Format
- MTR61LP2 x Long Player £15.00X
Double Vinyl
Robot Koch
Hypermoment
After taking a break from releasing albums to relocate to LA and rediscover himself Robot Koch returns with his first new album in 4 year his first on Modeselektor's hallowed Monkeytown imprint and follow up his EP Tsuki 'Hypermoment' while retaining Robot's much loved hallmark's is a true evolution of his sound and style Driving deeper into more intimate territory with swathes of warm saturated analog sounds real world field recordings and lush pianos and soundscapes this is the first of any of Robot's works to feature his own voice as can be heard on Care Serenade and Fernwood The field recordings were captured along Robot's nomadic writing trips to New York Berlin the infamous Joshua Tree in California as well as his new home base of Silver Lake in Los Angeles where he was constantly writing and rewriting the tracks to fit in with the basis and ethos of the albumA The album features some familiar faces from Robot's world LA based schwarzmodul who features on his previous 'Tsuki' EP makes an appearance as well as Delhia de France from his recent California Dreamin' collaboration which was used on the trailer for Warner Bros' summer blockbuster San Andreas who is also from the band the Pentatones who Robot produced and album for in 2014 Robot has also brought through some of his favourite new emerging artists such as the UK's Fassine featuring on 'Spine' and Mree from NYC featuring on 'Separated' as well as California based Stephen Henderson 'Dreams' While being Robot's most rounded work 'Hypermoment' is also his most personal to date dealing break ups culture clashes and transitions it optimises Alan Moore' quote which so heavily informed it While the past is there to be learnt from and the future will always be with us our consciousness will continue to move forward CD Digipack CD with partial UV varnish 2LP Gatefold LP with partial UV varnish and Download
Tracklist
1. Circles (Feat. Curtain Blue and Delhia De France)
2. Dreams (Feat. Stephen Henderson)
3. Kalimba (Feat. Malte Beckenbach)
4. Serenade
5. Eclipse (Feat. Julien Marchal)
6. Spine (Feat. Fassine)
7. Separated (Feat. Mree)
8. Fernwood
9. Dark Waves (Feat. Delhia De France)
10. Night Drive (Feat. Schwarzmodul)
11. Care (Feat. Julien Marchal)