It all started with an old mixtape. Punk, Jazz, Hip Hop and electronic music, the wide range of musical influences that touched Robot Koch and Walera Goodman, were woven into something completely new and this was the birth of The Tape. This was by no means Robot's debut as a producer. Before The Tape he drew heat by producing his band Jahcoozi which was recognized for its Hit Single "Fish" in 2003. And it is with this lineup that he played live shows alongside artists like Aphex Twin and Airborne Audio. The connecting element fusing the different styles featured on the fist installment of The Tape was Hip Hop, though not in a conventional sense - it was rather the traces of Hip Hop and its influence on genres such as Electronica, Post Rock and IDM. The first The Tape Album "Perpetual Dubbing" was released in early 2004 on Hamton Recordings. Instantly The Tape was compared to artists such as Four Tet, DJ Shadow and Prefuse 73 and received raving reviews from national as well as international press. Due to his work as a producer for the act Data MC (Hamton Recordings) Walera Goodman left The Tape but still contributed the track Lonely Planet Revisited to the new album. The next step for The Tape was the use of live vocals. Thus for the "Autoreverse" recording sessions the New York spawned spoken word artist slash emcee RQM was drafted. Already known for his genre-bending approach to floetry and the art of rhyming particularly because of his work on such forward thinking projects as Al Haca and Stereotyp, he was first choice. Two years ago he moved to Berlin. Since then he's been working with the cream of the electronica world, whether it be I-Wolf of the Sofa Surfers, Modeselector or Sascha Weisz. From Robot's rough Post-HipHop productions to the subversive lyrics of RQM best exemplified on "Hip Hop is dead" or "Nuclear Sunset" to the warm Soul/Electronica Song "Heaven", "Autoreverse" is a Hip Hop off-shoot literally - free from self-reference, revitalized and global Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.