounds like a beat tape brought to life — sample-like drums, Hammond organ, and upright bass driving forward with grit, grace, and freedom.
At its core, the band is Salomon’s dream team: Arno Krijger on Hammond organ and Thomas Pol on double bass, two substantial voices who plug straight into the vision. Around them, Sal adds kindred spirits, expanding the trio like a producer layering sounds — but here, it’s flesh-and-blood musicians, not samples.

The debut release, Cosmetic Seconds (14.11.25), takes its name from the discarded “B-samples” of the fashion world — pieces deemed flawed, imperfect, unfit for commerce. In an age obsessed with polish, ROBOTKILLER flips the script: turning so-called errors into sterling statements, building beauty out of what doesn’t fit the mold. The record features heavyweights Jan van Duikeren (trumpet), Tom Beek (tenor sax), Bas van der Wal (guitar), alongside sonic shapeshifter DJ Optimus (sounds & scratches) and interstellar wordsmith PAX (raps & vocals) — whose cosmic cadence threads the beats with lyrical fire.

Some say ROBOTKILLER is anti-technology, others that it’s a call to embrace the future. Truth is, it’s both: a reminder that honest, human music can still blaze trails in a digital world. On stage, it all funnels into what Salomon calls “conceptual music for the dancing masses” — raw, grooving, and unafraid to aim for the stars.

ROBOTKILLER: freedom, fire, and funk with a cosmic twist.