CGR Podcast featuring Turbo Volcano

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Space Bees Make Terrible Pets Apr 08, 2022

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Mark picks up the PS4 controller once again and plays Earth Defense Force 5 and Gran Turismo 7 while noodling with Korg Nu-Tekt synthesizer sounds as Operation Turbo Volcano crushes space-time and develops a third album titled Future Spa. Goin the CGR Podcast on a road trip to work with marketing photography, studio video, and preparations to make a fleet of drawing tutorial videos with Turbo Volcano and Seatropica beats.

Into the Abyss of Madness Apr 01, 2022

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Mop, mop, mop! Mark prepares to mop the studio after releasing three books and two full-length albums in a week. Learn about the second Turbo Volcano album titled Supernova Robot Dungeon and the upcoming first album from Seatropica titled Abyss. Includes multiple mixes of Turbo Volcano songs with different synthesizer sounds and a new drum kit.

Beneath the Lava Waves Mar 25, 2022

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CGR and Turbo Volcano get more technical as the podcast progresses and the band splits into TWO entities! Mark produces two new video series including a new music-driven drawing instructional program and a cooking show. Turbo Volcano continues to develop heavier synthesizer music while the spinoff project focuses on smoother ambient tunes to compliment relaxing drawing and wood grain admiration.

Revenge of the Moon Wolves Mar 11, 2022

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Enjoy an advance listen to clips from Turbo Volcano's upcoming second album titled "Supernova Robot Dungeon." Mark guides listeners through a track by track commentary as he finishes, mixes, and masters a new batch of songs created with Moog Matriarch, Nord Drum, FL Studio, and Korg digital synthesizers. Hear early cuts of West End Alien Girls, 30 Years to Carousel, Abgrund Zwei, and more. Release date TBD.

Supernova Robot Dungeon Mar 04, 2022

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Mark prepares to release Retromegatrex 2, a collection of mostly unpublished and experimental projects spanning the years 2018-2022. After facing the demise of a platform-dependent video business, he talks about changing careers, shotgunning out ideas, drawing styles, and challenging accepted norms in self-publishing. How does drawing The Horrible Octopus give way to a Turbo Volcano? Listen and find out....

Faster than Lightning but Slower than Thunder Feb 25, 2022

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Hanging out at a bar with King Ghidorah sounds great, and so do the new Turbo Volcano tracks in production such as Space Cavern, Future Spa, Millennium Mai Tai, and Faster than Light but Slower than Thunder. Mark talks about Return of the Jedi, Wordle, Soylent Green, trolleys, sequencers, and synthesizers! The first Turbo Volcano EP album prepares to launch digitally.

Burning People with Monsters and Cutting them in Half Feb 18, 2022

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Turbo Volcano prepares to release its debut album on a VERY special format. Can your brain handle all of the wood grain? Mark talks The Empire Strikes Back, recording, sequences, and more while also showing off brand new tracks in development created with synthesizers, broken computers, and gallons of coffee.

We’re Here to Start Fires and Put Them Out Feb 11, 2022

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Following a mundane week of publishing and graphic design, Mark loses his mind and unloads a sonic assault of experimental synthesizer music upon the hapless, unsuspecting podcast listeners on Earth (and throughout the Solar System.) Learn about the Turbo Volcano sound creation process, hear songs in development, and enjoy a collection of stereophonic Moog Matriarch delights as Mark learns how to use the Death Star of analog modular synthesizers. Also more Star Wars talk.

In Space Nobody Can Hear You Smell Like Lemons Feb 04, 2022

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Mark talks Star Wars, wood grain, analog synthesizers, music production, and more. He walks listeners through a time-vortex into Future Year 1982 to hear a Turbo Volcano track emerge from the wood-paneled bliss of the Moog Mother 32 and DFAM combination to form a space-tuned laser disco fueled sonic assault on the piteous wasteland of tomorrow's social media infested dystopia.

Response from the Dark Nebula Jan 28, 2022

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Turbo Volcano adopts a new Casio SA-21 Tone Bank keyboard and CGR Publishing announces the arrival of three new books (all delayed a week after Mark recorded this. Now due to publish first week in February.) Listen to numerous Turbo Volcano tracks in development, including Response from the Dark Nebula, their "longest" track to date created with FL Studio and various synthesizer plugins. Mark also talks 80s hair metal, Ratt, Cinderella, Rob Zombie, Blade Runner, and Casio keyboard sounds from Future Year 1982!