Is this coincidence, or did you know about Forrest J. Ackerman’s record Music for Robots? He used to advertise it in the back pagfes of Famous Monsters opf Filmland and his other Warren magazines. Evidently they’re going to re-release it:
No!, They Might Be Giants’ kids’ record, has a song called “Robot Parade”: “In a future time /Children will work together / To build a giant cyborg.” When she hears this song my daughter practically rubs her hands together gleefully waiting for the day.
Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage has “Sy Borg,” a song about sex with a sort of robotic hooker that looks like a metal pig. Zappa fans may delineate further.
Sample and Hold by Neil Young. This is from his Trans project of computerized music in 1982. From the same batch, consider We R In Control and Computer Cowboy.
“I need a unit to sample and hold
But not the angry one.
A new design, new design”