The Harvester

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Well, to paraphrase Turbonegro: Are you ready for some darkness? Meet Call Me Greenhorn‘s new outing The Harvester – A wayyyy darker offering than usual that’s kinda like if Fu Manchu and Queens of the Stone Age teamed up with what remains of Flipper to create a sort of Jesus and Mary Chain-esque soundtrack for the latest David Lynch outing. At least that’s what I envisioned while listening to the final mix earlier today.

As far as I can tell this lil’ baby will be released with The Titan Was Deemed Unsinkable later this summer – making it the second “dark” release from Camp Greenhorn in 2013 – and maybe I’ll have the time to write some more exclusive tracks to make it a more “legit” EP, we’ll see.

The sleeve is actually a collage of photos found on Wikimedia Commons. The Blue Skull – yeah, it’s actually blue to being with – is courtesy one ‘xlibber’ and the cemetery photo courtesy Walesman (Welshman?) Ben Salter. Check it out on my SoundCloud and share like crayzee!

The Titan Was Deemed Unsinkable

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Get ready for a serious dose of Dub heaviness with this new taste of the coming Call Me Greenhorn full length: The Titan Was Deemed Unsinkable. Oddly enough The Titanic has been popping up as a subject all week, so I went with it and once again took a somewhat completed rhythm track and set out to create sound effects emulating the noises I imagined a sinking boat would make. It was fun editing and experimenting with all kinds of weird stuff and I guess those teenage years listening to Einstürzende Neubauten finally paid off!

FYI the song title is not wrong ’cause if you’re familiar with the weirder side of popular culture you’d know that The Titan was the name of the ship in Morgan Robertson‘s 1898 novella Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan that predicted the Titanic disaster 14 years before it happened! Or, sure do have a lot of odd similarities if you’re more of a sceptic. I went with that name ’cause I felt using one from a real-life disaster that killed 1500+ people was just asshole behavior less than tasteful.

The sleeve was me trying to emulate Winston Smith‘s classic album collages and I think I came pretty close to the stuff he did for Alternative Tentacles, like Jello Biafra with D.O.A.‘s Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors or the The Sky is Falling and I Want My Mommy collaboration with Nomeansno. Eerily enough the woman and child is actually taken from a genuine White Star Line brochure advertising the launch of the doomed vessel, and I got the background image via NASA (it’s actually a photo but I messed around with a couple of filters to make it look more like painted artwork) with both being in the public domain.

So give it a spin on my Soundcloud or down below and don’t forget to share! Cheers!

Available now!

Get yours!

I just received the news from my pal Troy Church that the poster I created for The Bigfoot Diaries is now available for sale! Six different designs in total with every print being a 11″ X 17″ limited numbered edition and made of the highest quality card stock – many signed by the show’s guests (not me though).

All proceeds will go to maintaining business costs like PO Box fees, business cards, webcast production, etc. and is a great way to support grassroots journalism! On sale as of now at $10 a pop with an additional $5 to cover postage – international rates will be higher – so check it out here and order yours today!

Out Now!

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Here we go: The final Call Me Greenhorn release of April! Entitled Chasing the Dawn this is actually way more 80s New Wave than my other stuff and there’s a background story to that. A couple of months ago I stumbled across this kick-ass movie project to start production this fall and immediately got in touch with the producers trying to pimp my shit, uh, let them know I was willing and available if they needed some fitting audio.

They replied with “Great, thanks!” but informed me that the They Call Me Superseven tracks I sent as examples of my work wasn’t that retro-sounding as they had in mind – the movie in itself is very 80′s – so I spent that following weekend channeling John Carpenter recording the title track and the chase-theme Across the City just to prove that yes, I can do New Wave too! Mission accomplished as they got back with a much more positive response they’ll definitely get back to me to secure either one of the tracks or having me create a similar one for their feature.

Three tracks in total, including the kinda weird Skulking – that sounds like some damn trippy theme for an old Nintendo game – so check it out on my Bandcamp here, give it a spin below and share away!

F-Bomb

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Here we go: Making friends. Dropping the f-bomb. Heading for mainstream success. Been quite a busy weekend and it finished off with killer news followed by even more killer news – I’m gonna wait a little while longer before I make that piece of news official, so all I can say is now is that when it rains it sure pours. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be a negative thing. Gonna practice my John Hancock to make sure my signature looks just right. Heck, I might even frame the damn thing once everything’s worked out.

Anyway, while your scratching your head over that one, howsabout some soothing music to ease your neurons? Just finished up Call Me Greenhorn‘s Yeah, Well Fuck You Too and decided to upload the unmastered track on my Soundcloud to whet the appetite for the full length release in June. It’s kinda funny – if you’ve got my weird sense of humor that is – and it’s always nice doing something aimed towards the less-than-open minded music fans out there. Or – even worse – musicians. But the feedback’s been cool so far so I guess it wasn’t as “out there” as I imagined.

The artwork was once again one of those made-up-on-the-spot kinda deals using an idea originally intended for the full length. But I already used robot imagery for The Norliss Tapes and if there’s one thing I really don’t like it is repeating myself. So, coming in roughly two months from now, check it out below and once again please share!

Chasing the Dawn!

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COMING NEXT WEEK! As April draws to a close it’s time to launch the third (and final) Call Me Greenhorn release of the month: Chasing the Dawn! Three 80′s sounding tracks in the sort of New Wave vein written specifically for an upcoming feature film set in 1980′s Los Angeles. Think Carpenter, ninjas and neon.

There’s an unmastered rough mix teaser taste available on my SoundCloud, so go get a taste here, or just listen below. As always share away and spread the word!

No Way Out!

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Well, apologies for completely missing out on posting these, as the CD itself was released a couple of weeks ago: Check out the spiffin’ artwork I made for Dead By Mono‘s third installment in their No Way Out! compilation series. Completely going for a Tales From the Crypt vibe, I also went with threes as the theme while completely nerding out showing off my “trash culture” influences.

Like I wrote yesterday, this also features The Norliss Tapes making their physical debut with A Trip To the Moon and you can buy your copy of the CD here and download the digital EP via our Bandcamp here. On to the art!

The CD booklet folds out into a full-color poster.

Turn it around and you get all the bios and band pics. NOTE: This .png is the incomplete version as I still didn’t have all bios at hand.

The CD.

The tray card.

No Way Out! Vol. 3

Speaking of The Norliss Tapes; Did you get Dead By Mono‘s compilation No Way Out! Vol. 3 CD? Twenty tracks of garage, beat, surf and instrumentals from all over the world, including A Trip To the Moon! Available via their official website in both physical form as well as digital downloads – complete and individual tracks. Check it out here and buy the complete EP at our Bandcamp here.

Oh, I completely forgot! I still haven’t posted the artwork on this page. It’s kick-ass! I’ll sort it out this coming week, stay tuned.

Cap’n in Space!

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My pal, the Belgian fire enthusiast and stuntman extraordinaire Captain Catastrophy just launched his new and improved official website, so head on over to www.captaincatastrophy.com and check out bio, photos and crazy-ass videos of him performing live and a-flame! And howsabout some killer artwork courtesy Gilles Vranckx to celebrate it with? T-shirts coming soon!

Out Soon!

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Check it out: Australian musician The Jimmy C just announced the new batch of coming releases on his official Facebook page. First out of the gate is the Mr. Someone single with six bonus tracks and the The Man Who Never Dies EP that features the three remixes I did for him plus four bonus tracks. Tons of goodies! Stay tuned for more info, and in the mean time check out the kick-ass advert he did:

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