Robotkid is the alias of Josh Randall, an electronic dance musician, video artist and video game developer from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along with "PK", he was part of the mid-1990s synthcore band Institute of Technology. He is currently the Creative Director at Harmonix Music Systems, a video game studio responsible for such series as Karaoke Revolution and Guitar Hero. Prior to Harmonix, Randall worked for Looking Glass Studios. Like Freezepop, whose Kasson Crooker also works for Harmonix, Robotkid's music often makes appearances on the studio's game releases. Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. ...   Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 02138, 02139, 02140, 02141, 02142 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... This is a list of music genres suffixed -core, most of which are probably derived from the term hardcore, which denotes a style more extreme than the mainstream. ... The Harmonix Music Systems logo. ... Karaoke Revolution, and its sequels Karaoke Revolution Volume 2, Karaoke Revolution Volume 3, Karaoke Revolution Party, and CMT Presents: Karaoke Revolution Country are Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Microsoft Xbox video games developed by Harmonix and published by Konami in its Bemani line of music games. ... Guitar Hero series in general, see Guitar Hero (series). ... Looking Glass Studios was a computer game development company during the 1990s. ... The members of Freezepop, left to right: Sean, Liz, the Duke Freezepop is an indie synthpop/New Wave band composed of Liz Enthusiasm, the Duke of Pannekoeken (originally the Duke of Candied Apples, both pseudonyms of Kasson Crooker), and the Other Sean T. Drinkwater (who claims to be a clone... Kasson Crooker is the artist behind Symbion Project, DJ HMX, Komputer Kontroller, and Cosmonaut Zero. ...

Releases appeared

• Boston Elektro 101 [1]
  • "Mizerable" by Institute of Technology
• TV Terror [2]
  • "Mary Tyler Moore" by Institute of Technology
• Operation Beatbox [3]
  • "King of Rock" by Institute of Technology

External links

• Robotkid.com featuring downloadable tracks from both his solo and IT projects
• "Smartbomb", "On the Download", Boston Phoenix, July 22, 2005
• Remix of Freezepop's "Science Genius Girl"
• Josh Randall bio from Cybersonica '06 program booklet
• "Games People Play", Boston Phoenix, May 6, 2005