Marcus Lambkin (born 1971), better known by the pseudonym Shit Robot, is an Irish

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

ian and DJ.

Career

While working as a DJ in New York in 2000, he befriended James Murphy, later of

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, and started a DJ partnership with him. Lambkin moved to rural

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in 2004 and started producing his own music, with a number of releases on

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from 2006. He released his debut album ''From the Cradle to the Rave'' in September 2010 to positive reviews from Entertainment.ie and ''

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''. The album features contributions from Alexis Taylor of

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and James Murphy, amongst others.

Discography

Albums

*''From the Cradle to the Rave'' (DFA Records, 2010) *'' We Got a Love'' (DFA Records, 2014) *''What Follows'' (DFA Records, 2016)

EPs

* ''5 Songs'' (DFA Records, 2023)

Singles

*"Wrong Galaxy" (DFA Records, 2006) *"Chasm" (DFA Records, 2007) *"Simple Things (Work It Out)" (DFA Records, 2009) *"I Got a Feeling" (DFA Records, 2010) *"Take Em Up" (DFA Records, 2010) *"Tuff Enuff" (DFA Records, 2010) *"Losing My Patience" (DFA Records, 2011) *"Teenage Bass" (DFA Records, 2012) *"Feels Real" (DFA Records, 2013) *"We Got a Love" (featuring

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, split single with The Juan Maclean) (DFA Records, 2013) *"Do That Dance" (DFA Records, 2014) *"Do It (Right)" (DFA Records, 2014) *"Where It's At" (DFA Records, 2015) *"OB-8" (DFA Records, 2016) *"Lose Control" (DFA Records, 2016) *"Cubed / Rotation" (Me Me Me, 2018)

References

External links

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Shit Robot interview
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