Free The Robots - The Mind's Eye EP
(Digital Single) Alpha Pup Records, 2011-08-16

Free The Robots unleashes The Mind's Eye EP on Alpha Pup Records, a hackled and hypnotic affair with five disturbing tracks, orchestrated by an obvious madman. Mutating messages and subliminal sonics fill The Mind's Eye EP, which opens with the knuckle-crushing knock of The Free. Title track The Mind's Eye encourages eyelids to close as it sinks even deeper into the darkened groove of Prototype B. The voices inside your head take a demented romp through a carnival's carcass in Dance of the Deadbeat and end up in the recesses of Rattlesnake where all the dirty pieces have finally shaken loose. [We still got two incredible mixes presenting the oeuvre of Free The Robots on Paris DJs : Vol 1 and Vol.2, get them if you don't!!!]

Exile / Free the Robots - L.A. Series #10
(10"/Digital) All City ACLA10X10X10, 2011-03-28

Irish label All City will be releasing a series of one-off 45's this year in addition to a 10-inch series from LA producers and a series of collaborative 12's. Number 10 of 10 comes from Exile (Plug Research) backed with Free the Robots (Alpha Pup). Exile's side is one track broken into four parts, continuing on from his Radio LP, with a myriad of vocal samples and an ever-changing beat this is a fittingly individualistic piece of music to the end the series with. Flipping over for Santa Ana producer Free the Robots who follows on from his recent Ctrl Alt Delete LP with three tracks here - the heavy organ vibes of Young and Yet Too Old, the MF Doom-esque sound of Destroy and ending the series, appropriately enough, with a shout to percussion on To the Drum!

WIDE STYLE #10 : LOS ANGELES BEATS & RHYMES
VENDREDI 18 MARS 2011 à partir de 23H à La Bellevilloise

PAUL WHITE (Now Again – Stones Throw) plays FUTURE BEATS OF L.A
(Madlib, J Dilla, Jaylib, Madvillain, Flying Lotus, J.Rocc, Dam Funk, Gaslamp Killer, Samiyam, Dudley Perkins, Georgia Ann Muldrow, MED, Oh No, Guilty Simpson, Strong Arm Steady, Percee P, Ras G, Daddy Kev, Teebs, Nosaj Thing, Tokimonsta, Lorn, Dimlite, Daedelus etc.)

DJ KOZI (Hip Hop Resistance) plays WEST COAST HIP HOP
(Egyptian Lover, Arabian Prince, NWA, Dr Dre, Tupac, Dilated People, Snoop Dogg, Tha Dog Pound, Nate Dog, Ice T, Warren G, Ice Cube, House Of Pain, Cypress Hill, Jurassic 5 etc.)

FREE THE ROBOTS Live (Alpha Pup – Brainfeeder / L.A.)

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Paris DJs Soundsystem presents Free The Robots Vol.2 (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2011-02-06 We've introduced Free The Robots, one of the most interesting DJ/beatmakers around, to more than 10.000 people with our first volume of Paris DJs Soundsystem presents Free The Robots. Nearly two years later the man has released his first album, Ctrl Alt Delete, one of the 10 bests of 2010, and he'll be playing at La Bellevilloise in Paris on March 18th. That's good reasons enough for us to come back with a second volume of selected instrumental psychedelic hip hop break bits. We've...

Ebo Taylor - Love And Death info
Free The Robots - Ctrl Alt Delete info
Gonja Sufi - A Sufi And A Killer info
Homelife - Exotic Interlude info
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Stay Gold info
Marco Benevento - Between The Needles And Nightfall info
Mushroom - Naked, Stoned & Stabbed info
Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro - Tradition In Transition info
Skeletons - Smile info
The Souljazz Orchestra - Rising Sun info

After publishing a solid 10-records-a-year selection of the last decade (from 1999 to 2009), we took a few days to think about the 2010 best of... READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE ON COLORED-INC.COM

Free The Robots - Jupiter

Extracted from the album Control Alt Delete released march 2010 on Alpha Pup.

More info on Free The Robots here

Ebo Taylor - Love And Death (Strut) parisdjs
Free The Robots - Ctrl Alt Delete (Alpha Pup) parisdjs
Gonja Sufi - A Sufi And A Killer (Warp) parisdjs
Homelife - Exotic Interlude (Humble Soul) parisdjs
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey - Stay Gold (Kinnara) parisdjs
Marco Benevento - Between The Needles And Nightfall (Royal Potato Family) parisdjs
Mushroom - Naked, Stoned & Stabbed (4 Zero) parisdjs
Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro - Tradition In Transition (Tru Thoughts) parisdjs
Skeletons - Smile (Impossible Ark) parisdjs
The Souljazz Orchestra - Rising Sun (Strut) parisdjs

After publishing a solid 10-records-a-year selection of the last decade (from 1999 to 2009), we took a few days to think about the 2010 best of... The first thing that came to mind when weed look back at the past 12 months, was the obvious blast of compilations that were released. From the incredible Ninja Tune XX boxset (6xCDs, 6x7", 2x12" and a book - all new tracks and remixes!), the amazing "world" compilations and reissues from Soundway Records, Analog Africa, Academy LPs, Nascente or Vampisoul, the fantastic and rare funk/jazz stuff from the diggers at Finders Keepers, Jazzman or Luv'N'Haight, the jaw-dropping sets from Numero Group, all those Fania Records reissues... I'm missing a few but you get my point: this is highly-entertaining quality stuff, but from hte independent's viewpoint it also looks like the music industry has never been so much focused of its back-catalog.

Meanwhile, a few labels are still doing the job of distributing today's music to the people of today, and maybe they deserve a little bit more spotlight... That's what we thought would be interesting to look at anyway. We had to forbid ourselves not to put any Colored-Inc. release in our selection, of course, even though some of the records we've put out this year were simply astonishing... such as the Hard 2 Find series for example!

What was left: some genre-bending electronic/hip hop/psychedelia marvels from Gonja Sufi and Free The Robots, from the Los Angeles beats scene, ecstatic afro/jazz from Germany (Eboy Taylor & Afrobeat Academy), Canada (The Souljazz Orchestra), or England (Skeletons), addictive cumbia/soul from Columbia (Quantic and his Combo Barbaro), psychedelic folk exotica from former Nina tune affiliates Homelife (their leader Paddy Steer has also released a solo album that's quite a treat too), and finally mesmerizing jazz/indie rock mixtures from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey or Marco Benevento, both released thru the sensational US label The Royal Potato Family. Well, all in all another good year for music, nothing like 1976 when stadium FM rock was rising and Hotel California was king...

Contenders : Bonobo, The New Mastersounds, Randa & The Soul Kingdom, Fat Freddy's Drop, The Qualitons, Saravah Soul, Hidden Orchestra, The Roots, Kings Go Forth, Big Pimp Jones, The Hot Rats, Flying Lotus, Candice Monique & The Optics, Aloe Blacc, Cochemea Gastelum, The Bees, Roots Manuva, Lloyd Miller & Te Heliocentrics, Brownout, Grupo Fantasma, Mike Gordon...

Free The Robots - Ctrl Alt Delete
(CD/LP/Download) Alpha Pup Records, 2010-03-30

Alpha Pup Records is proud to announce the release of Ctrl Alt Delete, the debut album from Free The Robots. We introduced you to this fantastic newcomer last year with an introductory mix Paris DJs Soundsystem presents Free The Robots... A staggering work of mind-warping electronics, fuzzed-out psych and devastating hip-hop beats, the impending release of Ctrl Alt Delete will catapult Free The Robots to the forefront of the world renowned L.A. beat scene.

Paris DJs Soundsystem - Nearly Shadow (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2009-05-23 We've been cooking this mix for a long time, selecting its pieces slowly, one by one... The idea was to collect tracks that were obviously or not-so-obviously influenced by Dj Shadow's masterpiece and first album (on the defunct Mo' Wax label), Endtroducing. Some names spring to mind instantly, like Rjd2 (featured here), but we've tried to dig into many places, from the forgotten -DJ Bias of Lewis Parker fame, J-Walk who's second album will happen soon on Peacefrog, Manitoba now called Caribou-, to the unknown...

Paris DJs Soundsystem presents Free The Robots (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) T.I.M.E.C., 2009-03-22 Free The Robots, alias Chris Alfaro (with the help of keyboardist/guitarist Phil Nisco), comes from Santa Ana, California, and is just one of the most interesting DJ/beatmakers around! He's mostly released tracks on cult labels, very limited editions with incredible artwork, on Obey Records particularly (along with The Gaslamp Killer and his super heavy beats), on Eadsel in Japan, on Jazz&Milk or Equinox in Germany, with a new album coming soon on Alpha Pup... Expect instrumental hip...