Robot Goes Here

* New album "The Byte Is In My Blood" mixed by Ted Young (Taking Back Sunday,
Bouncing Souls, Andrew W K) and Ray Martin (Gorillaz, Iggy Pop,
Mindless Self Indulgence) out now on Infidel Records

* Played on NPR's nationally syndicated "Here and Now"

* "When The Well Runs Dry" is on millions of laptops sent to children
in the 3rd world as part of MIT's One Child Per Laptop initiative

* "What All The Screaming's About" music video selected for the 2006 No Exit international film festival

* Two instrumentals on the soundtrack for the forthcoming Eyeball Knights 4 video game

A punk rock singer and research scientist at Harvard,
in a computer generated hardcore band,
with an innovative record that will make you think while you dance!

Punk rock expatriate Dave Rand spent his teenage years in vans touring
the east coast - 12 bands in 8 years. When the final group disbanded in
2004, Rand sat down to write, alone with a laptop. He loved it and he
began to record. Rand delivers the same intense, high-stakes show that
he always has, complete with jumps, kicks and mic tosses. The only
difference is that now he performs alone on stage with a laptop and a
microphone. Audiences who haven't experienced Rand's format are
initially stunned. The most common comment I hear is 'I've never seen
or heard anyone do anything like this,' " followed by, "You’ve got a
lotta guts to do what you do." Looks of astonishment turn to respect
quickly at Robot Goes Here shows. There is no other artist like this
performing today.

It's punk rock and it's all electronic. Synthesized sounds and samples
take the place of Marshall amps. "Start with a computer kid in a punk
rock band, take away the band and this is what you get," says Rand of
his evolution. Add to this unusual scenario the fact that Rand is a
serious scientist - a PhD candidate studying the evolution of altruism at
Harvard's Systems Biology Department - who
writes relevant, questioning songs about today's real problems. "I try
to think about the world and all the complexities and contradictions,
without jumping to simplifications."

Rand is an artist and thinker who grapples with the big picture and The
Byte Is In Your Blood is 11 slices through that picture, written and
recorded in the period that Rand was graduating from Cornell
University. He appears as a character in his songs, almost like Spike
Lee appearing in his films. They take place in unusual locations -
libraries, offices, dumpsters, front yards and dance floors. Each scene
adds a different facet to this wide-ranging CD. When the Well Runs Dry
contemplates just how savage any of us could be under desperate
circumstances. What All The Screaming's About? is a wild celebration of
the struggle between emotion and technology. In Seeing Green, a chaotic
diatribe on waste and consumerism, Rand sings, "I found the idea for
this song at the bottom of a dumpster, along with a book on
conservation and a bottle of shampoo." Later on the CD, Rand lays down
the definitive cover of AC/DC's Back in Black.

Rand's hardcore aesthetic runs through his songs and his life. He knows
what he wants to write about and it doesn’t bother him that not
everyone will like it. When he gets the urge to make music outside of
the character of Robot Goes Here, he records under the band name "Fuck
Off Five" and posts it on myspace.

Robot Goes Here – A punk rock singer accompanied by an IBM powered
hardcore band that delivers a innovative record that is "The Byte Is In
My Blood".