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Shit Robot - 5 Songs EP
Shit Robot - 5 Songs EP
Shit Robot - 5 Songs EP
Shit Robot - 5 Songs EP
Shit Robot - 5 Songs EP
Shit Robot - 5 Songs EP

Shit Robot - 5 Songs EP

$19.98

Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot is, in many ways, as pure DFA as anyone else. He’s been here since before the beginning, a centrifugal force pulling everyone together, an anchor of no-nonsense style and humor that is as core to our being as the fucking lightning bolt.

We’ve put out a lot of Shit Robot records. They’re all great. But it’s been a minute since the last one. (Life happens.)

Earlier this year, the drought ended when Marcus sent some demos he’d been toiling away on in the attic. We loved them immediately. They were raw and rudimentary tracks that felt completely unbothered with where they might fit in and what year it was. They were sharp and smart, the sound of the party where we wanted to be. 

He went to Al Doyle’s place in London to finish them off, and then James mixed everything here at DFA. Bob mastered it, naturally. Somewhere along the way, Suzi Horn from Prinzhorn Dance School and Mutado Pintado from Warmduscher added two incredible vocals as only they could.

It’s 5 Songs, both the name of it and the thing itself. Nominative determinism. 5 complete belters.

CREDITS
Marcus Lambkin: synths, drums, and vocals
Al Doyle: additional synthesizers
Kenny Space: electric bass
Recorded at the No Hassle Castle in Riet by Marcus Lambkin and RAE in London by Al Doyle
Additional recording at DFA Studios in Brooklyn by Korey Richey
Mixed by James Murphy for the DFA
Mastered by Robert "Sparklebear" Weston
Photography and hair by Mary Lambkin
A DFA Design product

Pressed at Citizen Vinyl in Asheville, NC

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Shit Robot - From The Cradle To The Rave
Shit Robot - From The Cradle To The Rave

Shit Robot - From The Cradle To The Rave

$5.00 $27.99

The debut album from DFA veteran Shit Robot, this classic double LP comes in an adorably illustrated gatefold sleeve, and features vocal contributions by James and Nancy of LCD, Planningtorock, Alexis from Hot Chip, and Juan Maclean. Highly recommended, you can't beat this price! Comes with a bonus CD copy AND an instant digital download. You have no excuse.

Tracklisting:

  1. Tuff Enuff?
  2. I Found Love
  3. Losing My Patience
  4. Take 'Em Up
  5. Grim Receiver
  6. Simple Things (Work It Out)
  7. Answering Machine
  8. I Got a Feeling
  9. Triumph!!!
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Shit Robot Album Bundle
Shit Robot Album Bundle
Shit Robot Album Bundle
Shit Robot Album Bundle
Shit Robot Album Bundle

Shit Robot Album Bundle

$44.98

This package includes all three Shit Robot vinyl LPs at special bundled price.

"From the Cradle to the Rave" (DFA2253)

"We Got A Love" (DFA2396)

"What Follows" (DFA2484)

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Shit Robot - 5 Songs Long Sleeve Shirt
Shit Robot - 5 Songs Long Sleeve Shirt
Shit Robot - 5 Songs Long Sleeve Shirt
Shit Robot - 5 Songs Long Sleeve Shirt
Shit Robot - 5 Songs Long Sleeve Shirt
Shit Robot - 5 Songs Long Sleeve Shirt

Shit Robot - 5 Songs Long Sleeve Shirt

$44.98

Along with the first new Bot music in some time, we have new Bot merch designed by Nick Millhiser (erstwhile of Holy Ghost! and LCD).

Printed on Comfort Colors 6015 white blanks. Size chart here.

Pre-order now open closing Wednesday November 8, will only be run this one time (with a few extras for the stragglers).

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Shit Robot - Tuff Enuff Crewneck Sweatshirt
Shit Robot - Tuff Enuff Crewneck Sweatshirt

Shit Robot - Tuff Enuff Crewneck Sweatshirt

$74.98

Along with the first new Bot music in some time, we have new Bot merch designed by Nick Millhiser (erstwhile of Holy Ghost! and LCD).

Printed on Independent Trading Co. IND5000C - Legend Premium Heavyweight Cross-Grain Crewneck Sweatshirts. Size chart here.

Pre-order now open closing Wednesday November 8, will only be run this one time (with a few extras for the stragglers).

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Shit Robot - We Got A Love
Shit Robot - We Got A Love

Shit Robot - We Got A Love

$5.00

DFA Records is proud to present We Got a Love, the sophomore full-length by Shit Robot a.k.a. Dublin native Marcus Lambkin. Recorded in Germany and New York, the nine-track album includes the killer recent singles, “Feels Real” and “We Got a Love.” 

Like Lambkin’s 2010 debut From the Cradle to the Rave, We Got a Love sports an array of guests that include DFA veterans Nancy Whang, Museum of Love and Luke Jenner (The Rapture), plus hip-house hero Lidell Townsell and Australian singer Holly Backler. The album’s distinctive artwork was created in collaboration with Irish graffiti artist Maser.

 Track List:

  1. The Secret (Feat. Reggie Watts)
  2. Dingbat (Feat. Museum Of Love)
  3. Do That Dance (Feat. Nancy Whang)
  4. Do It (Right) [Feat. Lidell Townsell]
  5. Feels Real (Feat. Luke Jenner)
  6. Space Race
  7. Feels Like (Feat. Holly Backler)
  8. We Got A Love (Feat. Reggie Watts)
  9. Tempest
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Prinzhorn Dance School - Shit Robot & Optimo (Espacio) Remixes 12"
Prinzhorn Dance School - Shit Robot & Optimo (Espacio) Remixes 12"

Prinzhorn Dance School - Shit Robot & Optimo (Espacio) Remixes 12"

$14.98

Prinzhorn Dance School’s spartan sonics have often lead to some hand-wringing when trying to play out their records ‘in the club’. In the first 7 years of their existance, there was a sole club-friendly remix in their entire catalog. It is for these reasons that we’re really stoked to announce that we now have a second.

DFA veteran Shit Robot takes the track “Reign” from their imminently released third album “Home Economics” and turns it into a deep, dark floor-filler. The band’s pleading vocals dive in and out of a throbbing bassline, with new robotic percussion seamlessly blending with the band’s original bangs and clangs.

The flip features that previously alluded to Optimo (Espaco) mix of You Are The Space Invader - previously only available commercially in digital form, this is the
first (slightly) wider vinyl release of this classic remix. An edition of 500 hand-stamped and numbered white label copies, not to be pressed again for another 7 years or so. Probably.

Tracklist:

A - Reign (Shit Robot Remix)
B - You Are The Space Invader (An Optimo (espacio) Remix)
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Shit Robot - What Follows
Shit Robot - What Follows

Shit Robot - What Follows

$5.00

Marcus Lambkin aka Shit Robot returns with his third full length album for DFA Records, entitled What Follows. The 11-track album was conceived and recorded at Marcus’ home studio in a small town outside Stuttgart; worked on in various New York studios and then mixed over the course of 11 intense & coffee-fuelled days in DFA label mate Juan Maclean’s New Hampshire studio. 

The album follows Lambkin’s previous long-players, From The Cradle To The Rave (2010) and We Got A Love (2014), which drew plaudits from the likes of The Guardian and Pitchfork, and featured Reggie Watts and James Murphy among the array of contributors. 

The Dublin-born producer has enlisted the help of a stellar cast of guests for What Follows, with previous collaborators Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) and DFA stablemates Museum of Love & Nancy Whang returning, alongside new faces Jay Green and leftfield fellow Dubliner New Jackson. 

What Follows marks a departure in Lambkin’s process - a simple, but fundamental one: getting away from the computer. He said: “This record is a lot more analog than 'We Got A Love', almost all of it comes from connecting machines together and playing around.” What was your biggest influence? “Drum machines.” What began in Stuttgart was followed up on in New York, before being finished in an 11-day blitz in New Hampshire with Juan Maclean. 

Lambkin: “This is the first time that I actually sat down and said, ‘I'm going to make an album now and I'm going to finish it by a specific date and time.’ I wanted to make a record that was more cohesive, that sounded like it all came from the one session. I wanted it to reflect my DJing style a bit more, less pop, less disco, more machines. There's no live bass and barring a few hi-hats, there's no live drums. 

“I began in Stuttgart - simply by creating about 12 drum loops. I then synched these up to some gear and created some bass lines so I had some solid grooves to start with. Then I went to NY and spent a couple of days at Holy Ghost's studio playing around with Nick and his modular synth coming up with different sequences and sounds. I then took all this over to Transmitter Park Studios in Greenpoint and spent a few days with the wizard that is Morgan Wiley of Midnight Magic and Tippy Toes. He's one of my favourite keyboard players on the planet. Sometimes I had a specific thing I wanted him to do, but mostly I just played him some things I like and got him to jam out on what I had come up with or play some nice chords or chord progressions. 

“I took all this back home and started to fool around with it and knock it into shape before sending it out for vocals. With the song I did with Museum Of Love, 'What Follows', Dennis and Pat were actually in Europe and they came by and stayed with me for a few days, so we made that one in Stuttgart over a few nights once I got the kids to bed. It was particularly fun and easy. I think the wine helped. 

“Then I brought it all to Juan's World in New Hampshire where we drank a LOT of coffee and did some additional production and mixed everything. Finishing the record with Juan was a game changer for me. We worked so hard. We finished eleven songs in eleven days, no joke.” 

The results are convincing - What Follows is definitely an album dedicated to dance music, but one that retains hallmarks of his previous LPs: good songs. Alexis Taylor turns in two memorable performances on lead single ‘End Of The Trail’ and album opener ‘In Love’; Museum of Love - Pat Mahoney and Dennis McNany - lend the album title track an air of something mined from the two months in between the death of Joy Division and the birth of New Order; and Nancy Whang gave such a strong vocal for ‘Lose Control’ that Lambkin and Maclean threw out the existing track and recorded the backing along with the vocal in one take, which the two producers working the machines live. Lambkin: “I had so much fun with Lose Control - and it inspired me to make so much more music. I've written 12 new tracks since finishing the record.” 

Newbies Jay Green and New Jackson hit their marks too - Green - best known for fronting American punk bands Orchid and Panthers - narrates Is There No End as though it were sibling to From The Cradle To The Rave’s single Simple Things. New Jackson makes two appearances, on both Phase Out and OB-8 (Winter Version), adding oddball vocals and spaced-out Krautrock guitar arrangements. 

How did the guests come about? Lambkin: “I didn't have a big plan, I just knew that I wanted to work with friends. I knew I wanted to do something with Museum Of Love again. I also knew I would do something with Nancy, I couldn't make a Shit Robot record without Nancy. Then while I was working on End Of The Trail, I could hear Alexis's voice in my head, it just seemed a perfect fit. New Jackson is my younger brother’s old room mate and I've wanted to do something with Jay ever since I made the Green Machine 12”s a few years back.” 

What Follows was preceded by two 12” singles - Where Its At (Feat. Reggie Watts), backed with a killer remix from Johnny Aux - and original version of album closer OB-8. 

Track List:

  1. In Love (Feat. Alexis Taylor)
  2. What Follows (Feat. Museum of Love)
  3. Ten Miles High
  4. Lose Control (Feat. Nancy Whang)
  5. End Of The Trail (Feat. Alexis Taylor)
  6. Phase Out
  7. Wir Warten
  8. Is There No End (Feat. Jay Green)
  9. OB-8 (Winter Mix) [Feat. New Jackson]
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Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work It Out) Todd Terje Version 12"
Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work It Out) Todd Terje Version 12"

Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work It Out) Todd Terje Version 12"

$14.98

Another slamming version of Simple Things (Work It Out) featuring a remix from Mr. Todd Terje. The credits say "More Cowbell by Todd Terje", need we say more?

A) Simple Things (Work It Out) (Main Mix)
B) Simple Things (Work It Out) (Todd Terje Version) 

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Shit Robot - Wrong Galaxy 12"
Shit Robot - Wrong Galaxy 12"

Shit Robot - Wrong Galaxy 12"

$14.98

DFA / Astralwerks (ASW60970 / 2006)

Tracklist:
a) Wrong Galaxy
b) Triumph

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Shit Robot - OB-8 (White Label) 12"
Shit Robot - OB-8 (White Label) 12"
Shit Robot - OB-8 (White Label) 12"
Shit Robot - OB-8 (White Label) 12"

Shit Robot - OB-8 (White Label) 12"

$14.98

Limited edition of just 200 copies 

Ahead of the release of a new album in Spring 2016, Shit Robot fires out a warning to the clubs with a new two-tracker: 'OB-8' b/w 'Torpedo'. 

The A-side is a loon-leaning hypno-house chugger in the classic Robot style, while the flip is a bottom-heavy update on that wild pitch sound: the eagle-eared among you will remember it from his appearance on Beats in Space earlier this year. 

"It feels like moving fast and standing still all at once, and it's as mesmerizing as house music gets" - Pitchfork

Tracklist
1 - OB-8
2 - Torpedo
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Shit Robot - Tuff Enuff? 12"
Shit Robot - Tuff Enuff? 12"

Shit Robot - Tuff Enuff? 12"

$14.98

dfa 2262 / 2010

 

Written and Produced by JAMES MURPHY and MARCUS LAMBKIN (Shit Robot)


A. Tuff Enuff? (Long Version)

B. I Found Love (Wild Geese Remix)


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Shit Robot - Where It's At 12"
Shit Robot - Where It's At 12"

Shit Robot - Where It's At 12"

$14.98

Limited edition of 600 light-green colored vinyl.

Shit Robot and DFA are psyched to release “Where It’s At” another in a long-running series of collaborations with the singer/comedian/television star Reggie Watts. Reggie Watts’ vocal performance runs the gamut of Chicago dance music history - from the gloom and melodrama of iconic label Wax Trax, to the jubilant choruses of Frankie Knuckles’ house anthems. But let’s not de-emphasize the solid instrumentation provided by Mr. Marcus ‘Shit Robot’ Lambkin – we’ve got that classic DFA bassline, claps, and bleeps and bloops aplenty – mixed and manipulated by none other than our own James Murphy. The flip features a remix by London producer Johnny Aux, who turns the track into a staticy, stripped down, raw Deep House banger, with hissing glimmers of icy cymbals peeking through the smog.

Tracklist

1. Where It's At

2. Where It's At (Johnny Aux Remix)

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Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work It Out) Serge Santiago Version 12"
Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work It Out) Serge Santiago Version 12"

Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work It Out) Serge Santiago Version 12"

$14.98

A driving, introspective house banger from the inimitable Shit Robot. Featuring vocals by Ian Svenonius from Nation Of Ulysses / The Make-Up / Chain & The Gang, and a remix by Serge Santiago! 

TRACKLIST: 
A) Simple Things (Work It Out) (Main Mix)
B) Simple Things (Work It Out) (Serge Santiago Version)
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