Photo: Laura Bentley

This marks the beginning of a new series of posts under the title of  "How To:_____". Instructional playlists for the most important events in your life. For this post I bring one of the most important moments in a person's life, meeting up with a Robot. Remember when you met a robot? Was there a soundtrack in the background to enhance the experience? No? Figured as much. Here's where I come in and help you enhance those lively, unforgetable moments that should go down in our hearts in all 5 senses.

I was sitting by my window early this morning going over images in my head, over and over, like a slideshow, and the image above hit a note, I'd seen it the other day while looking for visual stimuli. That of course led me to fantasize about a meeting with that charismatic little fellow, which inevitably lead to me searching my iTunes for songs that would accomodate the moment, which inexplicably led me to the kitchen with a sudden urge for tuna fish and rice, but that's another story altogther. At first I could not decide between if I wanted this robot to bounce up and down at a pulsating electronic dance mix, with his halogen eyes beating to an hypnotizing bass line, his arms flying all krump style or stretch out his arms in warm glitch sounds, the lights in his chest slowly turning on and off, like breathing. I guess I had to stick with neutral territory.

I'd love to receive suggestions from you guys on themes for these How To playlists.

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01. Pornophonique - Sad Robot
(8-bit lagerfeuer, 2007)
02. I Monster - Hey Mrs. (Glamour Puss Mix)
(Neveroddoreven, 2005)
03. Air - How does it make you feel?
(10,000 Hz Legend, 2001)
04. Japanese Seizure Robots- Alone in A Crowded Room (Extended Version)
(Knobtweakers Best of 2005, 2005)
05. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Half Ghost
(Twinkle Echo, 2003)
06. I am a Robot and Proud - Places We're Trying to Find
(The Electricity In Your House Wants to Sing, 2006)
07. Prefuse73 - Página 5
(Reads the Books EP, 2005)
08. Larvae - Raindelay
(Dead Weight, 2006)