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We Are the Robots: The Voyage of the Vocoder

by Tom Eames

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Tom Eames gives a brief history of various robotic styles of singing since the dawn of popular music, from vocoders, talk boxes and Auto Tuning. Features clips of many tracks from various genres.

Tracklisting:
Styx - Mr Roboto/Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger/Henry Blair - Sparkys Magic Piano
Wendy Carlos - March from a Clockwork Orange
Sly Stone - Sex Machine
Bruce Haack - Electric To Me Turn
ELO - Mr Blue Sky
Kraftwerk - The Robots
Freestyle - Don't Stop the Rock/Grandmaster Flash - Scorpio/Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop
Chromeo - Woman Friend/Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger/Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Henry Blair - Sparkys Magic Piano
(Clip from 'You'll Find Out')
Stevie Wonder - Close to You
Cher - Believe
Kanye West - Love Lockdown
Bon Iver - Woods/Imogen Heap - Hide & Seek/Paul McCartney - Feet in the Clouds
Deadmau5 - Ghosts N Stuff
T-Pain feat. Barack Obama - Obama Auto-Tuned