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~THIS MIC IS A PIPE BOMB!~

NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM NEW ALBUM

Here it is, folks. No intro (I know, I know) cuz the whole moving situation kicked my ass and I feel like I need a fresh start to really get back into full-on production mode. So here’s the fruits of my labors for the past eight months or so, “This Mic is a Pipe Bomb”.

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Here’s the track list:
1) Get Your Eyes Back In Your Head
2) (Who Will Be Laughing) Once I Learn Guitar
3) Focus In!
4) Manual Labor (Palms, Wrists, Knuckles & Fists)
5) The Realities of Municipal Hustle
6) Holy Diver
7) Turn Off the Damn Radio
8) The Spare Change Shake

And, yeah, a lot of this won’t be new to you if you’ve been following this page, but please spread this around as much as you can and, as always, feel free to rehost and relink and whatever the hell you wanna do to get the word out. I’m real proud of this and I’d like the world to know so go ahead and do your part — if you like the record, share it with a friend or whatever.

As before, this record is entirely self-produced, every sound on it is a sound I made unless I ripped it off a record — No external producers or engineers or anything, just two hands and a dream (and a cliched catch-phrase, apparently). The artwork was created by the talented Anderson M. Cook (andersonmcook@gmail.com) and the idea was to mimic the political hardcore records I grew up listening to from labels like Ebullition and Mountain. I think it came across REAL well.

The next record is definitely going to be much more of an “album” than a collection of tracks and I have some pretty heady ideas about it and a collection of interesting guests I plan on inviting to keep things from being such an insular process. Keep your eyes peeled for sure, thanks for your patience, and don’t forget that hip hop isn’t dead just cuz a couple people wanna sell their records by saying that it is.

– J.

satellite high IS johnny boob.

don’t tell anybody…. lol

to be honest, i was kind of debating posting this because i wanted to keep the JOKE STUFF separated from the REAL STUFF but I think it’s a pretty faithful tribute to the whole miami bass thing (i grew up surrounded by shit like Poison Clan and the 2 Live Crew) so hopefully people will get where it’s coming from and recognize the difference between making a funny song once in a while and dressing up in costumes and performing live shows at comic book conventions to sucker nerds out of their money.

i promise that i’ll be posting more “real tracks” soon but, in the meantime, please enjoy boobs.

new dog. no new tracks.

so we got a new puppy this week and i haven’t had the time to record that i had originally planned for.  but it’s totally worth it cuz this little dude rocks.  hopefully i’ll get to lay down some tracks this weekend, but sorry for the false promises.  i’ve been pretty busy, heh.

it’s actually shark week!

yeah so it’s actually shark week, but you already know this if you dig sharks the way i dig sharks (intensely).

in the spirit of watching things swim fast and bite stuff, i’m working on a li’l commemorative track for Shark Week ‘09.  keep your eyes out for it here.  watch some sharks fuck shit up.  life owns.

until then, here is a video of some dude’s robot shark.

the website is new.

when a website is ugly, you don’t really want to do anything with it, and you never really give out the address, and nobody ever ends up visiting it.  That’s the problem I was having with satellite-high.com previously — it was kind of a hastily-assembled layout that didn’t even look as clean as a facebook page, so I was relying on third-party websites to host all of my content and generally creating a nightmare for anybody that was looking for the “official word” regarding anything.  hopefully this redesign is a step in the right direction, i hope you enjoy it.

the navigation on the top right is links to various releases — as i record more, more links will appear, but if you haven’t already got a free copy of “Sharks!” or the “The Shark Week Mixtape, Vol. 1″, click up there and grab ‘em.  both records are now hosted externally through the wonderful magic of double d records, and lossless versions of the files are also available for a donation (you pick the price).

you’ve probably already noticed the li’l music player over there on the right-hand side of your screen, but what you didn’t know until RIGHT FUCKIN’ NOW is that i can embed mp3’s into posts now like all the fancy blogs do.  here’s a little thing i recorded one day that is a fake commercial for an apartment complex that’s built in an abandoned church near the freeway.  no, i’m not fucking with you, that’s really what it is:

[Sacred Hollow radio spot]

* guitar solo *

so anyway, that’s about it.  i’ll be updating frequently with new tracks and news and all of that nonsense so go ahead and subscribe to the rss feed if you’re so inclined.  until then, take it easy, and thanks for supporting independent music!