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tonyPick [soylentnews.org] writes:

According to Hackaday the robot rock band Compressorhead are planning to build a (robot) Lead Vocalist and produce their first original album [hackaday.com].

Animatronic bands playing to pre-recorded background music are Chuck-E-Cheesy. Compressorhead, in contrast, slays it. We don’t know if it’s the fact that they’re actually playing real instruments “live” or if it’s just that the folks behind the scenes are really brilliant MIDI programmers, but Compressorhead sounds really good.

The kickstarter page [kickstarter.com], set up to support this effort, goes into a little more detail on the plans for the project:

We, being Frank, Markus and Stock, are fulltime artists. What we love, is to build party machines and let them rock. Now we want Compressorhead to be the first Robot Band to record an original album. Together with the Canadian music-legend John Wright (of NomeansNo & The Hanson Brothers) we are producing fantastic new songs for our Rocking Robot Band.

The official Compressorhead page [compressorhead.rocks] has yet more background and video clips of the band in action, such as this YouTube video of a 2014 performance [youtube.com].

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