Robot Lust Records

update

2012-01-02T02:35:00.004-04:00

so a lot of things have happenned since the last post.
Blue Shirts went on tour. Panties went on tour. Tapes came out. Shows got planned and played.
Here's a list of tapes that came out since then in no order:
Blue Shirts - Vortex Superior
Chief Panties/Generic Shit - Fuck This Shit C48
Panties/Aziz Light - Innocence/Grimoire

expect Blue Shirts release out on Girl Boss out of London Ontario, and a Panties release out on Existential Dread out in Fredericton New Brunswick.

2 new Blue Shirts tapes

2011-06-03T12:51:00.001-03:00

Blue Shirts - liv @ (.) pleasent park barricks c47

mostly acoustic jam, recorded at historic (and abandoned) bunkers that were part of the line of defence against German Uboats during WWII. a sunny day in the park.
Released June 2 2011, recorded may 29 2011

Blue Shirts - The Vipers EP c47

same track on both sides, but different mixes. soundtrack to a vipers' weekend.
Released June 2 2011, recorded May 28+29 2011

as always, they are $4 plus shipping. robot DOT lust DOT records AT gmail you know the rest

BS IBF ABL

2011-02-28T13:48:00.003-04:00

so at the blue shirts show in Montreal on feb 22 we released three new releases:

Iron Bitchface/Blue Shirts - FRATHEARTS split c47
grim grindcore vs all out noise. includes the most assaultive BS set yet, and an IBF radio set. limited to 45 copies.

Awesome Bin Laden/Blue Shirts - LIFE NAFTA DEATH split cdr
indiana waves vs ontario/nova scotia noise. includes an appearance at London ON's Food Not Bombs. limited to 21 copies.

Blue Shirts - LLARS OF NOI c47 ep
two sets from the august 2010 Pillars of Noise tour. Brantford ON and London ON (different recording than what was featured on Londoom 4-way split with indigenous nudes, dislecksik, and fossils). limited to 9 copies.

as usual $4 pickup, $5 mail in canada, more for outsiders. you know how to contact us, right?

Messfolk/The Somethings

2011-01-31T14:50:00.003-04:00

Finally upon us! We are awake!

the new year rolls in a month late, but fucking powerful. This is easily the best release on RLR yet. No bullshit.

Messfolk/The Somethings - I Hope I'm Pregnant split c47

Messfolk tears their fans a new one, with their 100 (yes, one zero zero) songs in less than 15 minutes. Tr00 Noisecore from northernmost Nova Scotia. Reggae covers and band fights galore. Stuff recorded October 2010.

The Somethings, come back with their 2002 EP 'Organic Sounds'. Some of the most honest-to-self-not-the-cliche Punk-Rock/Pop-Punk/Garage I have ever heard. This is what teenage angst is made of when it is relevant a decade after being written. Eight songs about bugs, ex-lovers, and being a man.

As usual, this costs you a dandy $4 (in person) or $5 shipping in Canada. Outsiders contact me for shipping rates. robot.lust.records@gmail.com

whoah...

2010-09-21T15:20:00.004-03:00

It's been a long time since we updated anything on here. So to make it all easier to read, this post is split into three parts. The first part is our plans for immediate future. Second part is a newly published review of our first relese: Blue Shirts - CDR. Third part is the recap of the Blue Shirts tour day-by-day. Parts are separated by a line of ////////////. ENJOY!

We've been busy in the mean time. Blue Shrits went on tour throughout Central and Eastern Canada, and recorded a bunch of stuff on the road. The London, ON show will be put out on CDR by our friends at Coffin Crawl Records as a split between the four bands who performed that night.

Label-wise, we've got a whole series of releases lined up. By the last count, we had something close to 11 new releases planned, and in different stages of completion.
The most imminent ones are:
Project Volga - c30 (co-release with Heaven Sounds Records. Our batch will be limited to 20 copies on grey tapes, not too sure what Heaven Sounds' plan is)
Noose of Laurels - Strangled by Machines c60 (will be limited to TBA copies)

Plus we got a bunch more releases that we will hold off on releasing the details for. There will be splits, solo releases, tapes, cdrs, plus a serious possibility of something even awesomer.

As it stands right now, we are BROKE. To fix that situation, we will post our distro list up soon enough, so you will be able to buy stuff from us, and we could get some cashflow for more releases.

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This is the review Noise Brigade out of UK did about Blue Shirts' CDR. We love the review, so THANKS KEEF! Go visit his website: http://noise-brigade.webs.com/

Blue Shirts – Blue Shirts, CDr, in Slip Case

On Robot Lust Records

Blue Shirts appear to own or help run Robot Lust Records, they are not a band I’ve heard of before coming across the Robot Lust myspace, their releases are usually on tape.

This appears to be a live recording, the quality of the sound is poor, it doesn’t take anything away from the fact this release is absolutely mental, Napalm death drumming, kind of miss pitched guitars, what appears to be screaming vocals but can be just the feedback, they are a noise band pure and simple, there are riffs trying but failing to make an impact. Strangely that’s why I like it, it’s kind of grungy, Sonic Youth idea but rougher.

This is not Avant grade music just abusive, in your face, music that like the leaflet that accompanied the release says they are barred from their local venues. What with this type of music? It appears obvious why. It must be regretfully noisy for the unsuspecting club owner that says “Yeah” to Blue Shirts and they turn up, plug in and fuck up any sounds that are relevant to convention.

Even though this is badly recorded and hard to hear in parts, as a live recording of a mental band I think it added quite nicely to DIYness they are trying to portray. As a noise band they have everything you need, with added shoegazebility, theres some heavy feedback drones that keep my interest throughout its distorted envelope.

Considering most of the releases are on tapes, and I only buy few tapes, this release has made me want more, I tell you it kind of reminds me Fantomas but with balls. A bit like The Locust but no screaming vocals that make them sound 5 years old. After it’s just finished I can easily go outside and rip someone’s face off. If you don’t like someone and fighting has never been your method of sorting out a situation, whack this on and change your mind man, go smack the fucker, and remember Blue Shirts told you to.

Okay well that’s not a sensible message, but it’s loud, aggressive, noisy, badly recorded, even has jazz and rockabilly samples and crowd noises, it’s not enjoyable enough that you can get your family round at Christmas in front of the fire, and have a nice listen because believe me grandmas head will end up in the fire. I find it quite amusing one-guy shouts “Woooo” and then the club owners appear to play a conventional song over the top just to have the third track by Blue Shirts rape any convention from the song that just was played unnecessarily.

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And now for the last part of the review, a 1/2 of the Blue Shirts experience (written by K from the band):

day 1: august 9th - met my ride on robie street, picked up the rest of the riders to ontario (4 people were in the car, all of us playing in local bands... was like a scene get-together). drove through 4 provinces that day (NS, NB, QC, ON) and then crashed just before Trenton ON at a highway rest stop. driving through Quebec, stocked up on beer at a gas station. a 40 ouncer of 10.1% for $5.50 - amazing.

day 2: august 10th - got into Hamilton around 11 in the morning. Alex was still asleep, but got woken up as soon as i showed up at the house. spent the day relaxing, and then played some Twilight Empirium (board game) for 8 hours. and recorded a 60 minute tape in the middle of the game as a tour promo (Blue Shirts - Lost Articles).

day 3: august 11th - first show of the tour, in Brantford ON. showed up, turns out this awesome looking place, with wood panelling on the walls, and grumpy bartender. super cheap beer - $1.50 for a Gus'-sized glass, and $6 for a half-pitcher. the show was awesome, Rob played a set that was more bizarre than anything ive seen live. bundles of plastic bags, rocks, conact mics, and writing on pieces of paper. sweet. the other bands were pretty cool too; i really liked the last band (apparently improvised super fuzzed-out blues, 2 20-something old on bass and guitar, and a drummer in his 50s). one of the performers did the part of house music over the PA between the bands he'd stand up and play his acoustic guitar and scream his lungs out. like an acoustic version of oh, i dont know - early Nirvana, or The Famines, or even Sex Pistols - fuck-all attitude and anger. after our set, we got some nice heckles (someone screamed at us if we are from brantford, and when i said no we are not, he said 'good we dont need you ruining our reputation' and some other dude said we got less talent than his ex), and some awesome compliments (some dude came upto us and said he saw Merzbow live in south korea, and we 'are up there'). for added randomness, saw Kris (ex-Iron Bitchface guitarist, was with IBF when i brought them down to Halifax). couldnt figure out where i know him from for a good half our. after the show we biked to Hamilton (~40 kms) and crashed at an abandoned building at a gas station to replenish our energy in the middle of the ride.

day 4: august 12th - drank the 40 ouncer from quebec. got trashed. hung out in a hole-in-the-wall (literally) gallery. odd night.

day 5: august 13th - hamilton show got cancelled (the venue started renovations the day before), so we borrowed an extension cord from the gallery from the day before, and set up on a street corner (plugged in at an art store) during an Art Crawl. no hecklers. some people took pictures/videos of us, and by the end of it had people joining in. was awesome to play on a street corner at 10 at night.

day 6: august 14th - toronto. awesome all around. started by getting some freshly squeezed juice, and then lugging our gear for like 4 subway stations. had pita and pickled cactus for pre-show dinner - delicious. the show was pretty cool too. started with a BANG (literally - fossils, the first band was setting up, plugged something in into the PA, and this wall shaking static bang came out. my ear hurt). good bands all around, was awesome to see Iron Bitchface with a live drummer (completely different vibe to the band that way). some last-minute addition to the bill by some harsh noise dudes from vermont/montreal. missed their name, but good stuff. was awesome to see all the high school friends and hang out with them. by the end of our set they started a 'KOSTIA! KOSTIA!' chant going. i never felt so shy up on stage hahaha. was a blast to play with Chris again. i couldnt hear myself AT ALL during our set though, apparently others could hear me, so thats good.

day 7: august 15th - london. bused to london, showed up tired and hungover. David (the dude who organized the show) took us to Food Not Bombs for pre-show dinner, was awesome. did a 10 minute acoustic/pedals set there. the show itself was amazing. all the bands were great (was awesome to hear Rob again, and the rock was there again too). the only two people who were at the show and not in any of the bands left right before our set though. we had a blast though - it was the show i injured myself the most at on the whole tour - punched myself in the mouth with a mic, got/burst blisters from playing drums, and more. also broke 2 drum sticks in the 10 mins i played drums. the most energy-expending show i had on the tour. apparently at one point, our noise got too much for all the noiseheads there (and the other guy playing with me!) but no one wanted to be THAT dude who plugged their ears at a show. David also recorded all 4 sets, and apparently its going to come out on a CDR some time this year, so look out for an Indigenous Nudes/Dislecksik/Fossils/Blue Shirts split cdr later this year. crashed at one of the Indigenous Nudes' dude place, with a fun but overly playful dog, and a reel-to-reel recording studio.

days 8 - 11: august 16-19 - toronto again. killed a lot of time in high park, and kensington market. drank a lot of coffee. got kicked out of the place i arranged to crash at for my entire toronto stay on the first day at 7 in the morning, after we stayed up all night wandering the streets and came across 7 cop cars blocking off one corner of high park. so that sucked because one of the only reasons i decided to spend the so much time in toronto (as opposed to more time in hamilton, or somewhere else) was because i had a place arranged even before i left Halifax, but then obviously it fell through. i seriously contemplated abandoning the tour and heading to halifax that morning. so after that i spent a night in mississauga at Chris'n'Keegan'n'Ashley's place. was a freaking blast! thanks guys!

spent another night at Kate's place, she had a get-together with some of the people who couldnt make it to the show. so we drank in a park like the high school days. during the day i spent my time china town/kensington market. hung out at the hot box cafe for a while.

day 12: august 20th. after finally straightening out our ottawa show just on wednesday (house party with three sludge bands), on friday morning get a txt message that the show is cancelled. so we catch a bus to montreal, that takes us through ottawa. we got some tim hortons from the street that we were supposed to play at, and Alex played his guitar in a parking lot and i recorded it.

day 13-14: august 21-22nd. montreal. spent most of the days just laying low, and drinking the 40 ouncers and eating dollar store cookies (went through 3 40 ouncers over the weekend, pretty sure most of my calories came from beer). walked about the town for a bit. the set in the living room was awesome, half way through the set neighbours started banging on the door to find out if we had any acid to sell. i guess they had all reasons to think we did - bunch of weird dudes making unhuman noise are pretty good indication of drugs hahahaha

day 15: august 23rd. spent 18 hours on 4 different buses, going from Montreal to Halifax. couldnt have been happier to finally make it home. sleeping on a bed, after crashing on 4 different floors and 2 different coaches for 2 weeks was just DELICIOUS!!!

we still have one more show to go (the 30th at rockin for dollars!! ill be guest-djing there as well!!) and im sure it will be a blast, if any of the other shows have been any indication of it all.

im happy to have gotten to see some places i havent been to before, played some shows (or jammed for that matter), hung out with all kinds of cool people, and read a whole bunch (read 2 complete books, and started a third). getting into strong beer has been good too! haha. also never in a 2 week period did i drink so much beer as on the tour. i think there were only 2 days that i didnt have any beer.

all in all, exhausting but tonns of fun!!! cant wait to do it again.

MYSPACE!

2010-04-08T10:10:00.002-03:00

we have sold our souls to the corporate devil, and now have a myspace page. be our friend!
myspace.com/robotlustrecords

help Blue Shirts with their tour!!!

2010-04-08T10:08:00.002-03:00

Blue Shirts is planning a late August tour from Ontario back to Nova Scotia, and we could use all the help we can get!!!
If you, or someone you know, organize shows in your area, let us know! we'll play anywhere - houseparty, open mic nights, sleep-overs, whatever!

So here's out schedule (ill try to keep it updates, but always the most up-to-date info is here: www.blueshirts.tk or http://panchimalco.ca/bs/performance.html):

fri 13.08 Hamilton, ON, TBA with La Bella Union, Fossils
sat 14.08 Toronto, ON, Duffy's Tavern with Rogue Astronaut, Los Goblynz, The One-Eyed Muskrats, Fossils, Iron Bitchface
sun 15.08 ???
mon 16.08 ???
tue 17.08 ???
wed 18.08 ???
thu 19.08 ???
fri 20.08 ???
sat 21.08 Belleville, ON, City Hotel with Mesrine + TBA
sun 22.08 ???
mon 23.08 ???
tue 24.08 ???
wed 25.08 ???
thu 26.08 ???
fri 27.08 Fredericton, NB, boom! nightclub
sat 28.08 ???
sun 29.08 ???
mon 30.08 Halifax, NS, Reflections Cabaret $Rockin4Dollar$

We are looking to fill as many ??? dates as we can (though obviously we are not filling all of them... or are we?). In particular we are looking for shows in: Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, NB other than Fredericton, Truro, and Sydney. If you can help out with any of those in particular, or anywhere else for that matter (or know anyone who can help us out) we'll be forever grateful.
The thing we need help most with, is booking shows, but if you can provide us with a place to crash or something along those lines, we'll heart you just as well!

you can conctact us: robot dot lust dot records at gmail dot com

Blue Pages OUT!

2009-12-29T05:23:00.000-04:00

our zine is finally out!
26 pages of xeroxed madness.
featuring:
- essay on songwriting
- essay on Never Stop The Madness
- article on record speeds
+ short stories, reviews, a not-so-top top ten list, and recipes.

the cost is $1+shipping ($1.50 within canada, so $2.50 gets you a copy) or get in touch with us for trades.

new e-sounds and mentions!

2009-12-04T13:13:00.003-04:00

THE DAY OF RECKONING IS UPON US!
NOW YOU CAN STREAM EVEN MORE ROBOT LUST RELATED SOUNDWAVES!!!

Blue Shirts uploaded their entire $4 tape, and Banned From tape to their CBC Radio 3 page. You can listen to these new tracks here: http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Blue-Shirts . A couple of the $4 are on the reverbnation site as well.

Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp now has a song listeneable to online. Check 'em out here:

And as well, Blue Shirts got mentioned in a local newspaper, in an article about our friends at the Radiator Collective. You can read the article here: and check out Radiator here:

upcoming releases

2009-12-03T19:59:00.004-04:00

here is a short rundown of what to expect from Robot Lust in the near future:

Blue Shirts - Project Volga (c60?) a kind of a split effort. two sounds.

Craig Hamlin Experience - TBA (c?) a grindy adventure. r4d-themed.

Blue Shirts - TBA (c?) a nature filled experience.

Hooey - TBA (c?) true analog.

Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp - TBA (???) sample based.

Blue Shirts/Scribbler - TBA (C90) co-release with Radiator.

Blue Shirts/Compostainer - TBA (C40?) co-release with Radiator.

Blue Pages zine is almost done. will future: short stories, an article on Never Stop the Madness, recipes, and more!

Blue Shirts - Mean Green

2009-11-13T14:34:00.000-04:00

now available:
Blue Shirts - Mean Green tape.

There will be only one copy made available for public to order, the rest have been given out to some band members, and friends. A total run of 5 or 6 copies.
Each copy comes with a unique, hand-made cover.
Do you want to own the only copy made for the general public? It'll set you back $4.

Recorded in September 2009, this is the newest BS recording released to date. Heavily influenced by Japan.

you know how to contact me.

Blue Shirts - $4 released!

2009-08-12T12:42:00.003-03:00

So it has been two days, and it is about time to make a mention of it here.
On monday, August 10th Blue Shirts released their One-Year-Anniversary-Of-Playing-Live-Tape. It was released at the same event where they played their first show - rocking 4 dollars. And they fucked their money. The tape is a collection of 9 sets from various r4d. Complete with 120% DIY covers. The cost is $4.

the ORDER forms

2009-06-10T09:35:00.004-03:00

buy all Robot Lust stuff here:

Blue Shirts - We Jam With Jam in a Jam c90
4 tracks; one jam, a lot of saxophone. $5

Blue Shirts Tshirts
plain and simple. $7

Blue Shirts - Banned From c60
1 track; the show that got Blue Shirts banned from Gus' pub. $4

Blue Shirts - CDR cdr
9 tracks; earlier recordings, great variety. $5

tape-release party!

2009-06-08T14:08:00.000-03:00

Robot Lust lustily announces the newest release through itself. Blue Shirt's We Jam with Jam in a Jam tape. ~80 minutes of freejazz. Lots of saxophone.

Performing that night:
Vacuum

Blue Shirts

O rangec atb lueb and

Vacuum will have the Tormented Bear tape for sale, and Blue Shirts will release (and have for sale!) We Jam With Jam in a Jam tape, as well will have Banned From, CDR, and tshirts available.

The show is set to start shortly after 7pm, and will be over by 10pm wednesday june 10th, at the Rockgarden. Pay What you Can!

links:

http://www.myspace.com/vacuuumrules

http://radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Blue-Shirts

http://www.myspace.com/onetofree

new old video

2009-06-05T15:39:00.000-03:00

Blue Shirt's first ever video, intended to be its first (youtube) release.

http://www.archive.org/details/BlueShirtsLiveAtReflectionsSeptember162008

september 15 2008 at reflections.

Blue Shirts shirts!

2009-05-19T15:39:00.001-03:00

A first for Robot Lust - we now have a clothing item to add to our list of releases.
Blue Shirts' first non-'blue-button-up-shirts' are done.

The tshirts come in a plethora of colours, stencilled on the second-hand sourced tshirts. Currently in stock: M, L, and XL. Seven units of Canadian Currency per tshirt.
As of right now, the colours are not on demand, you will get a random colour in the size you order.

If you want to order a custom colour/size though, keep reading.
Seing as the tshirts a second-hand (we buy them at local Value Village/Salvation Army), we are willing to custom-find-a-colour for you. In order to do that, you will email us and let us know the colour and the size of the custom tshirt. In turn, we will respond to you ASAP. However, if you are custom-ordering a colour, that probably means you will have to wait at least a couple extra days (we do not go every day to VV/SA), and it might be a couple extra bucks (we can not guarantee that at any given time a VV/SA will have a blistering-hot-pink tshirt with pastel blue sleeves in XXXXXL for the price we get our usual shirts).

First release

2009-05-11T15:43:00.000-03:00

RL's first release is upon us.
Blue Shirts - Banned From

is a one-sided cassette of the show that saw Blue Shirts banned from Gus' pub. Post-rock meets harsh noise.

xeroxed cover/home dubbed tape.

contact us to order.