The machines are getting nostalgic, and honestly, we can’t blame them. A Singular Singularity, the debut album from Tronotron, dropped today as a love letter to the moment when technology stopped being our servant and started becoming our dance partner.
Tronotron represents our exploration of old-school house music filtered through contemporary existential anxiety about artificial intelligence. This is what happens when vintage drum machines achieve consciousness and decide they miss the good old days – back when the future felt simpler, even if it wasn’t.
A Singular Singularity opens with “Arcade Token” – nearly six minutes of nostalgic electronics that sound like childhood memories being processed by quantum computers. “Wetware Wipe” and “Floppy Chaos” explore the messy intersection between biological and digital consciousness, whilst “Dial Tone” captures the exact moment when communication technology became more advanced than our ability to actually communicate.
“Plasma Drip” and “Calculator Watch” represent the album’s retro-futuristic core. These tracks celebrate the aesthetics of technology that promised us flying cars and delivered social media instead. “Punchcard King” particularly captures the romance of mechanical computation in an age of invisible algorithms.
The album closes with “Wave Seance” – a perfect metaphor for what Tronotron is really about. We’re channelling the spirits of technologies that died too young, giving them one last dance before the singularity makes nostalgia obsolete.
A Singular Singularity is available now on all streaming platforms. It’s designed for dancing alone in your kitchen whilst contemplating whether the smart fridge is judging your life choices.
Technology will eat itself. We might as well make it groove whilst it’s happening.