Shit Robot

In the early ‘90s, Dublin, Ireland native Marcus Lambkin moved to New York, where he ingrained himself in the club scene as a DJ with a number of residencies. It wasn’t until 2006, however, after he had moved to Stuttgart, Germany and aligned with LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy for a party dubbed S**t Robot that he began producing and remixing under that name — a reference to Murphy’s poor drawing skills. From April 2006 through March 2010, Lambkin released four left-field house singles — mutations of electro, deep house, classic Detroit techno, and old-school rave — on Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy's DFA label. He also remixed tracks by Dondolo, Kaos, Simian Mobile Disco, Idioma, and the likeminded Juan Maclean. Unsurprisingly, the output raised Lambkin’s profile as a DJ, and he began to gig all over the planet. This all culminated in the first S**t Robot album, From the Cradle to the Rave, which was released on DFA in September 2010.