Metal / Warp

New Wave Goth Boogie updated with Slap of Funk – Brian Ellis delivers the SoCal feel to Gary Numan and New Musik. Star Creature’s Tim Zawada and Brian Ellis have been working on tunes for more than a decade starting with the top-shelf boogie project Birdbone Unlimited (alongside Tim Tucker on Vocals), the psychedelic synth-jazz masterpiece In The Dark album and now most notably their cover series previously updated versions of Ronnie Griffith’s “Love Is The Drug” and Mid Air’s “Ease Out”. Now, he continues to show off his knack for exploring new musical horizons with a thick vocoder’d version of Gary Numan’s “Metal” and a feverish cover of New Musik’s driving synth-pop banger “Warp.”
Both tracks arrive courtesy of longtime Star Creature imprint Tugboat Editions and utilize Ellis’ signature fat, sci-fi-delic production to pay homage to their original versions.