Okay, so about 9 years ago I made a song about robot panthers. I've been listening to it again recently and decided it might be fun to do an update, which may form part of the next "Project Retake" album, we'll see.

Most of it has been rerecorded, but although I still have the exact same synthesizer, I was not able to recreate the sync solo at the end and the factory drone sounds to my satisfaction, so these were copied off the original 1" master tape. The vocals were rerecorded but I also double-tracked it using the original 2013 vocals, which were copied from the 1/2" session tape along with the electric bass.

This version was tracked to 2" tape on an Otari MX80 and mixed to a Studer A807. As mentioned, some parts were dubbed across from the original 1" and 1/2" multitracks.

Instruments used:
Korg Triton Rack: industrial sounds
Moog Voyager: Sweeps, arpeggiation, additional factory sounds, sync solo at end
Hammond XM-1 at end
Roland MVS-1: bass synthesizer
Dave Smith OB-6
Waldorf Streichfett string machine with JH Triple Chorus ensemble
Alesis DM10, Roland JV1010 and Korg M1 for drums
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic

Voice processing done using an Electroharmonix Small Clone, with a Zoom RFX-2000 and VC340 for vocoding duties.

The future balanced on a knife
We take sheet steel and give it life
Atomic heart and quantum mind
A robot of the feline kind
In the panther factory

Unit 3A comes online
The robot army will be mine
Robots of my own design
Why have one life instead of nine?