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From 2nd – 9th October, Run Vie, Vienna’s Hip Hop, Street Art & Electronic Music Festival returns to the city. Unfortunately our German is a touch too basic to tell you all the details but we certainly recognise enough of the acts playing to know it’s gonna be a good one. From Derrick May, the Detroit Techno pioneer to Stone Throw’s new Soul slinging Golden Boy Aloe Blacc, plus a particular penchant for such Chrome favourites as Free The Robots, Dorian Concept and Robot Koch, there is definitely enough exciting music in store to make us consider a road trip. To further outline this fact, Run Vie have put together a free compilation of music from some of their line up, with help from Carharrt, one of the Festival’s sponsor’s. Here’s the tracklisting and a link to go grab it.

01 | JR&PH7 ft. Oddisee - Fast Lane Speedin’(Philta’s Reboogie)
02 | Swede:art - Snapshots On A Sunday Night
03 | Marvwon & Brenk Mill Ticket
04 | JR&PH7 ft. Skyzoo - Let’s Move(The Clonious Remix)
05 | Free The Robots - Orion’s Belt Buckle
06 | Suff Daddy ft. Miles Bonny - 5 o’Clock
07 | Aloe Blacc - I’m Beautiful
08 | Yosaku ft. Bobbito - Malembe (7-Inch Edit)
09 | fLako - What’s That Calling Me
10 | 1000 NAMES - Yellow First Stranger
11 | JR&PH7 ft. Planet Asia & Rakaa Iriscience - Take It To The Streets(Kalifornia Kurt Remix)
12 | Robot Koch - Night On Mars
13 | JR&PH7 ft. Median - Zone To Da Nightlife(Philta’s Twilight Mix)
14 | Elektro Guzzi - Moskito Draft
15 | JR&PH7 ft. Kaze & Egdar Allen Floe - Dreams(Waxolutionists Remix)
16 | Dorian Concept - Slyme End

Download: Run Vie - The Festival Compilation

It's been a while since Free The Robots dropped his debut EP onto the world and in that time his contemporaries on the West Coast scene such as Flying Lotus and Nosaj Thing have firmly wedged themselves into our collective psyche. Now finally we have a full length episode of the FTR show and it's certainly been worth the wait.

The name of Chris Alfaro's project is most definitely apt. This is the kind of freedom that Johnny 5 tasted and all those other androids out there have been dreaming of since. The re-education of the robots takes on a history lesson of their portrayal in human culture with tracks like Sci-fidelity, a straight up 50s B Movie robo-invasion over a killer beat which we can’t help but picture Doom tearing up… ripe for the mash up we’d say. The rest takes in everything from 60s Eastern influenced psychadelia to modern crunk, all translated for the knowledge hungry robot's out there, whilst tracks like Voices takes the education further approaching the emotional side of things and teaching them about the relationships between pain and beauty.

Finally as the freestyle nature of The Eye (a collaboration with Mars Volta's Ikey Owens on keys) really highlights the computer as instrument and with the education complete you can almost feel the life force surging through their circuits. The Robots have most definitely been freed.

Ctrl Alt Delete drops via Alpha Pup Records on March 30th.

Download: Free The Robots - Orion's Belt Buckle / alt link