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.

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Burning People with Monsters and Cutting them in Half

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.

We’re Here to Start Fires and Put Them Out

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.

In Space Nobody Can Hear You Smell Like Lemons

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!

Response from the Dark Nebula

Engage Operation Turbo Volcano! Mark talks about the futuristic laser disco synth-pop band Turbo Volcano and announces a new concept album in production about a space robot who wants to fly through the event horizon to save the extinct human race. Learn how the project (and band) came to be, how Turbo Volcano reinvented a publishing company's 2022 marketing campaign, and hear numerous demo tracks in production. Turbo Volcano music is created with Casio keyboards, Moog analog synthesizers, Akai Fire, FL Studio, Korg, Edison Cylinders, and Bontempi Electronic Air Organs. 

No Smoking in the Event Horizon

Take a trip to the Intergalactic Space Arcade and spend a day with Mark working on new recordings, new shows, photography, video, painting, and inventory control management! Enjoy the first CGR Podcast on the go with mobile audio, lunch sounds, and interstellar road noise to experience life in the galaxy of publishing and production!

Fly Me to the Intergalactic Space Arcade

Mark interviews Joseph Pierce and Shmup Junkie about the upcoming film All Your Base Are Belong to Toaplan, a feature-length documentary about the history of the legendary Japanese video game developer behind Truxton, Fire Shark, Hellfire, Zero Wing, and more. Also, Mark has some news about who might narrate it...

Nobody Puts Truxton in a Corner!

Happy new year! Celebrate future year 1982 with CGR & Turbo Volcano. Mark regales listeners with tales of comic-con exploits, Star Trek episodes, new music, Star Wars, Logan's Run, and complete science-fiction nonsense. It's 1982! Break out your Atari 2600 and breakdance the night away. Features new music clips from Turbo Volcano.

Breakfast at Zardoz

Mark talks about Operation Turbo Volcano and the return of the 80s Comics comic book review program on the 80sComics.com website for 2022. Learn the history of CGR's comic book reviews and the ins-and-outs of small hobby review videos. Hear an unreleased 80s Comics review of Mark Hazzard MERC #3!

Now you know and knowing is the return of 80s Comics!

CGR Publishing and Turbo Volcano (more on that soon) go back through the history of the Classic Game Room sound which started in 1999. Mark talks about music creation and the reconstruction of a photo studio with many mysterious purposes...

A CGR Sonic Adventure Through Sound

Mark talks about comic books, art, and his career in self-published artwork and comics.  Learn about the process behind Mark's development and creation of the Robot Kitten Factory throwback manga series and what goes into content creation, drawing, and the uphill battle of promotion and publication.

Robot Kitten Factory is Not Real

Celebrate the spirit of Christmas with The Lord Karnage Radio Drama and Mark's irreverent trip through his special "1980s memory lane" filled with 80s action movies, Atari 7800, cartoon heroines, and 1970s comic books. Hear some tales from the early days of the CGR Publishing business with old school titles such as The Ultra Massive Video Game Console Guides, Retromegatrex, and 1893 World's Fair books.

The Predator is Santa Claus

Celebrate the absurdity of Cyber Monday with the CGR Publishing Top 10 holiday buyer's guide - YOU WON'T BELIEVE NUMBER SEVEN! Mark talks about a few silly things and discusses his favorite eclectic CGR Publishing releases for the 2021 holiday season. Happy Lord Karnage Appreciation Day!    

You Won‘t Believe #7!

The Lord Karnage Radio Drama (aka CGR Publishing Podcast) returns in a completely new form from CGR Publishing. Broadcasting from space on the Intergalactic Space Arcade, writer, artist, and publisher Mark Bussler delivers a weekly dose of book publishing adventure mixed with retro pop culture silliness and general absurdity.  In the pilot, Mark talks about change and covers highlights from the 2021 catalog such as History of the Crusades and more.

IT‘S BAAAAAAACK! Lord Karnage Radio Drama (the CGR Publishing Podcast)

Based on the Lord Karnage Adventures series of books from Mark Bussler, enjoy the Lord Karnage Radio Drama! The most popular intergalactic radio drama hosted by the galaxy's greatest space mercenary on the Space Web! Buy Lord Karnage in print and digital from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1731026900

Lord Karnage Radio Drama 1 - Death Clams, Fortnite and Dark and Stormy

Travel the universe with Lord Karnage, the galaxy's greatest mercenary. Together with Edit-Station 1 they discover new planets, meet new alien species and usually crush things. Fantasy combined with space adventure, laughter and poor taste; it's all right here in this fabulous radio drama!

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