Ekalopse Blog

Monday, 14 March 2016

How many songs have been made?

We've been looking through our Ekalopse archives and have counted the amount of songs we have made!

You can check out the list yourself here

98 Album Tracks
+
58 Bsides
=
156 Tracks
+ 3 new ones we've just made
=
159!

Check out our latest 3 here!

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Reviews are in for our album "OK, WE WILL'

Friday, 5 February 2016

New songs added to 'Ok, I will'

You know how we are. We're always working on new music. Kind of. Anyway, we've added 2 new tracks to the album. Unfortunately we had to remove 'We Rhyme' just because it did not have the quality we were hoping for.
But we've stuck 2 brand new spanking new songs on titled 'Intruder Alert' and 'Reasonably Optimistic Song'

Hope you enjoy.

Monday, 1 February 2016

New Album Announcement! EKALOPSE: OK, WE WILL

Click here to listen!

WHAT? Another album??

Yeah. 12 Tracks.

1. Forever Alone

2. First Contact

3. 2000s

4. Diary

5. Song about the TV Show 'Rugrats'

6. Light the Way

7. Take a look at the World

8. Intruder Alert

9. Space Humans Don't Kill Themselves As Much

10. Christmasish Song

11. Another Depressing Song

12. Reasonably Optimistic Song

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Ekalopse Album Direction

For more information please visit our Album pos t. Just click here

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Hi guys, It's Pupendai here. Was just thinking, with all music being in the digital age. I wanted to make sure you guys knew where to find our stuff! We know you care. It's important to keep a diary of complete and utter rubbish innit.
I'll also be giving my rating. But my rating with either be 'Rubbish', 'Got some good moments but mostly rubbish' or 'Slightly better than the other ones'.

So let's get started.

2008
Album: Fruit Encyklopedia
Rating: Rubbish
12 Tracks

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2009
Album: July
Rating: Rubbish
10 Tracks

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2009
Album: Radio Rodent
Rating: Got some good moments but mostly rubbish
11 Tracks

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2010
Album: Ghosts and Gold
Rating: Got some good moments but mostly rubbish
14 Tracks

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2011
Album: Too Dumb to Panic
Rating: Slightly better than the other ones
17 Tracks

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2012
EP: At Our Criminal Worst
Rating: Got some good moments but mostly rubbish
4 Tracks

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2015
Album: Reality Therapy
Rating: Slightly better than the other ones
18 Tracks

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01/02/2016
Album: OK, WE WILL
Rating: Slightly better than the other ones
12 Tracks

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07/08/2016
Album: Fun but Dead
Rating: Slightly better than the other ones
11 Tracks

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27/03/2017
Album: N o Birds
Rating: Slightly better than the other ones
16 Tracks

- Ekalopse

Monday, 30 November 2015

First Contact

New song by Ekalopse

Pupendai: "That's right. Another song from Ekalopse. The idea behind this one was to just build up from nothing. Or from an interesting beat anyway. The lyrics are about repeating the same old mistakes in social situations and love."

The General "You'll notice the sax! Bringing some of my Jazz in from New Orleans. I had a lot of fun with this one. We created the beats with various different drums and layered it quite a bit."

First Contact - Ekalopse
Lyrics:

I'm listening to the same old tune
in my headphones

I'm walking down the same old street now
throat so sour

And everything I do I try
I'm walking and i feel alive
I'm wishing every dream i had came true

oo oo oo

i wish i could fly
i wish i could fly

I need a place to stay
caus, when i walk
the ground moves away
leaving me to feel
terrified of this ordeal

And i have no confidence
first contacts a preference
No living without a call
But Im on my own (on my own)

And all my hours passed away
Leaving me here
Without a voice, such a waste
Rain water and tears

This town hall won't let me go
My head keeps on moaning (keeps on moaning)

i wish i could fly
i wish i could fly

Sunday, 18 October 2015

Easter

It's not Easter... so why the title? What does Easter represent?

Who knows??

The General came over for a holiday from the US. Or a VACATION as he'd probably call it now. Anyway so me made a new song. It's inspired by trying to figure out life without The General. Most of the time I've just been (Sorry, this is Pupendai typing). I just been sitting around on the sofa watching Eastenders Omnibus and Cats in your Attic. Some quality television but not very constructive.
So I actually wrote the main melody for the song when I was trying to get up and make new pals and get back into life without my bud The General.
When The General came back he loved it and we worked together to make it into something more. Now, it's very Ekalopsy. Thanks mate.
See you again soon

- Pupendai

Lyrics

Easter

The cracks on the world
are reaching below my feet
She knows how to turn her head away
for me to see.

mmm mmm
Kneeling with my gun
bullets at the rising sun

mmm mmm
nanananana

I'm dusting the craters out my hair
Dusting the craters out my hair
The Sun is made of glass
So lets smash through

mmm mmm
Kneeling with my gun
bullets at the rising sun

mmm mmm
nanananana

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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