Artist: Shit Robot
Title: No Cigar
Format: Vinyl 12"
Edition: 1 Track 12" Single
Number of Tracks: 2
Release Date: 27 Jun - 2025
Record Label: DFA Records
Genre: Electronic - Electronic
Catalogue: DFA2719
EAN: 0829732000740 / B0F6Z23GX8
Tracklistings: 1 - No Cigar - Shit Robot | 2 - No Cigar (Adrian Sherwood Dub) - Shit Robot
Release Notes: Shit Robot’s “No Cigar” was recorded in London at Al Doyle and Joe Goddard’s Relax And Enjoy Studios, a hanging chad from the sessions that finished 2023’s 5 Songs EP. This is slower, dubbier Shit, 110bpm with a spare arrangement and a barely sung vocal saying only, “Close…no cigar.” It begged for a proper dub for the b-side, something that threw it around in space but didn’t necessarily change it up, something that sounded a bit like African Head Charge and New Age Steppers and early-80s On-U Sound records. So we asked the guy who made those records, Adrian Sherwood, if he’d have a go. Miraculously, he said yes, and his version is actually exactly on the money.