The debut release from this NYC assemblage whose musical recipe is simple: combine indie rock, '70s funk & soul, and organic hip-hop. Moving way beyond the hip-hop standard of turntables and samples, AUTOMATO create, play, and record all their songs with traditional instrumentation -- drums, guitar, bass, and keyboards -- with a few antique Moogs, vintage electronics, and processors thrown in for good measure. With brothers-in-arms James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy of the DFA manning the boards, they've cr...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. New York City hip hop group Automato is Alex Frankel, Ben Fries, Jesse Levine, Nick Millhiser, Andrew Raposo and Morgan Wiley. Completed in January of 2003, their forthcoming debut album was produced by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy of the DFA. The goal was to make an album that sounds and feels like the sample based hip hop records they love, yet capture the un-hip hop 'band' element of the group. They not only succeeded at this, but surpassed their expectations and the result is a test...   [ read more ]

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New York City hip-hop group Automato is Alex Frankel, Ben Fries, Jesse Levine, Nick Millhiser, Andrew Raposo, and Morgan Wiley. Completed in January of 2003, their debut album was produced by James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy of the DFA. The band's goal was to make an album that sounds and feels like the sample-based hip-hop records they love, but captures their un-hip-hop band element of the group. And they succeeded beyond even their own expectations. The vocals are somewhere between Cannibal Ox, Andre 30...   [ read more ]

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