The Round Table

On The Round Table, when it rains Robyn, it pours. Today, not only can you watch Robyn perform three bitchin’ tracks from Body Talk Part 1 over in the Rimmel Room – you can also enter a remix contest featuring “None of Dem,” her collaboration with Norwegian electro-heavyweights Röyksopp.

You can read all about the Robyn remix contest over at Beatport, where you will also be able to download the many parts of “None of Dem” for remix excitement.

20 winners will be selected – 10 by users and 10 by editors. From these, Robyn and Konichiwa Records will pick their favorite. This lucky and talented individual will have their winning remix released on Konichiwa Records, as well as receive a $200 Beatport gift card and Native Instrument’s Maschine.

Looking at you MFDJ.

Robyn’s rise to popularity is not unlike like most pop stars from the 90s –through television. Although, unlike the mediocre sketch comedy Disney-machine stories of Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and even Miley Cyrus, Robyn recorded a show’s theme song at the age of 12 and performed a self-penned song not long after. Just like Britney & Christina, she scored her first U.S. top ten around the age of 17, with Robyn’s in ‘97 and theirs a year later. To be fair, Robyn is Swedish, and, it bears mentioning, a few years older than those Mouseketeers (she turned 31 this past Saturday). The former fact makes her cooler, while the latter has made her wiser and more self-aware than any other pop star. Unfortunately, awareness can come with a price, like self-isolation from too much introspection –a recurring theme on Body Talk Pt. 1.
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What do you get when you pair Robyn with Royksopp? Pure dark, dancehall perfection. But don’t take our word for it, head on over to Robyn’s official site and listen to her latest song “None of Dem.”

The song will be released as a single on April 13th and will also be part of her upcoming EP, Body Talk Part 1. In typical Robyn-Royksopp fashion, the song is a flawless blend of subtle (and not so subtle) disses over an infectious, moody repetitive groove.

Just to up the fun factor, you can record and upload a video of yourself to her website dancing to “None of Dem” if you so desire. We didn’t participate, but did marvel at Robyn grooving along.

Listen to Robyn’s “None of Dem” now.

Recent Robyn coverage:
Music News: Robyn’s Mini-LP Gets Release Date, Tracklist
New Music: Robyn “Fembot”
Four New Robyn Tracks Surface in Interview Clip
Free Music: Ghostface Millah Mix Volume 2 – February 2010
Listen Now: Robyn + Diplo “No Hassle”
Watch: “Backseat” by Staygold feat. Robyn, Spank Rock & Damien Adore
Free Download: Robyn’s First Remix (!) “Change of Heart” by El Perro Del Mar

Robyn is continuing her onslaught of new music as her latest song “Fembot” debuted on her website last night. The song itself is what I’ve come to expect from Robyn at this point, which isn’t a bad thing really because she still manages to make her robot love sound fresh. “Fembot” is definitely closer to the Robyn/Royksopp sound of late and a far departure from “No Hassle,” her leaked collaboration with Diplo.

No clue if “Fembot” will be part of one of the EPs previously discussed by Robyn during an online interview. Listen to “Fembot” below.

Huzzah! The self-proclaimed Dance Hall Queen, Robyn, is back! uh, letting some bits of info and new tracks from her upcoming albums out into the ether… Oh, yeah, that’s right –I wrote albums. According to Stereogum’s Progress Report, our girl, nay, lady (she just turned 30 –my, how far she’s come since her “Show Me Love” days!) will be releasing a few “mini-albums” throughout 2010. Could this be part of that silly “Six-Pak” idea AP brought to our attention last month? Sort of. Robyn explains:

But for me this is not an EP or a lesser version of an album. It’s an album, but it’s maybe not the normal length, so I can go back to the studio again and release these songs while they’re actually fresh, and go back to the studio and work on more stuff while touring.

So she’s saying less music more often, which I support. And it lends itself to the tracks being more current, not to mention more aligned with the hyper-speed of info and song leaks in the blogosphere.

Watch the clip and get a (somewhat guesstimated) preview of track names and producers, c/o YouTuber r8ght, after the cut.
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This weekend I’m going to sit down and catalog everything we know about iamamiwhoami. I’m going to collect the places, animals, blinks and beats – put them all in a pile and sort through them.

That’s if I don’t go mad first. I give myself about a 70 percent chance.

But before I lose my mind, let’s have a look at the newest iamamiwhoami video. Yes, as ReMyky22 and others have predicted – she’s in the cabin. Or one of them is … because now it seems like there may be more than one female lead in this saga. More on this later …

We’ve had a lot of guesses over the last three posts and, honestly, at this point, any of them seem feasible. (Except Christina … sorry Andrew & ReMyky) To be honest, I wanted it to be her too. Still … I just don’t see it.

If you’re just joining us, feel free to take a read through our previous iamamiwhoami posts. At the least, it’ll be a good lead into the fair amount of rambling I’m about to drop on you. (more…)