ROBOTRON Vinyl & CDs

Review: You'd be hard-pushed to find an EP that oozes more authentic Detroit techno, electro and machine resistance than this new one from Robotron on Skynet Cybersonix. It's rugged, retro-future body music starting with 'Cyber Girl' which is a turbo-charged electro-techno bumper with big chord stabs and ice-cold analogue rhythms. 'Bitchcrusher is slow and sleazy and laced up with frosted synths and dark vocal murmurs, 8-bit computer melodies and an eternal sense of cosmic decay. 'Jam To The Empire' closes out with a sleazy and ghetto-tinged vibe that will arrest your every synapse.

Review: Uniquely squeezy new funk by Robotron and the Funkadelic camp. Laying down a phat, uptempo synthfunk slew - 'Toy-Boy', 'Save Your Love' and 'Funk With Me' - alongside myriad liner note puns such as "are you ready to funk off?" and "we give a funk!", you can be sure that the tone of this one is kept both light and heavy, in a mutually opposing but impactful way. The B-side 'Save Your Love' is the particular highlight, presenting a rather interesting fusion of Italo, freestyle, street soul... it's kind of got everything.