TAG: Robot Koch

Dec11

URB’s Most Downloaded Podcasts 2012 (MP3)

If you’re like the umpteen million folks who will be traveling over the coming holidays, you might be wondering what to load into your MP3 player for the long trip. Here’s the top five most downloaded URB Podcast of 2012, which should give you ample beats for your travels. …MORE

Sep05

Robot Koch Exclusive Mix (Podcast)


This week’s podcast comes from Berlin-based beat-crooner Robot Koch. Touching upon the waters of ambient and trip-hop this time around, Koch bears another part of his production prowess by steering his collaborators to a level of trust and technical intervention, letting …

Nov24

Robot Koch (Review)

Robot Koch

Death Star Droid

Released by Robots Don't Sleep


Robert Koch's nom de beat, "Robot," is more than a play on words. If it was just that, it'd be stupid. The idea of an indeterminate grey area between human and machine pervades every element of his debut, and so just as he's retrofitted his human name into a piece of equipment so he struggles throughout Death Star Droid to find humanity within his equipment. It's a heady, intermittently brilliant trip, recalling most directly in its plush post-hip-hop bounce Flying Lotus's Los Angeles moreso than Koch's glitchy and club-centric ...