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Mashup Song “Ninja Busters” Guaranteed to Make You Feel Good
Need a Monday pick-me-up? This should do the trick.
If bustin’ makes you feel good, then Ecto Crank’s new mashup track “Ninja Busters” will make you feel, well, like, really goddamn good. The track mashes together Ray Parker Jr’s iconic Ghostbusters theme song with the theme from the 1990 Ninja Turtles movie!
“After re-reading IDW’s fantastic Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles/Ghostbusters crossover comic book series I became inspired to do a little crossing over of my own,” Ecto Crank explains. “For this one I knew I had to team Ray Parker Jr’s immortal ‘Ghostbusters’ with the opening track from the 1990 Turtles move; John Du Prez and David Frank’s cowabunga classic ‘Turtle Rhapsody’.”
He adds, “This one is much more of a stereotypical mash-up than ‘Thrillerbusters’ which gave me a lot more freedom to create something intrinsically more original.”
Listen to “Ninja Busters” on Ecto Crank’s site, where you’ll also find “Thrillerbusters”!
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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