New Music from NOBOT
The robots are back, and they mean business.
With technology growing smarter and stronger, the possibility of rocker robots becomes more of a reality every day. In the meantime, us humans will have to settle with bands that inspire those images rather than be them. Daft Punk may be Europe’s answer to this situation, but the Minnesota band Nobot is America’s robotic replacement. Starting in 2006 as a trio, the band played mostly in the Midwest before releasing themselves nationally with their EP Power Today!. Nobot combines live music with laptop manipulation and sampling to create their live and studio act, making each listening experience equally pleasurable. After guitarist Matt Masurka’s departure earlier this year, remaining members Kyle Vande Slunt and Adam Tucker stepped up to fill the void Masurka left. The duo has taken Minneapolis by storm, more recently with their monthly collaboration with fellow electronic rockers Estate at the local venue the Kitty Cat Klub.
The band decided to go a different route with their distribution after releasing their Power Today!. Instead of releasing an entire new album Nobot is putting out a song a month, treating each like a very, very short album. Fans continually get fresh music instead of waiting months to be satiated with new electronic candy and the band itself isn’t pressured into making their music into a packaged product. “Drinking Progress” is their latest individually-wrapped piece of music.The single departs from their work on Power Today! in a great direction, still embodying the aggressive style Nobot does so well. It starts off with some great clap samples alongside a funky bass and synthesizer beat and goes straight into a snazzy digital swing. Their signature robotic vocal distortion is back, and with lines like “We’re drinking progress” can resound in the most sober of men “Drinking Progress” is another hit from Nobot.
Posted by Amy Dittmeier on Sep 23, 2008 @ 7:00 am
