Tomorrow there may be auto-tune but today we eat vocoder. One of our all-time favorite, inky-fingered, jam on it journalists, Mr. Dave Tompkins, has written a book entitled How to Wreck a Nice Beach which dives deeply into the history of the vocoder. We urge you to get robotic and add this gem to your reading list.

To further inspire your mind in this direction Dave has joined forces with a few friends to bring your ears some great vocoder mixes. Click the image above to go surfin’ on a sea of circuitry with Captain Tompkins and his pal Monk One as they present their “Bonus Beach” megamix. Below, you can pop your cursor on the smokey-faced Yul Brenner to access the “Vocoder Leftovers” mix that Dave made with his buddy Chairman Mao at Spine Magazine.