The show's going on the road courtesy of our good friend Karl Injex and his most excellent dining and dancing establishment, the Sound Table.
DJ Stylus can't make the trip, but you know the squad keeps able allies on deck. DJ Nabani will join Adrian Loving and Jahsonic for the Atlanta mission.
Axel F at the Sound Table
483 Edgewood Avenue (+BLVD), Atlanta, GA 30312
Friday, May 11
11pm
$5
Before we get into tonight's cyber-jam, let's honor one more key figure in the robot rock canon. Without it, electronic music as we know it would not exist.
When the Roland TR-808 emerged in 1980 as an affordable entry into synth drum programming, it was panned as sounding thin and unrealistic. But it became legendary precisely because it didn't sound like real drums. From 1980 to current pop hits, the 808 continues to be iconic because of its unique sounds, even if they exist primarily in software today.
This groundbreaking musical device could be lauded and examined indefinitely, it's just that historic. But in three minutes, you can get a solid grasp of its importance via this documentary from Nelson George and Waajeed.
As we prep for more jheri curl funk, champagne soul, lazer boogie, and now ROBOT ROCK this Saturday, let us recall our favorite '80s icons of machinery and artificial intelligence.
In a dystopian future Detroit, a police officer is murdered and resurrected as a one-man crime stopping cyborg without any of the pesky abuses of power that occur among his human colleagues.
And of course, like all of our Robot Rock Hall of Famers, RoboCop has appropriately Axel F theme music, courtesy of Sleaze Boys.
As we prep for more jheri curl funk, champagne soul, lazer boogie, and now ROBOT ROCK this Saturday, let us recall our favorite '80s icons of machinery and artificial intelligence.
The adorable star of the Short Circuit movies aimed to remind us of our own goodness as a species, since when he became sentient, he was filled with love rather than genocidal destruction like one of his distant relatives.
Johnny 5 even helped El Debarge land his only solo #1 single.
As we prep for more jheri curl funk, champagne soul, lazer boogie, and now ROBOT ROCK this Saturday, let us recall our favorite '80s icons of machinery and artificial intelligence.
Max Headroom's not actually a robot, but he's a computer generated artificial intelligence entity, so that counts.
Who knew that this satirical electronic television host would predate an actual era of media oversaturation and talking television bobbleheads 25 years later? Mind blown.
After getting his start on a British music video show, Max Headroom became a real '80s phenomenon with two seasons of his own show on American airwaves.
He even landed a cameo role on a tune by robot rock pioneers Art of Noise.
Axel F