Ocean Ghosts -  Matthew 14: 24-32 - Fan Kuei
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Since 2005, Ocean Ghosts (E-duo from O-hio) has created 4 full-length musical recordings, performed an evolving live concert experience over 120 times, and played with big-time superstars like GirlTalk, DJ Swamp, Crystal Castles, Ordinary Peoples, God, and a plethora of great bands from Columbus, Ohio.
 
Composed of two American-Americans, Ocean Ghosts combine the vocal styles of Hall and Oates meets Bell Biv Devoe, the satirical-lyrical wit of Frank Zappa, the irreverence of Ween, the socio-political commentary of George Clinton, the psychedelic confidence of the Flaming Lips, and the sampling technique of early West Coast rappers like DJ Quik, Ice Cube, and King Tee.
 
Thrusty Rhodes
• vocals/lyrics
• BA in Communication – San Diego State University 
• Stay-at-home drifter
• 6’2”    175 lbs.
• Shooting Guard
 
Thrusty provides the lyrics for Ocean Ghosts. Utilizing internal/external rhyme-schematics and clever mnemonic devices, the delivery of the lyrics serves as a poetic deluge of intensely escalating verse passages that lead to a smooth release into hypnotically-catchy choruses. The content of the lyrics offers motivational messages on the topics of war, poverty, society’s disillusionment with society, and doomsday prophecies. U.S.A.!

Scotty Boombox
• vocals/production/instruments
• MFA in Art/Technology – The Ohio State University
• Professor of Electronic Arts
• 5’11”   155 lbs.
• Power Forward
 
Scotty provides the sounds for Ocean Ghosts. Utilizing soul/rock samples and his own musicianship, Scotty laces together intriguing, upbeat musical Legos with poignant verbal samples, memorable keyboard lines, and live guitar/percussion/turntablism/etc. in order to form sonic collages that provide the danceable foundation for Thrusty’s inspirational lyrics…

For booking/info, contact Charlie Favret @ oceanghostsmusic@gmail.com

WE GIVE ALL OUR MUSIC AWAY FOR FREE RIGHT HERE AT

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FREE DOWNLOAD - ENTIRE ALBUM
The entire album in one .ZIP file
High-quality mp3's with artwork
{ Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics }
FREE DOWNLOAD - American Pride - 2008
"American Pride" reveals a diverse range of stolen music samples spanning hard rock, soul, and soft rock. The cunning lyrics revolve around the subjects of murdering enemies, loving life, the vacuousness of blogging, alcoholism, and enemy murder. "American Pride" is a poignant portrait of a country swinging with sultans while in dire straights. { Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics }

1. American Pride
2. Self Taught Taxidermy
3. Ride My Sunshine
4. I Don’t Read Your Blog
5. Two Glass Eyes
6. Death of the Party
7. Life Guidance II
8. Delicious Ambition
9. Dying in a Nightmare
10. Human Leather
11. Old Man Rumple Minze

REVIEW: "... I have to give J. Rhodes and Scotty Boombox credit: Nobody delivers comical, controversy-baiting, sample-delic party jams with more conviction. At least their music demands some sort of reaction, which is more than most bands can muster these days. Their latest, American Pride, blends soul samples, unison rap-singing and mechanized beats into a strange but welcoming pastiche that channels everything from Beck to Paula Abdul to Gil Mantera's Party Dream" - Chris Deville, Columbus Alive, 10/22/08
   
The Latest Album - Pepperoni Lovers
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FREE DOWNLOAD - Pepperoni Lovers - 2007
Pepperoni Lovers is a self-produced journey featuring sample-based party music dipping into the realms of soul, disco, calypso, and progressive rock with lyrical content that explores the themes of profligacious excess, existential realism, and personal healing through high-living. Self help music for the self hater in all of us.
{ Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics }

1. Stay Away from Gangs and Drugs
2. Trick Rhetoric
3. Biker Woman Recipe
4. Quit Freaking Out
5. Let It Rip
6. S my D
7. Good Girls Don’t Do That
8. Big Daddy Kane
9. Don’t Die Tonight
10. Extreme Ball Pressure
11. Pepperoni Lovers
12. Is This Your Wife?
13. Summer Snow
14. A Diamond is for Never

REVIEW: "Everything that Columbus' Ocean Ghosts have released has been one big ol' party-time, hip-hop cruise through groovy, hilarious waters. But the group's new CD, Pepperoni Lovers, casts a large shadow over all of their previous work. Biker Woman Recipe, Is This Your Wife, Good Girls Don't Do That and Big Daddy Kane (named no doubt for one of Ocean Ghosts' prime influences) -- this is a grade-A pizza pie." - The Columbus Dispatch 3/29/07

   
The First Album
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FREE DOWNLOAD - Stars & Stripes Forever - 2006
Stars and Stripes Forever incorporates soul, disco, hip-hop, and funk soundscapes with purposeful turntablism and interrogating lyrics about socio-political rhetoric and partying hardcore to the maximum limit ever. { Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics }

1. White People Blacked Out
2. Out of the Night
3. King Cobra and Box Wine
4. Where's My Brother?
5. Atomic Bukkake
6. Bill Goodman's Gun + Knife Show
7. Life Guidance
8. Beating Bush
9. American Patrol
10. Hitchcock
11. Party Trauma
12. Death Medication
13. Yellow Cocaine
14. Recommended Dosage
15. Magic Jackson
16. Stars and Stripes Forever

REVIEW: "...a sometimes crude, sometimes lewd tribute to this nation and a citizen's right to make a complete mockery of it... Lyrics discuss nuclear war, God and President Bush alongside sex and getting piss drunk. The result is a passive-aggressive critique that uses hedonism as a subversive force... a fascinating, blurry-eyed stare straight back at a country that can seem confusing and unfamiliar... The record works as a critique of American weirdness because the songs are largely a celebration of it..."- read the full article here by the Alive's John Ross 6/29/06
   
The Ocean Ghosts Documentary 2006-2007



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PRESS & MEDIA ARCHIVE:

American Pride Album Review
by Chris Deville
{ Read It @ Columbus Alive dot com - 10/23/08 }

Pat Radio - OG Interview & 1hr. Guest DJ - 10/22/08
{ WCRS 98.3 FM - Listen to the interview here - 4MB }
{ episode #138 - download the ENTIRE podcast here - 55MB }

2007 Year In Review
- Columbus Alive"Trick Rhetoric"
{ Named to the “20 Songs That Blew Our Minds" - DEC.07 }

Alternative Press CD Review: 3 of 4 Stars (8/1/07)
{ web version (JPG) | print version (PDF) }

TOLEDO LIVE FOOTAGE: Trauma YouTube'd by Jeff Beach
{ Live at Frankie's Underground - 5/19/07 }

Melt Magazine CD Review: 4 of 5 Stars from May '07(JPG)

Riot Act "Song of the Day" - Columbus Alive - 3/20/07

Columbus Alive CD Release 2007 Preview - 3/29/07
{ web version (JPG) | print version (PDF) }

PK & J Show - "They really ripped it up" - 2/13/07
{ Random caller gives props to OG's live performance }

HipHopColumbus.com - Artist of the Month { January 2007 }

Ocean Ghosts Documentary - 2006/07 by DangerMedia

Honorable Mention: Song of the Year, 2006
{ by John Ross, Columbus Alive, for "Party Trauma" }

Columbus Alive "Band of the Week"
- 8/10/06
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UWeekly "Stars and Stripes" CD Review - 7/5/06
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Columbus Alive Interview & Preview - 6/29/06
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Columbus Dispatch CD Release Blurb - 6/29/06
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