Robert Emke hails from the Ruhr region – Castrop-Rauxel, to be precise. He has been active as a guitarist in various bands for decades. He played with Crisis What Crisis and Back from the Loo in the 1990s and joined Select/Reject in 2017. Shortly afterwards, he also co-founded the bands REAM and Kellerblume. Robert composes most of the music for Select/Reject, and also sings a few backing vocals. He also plays bass on the backing tracks and for all the published tracks.