Terre Thaemlitz's latest albums, Die Roboter Rubato and Couture Cosmetique, will be released on Mille Plateaux in January and March of 1997 respectively. [Note: Die Roboter Rubato was released on Mille Plateaux in February, 1997; Couture Cosmetique was released on Caipirinha (US) in March, 1997 and Daisyworld (Japan) in June, 1997.] Die Roboter Rubato consists of improvisational piano renditions of Kraftwerk songs, their High Modernist sound serving as a metaphor for the piral of Kraftwerk's critique of technology into self-referentiality. Couture Cosmetique is CPU generated Contemporary Ambient which draws comparissons between Ambient composition techniques and anti-essentialist transgenderism in their simultaneous subversion and perpetuation of cultural signifiers.