Artist description Who's got the beats ta clock ya? Who's got the synths ta shock ya? Whether indie rocka or cool hip hoppa we ain't afraid ta rock ya!

Music Style Spaz-matic electronic punk dance music

Musical Influences Add N to (x), C + C Music Factory, Man or Astro-man?, DEVO, Brainiac, Operation Re-Information, Kraftwerk, Cybotron, Bruce Haack

Similar Artists Add N to (X), Ladytron, DEVO, Kraftwerk

Artist History Star Patrol were big heroes in Video Game Universe but their evil villain Space Wizard Rovad Rotcod built the Black Hole Machine so he could take over Earth. Star Patrol followed him. They soon found that they could battle his legions Bionosaurs and Brodogs with PUNK DANCE MUSIC (PDM). Now, Star Patrol are exploding from the Hoosier Heartland. They'll need all the style and wickedness they can muster, because the Bionosaurs have installed themselves in seats of power with in multi-national corporations and many world governments, and have completely overrun the music industry! Rovad's heavy hitters, such as Creed, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park have entrenched themselves in the hearts of millions, so Star Patrol has to slay ALL!

Group Members Cmdr. Stellar Tellar; Maj. Isis O'Neill; Maj. Tank Slagknuckle

Instruments Korg, Roland, Moog, ARP analog synths; drum machines.

Albums Step 2 This

Press Reviews "Star Patrol's Step 2 This brings beats from space" by Joanna Hensley, Lafayette Journal and Courier. Friday, April 13, 2001. Star Patrol is a band on a mission. The West Lafayette based trio, who pose as a fictional band of '80s video game heroes sucked into another dimension, plays music to rid the world of evil. They wear crazy space suits and perform in character. The band even has an elaborate story to flesh out an ever-expanding list of characters. The idea isn't exactly new--costumed bands including Servotron and Insane Clown Posse have their followings--but it's not something you see around these parts every day. Nevertheless, Star Patrol's first show on March 23 gave fans a humorous alternative to Lafayette's conventional music scene. Though many of the band's antics have a Spinal Tap aura about them, Purdue student Travis Beaver (aka Cmdr. Stellar Tellar) takes his music very seriously. Beaver, a founding member of the Chauncey Hill-based Dance Party Revolution, formed Star Patrol with his wife, Kara, and David Orr, a Columbia College student. In January, the band recorded its synthesizer-heavy debut, Step 2 This, live in a West Lafayette apartment. There aren't any conventional lyrics to the songs and most are the same beat repeated over and over again. It reminds me of music from the original "Mario Brothers" game. Whether it was intended to or not, Step 2 This is a great parody of '80s and early '90s dance music. The album has a theme, with each song encompassing some aspect of the band's story. Much like the graphics of an old Nintendo game, Star Patrol weaves a musical tale with enough holes for your own imagination to shine through. The songs also function like white and black hats in a western: Good-guy songs like "The Day inspector Foddicle was Born" are upbeat, and bad-guy songs like "Shifto Jr." are menacing. Other songs are just silly. "Put Your Hands in the Ear" pokes fun at the traditional party call for hands in the air. It's an absurd combination, but the synthesized beats work well with a Jamaican voice urging, "all the people in the house, put your hands in the ear." The skits tell part of the Star Patrol story and give the album a humorous fluidity. Much like the opening screen of a video game, The intro fills listeners in on the heroes' basic mission. You have to chuckle when each character's call to arms is a wimpy-sounding "booyah" or "hit it." Similarly, Step 2 This comically shows their anger for the enemy Bionosaur androids and their leader, Rovad. Orr, (aka Maj. Tank Slagknuckle) talks like an out-of-sync karate movie when he says, "We're not... a bunch of amateurs!" The album is pretty abstract, but it's a nice break from the homogenous sound of mainstream music. Star Patrol is a refreshing revival of that uniformed, band-with-a-story antic that made Johnny Socko, another Indiana native, so much fun to watch. With any luck, Star Patrol will have another show soon so more people can get in on the fun. GRADE: C Review from the Midwest Beat, June 2001 Star Patrol Steps 2 This (independent)   A science fiction concept album of sorts, Star Patrol's Steps 2 This is to today's electronica music scene what "The Blob" or "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" is to science fiction cinema- a "B-Movie.. For those born after the heyday of classic B-Movies, they were the kind of film they used to show at drive in theaters before the main feature. To be kind, it was primarily a time killer. Keeping that in mind, Star Patrol consists of Commander Stellar Tellar; synths and drum programming, Major Isis O'Neill; synths, and Major Mark Slagknuckle; synths and drum programming. And I must not forget the loyal spaceship mechanic, Bonsor of Pugtooine. These four loyal Star Patrol members are here to "save the earth from the evil Bionosaur threat." You see, they realized that simple synthesizers and drum programming could put the evil Bionosaurs to sleep. As you can see, Star Patrol are simply trying to save us all from mass destruction. If taken for what it is - a B-Movie equivalent of the audio world - this effort has some cornball entertainment value. To the credit of the band, this disc is full of some interesting drum programming and live synths, but the snippets of cheesy dialogue that sound like classic Star Trek narrations on acid, turn it rather cornball. "Steps 2 This" is pretty good if you like sci-fi "B-Movies." But to be honest, I personally prefer the main feature. "2001; A Space Odyssey" this is not! -David Alan Buco Illinois Entertainer Review By Charlotte Robinson Synth-pop trio Star Patrol makes spastic future rock, or at least what people in the '60s thought the rock of the future would sound like -- coolly detached, concerned with outer space and technology, and oddly danceable and charming. Going by the pseudonyms Cmdr. Stellar Tellar, Maj. Isis O'Neill, and Maj. Tank Slagknuckle, it's obvious the members of Star Patrol don't take themselves too seriously, and don't expect us to, either, which makes their album Step 2 This a delight.

Location W. Lafayette, IN - USA

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