For computer music geeks Steve Taormina and Alan Stewart, opening a computer music shop was, in their words, an "inevitable progression". Serving the whimsies and needs of beginner bedroom producers, tiny basement recording studios and fanatical gear collectors alike, Robotspeak is firmly rooted in the San Francisco computer music community. The half-subterranean room stocked with music gadgets and gear has been filling a void in the mostly guitar-centric music products industry for a little over two years. Taormina and Stewart, both computer music industry vets, saw a need for a place where people felt comfortable learning about and exploring computer music without the pretentiousness of gear snobs and free of pressure from overbearing salespeople who knew more about closing a sale than the products they were selling. -- Jialin Luh