Friday, February 08, 2013

ROBOTS PLAY EXOTICA

- You got robots in my gamelan!

- You got gamelan in my robots!

Two great tastes that go great together: Gamelan Galak Tika (pronounced 'Galactica'?) & Ensemble Robot, from Boston's MIT and UMass, respectively, combine forces for 19 minutes of free awesomeness that you can download here:

Gamelan Galak Tika & Ensemble Robot: Heavy Metal

A few other instruments like violin and electric guitars join the machines and the Indonesian bells 'n' gongs for a thoroughly mysterious and wonderful sandwich spread of rock 'n' roll, island exotica, and avant-garde. Now, with added chunks of sci-fi futurism! A combo this bizarre shouldn't exist. And yet it does:



And speaking of robots playing heavy metal...


are a metal band - literally - whose videos show them jammin' on Motorhead, The Ramones, and AC/DC. They do live shows, and apparently an album is in the works.

4 comments:

Ivan T. W. said...

Pretty rad, I love how the robots add to the gamelan sound. I remember from 6 or 7 years ago seeing a band called 'Captured by Robots' at a show where the human frontman was leading a band of robots that was pretty entertaining as well.

Mr Fab said...

that sounds pretty good, but I'm guessing that they were mere humans dressed as robots, right? These here are the real deal. and they just might capture us one day. Won't THAT be a show...

Ivan T. W. said...

Oh no, it was actual robots the guy programmed like these, or a bunch of sequencers he set up to look like robots at least. He was the only living thing onstage.

Mr Fab said...

Wow, well now that is impressive. Wish I'd caught that show.