Nation Stole My Robots singles

I'd made my mind up that 2024 was just going to be singles so that's how I've carried on.  I had a number of collaborations coming up but there were solo ones as well

I brought out Sub-Space as a solo instrumental out in August 2024.  All software synths come with a Blade Runner button and I found this one very quickly:

Sub Space | Nation Stole My Robots

An earlier instrumental, Make It Look Like an Accident, had gone viral on Spotify over spring and summer and people got in touch afterwards.  An artist in Guatemala, BLOOOOO, wanted to collaborate so I dusted off my schoolkid Spanish and said "sí".

Just around then, I lost patience with TuneCore, who were publishing my work for the streaming services.  Much is made of bot services that artificially inflate the number of plays you get on Spotify - 21st century payola, basically - and publishers take measures against it.  Unfortunately, the crooks running the bots will often add artists without their consent as a blackmail move and rival artists sometimes do this to each other also.  One of my tunes was added against my will to a botted playlist and I reported this to Spotify within 48 hours.  Unfortunately TuneCore put the suspicion on me and prevented me from further collaborations, while at the same time not actually revealing the details of their suspicions - which makes it very difficult for customers to defend themselves.  My year's subscription was coming up so I decided I didn't need these comedians any more.  I switched to using DistroKid in November 2024.

Now with Distrokid, I have done two singles collaborating online with BLOOOOO.  Taking turns at English and Spanish language titles, Advanced Passenger was first:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4qU8r8yI39rZitU7eHridw?si=a6ba7a1389184ed9

This was going to be called "The APT" but the Bruno Mars/ROSÉ single was announced just as we were mixing.  So much for evoking the technological future you were promised that never arrived!

Policristalino followed in January 2025:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aLvTzwRPTJdb1w0z37AVK?si=16d5e19176614fca

All the while back here in Glasgow, there was another song written with Neet Neilson, Stealing Voices, which does recall the sounds both Neet and I grew up with:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0a4SYncbVez811pJNu28MH?si=ee0bddc1734042e5