A Very Clever Robot

aVCR developed a set of technological boundaries for itself, primarily using semi-professional instruments designed and built in the early-to-mid-1980's. The music is often sloppy, with drum machines played by hand, and sequencers and arpeggiators with unsteady and unknown BPM's. They spent several years (off and on) recording their first full-length, A Daring 160 r.p.m., in a number of home studios, and finally finished it one crisp winter day in Albany, 2003.

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Discography

A Daring 160 r.p.m. (2003)
"The achingly beautiful "Regarding Liquid"... [with] ...its pretty but melancholic piano phrase, haunting synth melody and backdrop of whooshing filtered white noise almost make it sound like a lost track from Eno's Another Green World..." - Aural Innovations

"Thoroughly articulated, A Daring 160 r.p.m. sometimes seems like a demonstration of how to effectively meld disparate sounds... each of these compositions forces beautifully serene sounds into a chasm of chaos, and the results are stunningly affecting." - Splendid E-Zine



1. Reaction
2. Wito
3. Newmexico
4. Apparatus for Signalling Without Wires
5. Song For/From Feldmano
6. Less Common Than the Lamb
7. Pushed Feature
8. Power Outage
9. Regarding Liquid
10. A Daring 160 R.P.M.

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Pushed Feature single (2002)
While still chipping away at A Daring 160 r.p.m., the group released this single, featuring the original (longer) version of "Less Common Than the Lamb". For the completist.



1. Pushed Feature
2. Less Common Than the Lamb (Original version)
3. Power Outage

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