Cargo Records

The Other Side

Berlin producer Robot Koch is back for his third full length release, ‘The Other Side’. Although Robot Koch has an international reputation as being one of Europe’s finest producers of the beat generation, he is much more than just a beatmaker… you could call his sound post-dubstep infused electronic hip hop, yet that still is far too constrained a label to understand what this producer is all about. Instead of simply following the style of his previous albums ‘Death Star Droid’ and ‘Songs For Trees And Cyborgs’, Koch takes the genre defying ingredients from these records to another level.

There still are some of those galactic ten-ton beats and space age melodies that made the previous albums staple drops in the playlists of Mary Anne Hobbes, Starkey, Daedelus and Gas Lamp Killer to name a few, but there is a new dimension to Koch`s production and songwriting that are hitherto unrevealed. The cinematic vibe of tracks like ‘Nitesky’, the quirky and moody feel of ‘Bugs’ and the electricity of ‘Tapedeck’ show how Koch more than ever manages to create intimate and timeless pieces of music that are soulful, deep, and mysterious, with appeal to fans of cutting edge electronica and modern pop music alike.

‘The Other Side’ is Robot Koch’s most personal record to date, and instead of going for big name features he teamed up with lesser know artists like Kansas-based vocal talent John LaMonica, long time friend and theatre composer Nielson and Mexican singer / songwriter Graciela Maria to find the right voices for his compositions. John LaMonica infuses his whimsical and heartfelt melodies that breathe an air of darkness and nostalgia with Koch’s fresh and forward thinking instrumentals to create something that fans of Radiohead, The XX and Jamie Lidell should not sleep on. John Peel already knew the right time in 2003 when he was an early admirer of Robot Koch’s productions, calling them “wonderful and strange, pop music from the future”.