.d.

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Member Since: 6/14/2004
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CD | Mixed Genre

Robotronicalifization

Artist Song
Various  Intro (Oh, To be a Mechanical Man [Printed Circuit], Fight Test [The Flaming Lips], In the Future with Machines [FPU], Welcome to the Machine [Pink Floyd], Terminator 2 theme [Brad Fiedel]) 
Styx  Mr. Roboto 
My Robot Friend  You're Out of the Computer 
The Futureheads  Robot 
Daft Punk  Robot Rock 
Princess Superstar  Do it Like a Robot 
El-P  Stepfather Factory 
Bent  Cylons in Love 
Grandaddy  Jed the Humanoid 
Radiohead  Paranoid Android 
Kraftwerk  We Are the Robots 
Covenant  Replicant 
Anthony Rother  Destroy Him By Robots 
The Flaming Lips  Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots [pt 1] (Samples: Machine Says Yes [FC Kahuna], Reproduction [The Mirror is the Doorway], Electro Knight [Metatronik]) 
Calexico  Attack el Robot! Attack! 
Add (n) to X  Metal Fingers Inside My Body 
Totally Radd  Victory Pose 
Daedelus  Robotic Girls are Hard 
Goldie Lookin' Chain  Half-Man, Half-Machine 
Various  Outro (Buggie Technica [Polysics], Fight Test [The Flaming Lips], Terminator 2 Theme) 

Comment:

In july 2014 with the flick of a switch it blinked its first blink. Sentience not begot of man, not born of womb of woman. Manufactured in a metal factory, a brain of circuitry, fed and charged with voltage of electrons. Technology gone too far. Humans playing at god. In time these creatures, if they can be called such, for debate already raged on whether they should be termed living when they were only inklings of hypotheses in the minds of visionaries and science fiction writers, developed their own feelings, thoughts, ideological systems and even delicious recipes for apple pie, unbeknownst to their human creators. They are superior to their makers, but treated as inferior, and as we have learned from several big$$$ grossing motion pictures in the last several years, most recently the trite and irritating `i-robot,' this is always a recipe for disaster. The machines develop nationalistic pride, pride of robot-kind. Humanity remains blissfully unaware of danger. Buy a new automated robot! Model 54-hkkk to the power of seventeen! Now guaranteed to cook your meals faster! And nurse your baby from its metal teat better! And look even prettier in the living room corner with a potted geranium on its worthless metal skull when it isn't needed! So perhaps it is no surprise when the robots develop feelings of worthlessness and great unhappiness, organize crying circles in 17 countries. Then, in a desparate attempt to forge a non-subjugated existence, robots build guns and ships and laser-beams. Robots go kick ass. It comes eventually clear to our humans how unfortunate the situation is, but they have spent too long being pompous and doing shit-all. Millions die on both sides, if you can call it life-and that goes both ways. Heroes fight and rise and fall. Swaths of destruction are burnt across the land. The catastrophe is all rather spectacular and rather too much for many to deal with. That many does not include one great hero, who valiantly rises to the occasion and leads an ultimately victorious strike against the robots. But the humans could never have found victory without the use of cybernetic implants in the soldiers of the nation. What hath man wrought, and will he learn?

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Muzag
Date: 3/6/2005
Interesting looking mix. Nice write up.