April 28, 2006

Robotic Empire Makes Latest Sampler CD Available For Free Download

Richmond, Virginia's Robotic Empire has made the label's latest sampler CD available for free download in it's entirety via hxcmp3.com. This free sampler has a total of 17 tracks, most of which are unavailable elsewhere, including previously unreleased songs from Torche, Ultra Dolphins, Red Sparowes, Pygmy Lush, Grails, Versoma and more. Here is the full track listing:

01. TORCHE - In Return (from forthcoming album)
02. ULTRA DOLPHINS - Matthew O'Connor (from "Mar" CD/LP)
03. ULTRA DOLPHINS - If You Will (from "Mar" CD/LP)
04. VERSOMA - Gods & Queens (from "Life During Wartime" CDep/LP)
05. PINK RAZORS - Sew It Seams (from "Waiting To Wash Up" CD/LP)
06. PINK RAZORS - Get Out Of The Shower (from "Waiting To Wash Up" CD/LP)
07. PYGMY LUSH - Long Pause (from forthcoming album)
08. CAPSULE - You Will Need (from "Self-Titled" Cassette)
09. MAGRUDERGRIND - Siphon Then Slit (from "Split" CD/LP w/ Shitstorm)
10. SHITSTORM - Desensitized (from "Split" CD/LP w/ Magrudergrind)
11. THE CATALYST - Panic Don't Panic (from "Two Thousand Six Six Six" Cassette)
12. PYGMY LUSH - Send Bombs (from forthcoming album)
13. GREGOR SAMSA - Young & Old (from "Split" CD/LP w/ Red Sparowes)
14. GRAILS - Black Tar Prophecy (from "Split" LP w/ Red Sparowes)
15. WINDMILLS BY THE OCEAN - Untitled (from "Self-Titled" CD/LP)
16. KAYO DOT - Aura On An Asylum Wall (from "Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tonuge" CD/LP)
17. RED SPAROWES - Like The Howling Glory... (from "Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun" 2xLP, CD on Neurot)

The MP3s have been encoded in 192kbs for a high quality, and the label is very excited to make this sampler available for free in its entirety both digitally and on CD. The CD version will be available everywhere starting with Torche's upcoming tour dates with Mogwai, which kicks off May 11th in Philadelphia, PA. Otherwise, they will be available from other touring Robotic Empire bands and given out free with mailorders through Robotic Empire's Online Store. Here is the direct link to the sampler's download page:

http://www.hxcmp3.com/Robotic Empire Sampler CD

For the previously unreleased tracks, the scheduled street dates for the full-album releases are as follows:

MAY 23:
* Red Sparowes / Gregor Samsa - "Split" CD (CD version of the split LP that sold out in roughly 2 days)

JUNE 20:
* Kayo Dot - "Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue" 2xLP (CD version out now)

AUGUST 8:
* Versoma - "Life During Wartime" CDep/LP (new Anodyne, Lickgoldensky, Hot Cross, Orchid band. More free samples can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/VersomaBand )
* Windmills By The Ocean - "Self-Titled" CD/LP (Bryant Clifford Meyer of Isis/Red Sparowes solo project with friends from Anodyne/27)

SEPT 12:
* Ultra Dolphins - "Mar" CD/LP ("Why Are You Laugh" collection CD out now)
* Red Sparowes - "Every Red Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun" 2xLP (CD on Neurot)

OTHERS in the midst of all this:
* The Catalyst - "Two Thousand Six Six Six" Cassette
* Pink Razors - "Waiting To Wash Up" LP (CD version out now)
* Pygmy Lush - Debut CD/LP (new PG.99/Mannequin band)
* Red Sparowes / Grails - "Split" LP (in production now)
* Ultra Dolphins - "Why Are You Laugh" LP (CD version out now)

As you can see, this is shaping up to be an insanely busy year for us, but we are very excited about all of the bands we are working with, both new and already established. We've embraced the usage of MP3s to help spread the word about our bands' since the format's inception, and figured this was a great and easy way to let everyone hear what Robotic Empire has planned for 2006. Thank you, and enjoy!

p.s. for those with fairly nice printers, a printable version of this sampler's artwork is available here.

April 25, 2006

MASSIVE Robotic Empire updated (2 months worth + new shirts, new MP3s, etc.)

It's been a pretty insane couple of months for Robotic Empire. We moved across town, had some new shit come out, made about a million patches, got new shirts printed up, etc etc. Because it's been a while, there's a lot to chew through here.

There is a massive distro update below, but first and foremost (since we don't really have a very functional website right now) the skinny on upcoming new releases and street dates:

MAY 23rd:
* Red Sparowes / Gregor Samsa - Split CD (This is the CD version of the split LP that sold out in about a day. We have copies of this NOW our Online Store)

JUNE something:
* Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue 2xLP (hopefully, there's been artwork delays)

AUGUST 8th:
* Versoma - Life During Wartime CDep/LP (this is the new Anodyne, Lickgoldensky, Hot Cross, Orchid band. Sample MP3s can be heard here)
* Windmills By The Ocean - Self-Titled CD/LP (Bryant Clifford Meyer from Isis/Red Sparowes and friends, epic instrumental stuff!)

SEPT (?):
* Ultra Dolphins - Mar CD/LP (turned out incredible, sample MP3s very soon)

OTHERS around here/in the midst of all this:
* The Catalyst - new demos Cassette (this Richmond band fucking rules)
* Pink Razors - Waiting To Wash Up LP (waiting on artwork)
* Pygmy Lush - debut CD/LP (two sample MP3s can be heard here)
* Red Sparowes / Grails - Split LP (in production now)
* Red Sparowes - Every Red Sun... 2xLP (probably Sept/Oct)
* Ultra Dolphins - Why Are You Laugh LP (waiting on artwork)

Wow, lots going on... as always! We aren't holding copies or doing pre-orders so please don't ask, but that doesn't mean we don't have TONS of new stuff for you to rock out to in the meantime. Here's this week's (music) additions & restocks to our ever-growing Online Store:

* Amanda Woodward - "Collection (Self Titled)" CD (Golden Brown) - $10.00
* Arsis - "A Celebration of Guilt" CD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Back From Iraq - "It Takes A Nation Of Civilians" Cassette (Epicene) - $6.00
* Behold The Arctopus - "Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning" 12" (Epicene) - $13.00
* Blinding Light, The - "The Ascension Attempt" CD (Deathwish) - $10.00
* Blower (mem. of Pig Destroyer, ANb) / Wadge - "Split" CD (RSR) - $10.00
* Breather Resist - "Only In The Morning" CD (Deathwish) - $8.00
* Capsule - "Tour" DVD-R (Self Released) - $7.00
* Commit Suicide - "Human Larvae" CD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Commit Suicide - "Synthetics" CD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Crowpath - "Red On Chrome" CD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Crowpath - "Son of Sulfer" CD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Cursed - "One" CD (Deathwish) - $10.00
* Entrails Massacre - "Crucial Strikes With Attitude" CD (RSR) - $9.00
* Gregor Samsa - "55:12" CD (The Kora) - $12.00
* Harakiri - "Twilight of the Idols" CD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Infidel?/Castro! / Friendly Bears - "Split" 12" (Epicene) - $13.00
* Jesus of Nazareth - "Braid of Muscle" CD (RSR) - $10.00
* Kalibas - "Enthusiastic Corruption Of The Common Good" CD (Willowtip) - $8.00
* La Quiete - "Tenpeun 01-05" CD (Perpetual Motion) - $9.00
* Misery Index / Commit Suicide - "Split" CD (Willowtip) - $8.00
* Necrophagist - "Onset Of Putrefaction" CD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Neuraxis - "Truth | Imagery | Passage" 2xCD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Neuraxis - "Trilateral Progression" CD (Willowtip) - $9.00
* Orthrelm - "OV" 12" (Epicene) - $13.00
* Poser Disposer - "Waiting To Inhale" CD (RSR) - $9.00
* Pyramids - "Following The Tracks, Forcing Motion Through Phases" CD (Slave Union) - $8.00
* Pyramids - "Following The Tracks, Forcing Motion Through Phases" 12" (Paramnesia) - $12.00
* Red Sparowes / Gregor Samsa - "Split" CD (Robotic Empire) - $10.00
* Souvenirs Young America - "Self-Titled" CD (Underadar) - $8.00
* Spazz - "The Jeb EP" 7" (Fanclub Edition) - $5.00
* Sword - "Lord By Fire" CD (We Are The Label) - $8.00
* Teeth Collection - "Gift or Grift" Cassette (Epicene) - $6.00
* Upsilon Acrux - "Volucris Avis Dirae-Arum" 12" (Epicene) - $13.00
* Wadge - "The Road To Hanna" CD (RSR) - $10.00
* Woods (mem. of Meneguar) - "How To Survive In/In The Woods" CD (Release The Bats) - $10.00

But if all that weren't enough, we now have a MASSIVE amount of patches available on 3-5 different colors from the following bands:

* A Life Once Lost
* Capsule
* Isis (2 designs)
* Magrudergrind
* Pink Razors
* Red Sparowes
* Shitstorm
* Torche
* Ultra Dolphins

They're all pretty fucking punk, and they're also only $1 (in the US). You can see decent graphics of them in the Online Store.

And lastly for *this* week (but certainly not least), while we wait for more Municipal Waste shirts to show up, we got two killer shirt designs for Pink Razors from Adam Juresko (Stop It!!, Wow Owls, Life At These Speeds) and Richard Minino (New Mexican Disaster Squad, Strike Anywhere, Rise Against). As usual, the print on these things is freakin' MASSIVE, and can be seen here.

But... because we've taken over a freakin' month to do this update, another full update is right behind it from mid-March! Don't even want to edit it, here it is for those brave enough to read all this!!

The time has come for another fairly massive Robotic Empire update! First and foremost, we got the colored vinyl in for the MAGRUDERGRIND / SHITSTORM split and they turned out fucking sweet. We received less than 150 copies of these records total, all the rest went to the bands and to Lumberjack for distros and stores. Here's what we got:

* 20 copies on BLACK vinyl
* 20 copies on RED vinyl
* 100 copies on GREEN vinyl

This is of a total of 1200 made (200 on green, 100 on red, 900 on black) and it turned out amazing. BAIZLEY's artwork looks beautiful in the large LP format, and the insert is a nice 12" x 12" full-color double-sided lyrics sheet. Shit is genuinely off the hook, but for those who don't already know how relentlessly brutal this jam is, free MP3s can be found here, here and here.

Also, the CD version of this was released everywhere this week, and should be surfacing in indie stores across the country. We also have some badass 17" x 11" posters for this jam, and all of the ordering info for this can be found at our Online Store:

Robotic Empire - Online Store

In addition to this fine LP, we also received restocks of a few T-Shirts today, including the first to designs JOHN BAIZLEY did for us (for the label and TORCHE). We also got a new version of the "Love Virginia" shirt that is ironically enough on 'Texas Orange' with a lighter orange print. Despite the mild treason in color-name choice, this thing look really good. You can click here to see a bigger version of the artwork, or click here to see a (kinda blurry) photo of the actual shirt.

AND, the ULTRA DOLPHINS / ORDER split 7" just came out on Blood of the Drash, and are one of the only distros that managed to snag copies. This thing turned out sincerely rad, with new songs exclusive to this release from both bands. To add icing to the cake, we scored a few posters from the ULTRA DOLPHINS + WOW OWLS european tour, all the way from... Europe! These look ace too, with artwork from Matt Partridge.

That all coupled with a fairly large distro update, and we've got a TON of stuff in house right now. Here are all of the restocks and new additions from the last couple weeks:

* A Silver Mt. Zion - "Born Into Trouble..." CD (Constellation) - $14.00
* A Silver Mt. Zion - "He Has Left Us Alone..." CD (Constellation) - $14.00
* A Silver Mt. Zion - "Horses In The Sky" CD (Constellation) - $12.00
* A Silver Mt. Zion - "The "Pretty Little Lightning Paw"" CD (Constellation) - $14.00
* A Silver Mt. Zion - "This Is Our Punk Rock" CD (Constellation) - $14.00
* Agoraphobic Nosebleed - "Bestial Machinery" 2xCD (Relapse) - $12.00
* Ampere - "All Our Tomorrows End Today" 10" (Ebullition) - $9.00
* Baroness - "First" CDep (Hyperrealist) - $8.00
* Baroness - "Second" CD (Hyperrealist) - $8.00
* Baroness - "Second" 12" (Hyperrealist) - $10.00
* Black Castle - "Male Pattern Bondage" Cassette (Electric Human Proj.) - $6.00
* Buried Inside - "Chronoclast" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Burnt By The Sun - "Soundtrack To The Personal Revolution" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Burnt By The Sun - "The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Burst - "Origo" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Cephalic Carnage - "Anomalies" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Cursed - "Two" CD (Goodfellow) - $13.00
* Darkest Hour - "Mark of the Judas" CD (Art Monk) - $13.00
* Darkest Hour - "The Prophecy Fulfilled" CDep (Art Monk) - $10.00
* Die Alone - "The Arcane Suicide Movement" CD (Corrosive) - $11.00
* Dillinger Escape Plan, The - "Calculating Infinity" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Dillinger Escape Plan, The - "Miss Machine" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Dream Is Dead, The - "Hail The New Pawn" CD (Escape Artist) - $13.00
* Dream Is Dead, The - "Taking Friendly Fire" CDep (Escape Artist) - $10.00
* Enemy Soil - "Smashes The State" 2xCD (Bones Brigade) - $10.00
* Engineer - "Reproach" CD (Hex) - $13.00
* Envy - "A Dead Sinking Story" CD (Level Plane) - $9.00
* Godflesh - "Messiah" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Godspeed - "Yanqui UXO" CD (Constellation) - $14.00
* Hot Cross - "Fair Trades and Farewells" CD (Level Plane) - $8.00
* Hot Cross - "A New Set of Lungs" CD (Level Plane) - $8.00
* Hot Cross - "Cryonics" CD (Level Plane) - $9.00
* Human Remains - "Where Where You When" 2xCD (Relapse) - $12.00
* Intronaut - "Null" CDep (Goodfellow) - $10.00
* Kalibas / Rune - "Split" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Love Lost But Not Forgotten - "Self-Titled" CD (Happy Couples) - $14.00
* Luddite Clone, The - "The Arsonist and The Architect" CDep (Relapse) - $8.00
* Mastodon - "Call of the Mastodon" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Mastodon - "Leviathan" 2xCD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Mastodon - "Remission" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Nadja - "Truth Becomes Death" CD (Alien8) - $14.00
* Neurosis - "A Sun That Never Sets" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Off Minor - "The Heat Death Of The Universe" CD (Clean Plate) - $10.00
* Off Minor - "Innominate" CD (Golden Brown) - $10.00
* Off Minor - "Problematic Courtship" CD (Golden Brown) - $8.00
* Orchid - "Chaos Is Me + Dance Tonight!" CD (Ebullition) - $10.00
* Orchid - "Chaos Is Me" 12" (Ebullition) - $10.00
* Orchid - "Dance Tonight / Revolution Tomorrow" 10" (Ebullition) - $9.00
* Orchid - "Self-Titled (Gatefold)" CD (Ebullition) - $10.00
* Orchid - "Totality" CD (Clean Plate) - $11.00
* Pageninetynine - "Document 7" CD (Happy Couples) - $14.00
* Pig Destroyer - "38 Counts Of Battery" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Pig Destroyer - "Prowler In The Yard" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Pig Destroyer - "Terrifyer" CD+DVD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Portraits of Past - "01010101" 12" (Ebullition) - $9.00
* Reversal of Man - "This Is Medicine" CD (Ebullition) - $9.00
* Saetia - "A Retrospective" CD (Level Plane) - $9.00
* Soilent Green - "Confrontation" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Soilent Green - "A Deleted Symphony For The Beaten Down" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Soilent Green - "Sewn Mouth Secrets + A String of Lies" CD (Relapse) - $10.00
* Spitfire - "Self-Help" CD (Goodfellow) - $13.00
* Superstitions of the Sky - "Things Said In Passing" CD (Robotic Empire) - $8.00
* Through The Eyes of the Dead - "The Scars of Ages" CDep (Lovelost) - $10.00
* Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza, The - "Self-Titled" CD (Corrosive) - $11.00
* Tragedy - "Self-Titled" CD (Self Released) - $10.00
* Tragedy - "Vengeance" CD (Self Released) - $10.00
* Tusk - "Get Ready (reissue)" CD (Hewhocorrupts) - $11.00
* Yaphet Kotto - "The Killer Was..." CD (Ebullition) - $9.00
* Yaphet Kotto - "Syncopated Synthetic Laments For Love" CD (Ebullition) - $9.00
* Yaphet Kotto - "We Bury Our Dead Alive" CD (Ebullition) - $9.00

Sorry if some of those prices are a bit high, we made a few wholesale orders instead of trading for a change, and had to charge "normal" prices for some stuff unfortunately. But as always, all those prices are postage paid (by us) in the USA and we have lengthy descriptions and MP3 samples for almost everything we carry in our Online Store:

Robotic Empire - Online Store

SO, that really is it. Two months worth of updates from us and we still probably forgot to include stuff! Please hit up the Online Store, and thanks for patience with us while we moved. Peace!