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Disconnectica is the solo project of singer/songwriter Robert Webb from Melbourne, Australia. Be prepared for genre-hopping under a broad alternative rock umbrella. Quirky songwriting reminiscent of Bowie and Beatles, with elements of rock à la White Stripes and Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the downright weirdness of Radiohead and Zappa. At times playful, at times sinister, often both. But always unique. “I'm excited that the release of my debut album Eclectic Dystopia is finally imminent after years of work and tweaking” Robert writes. The first three singles all received airplay on Australian FM radio, including 3RRR, RTRFM, 4ZZZ, Tribe FM, Gippsland FM, Pulse FM and 107.3 HFM, as well as Big Satsuma Radio in the UK. His music videos have been finalists in the Prague International Music Video Awards 2023, part of the official selection for the Europe Music Video Awards 2023, and received a Special Mention Laurel from the United Kingdom Music Video Festival 2023. Disconnectica is a DIY artist using only virtual instruments on a computer, but gravitates towards realistic sounds, and has fooled real musicians with his electric guitars and drums. However, only the vocals are real. Being interested in the whole package, he also designs his own cover art and makes trippy music videos. A programmer by trade, he writes software to create mind-bending geometric effects for these videos. He writes “It's great to be able to bring together all my big interests for a single purpose: music, film, geometry and programming.” Robert played piano in his youth. His family had two synthesizers and a hardware sequencer, and he remembers spending many hours composing and recording long instrumental pieces on their primitive interfaces. “Who needs a computer when you have two lines of dot-matrix text?!” He moved onto other things for many years, writing the occasional piano solo. But eventually answered the call and returned to music production.