Vote Robot

An electronica duo from bucolic Kelowna, Uk Columbia, Vote Automatic robot prided itself on using vintage gear, creating experimental music having a palpable human being warmness. Analog synths, doctored tapes, turntables, and combining consoles were a common sound sources, towards the mindful exclusion of computer systems, samplers, along with other contemporary digital products. The results had been often set alongside the pioneering glitch design of Oval, despite having used a very much different way to make it happen. Vote Robot associates Kevin Rivard and Scott August initial fulfilled when Rivard was August’s babysitter. August created a home-taping habit in his teenagers, and he and Rivard started collaborating within the middle-’90s, when August also released single material beneath the name French Paddleboat. The very first Vote Robot produces were cassette just, until Catsup Dish released R.U.R. in LP structure in 1995. Both of its pressings sold-out completely, as do a far more limited remix record, Variations, in 1998. Early another year, August arrived his first Compact disc release as France Paddleboat with Conversions in Metric, as well as the resultant publicity helped draw even more focus on Vote Robot aswell. Their very own debut Compact disc release came by means of 2001’s In Meorm NA, released by Vancouver indie Damage. It was accompanied by another vinyl-only record, Five Rating Six Bicycle.