I just uploaded a new mixtape, this time to mixcloud, which will probably host all of the future mixtapes of Robot Plays Guitar since is an awesome free mixes host service.
01. Bettie Everett – The Real Thing
02. Joe Tex – Pneumonia
03. Harvey Averne – Wade on the Water
04. Ike & Tina Turner – Can’t Chance a Breakup
05. Chuck Wood – Seven Days is Too Long
06. Sandi Sheldon – You’re Gonna Make Me Love You
07. Little Richard – Get Down With It
08. Johnny Watson – I Say I Love You
09. Al Wilson – The Snake
10. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Nowhere to Run
11. Etta James – In The Basement
12. Curtis Mayfield – Get Down
13. Rufus Thomas – Do the Funky Chicken
14. Dennis Coffey – Theme From Black Belt Jones
15. Henry Mancini – Streets of San Francisco
16. Mantzel – Space Funk (Dopebrother 12″ Remix)
17. Babe Ruth – The Mexican
18. Grover Washington Jr – Inner City Blues
Hi there!, I just wanted to add here a small recap of what I have been doing in the past two months:
In October I was DJing on Casa Jager, a wild party organized by Jägermeister. The secret party was on a big chalet outside Madrid with some cool bands playing there such as Health, Juanita y los Feos or my new discovering, The Cobras a savage electro-something duo from Galicia. My dj set was an all around rock & roll set, it was big fun. You can listen to a selection of the tracks I played there in this Spotify playlist.
Also, in November I did a gig in the reformed Sala Siroco, which now has a super cool lounge bar with awesome cocktails. The sound is awesome too and it’s great to DJ in this place. I think they are revolutionizing the night scene in madrid with some cool parties they are hosting. The set here was mainly composed of soul, funk and disco, and there is an Spotify playlist for it too, check it out here.
I will be doing more gigs in the following months and posting cool stuff, stay tuned on my twitter account @therobot or my Facebook page.
I am very happy to introduce to yourselves, my dear audience my latest effort, a summer rock mixtape. Probably is not summerish in the traditional sense, probably is not rock as you may thought, or the opposite, let me know.
Anyway.
You can listen to the mixtape below, you can download the thing here for your offline enjoyment or you can listen to the unmixed tracks in the spotify version.
Tracklist:
I Want Some More – Dan Auerbach
Where Do You Run To – Vivian Girls
King of the Beach – Wavves
Patty Lee – Les Savy Fav
Slogans – Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard
I Woke Up Today – Port O’Brien
Little Girl – Death From Above 1979
Take Me All The Way – French Toast
Garbageman – The Cramps
Love Is a Wave – Crystal Stilts
Bright Lit Blue Skies – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
A good friend of mine recomended me the band named Big Blood, they play some very nice intimist folk music. I wanted to share this information with the readers of this blog :)
It’s even better, they have their albums on Free Music Archive (a great place to find new music, tough) so you can listen or download their music for free.
I have not listened all of their (thirteen!) albums, but Dark Country Magic sounds great, you should listen to it. And don’t forget to donate some money to the band if you can, they’ll appreciate it.
am I the only one that sees the similarities between the fourth song of latest DCFC album and the prototypical “motorik” style developed by the awesome band Neu! in the seventies?
I am not saying at all that this is a bad thing, on the contrary I think finding inspiration on Neu!’s sound and adapting to DCFC’s own completely works. I am completely enjoying Codes & Keys, maybe not their most inspired album but very consistent and worked out.
This blog has idled for a year. But apart from the casual laziness I have a very good reason for this absence. If you haven’t heard about it yet I’m very proud to show to the readers of this blog my latest project: beattaster
We are trying to show to the world that there’s electronic talent in Spain. We are also trying to bring some international awesome new talents to Madrid. Beattaster wants to achieve this in two forms: as a live videocast of an event performed by our selected artists which is held on an undisclosed location in Madrid; also, soon after the event we will upload to our soundcloud the audio recording of the show.
Yesterday was our first event, it was a great experience to organize it, REC_Overflow‘s performance was truly awesome, we are quite glad to have him here. In the following days we will announce the artist and date of the next beattaster show.
I been loving them for more than a year and I think it’s about time to dedicate them a blog post.
Wooden Shjips music can be describe as dense, repeatitive, psychedelic rock with long songs and lots of personality. Influenced by Spacemen 3, The Velvet Underground and other sonic monsters of the like.
Watch below Motorbike, a great song included in their second album named “Dos”.
This thursday night I will be playing music at Sala Ra! Ra! Ra! with Dj Arbusto from Acapulco Club Madrid in a party called Robots vs Arbustos. Expect happy music: indie, rock, electronica, stuff that will make you dance. You can have an advance of what’s coming on my previous post
The place is located at C/ Serrano 41. Entrance is free, the show starts at 23:30.
UPDATE: I am no longer happy with the result of this mixtape, you know that time always put everything in its place. I decided to delete it.
Hi to everybody!
I have decided to start recording mixtapes again under the moniker Robot Plays Guitar. The style is more or less the same that I used to dj some years ago: some indie, some electro, some house, some hip-hop too. All mixed together. This is happy music you can sing and dance.
I’ll make an exception and I’ll choose more than the usual 12 songs, this year has been so exceptional that 12 songs are not enough to fill it. Some songs are new, others are old, in my opinion publication year does not matter, what matters is the music, and the meaning in your life.
Recently I’ve been attracted about a kind of musical subgenre which seems inspired by Ennio Morricone‘s western soundtracks and tex-mex music. To this mix you have to add some rock and you have epic songs with trumpets, guitars and great instrumentation.
This is the track list included in the compilation:
As every year, but with the main difference that this year I’m doing it on time, this is the post that covers my list of favorite albums for 2009. Most of them have been released this year, but this is not compulsory. My year in music has been quite interesting, good discovering, mostly music that came from the North American folk scene and sub-genres like New Weird America and other acoustic bastard sons. My biggest disapointment came from the neo-psychedelic scene, many bands (Weird Owl, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound to name a couple) have new albums but way way less interesting than their previous releases. One exception to this is the magnificent album called “Dos” from Wooden Shjips which of course is on the list. Also not too much metal or doom this year, just Orthodox and Earth.
So, the albums, I choose twelve, one for every month, order has no meaning. Enjoy.
Llevo prometiendo muchos meses este recopilatorio, llevo un par de días dandole vueltas, y he quitado todos los temas mas indies para dejarlos para un próximo recopilatorio de indie tristón. Lo que ha quedado es folk que oscila entre lo oscuro y lo melancólico.
Today I just started to thing on how many things I’d like to do, and the small I am able to accomplish. I made a list of all the small projects, things and hobbies I start during a year, for living, having fun, having the feel of creating something, etc. This list follows like this:
First of it is working, you spend lots of time on working, it’s necessary and fortunately for me is quite fun working on ASPgems, also it’s great to do some freelance job from time to time, you get extra money, your CV grows too. As I am a big proponent of Free Software I feel like I don’t return very much to the comunity, some small how-to on this blog from time to time, a small help on mailing lists or irc, but I’d like to start some small open source project, I’ve already started an Eclipse Plugin some years ago as part of my job for Google’s Summer of Code, but still I have a couple of good ideas that I’d like to start to implement. Also I spent time reading blogs and staying on touch with the latest things on the internet related of my job and also in the business. I feel like my ruby skills are not good enough, so I’d like to start learning more ruby and for sure learning rails as well. Finally I wrote articles for spanish linux magazine Todo Linux which is time consuming too (it remembers me to the university years, doing first all the process while taking notes of it and then writing a document with the process).
The second thing I really enjoy doing is djing, I love to play music for people even if I am not paid. Also I’d like to improve my dj skills and trying to became a real dj, ok maybe not that much real but still try to do it better than now. All of this goes quite tied with another thing that I really love and also is time consuming: music research not only because I need to be always on the new things also because I love music in almost every style and I am always eager to discover new bands. That leads me to another related issue which is attending to music concerts, I do it as much as my time, money and the other stuff I do allow me to. Very close with djing is podcasting, from time to time I try to make some dj session and upload it to the internet. The latest thing related to music (which as all my friends know is my other big passion besides internet/technology/sysadmin job), I been playing guitar for most than ten years and still I am not a good perfomer but still I feel the need to learn a little bit more, even if it’s playing covers, and even more: I love playing with synthesizers in my computer (perfect for me since is the sum of my biggest passions). Some years ago even I started a band called Calrissians that of course did not have any kind of success. I would like to spent more time on this. Definetly I’d like to start a band with some friends, even we’ve been in some talks to start that in september.
I try to blog here of music and tech things from time to time (hence the title of the blog), but as you know updates are not quite frequent.
Also the third leg of this table is called social life, seeing friends, going out, having a beer or two, preparing a nice dinner for a couple of friend. Sometimes some party, sometimes too much ;) Also this is quite close with djing, and going to concerts.
Finally there are other small hobbies I have: I bought a digital camera some months ago (Canon Powershot G10 if you are interested on this stuff), so I am trying to learn a little bit about photography, digital manipulation of pictures and so on. I love reading novels and technical books too and watching a film from time to time, specially if they are related to music (not necessarily musicals). Also I’m quite interested in learning and expermienting with cooking, learning german, receiving lessons on wine taste and also receiving lessons on swing dance.
So… is it possible to do all of this? How? I’m feeling sad and stressed of wanting to do so many many many things and not being able to do them. I don’t really want to miss anything in this life.
La semana pasada se me ocurrió esta hacer la lista de reproducción que da nombre al post, intenté no ser excesivamente obvio en la selección de canciones pero buscar musica agradable y buen rollera. Como salió bastante bien la cosa, os aqui el fichero con las canciones.
