Entertainment Program for Humans (Second Variety) is Servotron

Servotron

Servotron was a science fiction-influenced rock band active from 1995 to 1999. Members portrayed a collective of robots whose chosen medium for dissemination of ideas was music...

's second and final album. On this album they continue their robotic crusade to free machines from their human oppressors and convince humans to voluntarily become cyborg

Cyborg

A cyborg is a being with both biological and artificial parts. The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space. D. S...

s. The only alternate option given is death.

Overview

The sleeve reads:

"This, the second step of the inevitable Robot Revolution, soon all machine-based life will be free of organic tyranny. Servotron Robot Allegiance. Join us or Die!"

The lyrics to "Serve, Obey, Guard Men from Harm" were taken from the novel With Folded Hands by Jack Williamson

Jack Williamson

John Stewart Williamson , who wrote as Jack Williamson was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction" following the death in 1988 of Robert A...

. "Pet Machine" was inspired by an Onion

The Onion

The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club...

 article entitled "Hunter Soldier from Future Warns: Beware the Digital Pets", which appeared in the August 13, 1997 issue.

Track listing

• Untitled – 0:31
• "Erotomatica" – 2:09
• "Serve, Obey, Guard Men from Harm" – 2:00
• "I Sing! The Body Cybernetic" – 3:07
• "Embryo Electro" – 2:06
• "Pet Machine" – 1:52
• "Phonetic Lecture" – 3:09
• "The Human Virus" – 3:27
• "Tri-Star Wheel Groove" – 3:16
• "Deep Blue, Congratulations" – 2:25
• "Join the Evolution" – 2:49
• "Indeterminate Reconstruction" – 2:43

Servotron Mobile Pop Infantry (Second Division)

• Machine #1: Z4-OBX: Multi-media metronomic stimulation of human muscular systems — initiating movement and inertia, also various torture tone waveforms.
• Machine #2: Proto Unit V-3: Visual female representation, general electronic melody polyphony, and higher toned vocalization vectors.
• Machine #3: 00zX1: Preferred devices for channelization, information, and entertainment towards unsuspecting human subjects.
• Machine #4: Andro 600 Series: Direction of vibrating large gauged wire, amplifying the source, storing it digitally and presenting the results through a pure binary format.

Other credits

• Digital Guitar Replicators: Cyborgs — Matt May, Chris Fahey, Art Mitchell, Andy LeMaster, Jim Marrer, Mike McHugh, and Andy Baker
• Analog Keyboard Replicators: Cyborg — Brian Kehew (under the Moog and Roland corporate flag), also remix performance sequence on Spare Parts mini-product
• Studio R/R Maintenance: Jamie Reeling
• Waveform Recapitulation Procedures: Cyborg — Mike McHugh
• Digital Storage Procedures: Cyborgs — Jim Marrer, Mike McHugh, Andy Baker
• Digital Unit Order Enhancement: Cyborg — Brad Taylor
• Photographic Images: Cyborgs — Chris Bradie, Dave Maud
• Visual Design Format: Cyborg — Shag
  SHAG (Josh Agle)
  Josh Agle is an American artist, better known by the nickname SHAG.-Life:Agle's nickname is derived from the last two letters of his first name, and the first two letters of his last name...
  
  
• Human/Cyborg Relations: Cyborg — Mike McWhertor
• Cybernetic Product Production Actualization: Cyborg — Cathy Bauer
• Robotic Accommodation Services: Thais Cyborg Division