"Too Early" is an instrumental demo of me messing around on guitar and bass and Fl Studio 10 and listening to way too much Sublime, Johnny Cash and Bad Brains.

Stumbling around the room
Until I caffeinate 
The galumph fades
When I walk around
Dasani and aleve
Is a relief to me 
I still vaguely
Taste the town

music and lyrics by John M. Ellison IV

Too Early Demo

Recorded, Produced, Mixed by Ghost Decibels 
Mastered by Mike Tucci

To Be Alive

You might know him from his stand up comedy, or his (one of my favorites) "Comedy Metal Midgets" Podcast, or maybe as a Co-host on VH1's "That Metal Show" or maybe as "Special Ed", the mentally challenged puppet on Comedy Central's "Crank Yankers". Regardless, Jim Florentine is a brutally honest, hysterical guy with multiple appearances on "The Howard Stern Show" and "Opie & Anthony". He met me at a diner in New Jersey with his 8 year old son, Luke to have a conversation, pretty much covering a little of each of the above mentioned things. He has a brand new special out called "I Got The House" which you can find on Amazon Prime, iTunes, or his website. He has a book out as well called "Everybody Is Awful (Except You)" which can be found wherever you get your books. 

Listen to his podcast, "Jim Florentine's Comedy Metal Midgets" wherever you get your podcasts from or go to http://riotcast.com

For comedy dates, physical copies of his comedy special and book, visit http://jimflorentine.com

Jim Florentine. (Comedian. Author. Comedy Metal Midgets Podcast)

"People that currently codify subgenres within genres would file Ghost Decibels (Chaka Malik) under the all-encompassing monikers of coldwave or minimal wave, and that's true to an extent, but I would call it "icy electronic soul." That tag reflects an urban (American) and European synthesis of shared sensibilities. Artists like Afrika Bambaataa have found inspiration in the cold, old world Teutonic sound of Kraftwerk, reimagined it, and used it as a foundation to create the urban electro/nascent hip-hop beat of "Planet Rock"—which subsequently became the template for freestyle, an '80s NYC dance genre played primarily by Latin and black performers that layered R&B/soul onto Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" drum pattern. That same beat inspired black DJs in the industrial hub of Detroit to put out minimal, futuristic-sounding 12"s that started the movement known as techno, and by extension, birthed the myriad variations of what we now call electronic dance music (EDM)." - Freddy Alva

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