Name: 02 (Theme from) Thunderbrawl by Ninja_Funk
Duration: 4 min 34 s
Description: This is Ninja Funk's complete first album.

it really is sad how few followers you have.

This is Ninja Funk's complete first album.

02 (Theme from) Thunderbrawl

It's really about an old tape deck ghetto blaster. I just thought "feed my funkbox was better than "bang my boombox." No really it started back at our 3rd show. It was Kish's birthday and we were playing at the Supermarket. Since we were playing the show for free we hoped people would maybe donate a bit of $ to the band. Monica arrived and with her usual consummate craftsmaship she had wrapped a box in gold foil and written a sign that said "feed my funkbox." Great alliteration and a nice shout out to a verse in Graham central station's hit "the jam." I told her I was gonna make a song out of it.

A while later Brandon played this thing in rehearsal that was like a countrified Beastie Boys lick. It stuck with me and on a drive up to the Soo I wrote the most wonderfully ridiculous lyrics ever. I had gotten over my fear of writing rap lyrics with the gals intros to "under your funk" and I was inspired by George Clinton's ability to transform pop culture sayings and jingles into legitimately cool and catchy lyrics. I remembered this hockey chant that people would do back in the Soo (and probably everywhere hockey chants are chanted): Hockey moms with shakers up in the back row of the pee wee arena shouting "p-u-t i-t i-n. Put it in!"  I figured it I made it hit hard on the One it would make a great chorus for someone asking for some funk music to be put in their tape deck. I also figured it would sound better if a girl sang those particular lyrics. Not sure why. At this we had written Moe "Lurch" and Jo was doing the soulful "Real World" and we needed something for MJ. I knew Monstermuffin could sell it. Now that we have rewritten the song to make it a crazy dancefloor filler, complete with Jason's incredible swaggerless swaggering rhymes in the breakdown I think you will agree that it all came together nicely. 
From our box to yours. 
Xo GpG.

ps: The only way we can get these songs around is through you. If you like what we've made please spread the word. Thank you.

Recording and Production at the Abbatoir in Baltimore, Ontario and at Triceratone Studios, Toronto by the incredible and bearded Andrew Mullin.

to download these songs go to http://elastocitizens.bandcamp.com/album/ep

A Candles are for Burning production.
Wish. Believe. Burn.

The ElastoCitizens - Funkbox

I didn't mean to write this song. This one just came out .
It's about the acceptance of loss. Things break and fall apart, things fade away, they die , but sometimes from those changes there can be a new idea, a new search, a new meaning. The song rolls between a crashing violence and a kind of numb slo-motion first person narrative of someone haunting a life that doesn't exist anymore, and then resolves itself in an affirmation to keep an open heart to both the past and the future. The main voice in the song goes from being way out in the mix, alone and whispery, to being part of a beautiful chorus of friends and angels and triumphant trumpets and when the violence returns the main voice has a new strength among his friends and affirms the last lines almost through gritted teeth. 

This song is also notable for being the first one that Gord and I collaborated on writing. He and I sat in his living room around the piano that I keep at his place since my move to Montreal. Gordo was showing me some riffs he had been working on and I started making up lyrics on the spot. That morning a friend was coming to town and needed to crash at my place and so I had written a little note for him telling him where I had left the key.  Anyone who has been through great changes probably understands where the rest might have come from.  It is incredible what we as a band, and as friends, have all been through together. I am so grateful for it all.  And grateful to share it with you. Thank you for listening.

Xo GpG

credits
from Ep, released 24 August 2012 
Recorded and produced at the Abattoir in Baltimore, Ontario and Triceratone in TO by Andrew Mullin. 

Mastering by Reuben at Mojito. Photography by Beth Kates and graphic design by Jeff Mann.

High quality downloads available - free for a limited time at
http://elastocitizens.bandcamp.com/track/leave-the-key

A Candles are for Burning Production

The ElastoCitizens - Leave The Key

NFO's goal to beat the DJ at their own craft has audiences going crazy.  By modelling the styles and techniques of modern electronic music and mapping them to Synth's, Bass, Guitar, Drums, Saxophone, Vocals, and a ton of FX Pedals, Ninja Funk Orchestra's fusion of jazz, funk, electronica, jungle, and dub step is bridging the gap between psychedelic festival music of the '60s and Electronic Music of the 21st century.  Psychedelic visuals by nVoid Art Tech and costumes designed by Playground Group's broadway scenographer Beth Kates enhance an already epic live show.

02 (Theme from) Thunderbrawl

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