Ekalopse Blog: March 2015

Friday 20 March 2015

Thursday 19 March 2015

New logo n stuff

Xtric Plugkits (Our Producers) have produced a logo for us. I don't really get why considering we're retired and all that.

But they said "We understand you're retired but due to the fact you keep releasing music anyway we thought we'd design something for you. We've also organised a World Tour for you.We know it's ambitious and we know The General is in New Orleans at the moment but as soon as he gets back, what do ya say?"

I replied that I'd much rather stay home and eat microwaved meals.

They said "Well tough luck, it's already organised. You'll be touring the countries your pathetic music is most popular. So you'll start in the UK then go to France, Poland, Argentina, Australia. Though America don't want you after your last tour. They said they'll shoot you if you set foot in their country."

Uh.. what what what... Why now? We're RETIRED!

"We want money. And the fans want to hear all the new tracks and your oldies. Just use the track list from your Ekapops collection will you? Don't make this any more complicated than it is. Your flights are booked. Now call The General and let him know."

Blimey, that all happened very fast. I was nodding off during countdown and then suddenly I'm doing a world tour.

We've not done a world tour ... ever really. No ones ever demanded us enough. Maybe it's this new logo. Also.. why is The General doing his baby face ghost impression on it? Blimey, I thought he was a fully grown man.

Ekalopse: Ekapops World Tour

Playlist:

1. Magic, you water me

2. Easy Street

3. Swap Meet Sound

4. This Love is not a Simple Tune

5. Old Realm

6. Soul to a Brick Wall

7. World Tear us Apart

8. I Love Cookies (Well Guest vocalist)

9. M.D.I

10. Bestie

Break

11. Wings

12. Sundial

13. Beach Chair

14. The Lonely Song

15. In that Village Town

16. Bulldozed

17. Come and Go

18. Fish Scales

19. Buzzdrop

20. Monsters

Encore

21. Steamtrain

22. Death of a Lyricist (Honeymoon)

23. Pirates

24. Foxtrot

Wednesday 18 March 2015

We lied.

Okay so the truth was spoken. But we may have missed a tid bit out. We made another song before The General disappeared off to New Orleans.

Don't forget you can go check out lots more demos and tracks here and here

Lyrics:
The green man stays at home
it's the only way we know our name
They feel that its ok caus
they're all sitting comfortably.

Theres ones that sing their heart
you have your cup of tea
dont let me bother you caus
its only me
its only me

They're alone, i know
but never told you

They're alone, i know
but they'll never tell you

Can't crawl any further
into the corner
theres a wall i can feel
that steals the tunnels glaze
Can make darkness for yourself
but its never dark enough
never dark enough
can't step to easy street
and fix it all

fix it all

easy street
e-e-e-easy street
e-e-e-easy street

Fix it all on easy street
Green mans there working with a beat
He knows when you should walk
and its a long way to the shop

Just to make sure you're all caught up on the new tracks they are.

1. Swap Meet Sound
2. Come and Go
3. Bruth (Instrumental)
4. Jobfinder
5. Easy Street

with another updated version of World Tear us Apart also released

Tuesday 17 March 2015

Ekalopse Come and Go

Yo Ghostys,
It's Pupendai here.
Just letting you know Ekalopse produced 3 and 1/2 tracks a few days ago. They went straight to soundcloud. Forgot to say, soz bout dat.

Two of them are just jammin (Jobfinder and Bruth). Come and Go is a bit of a 'bye bye for now' from us as we will be taking another break.
The General is going to New Orleans next week to help out and get his groove on. I was going to go with him but I decided I'd miss the microwave meals too much.

So I'll be sitting here all by myself for a while. I usually feel pretty uninspired without his company so I doubt you'll be hearing any music from me.

By the way, Jobfinder is just me reading the job section in a newspaper.

Go check em out here
https://soundcloud.com/ekalopse

You can also listen to our collection of fave Ekalope tracks here
https://soundcloud.com/ekapops/sets/ekapops-an-album

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Swap Meet Sound

Some of you may have come across our secret release 'Ekapops' which was a collection of our favourite tracks.
So recently we asked the public if they could list their top 6 Ekalopse albums! Turned out that no one cared.

But anyway!
Myself (Pupendai) and The General once again hit the recording studio and made another track. This one is titled Swap Meet Sound.
You won't believe it, but I wrote this one. Well if you hate it then you'll probably believe it. That is right. I was on the train and started singing the tunes and everyone started staring at me. How was I to know it was a smoke free zone? ****
I've decided when we next go on Tour if we ever do I'm going to wear a top hat. I reckon that will go down well.
I've been reading on the forums that you guys all think my hat smells caus I've worn it for years well **** you.
Anyway, that is what the song is about. Nah not really. I made it up after seeing the international space station fly by. I also made it up when I realized I am obsessed with finding goodies in bins. Truth be told, who knows what it's about. Ask God.
Ask The General.

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Ekalopse BIO

They are a band, They've fought clockwork monsters, the universe and themselves.
Ekalopse started off with the talented keyboardist and vocalist, Mr Bindy bringing together a band of plenty.
Mr Bindy met The General in university and the soon to be vocalist, Pupendai in a dustbin looking for food. They connected automatically and created a revolting sound.
Mr. Bindy's high pitched voice and chirpy tunes on their album, Fruit Encyklopedia brought little girls calling and singing.
FE Singles: Ekalopse can't make music, Old Realm, Maniac, Blood Eyes Reflection

After that success Pupendai lost his mind and brutally murdered Mr. Bindy due to his high voice getting really annoying.

A few years later The General contacted the jail keeping Pupendai and asked if they could make some music. they recorded the album, 'July' whilst passing music through to the jail, where Pupendai wrote and recorded various lyrics.
July Singles: Echo Ello, Blimp

Then monsters began to attack the world, they crashed down the prison letting Pupendai out.
The General met up with Pupendai and they made a musical journey of their experience during war time with their album, Radio Rodent.
RR Singles: Airline, The War is Over, Disaster City, Comrades

After this they found a relaxing spot to just chill, on top of a nice hill. They built their own lovely studio and recorded 'Ghosts and Gold' as gold fell from the sky. This was the first time they called in collaborators to work on their music.
Ghosts and Gold got 2/10 stars from MegaMutant Pops Magazine.
G&G Singles: Bulldozed, Pirates, Bus Stop, Pepper's Ghost, Care

Ekalopse did not let that get them down. Their next adventure involved them using the money they had earnt to fly themselves into space.
"We wanted to be inspired by something not earthly, out of this world."
They recorded their most popular album, "Too Dumb to Panic" entirely in a space station on the planet Florf.
TDTP Singles: Control, Sundial, This Love is not a Simple Tune, Picnic, Beach Chair, Magic you water me, Buzzdrop

In 2012 they released their last album, a demo album titled 'The Yeti Man's Demo Anthems'. It included some new tracks, as well as ones that never made it onto the other albums.

YMDA Singles: 'Steamtrain' got a music video

Their record producers Xtric Plugkits (produced Too Dumb) then released their Best Of Album, a collection of songs chosen by Ekalopse themselves.

As this happened the band announced a public retirement. But unfortunately returned with a 4 song EP instead.

'At our Criminal Worst' had 3 completely new songs with new bass guitarist MOP. The fourth track was their retirement song, 'Steamtrain' (From the Yeti Album)

Every track was released as a single apart from Steamtrain 'Foxtrot, Lance is not on this Floor and the massive hit, Wings'

On 19/02/13 the band lost their bass guitarist, Mop to a terrible case of Splinters. They produced a short song in his memory.

Since the loss of Mop, their retirement has seen them releasing Jamming Sessions and small Musical Collab pieces. No singles as of yet. But many unfinished tracks.

In April 2015, Ekalopse set up a SoundCloud page dedicated to their favourite tracks. They named it 'Ekapops' and stated that they saw it as a new album for some reason. To their credit, it did include a few new tracks.

While doing so Ekalopse also announced their unofficial break-up. Stating that the two artists had gone their separate ways.

On May 17th 2015, Ekalopse released a new album titled, 'Reality Therapy'. This collection of tracks was a variety of unreleased and previously released tracks from the EKAPOPS collection. They stated the album was their most personal yet. "At one point I'd caught this horrible mental illness that constantly kept bringing back exaggerated negative memories at random times! I still have it..." - Pupendai. "It's about friends and lovers and how they disappear."

It is believed the actual members are still separate at this point.

Reality Therapy Singles: The Lonely Song, Living all at Once, James Bralant, you're OK, Anthem for Rejects, Pyramid Games

Since the release it has been reported that The General is still in the US working on his Jazz career.

On 17/10/2015 the band released a song named 'Easter' when The General came back to the UK for a holiday. It was a critical success. No news whether this might lead to more music. It was later included on the official release of the album, 'Reality Therapy'.

On 01/02/2016 Ekalopse released a surprise album titled 'OK, WE WILL'. Asked in an interview what the title meant, Pupendai said it was the answer to the question 'Can you stop making music please?'.

The album was mostly produced by Pupendai and new musician, S. Steps. Though it was noted that The General did send material via the medium of email.

'Another very personal album. I'd say... as personal as Reality Therapy but with a bit more professionalism to it...'

OK, WE WILL Singles: Forever Alone, 2000s,

07/08/2016 brought the release and blog post about new album, 'Fun but Dead'. S. Steps returned to work with Pupendai while The General worked on the album during a holiday to the UK.

The band mentioned they wanted to make a happier sounding album after two previously depressing collections.

Fun but Dead singles: Keep Telling Me, In The Morning, James Bralant doesn't even want to think about it

On 4/02/2017 Ekalopse posted a blog post about their new song 'Never Be Happy'. They noted that while their new album had yet to be completed, fans could listen to both finished songs and demos via their Soundcloud Album page. Their future album has yet to recieve a title. At this point in time the work in progress is named 'When I Forget the Sky'. There is no word on release date.

On 27/03/2017 Ekalopse released their new album 'No Birds' with 16 tracks including singles Never Be Happy and Crayolalola. The band (minus S.Steps) had a photo shoot where they were dressed in feathered outfits for the cover art. It was also reported that The General had returned to the UK.

No Birds Singles: Lighthouse, Never Be Happy, Crayolalola, Comfortable

Band Members

Pupendai (2008-): Piano, Drums, Lyrics, Lead and Backing Vocals

(Simon) Stairs Steps (2015-): Synth, Brass and Strings

The General (2008-): Every instrument in the universe

Past Members

Mop (2012): Bass (At our Criminal Worst)
Mr. Bindy (2008-2009): Keyboard, Lyrics, Lead Vocals (Pre-band, Fruit Encyklopedia)
Tom General (2009): Played drums on 'A General Place' from July

DJ Deaf: Keyboards and Violin on 'Blame it on the Stars' (Lost Track)

DJ Hadders (2015): Vocal on 'Reality Therapy'

James Bralant: Vocal on James Bralant, you're ok