Sh*t Robot (DFA) @ The Underground Sat April 4th

DrConor

SH*T ROBOT

Marcus Lambkin, also known as Sh*t Robot was born and bred in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland. Growing up on a steady diet of Killing Joke, Dead Kennedys and the Buzzcocks, etc., he ventured into the nightclubs of Dublin where he discovered Acid House in the late 80’s.
Things were never to be the same. He started collecting whatever 12”s he could get his hands on. Marcus’ friends began throwing parties and booked DJ’s such as Andrew Weatherall and David Holmes and Marcus was schooled in the art of the DJ “set”.

After completing an apprenticeship in cabinet making Marcus won a green card in the visa lottery and left Dublin behind to move to New York City.
After a chance meeting with some like-minded friends in the East Village Marcus was invited to play some records at the infamous rock venue “Brownies” on Sunday night after the bands had finished. This led to him being invited to come back every week and here in front of a very few people he honed his skills on the turntables and learned to mix.

Shortly afterwards Marcus put together a mix tape and passed it around to three local East Village bars, who all hired him on the spot. It was at his weekly residency’s at the long gone Nation that one of the owners of the now legendary Save The Robots stopped by and heard Marcus DJing and offered him the Saturday night slot upstairs.

It was around this time that Marcus met fellow Dubliner Dominique Keegan, who asked Marcus to join him in starting the record label “Plant Records”.
By a crazy coincidence the new offices of Plant were in the same building as a little known indy punk rocker James Murphy, who was building a studio in the basement.

Marcus and James hit it off immediately over their love of music. It was here that Marcus was introduced to the US greats such as Liquid Liquid and ESG and a mutual friendship developed.
In the meantime, at a record release party for plant records Marcus and Dominique discovered that they were a lot better at throwing parties than running a record label. The Plant party had begun.

Plant parties continued for many years in many different venues around NYC, culminating in the boys opening their own venue, Plant Bar.
With the help of Plant Bar’s stellar, James Murphy designed, DFA sound system and the likes of Luke Jenner of the Rapture bartending, plant bar became an East Village staple and a became a must stop by for any visiting DJ’s. London’s Face magazine called it “New York’s coolest and loudest bar” and everybody from Norman Cook (Fat Boy Slim), Ad Rock (The Beastie Boys), Germany’s DJ Koze, Felix The Housecat (an afterhours regular) and many more stopped by and played some records to an enthusiastic, well lubricated crowd.

It was also at Plant Bar that the Sh*t Robot party started with Marcus and James at the helm. This was a party where you could hear the Stooges and Can next to altern8 and nexus21. It was not a regular party, but somehow, the name stuck.
In 2004 Marcus left NY to move to his wife’s hometown of Stuttgart and started to DJ around Europe, North and South America and the rest of the world.
He built a studio at home and produced the 12”s Wrong galaxy/ Triumph!!! and Chasm for DFA and a couple of well received remixes for Tiny Sticks Records, DJ Kaos as well as Simian Mobile Disco.

Marcus has since then been working on his debut album for DFA, which will be released later this year.
His first single “Simple Things (work it out)” featuring vocals from Ian Svenonius of The Make Up, Nation of Ulysses and Weird War - fame is scheduled to be released in late April.

DrConor

We have got 5 double passes up for grabs for Sh*t Robot on Saturday night down at The Underground.
Q: Easy enough, just name two other artists producing music on the DFA label ?
Send your answers to bigdishgoconor@gmail.com please, winners will be selected randomly and notified by Friday evening.

Best of luck