If RoboRoots is the spark, Sly Dunbot is the swing of the flywheel. A clockwork one-drop with a kick you can feel in your fillings, he keeps time by counting the ticks of his own escapement. His grin is factory default. The pocket is not.
Rig
- Hand-hammered brass kit with goat-skin batter heads
- Hi-hat pedal repurposed from a Singer sewing machine
- A ride cymbal that may or may not be a Kingston manhole cover
Known for
- The one-drop on Need a Speaker that makes plants grow faster
- Laughing audibly while playing a funeral-tempo dub
- Never needing a metronome; mildly upsetting studio engineers
Favorite saying
"If the foot don't drop, the heart don't rock."
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