The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team. In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.
Dion Thünder and Lucious Sandstone are the stage monikers for the two San Francisco artists that make up the dance music duo Top Secret Robot Alliance.
Formed in 2006 as the two members were at school in Michigan, at a time when the idea of a “secret robot alliance” sounded more playful and less evil than it does today, the band “united for the sole purpose of creating dance songs about dancing.” That mission is still alive and present in their music and performances.
With “Dance Friends 2 the End,” their latest single from a two-volume EP they released earlier this month, the duo want listeners to do the most rebellious thing against the unease and tension that has taken over the world: “to dance on the dance floor with your dance pals.”
“What would Robyn do?” is a guiding question for Top Secret Robot Alliance’s writing sessions. “That solves a lot of the disagreements we might have based on our personal tastes… that’s the one common place we can always meet,” Sandstone says.
