Robot Goes Here
| Robot Goes Here | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | David G. Rand |
| Born | February 28, 1982 |
| Origin | Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Genres |
Electro Punk rock |
| Years active | 2004–2007 |
| Labels | Infidel Records |
| Associated acts | Gertler's Law Let's Blow Something Up Location |
Robot Goes Here was an electro punk band from Ithaca, New York, on Infidel Records, composed of Dave Rand (now a professor of Psychology, Economics, and Management at Yale University).
Dave Rand, originally from Ithaca, New York, spent his teenage years playing guitar, bass, and singing in punk bands and touring the east coast. When Location disbanded in 2004, Rand began to write for this new project. In Robot Goes Here, he performed alone on stage with a laptop and microphone, with synthesized sounds and samples taking the place of guitar amps in this computer generated hardcore band. "Start with a computer kid in a punk rock band, take away the band and this is what you get," said Rand of his evolution.
Robot Goes Here's debut full-length album, The Byte Is In Your Blood, was written and recorded in the period that Rand was graduating from Cornell University. It was mixed by Ray Martin (Gorillaz, Iggy Pop, Mindless Self Indulgence) and Ted Young (Taking Back Sunday, Bouncing Souls, Andrew W.K.). The album covers topics from "When the Well Runs Dry," which contemplates how savage anyone could be under desperate circumstances, to "What All The Screaming's About," a celebration of the struggle between emotion and technology. In "Seeing Green," a chaotic diatribe on waste and consumerism, Rand sings, "I found the idea for this song at the bottom of a dumpster, along with a book on conservation and a bottle of shampoo." The album also includes a cover of AC/DC's "Back in Black."
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