Ekalopse Blog

Sunday, 15 July 2012

2012 EP released, At Our Criminal Worst

You've been hearing whispers all around about us making a new album!! You may have even heard an interview i did like on the radio! They did an interview wiv me and I mentioned the new band member, Mop. I also played some preview clips of the new tracks. Well the day has come! The new EP is released for you to listen to or download! head over to here http://nathanviney.com/ekalopse/CriminalWorst.html

Title:
At our Criminal Worst
Tracklist:
1. Foxtrot
2. Wings
3. Lance is not on this Floor
4. Steamtrain

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We put a bit of info on the official page but I'll let ya guys kno a lil bit more here.
We were making all them lil scratchy tunes after our retirement, basically jamming sessions. We did a lot of jamming sessions and released about 2 jamming albums. Those are currently unavailable to download now but like, they gave you the idea that we STILL liked makin music together even tho we'd retired.
So we were hanging out at a nightclub recently and heard someone playin bass all by them self without a band! So we thought, ya know, lets grab him, so we opened the cubicle door in the bathroom and pulled him out and said, you wanna jam with us?
Mop was not just up for jamming, he pushed us into making some full, proper songs! So we made this EP of like 4 songs. (3 new, and 1 is our retirement track)
I know what you'll be asking be4 u even start listening to the songs. ARE YA MAKING MORE? ARE YA GOING TO MAKE A WHOLE NEW ALBUM NOW?

answer is no. Unfortunately this will be our last musical journey together for a long while. The General.. sadly is moving away to america to continue his jazz work.
It is kinda a sad time 4 us, so please make us happy with your comments on our new songs!

Ghostin x

Pupendai

(!!%$""@!! I'm looking old!!!!!! General dont look a day over 30 aFGHH! Stupid ghost. Mop is looking young as ever) - Pupendai

Saturday, 7 July 2012

Ekalopse release new track to the world live on Radio 1

Hey guys! You ghostin?
just letting you know we were asked to do an interview on Radio 1 a few days ago on a program called 'The famous musicians that are now working at Mcdonalds'.
Well me and The General would not normally agree to do something like that, but this time we brought our instruments and decided to prove them wrong! We wrote a song especially for the broadcast!

Straight after the live broadcast we released the official song!
Let us kno wat ya think

- Ghostin -
PS: You can listen to the radio 1 recording here http://soundcloud.com/ekalopse/foxtrot-live-on-radio-1

Friday, 22 June 2012

EKALOPSE:GOOHGLE ALBUM

Hey kids!
We have a surprise for you!
If you head right over to the EKALOPSE directory right now you might be able to catch our new Demo album released JUST FOR THE FANS. Without any production guidelines from our producers Xtric Plugkits who sliced our contracts anyway we are free to give you another free album of un processed rubbish me and The General threw together since our retirement!
This is all the goohdies of 2012!
FIND IT HERE
http://nathanviney.com/ekalopse/ekalopsedirection.html

Includes:
9 free tracks written and performed by Pupendai and The General. No guest musicians or vocalists.

celebrations for our 7th album!
you knew it was coming!

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

Whatsyo1!

Hey kids! Hope ur ghostin
Just to let you know we're doin fine. Sorry about being so quiet.

You may have heard across a few news networks that Ekalopse was sued 5 million billion pounds for 'stealing' a song from a children's television show.
Yeah we lost the battle and now we almost can't even afford this blog! Even THOUGH IT IS FREE! Shows ya how poor we are.

Anyway we lost our studio .... kinda sad.
So me and The General made a song about no money and recorded it with an internet cafe computer's microphone...

Hope you enjoy...
We have a tracklist for an EP we were thinking of releasing but will probably not.

Title:
ARFTA RETIREMENT

1. Forest Of
2. A Palace Vox
3. If only there was something
4. No Money (No Coinage)
5. Liar's Track
6. Outside the Palace part 2
7. Funeral

Sunday, 6 May 2012

Yeti Man Album end!

Hi Gusy!

Its Pupendai agin here quickly.

Just letting you know our Producers Xtric Plugkits have taken down our free download album, The Yeti Man's Demo Anthems.
They gav us this statement:

"The album taken down was only up for a limited amount of time. Those who did manage to download it before it was taken down will have the album to have and to hold unto death do them part. The limited edition BSIDES album was always going to come down. All of the past albums and best of are still available on our website." - Xtric Plugkits Spokeswoman.

Anderson's Stut

Hey folks, you ghostin?

Its me, Pupendai!

I kno we been quiet lately n all that but whatevs.

I been spending all my Ekalopse merchandise money on a Spanish holiday with my new girlfriend! Who I met in Spain! And I left in Spain!

So anywayz, when i got back The General called me and said "Pupendai, sorry I can't meet the jamming session this week. SORRY."

He is off recoriding anutha number one jazz album i fink. Well since Ekalopse retired Ekalopse has not been anyones first priority. I kno the fans dont wanna hear that.

So anyway, my friend came into the studio, we had a few beers. His name is Doctor Anderson. He has a terrible stutter poor bloke, hence the name of this song.

Doctor Anderson waz playin guitar on this. The drum beat is a loop The General made, and piano is me making mistakes and luvin in.

I know you guys are always hungry for more and dont care even if its rubbish right? RIGHT, i kno im right.

WE WERE SO DRUNK

- Ghostin

Monday, 19 March 2012

Pupendai trys to play guitar

The General: Honestly, I'm a nice guy so I'm not going to laugh at him... but my fellow band member Pupendai tried to play guitar. He wrote this song, Liar's Track.

Pupendai: Give me a ***** break man... people. Come on, I just like moaning, i moan alot so give me a break.... I wanted to call this the smoking song. But the General convinced me to call it Liar's track.. as apparently I'm attempting to lie to people .... saying I can play. I admit i can't play. get over it.

The General: First King Arthur, now Liar's Track. Thinking of a big solo album Pupendai?

Pupendai: Shut up General......

The General: Hahaha

Pupendai: I played some weird sounds on a guitar.. then.. you know. blah. This came out.

The General: This is the second track we've used an acoustic guitar, away from keyboard and electric, the first was me playing on 'L!sten' on the Too Dumb to Panic Album.

Lyrics:

I'm tired
People are wild
I'm not going to use
These words any more

It's a Lie
It's a Liar's Track

Let go
Like I'd try my luck
(Lie Lie Lie Lie)
I want you to know.
I won't try my luck
(Lie Lie Lie Lie)
Try my luck

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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