Toa Mata Band - EPISODE#8 [A ROBOT DIMENSION]

Toa Mata Band is known as the world’s first robotic orchestra made out of LEGO® Bionicle / Technic series which debuted on the web in 2013 by publishing on YT the first episode of what would become a video series, which today reaches the eighth installment. In these 7 years the robot music project created by the deus ex machina Giuseppe Acito (Opificio Sonico) has done tributes to some of the most iconic electronic music bands such as Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and Daft Punk, some of which imagined a future in which music and robotics could coexist in an artistic project. This episode is yet another tribute, this time dedicated to a band whose influence on rock, sampling art and hip-hop culture is tangible: the Beastie Boys! The 5th album “Hello Nasty”, which won two awards at the 1999 Grammys, featured the song “Intergalactic“ released in June 1998 with a video clip directed by Adam Yauch under the pseudonym of Nathanial Hörnblowér. The video story revolves around a giant tin robot causing destruction by figh