Munich Syndrome

What would an android listen to?

Munich Syndrome was born in a Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret on a Blue Monday, in the midst of the electronic New Wave of the 80's. Intrigued, and ultimately inspired by this new music, the next step was to transcend listening and create. First came a drum machine and an early analog synthesizer. Kinetic rhythms and electronic sounds gave way to layered synths and a four-track recorder. Stark mechanical soundscapes evolved into fuller compositions: electronic pop songs.

Sounding familiar, but new at the same time Munich Syndrome is unlike anything else currently on the radio or in the clubs. Danceable, but not a dance band. Melodies, hooks and choruses, but not really a pop band. Heavy electronics, but not an industrial band. Eschewing current trends, Munich Syndrome looks inward for inspiration, not attempting to match momentary styles or chasing what's in vogue. A one man band that spends too much time alone?

Robotika, Munich Syndrome’s fourth album, a concept album that starts with Client SS006 diagnosed with Robotika. First comes self awareness, then questions of identity, the world and our place in it, discomfort at being forced into a world that we didn’t choose or want to participate in, then comes the yearning for escape, and finally realization and acceptance.

Robotika is limited to 300 copies worldwide, but will be released to all of our digital partners in early 2013, including iTunes, AmazonMP3,CDBaby.com as well as all the major listening services like Spotify.

Identity? Who we are? What we are? Where we are? These are the questions Client SS006 ponders as he explores his place in the (virtual?) world. Not a man. Not a machine. Alienation, loneliness, disaffection, and a solitary existence are explored in the condition of Robotika. Does client SS006 work on the assembly line or was he created on the assembly line? In a world surrounded by and run by computers, Munich Syndrome touches upon electro, synth-pop, EDM, IDM, techno pop with a pinch of ambient and experimental, to take the listener on a journey of realization, acceptance, escape, while redefining a sense of self exploring Robotika.

Robotika (Expanded) is available NOW in HDCD..®.. Audio from CDBaby.com, or from our digital partners, iTunes and AmazonMP3.

Key tracks from Robotika, are: (I Do) The Robot, The Future, Android Dreams, Just A Lonely Robot, Nightlife, Tonight, Just Dance, Perfect Day and our holiday song, Memories Drift (It's Christmas).

Experiments in downtempo, ambient, trip-hop with nu-jazz overtones led to the atmospheric debut, Sensual Ambience, released in 2006.

As these sessions wrapped up, the next songs started to look back towards the more electronic sounds that were the origins of Munich Syndrome and introduced the more prominent use of vocoders. The "Electro EP" led in the direction of the second album, "Electro Pop". The two songs that would lead the stylistic charge are "Come Out and Play (Just for a Day)" and "Modern Age".

"Electro Pop" was the next step in the evolution of Munich Syndrome (House driven Electro Pop for the mind to get lost in and the body to move to). The album embraces a harder sound overall, incorporating elements of Electro, IDM, Dance, Techno, House and EBM. Key tracks are "Dance (Ah Eee Ya Ya Ya Ya)", "Love & Dancing", "Come Out and Play" and "Go Away" .

Following the success of "Electro Pop" comes "Electronic Ecstasy". Lyrically looking at unrequited love lost with some of the earliest demos revisited, remade and remixed for this release.

The relentless dance floor beat of the title track gives way to melodic electronic pop songs "Anywhere (But Here)", "2 Whom", "Always (Alone)", "Celebrate" as well as the trippy instrumental "Dream Sequence #3", the dark and minimal "Fear. Panic. Dread" and the propolsive claustrophobia of "Watching You".

Munich Syndrome is: David B. Roundsley