Mr. Roboto on Floppy Drives
1980s | covers | floppy disks | hacks | machines | retro | styx | April 30, 2020
“My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM.” Styx’s 1983 track Mr. Roboto represented the pinnacle of overwrought concept rock. Yet there has yet to be a more appropriate song played by Paweł Zadrożniak’s electromechanical orchestra, the Floppotron and its servo-powered instrumentation.
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