TVD’s Eleven Weeks of Vinyl Giveaways! Week 11… #2

Cue weekly mantra: As we’ve pointed out over the past few weeks (rather broken record-like) one of the happy coincidences of being The Record Store Day Blog For 2011 is that we’re afforded the opportunity to underscore one of our main themes—namely that vinyl is a contemporary medium which is thriving and more vital than it has been in some time—DJ’s, purists, and collectors notwithstanding.

So, to that end, we’ve spent the past ten weeks straight putting records into the hands of TVD readers as we’ve counted down to April 16, 2011—Record Store Day. It’s Week Eleven already, and to celebrate the fact that Record Store Day is almost upon us, we have giveaways for you every single day this week—sometimes more than one!

We start off the week with a bang: The Shit Robot Ultimate Vinyl Giveaway, a collection of three rare singles featuring DFA electro artist Shit Robot, who just finished up opening the farewell LCD Soundsystem shows at the end of March. [I am still teary thinking about this.]

This giveaway is in anticipation of Shit Robot’s release next week (4/18) of the “Losing My Patience” 12″ single, featuring vocals by Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor and remixes by Hot Chip and the Unabombers, and it includes…

1. Shit Robot’s “Simple Things” 12″ single, including a remix by Todd Terje. “Originally hailing from Oslo, nu-disco edit-master Terje showcases his remix skills. His subtle yet deft touch here makes his “Simple Things” remix the lynchpin of any disco fanatic’s play list.”

2. Shit Robot’s “Take ‘Em Up (ft. Nancy Whang)” 12″ single, including remixes by Mark E Black and Marcus Marr, plus digital remixes from John Talabot and Michael Mayer. If you miss LCD as much as I already do, you’ll be heartened by “the interplay between Marcus ‘Shit Robot’ Lambkin’s loping synthesizer disco funk and Nancy Whang’s unflappable vocals.”