goLab
goLab is Joel Roberts from Toledo, OH. Music made with synthesizers and singing and other stuff. I like making songs... I like you
FAVE GEAR:
ARP ODYSSEY
BIGBRIAR THEREMIN
BRADLEY TELCOM JITTER AND HIT SYNTHESIZER 2A
CASIO CZ1000
CASIO PT-7
CASIO SK-1
CASIO MT-40
CASIO VLTONE VL-1
DIGITECH TALKER
ELECTRO-HARMONIX MINI-SYNTH
ELEKTRON ANALOG4
GAMEBOY ADVANCE - LSDj
HOHNER Melodica
KORG MONO/POLY
KORG MS20
MAKENOISE 0-COAST
MOOG LIBERATION
NORD LEAD 3
MPC1000
OBERHEIM DMX
OBERHEIM OBsx
ROLAND SH-101
ROLAND JUNO 106
ROLAND SH-32
ROLAND SP404
ROLAND SYSTEM 100m
ROLAND TR-707
SOUNDMACHINES NS1
TEENAGE ENGINEERING OP-1
TEENAGE ENGINEERING OP-Z
YAMAHA CS01II
YAMAHA DX100
YAMAHA PSS270
YAMAHA VSS-30
YAMAHA QY100
WHY TRY
Released 2021.
Jason Webber (Toledo Blade) says: His new album Why Try is a salute to the process of creating art, no matter what medium. “The title track to Why Try is asking the question ‘why try to make art?’” said Roberts. “The lyrics go “’Why try/Because it sutures the soul/Why try/It’s what we’re here for.’ No matter what, art is worth making.” - Link
Carried Away
Single released by goLab in 2021.
Original by Olivia Newton John released in 1981.
TIMES OUT
Released 2014.
Pet Sounds
Ten years in the making, this is a track-for-track cover of the Beach Boy's classic "Pet Sounds" recorded entirely with a Yamaha QY-100 and a microphone. A labor of love that will make you fall in love with goLab all over again.
Released 2011.
R. Stevie Moore says: "Pet Zounds is stunning! Valiant effort, remarkable achievement.”
Gary Lucy (Rock Solid Podcast) says: "...Amazing! At many points, anyone would assume they were listening to the original.”
Day Dream
Released 2011.
Strangle Holds
goLab's sophomore album expands on the sounds explored on Simplicity Banquet, with a slightly more aggressive tone. Includes a new take on the classic Billy Joel song, Pressure.
Released 2009.
Simplicity Banquet
With a mix of Beach-boys style harmonies, vintage synthesizers, Casio keyboards and a variety of acoustic instruments, "Simplicity Banquet's" songs are as unique and catchy as they are haunting. For fans of Hot Chip, Of Montreal, Headphones, and Enon. All even-numbered songs were composed and performed on a NINTENDO Gameboy.
Drastic Plastic says: "Twenty-nine inventive pop ditties accompanied by a barrage of Pong era keyboards. Reminiscent of a romantic They Might Be Giants, other times a bathetic Brainiac."
Clamor Magazine says: "An impossibly ingenious blend of synthetic melody and organic creepiness."
