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Tron Jovi

Milwaukee, WI

RIYL: Adrian Sherwood, Keith LeBlanc, Prefuse 73, Footsie, Silk Road Assassins, Death Grips, Pole and Pailhead

Milwaukee-based producer Tron Jovi (aka Martin Defatte) returns with his debut full-length solo album, Bass + Frequency Studies in Dub, Chapter Two. Building on the experimental groundwork of his 2021 EP, this release deepens his exploration of dub-infused electronic music, weaving together heavy basslines, analog textures, and manipulated tape loops into a richly immersive soundscape.

Composed using the Ableton Move between January and February 2025, the album reflects Defatte’s meticulous approach to sound design. In March, he arranged and mixed the tracks, incorporating dub siren synths and cassette tape manipulations to enhance the sonic depth. Final artwork and mastering were completed in May 2025, with mastering handled by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering.

A standout track, “Tyranny of the Algorithm,” features additional samples by Francisco Ramirez as Whaler, adding a distinctive layer to the album’s complex textures. The album’s layout was crafted by Defatte himself under his Guerrilla Digital moniker, showcasing his multifaceted artistry.

Bass + Frequency Studies in Dub, Chapter Two is a testament to Tron Jovi‘s evolution as a solo artist, offering a compelling fusion of dub, industrial, and experimental electronic elements. It’s a must-listen for fans of genre-defying music and those seeking a fresh auditory experience.

We are proud to announce that Tron Jovi’s debut full-length LP, “Bass + Frequency Studies in Dub, Chapter Two”, is slated for release on June 20, 2025 via Triple Eye Industries.

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TEI-097: Combustor - Bent + Snapped: Tron Jovi Remixes

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Bent & Snapped is a dismantled and reassembled collection of Combustor tracks, transmuting the rock band into something that recalls, without nostalgia, the darker end of trip hop.

” David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express

TEI-073: Bass + Frequency Studies in Dub, Chapter One

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With no worries about how the output would mesh with his main project’s sound, Defatte ventured into unfamiliar and unexpected territory in this latest Tron Jovi release. As the EP’s title and track names both suggest, Bass + Frequency Studies In Dub, Chapter One lands in the vicinity of dubstep.

” Tyler Maas
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“Maximum Headroom Dub” gives us a thick bass with some tubular synths over the top. The video, based on the 1987 hijacking of a Chicago TV signal, is pure nightmare fuel in the best sense, taking the original footage and distorting it even more than the existing clips of the original incident online.

” Allen Halas
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Combining dub with industrial doom, these six tracks collectively feel like an artistic lesson, and Jovi is the cool teacher that makes learning a blast. It smoothens out the confrontational nature that Guerrilla Ghost is known for while maintaining abrasive texture, showcasing a series of cacophonous instrumentals. It’s a fun and inventive EP from Tron Jovi, as well as a solid addition to his catalog.

” Ben Slowey

TEI-079: Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here

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Guerrilla Ghost are preparing for the release of their new album, “Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here,” and they’ve enlisted the help of Nile and Taiyamo Denku for a single from the new project, “Fifth Heaven.” Produced by Tron Jovi, the track features an overpowering synth, in the signature dystopian production style that makes Guerrilla Ghost what it is, and all three emcees bring their own contribution to the table. The verses talk about racism, being held down, and taking back the power with a trio of aggressive flows.

” Allen Halas, Breaking And Entering
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Produced by Tron Jovi, the track features an overpowering synth, in the signature dystopian production style that makes Guerrilla Ghost what it is, and all three emcees bring their own contribution to the table. The verses talk about racism, being held down, and taking back the power with a trio of aggressive flows.

” Allen Halas & Ben Slowey, Shepherd Express
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Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here is a record so needed at this time of zombified minds and global turmoil. Be it insane collabs with top tier talent, inventive old-school covers, or remixes by avant-garde heavy music legends, they continue to up their game time after and deliver killer tracks and thoughtful lyricism.

” Keith Chachkes, Ghost Cult Magazine
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The (possible) end of the pandemic making you feel optimistic? The rap-rock duo are here with a new album to make sure you don’t get too complacent, raging against systemic racism, corrupt politicians and other injustices.

” Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

TEI-077: Dropping Analogs

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M.Ape (short for “Masturbating Ape,” naturally) finds Defatte and Ramirez combining their musical prowess with a shared interest in making custom loop cassettes to create completely improvised and largely experimental music.

” Tyler Maas, MilwaukeeRecord.com
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It paints the scenario of sitting next to a malfunctioning radio transmitting the most dystopian of harsh sounds. We look forward to more experimentation from M.Ape in the future.

” Ben Slowey, Breaking and Entering

TEI-058: We Get What We Deserve

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If there’s ever been a time for an act like Guerrilla Ghost, now is that time. The group’s new single, “In Memory Of” featuring Armstrong Ransome was released on Wednesday, and addresses the systemic racism that is at the focal point of protests around the world right now. The song was released ahead of the group’s new album, “We Get What We Deserve”, which is due out at the end of July. The song names the victims of unjust killings like Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin, and feels like an appropriate rallying cry, as well as a reminder of why the protests that are happening now around the world are so important.

” Allen Halas, Breaking and Entering
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If you are feeling the new jams by Run the Jewels or Immortal Technique, you will dig these guys a lot. You may recall that we featured GG in these webpages a few years back, and they are back harder and sharper than ever on this new track.

” Ghost Cult Magazine
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The album delivers the kind of aggressive intensity that hammers home a message over 15 bold tracks and you know, for sure, you are never far from the gravity of the situation. In this respect, you can tell it’s a lockdown production: it screams liberation and blame. And the certainty of our future somehow only makes things worse. For some, escaping this confinement — any confinement — is a slow suicide in an unjust world that’s filled with hatred, greed, destruction and danger. Listen and weep.

” Neil Mach, ramzine.co.uk
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We’ve already gotten a preview single from the group, but their second official single from the project, “Wesley Snipes In Demolition Man” is out now. With some dark, lurking production from Tron Jovi, the track has a little bit more swagger than most to it, with Bad Graphics Ghost reminding you that Guerrilla Ghost is here, and they’re a force to be reckoned with. Few can bring in the elements of electronic, hip hop, and noise the way that Guerrilla Ghost blend them together, and this is a reminder that the duo can make strong music with a message when the time calls for it.

” Allen Halas, Breaking and Entering
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The sociopolitical lyrics hit every nerve and engage your cortex. Guerrilla Ghost has a message in every song. If its uncomfortable they confront it. Setting it at the top of your thoughts and the tip of your tongue. The heavy synth lines and other metal and punk elements unify. Creating a heavy, dark atmosphere. While keeping your neck snapping to every word Bad Graphics Ghost spits. As much as every beat Tron Jovi commits.

We Get What We Deserve hits all the high notes of a good hip hop album. There is enough heavy elements here to keep it nestled between pure hip hop and a plethora of metal subgenres. This album breaks 4 out of 5 necks easily.

” Breaking Necks Metal Blog
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Guerrilla Ghost is an avant-garde Hip Hop duo from Milwaukee. The duo takes the rumbling charge of boom-bap and bolts aggressive, clanging beats over the top. It's hard, it's abrasive, and it kicks. So, it's fitting that on their new track, "Algorithm Nation 1814", the duo teams up with the freakiest of all emcees: the interstellar Kool Keith! While Guerrilla Ghost cranks forward, Keith beams in and in classic Kool Keith style, drops stream-of-conscious raps that seem to have no beginning and no end. The dude is cosmic.

” John Gentile, Punknews.org
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Algorithm Nation 1814” is a track that reacts to the world’s obsession with subscribing to whatever content is fed to them. Keith leads things off with a verse about internet culture, and Bad Graphics Ghost provides a hook proclaiming that “free thinkers are dangerous,” summing up the song’s message in the quickest way possible.

” Allen Halas, Breaking & Entering
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The 15-track release tackles everything from immigration issues to society’s reliance on social media, while sonically serving as a fusion of dubstep, electronica, hip hop, screamo and more. It’s a hard-driving affair that isn’t afraid to sound confrontational.

” Allen Halas, Shepherd Express
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With dangerously hot beats from Tron Jovi that go right at stimulating the central nervous system, as well as witty, diverse lyrical/vocal delivery from Bad Graphics Ghost, the duo have easily gone from “good” to “great” on with their second studio effort. Although still not attracting nearly as much attention as some of the other more entrenched artists in the industrial hip-hop hemisphere, Guerrilla Ghost are nonetheless carving out a damn fine name for themselves, and strongly hinting that, with time, they may very well become their own giants of the style.

” Staff, Invisible Oranges
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It's hard to fathom many people living through the pandemic agreeing with the logic behind the rap-rock duo's second album. But Guerrilla Ghost makes a case of sorts rallying against society's many sins. Led by Bad Graphic Ghost's furious delivery, "Deserve" decries inhumane detention of migrant children on "The Immigrant Song," racial profiling and black people killed by police on "In Memory Of" (with top Milwaukee rapper Armstrong Ransome), and features noted New York rapper Kool Keith on "Algorithm Nation 1814," a condemnation of mob mentality in our social media era.

” Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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This is not an album for everyone, and even those with a cursory interest in hip-hop might be put off by the eclectic nature of Tron Jovi’s beats, but for fans of other experimental hip-hop groups this will be another one to add to the collection. Indeed this should also appeal to metal and punk fans too – with screamed vocals and fast beats the structure of each song is not far off a big metalcore song with breakdowns. If nothing else, Bad Graphics Ghost has one of the best voices in hip-hop today, and to hear him break out a proper scream before returning to spit bars is an incredible feat, and really adds to the immersion of this album. Check this out before GUERRILLA GHOST are the next DEATH GRIPS. 8/10

” Sean Hubbard, Distorted Sound Magazine
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We Get What We Deserve sums up what 2020 was like. A mix of screaming, headbanging, vibing, social injustice, political unrest and so much more. Nothing seems to make sense and is only feeling like it gets worse as people move through the year. Guerrilla Ghost evokes those feelings while discussing the topics that got people where they are today. The fusion of hip-hop with punk, metal, electronic and dubstep on top of quick flows and eccentric lyricism allows listeners to confront reality in a different way. This album isn’t the light and heartfelt project that many artists might want out during this tough time. It is true to Guerrilla Ghost and is a more accurate reflection of society today.

” Jahniya Morris, mxdwn.com

TEI-057: Keep Your Distance single

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Get out the aggression of your quarantine cabin fever with Guerrilla Ghost by checking out “Keep Your Distance”

” Allen Halas, Breaking and Entering
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Shake your booty, Keep Your Distance, and help Guerrilla Ghost support two local, essential music venues.

” Cory Ampe, Commonstate
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[Guerrilla Ghost] makes aggressive, angry, militant kind of music. Definitely need to be in that kind of mood, it's not easy listening but I think they are terrific. - Matt Wild

” Joy Powers, wuwm.com

TEI-050: Sex and Death: The Remixes

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The album has quite the cast for such a tight-knit collection of songs : Guerilla Ghost, C Money Burns and the legendary Riddlore pull up for production duties, while Bad Graphics Ghost, Rozanne Combs and the prolific AWOL ONE drop guest verses. The album is currently up for pre-order, and your reservation gets you the Guerilla Ghost remix of The Depression Swag in all of its electronically lush glory

” Cheif, chiefandthedoomsdaydevice.com
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The songs have an entirely different, ethereal feel to them this go round, providing fresh perspective on an already quality project.

” Cheif, chiefandthedoomsdaydevice.com
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In December of 2018, he released an EP’s worth of work entitled Sex And Death (Fake Four Inc.) and if you were one of the lucky ones to encounter the recordings, and get dragged down disturbing and abysmally hellish soundscapes. It’s no surprise to find the like-minded Moodie Black responsible for producing it. Could things get any more interesting? Well, yes. Seven months after its release, Homeless premieres the Sex And Death Remixes and the bar is set higher.

” Eddie Ugarte, staff writer

TEI-034: Perpetually Sad Motion Machine

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"Perpetually Sad Motion Machine," Guerrilla Ghost: Duo Tron Jovi and Bad Graphics Ghost capture the outrage of our troubling times, tackling racism, gender double-standards, social media narcissism and other hot topics through grimy, explosive, and ultimately cathartic, hip-hop.

” Piet Levy
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If the Milwaukee hip-hop duo Guerrilla Ghost placed a backpage personal ad in 1990s, it might read something like this:

SWM and SBM with matching beards/glasses, approaching middle age, into Child Bite and seeking a better society. We enjoy long, windy walks on Lake Michigan. Straightforward and not afraid to collaborate.

I don’t know if they’re single in real life (probably not), and straightforward is putting it lightly — the chorus of the track “Rape Culture” repeats the line, “F*** your rape culture” several times, then ends with a resounding “F*** YOU.” Couldn’t have said it better myself… Another instant classic is “Anti-Social Media,” with the tagline, “It ain’t cool to commercialize depression.”

If you enjoy out-of-the-box hip hop like Obnox and Aesop Rock, don’t sleep on Guerrilla Ghost.

” Alternative Control, Jessie May
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In these politically turbulent times, some bands have been consciously taking steps away from offering biting social commentary in favour of giving their fans an escape through their music. But in times as testing as these, where just about everything seems to be getting worse, GUERRILLA GHOST are one artist who isn’t staying silent. The Milwaukee duo write politically-charged music that serves to hold up a mirror to a post-Trump America and interject their own views on a country becoming increasingly divided every day. Touching on everything from social media to rape culture, the band examine the current socio-political landscape through the lens of their gritty, electronic hip-hop. GUERRILLA GHOST have created an album that is lyrically stunning, at times steeped in melancholic despair, and not without its messages of hope. When living in these turbulent times take its toll on your sanity and feel like you have no escape, Perpetually Sad Motion Machine will give you a cathartic experience and may leave you with some hope for the future – even if just a shred. 7/10

” Elliott Musgrave, Distorted Sound Magazine
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Coming out of Milwaukee with their own flavor of genre-redefining socially conscious Hip-Hop. Reminiscent of leaders of the scene like Dead Prez, Common, Jedi Mind Tricks, Dilated Peoples, Dalek, Kool Keith, Death Grips, Jurassic 5 and others; the new album features guest spots by Carnage the Executioner, Lorde Fredd33 (New Age Narcissism), members of Fox Face (Dirtnap Records), and artwork by Child Bite’s Shawn Knight, Perpetually Sad Motion Machine is the next step in the evolution of one of the genre’s rising acts.

” ghostcultmag.com
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In the spirit of classic Definitive Jux releases, the Milwaukee industrial-rap duo Guerilla Ghost plays nervy, political hip-hop that’s completely unbeholden to genre conventions. On their new album, Perpetually Sad Motion Machine, the duo dials up the anger, assailing fascism, a broken health care system, patriarchy and rape culture (the latter on a furious track featuring Lindsay DeGroot of the Milwaukee punk group Fox Face).

” shepherdexpress.com
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Guerrilla Ghost's sophomore release is the band's first collaboratively created album and it shows. The band comes together with a hip hop album infused with their signature noisy aggression. Everything works here, from Chucks lyrics and delivery to Marty's beats and production.

” Craig Mertes, 91.7FM DJ "The Shape of Rock" show

TEI-016: Suicide Notes of the 21st Century

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While appealing to dalek’s more atmospheric conceits, Suicide Notes of the 21st Century more closely resembles the bile and edge of early horrorcore. I believe a notable artist recently namedropped Dr. Octagon in an Invisible Oranges feature not too long ago, to which this album bears a familial resemblance.

” Invisible Oranges
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Too much sexual content. Not intended for these innocent ears.

” Cory von Bohlen, Halo of Flies / Protesant
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On the group’s new EP, you can hear the combination of hip hop, dubstep, house, and metal, and that’s before you even get to the second track. “Suicide Notes Of The 21st Century” is somewhere in the middle of many Venn diagrams, and for music fans that also fall in that space, it will be received well.

” Allen Halas, Breaking and Entering
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Six tracks of Metal mangled Hip Hop / Rap and maybe that is all that can be endured – there are no segues or skits to break up the flow. It has more of an impact being only six tracks though and the listener is left with a feeling of having entered a universe of sarcasm loaded sentiment and biting satire which doesn’t compromise. This is definitely a release for those of you who don’t mind searching out Metal inflected artists who have something to say about the world and who can get beyond the high profile face of Rap. An exciting prospect for Chuck J and Martin Defatte to explore the distorted in the everyday media lauded trash we have become accustomed to. ( 7.5 / 10 )

” Clive Hunter, Invicta Magazine
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What the album gives you is seven pieces of hip-hop / rap and electronica / dub music with some rap metal data, but I would not say that it is part of metal music, mainly due to the absence of physical instruments. But we have a sharp flow from the rapper, who expresses through his rhymes his concerns with sarcastic and accusative mood. From behind, Defatte has made a urban background of samples, synths, wobblers and a very low end gripping glove available to Jones. Through a minimal musical approach, the verse and message of Guerrilla Ghost takes priority, and they make it easy to hear what they want to pass to the listener.

” RockInAthens.gr
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A great debut from this industrial hip hop duo. The songs are incredibly well formed and produced for a debut. I can’t wait to see what they have in store for 2018.

” Craig Mertes, DJ at WMSE 91.7FM
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The “Undeserving Of A Proper Title” video had us excited to catch the live performance by hip-hop hybrid duo Guerrilla Ghost at Cactus Club. It did not disappoint. The group’s stage presence is enormous and their industrial-tinged beats and socially conscious lyrics are certainly winning over the now-sweaty Cactus crowd.

” [JH] MilwaukeeRecord.com
Date City Venue Country
08/23/24 Milwaukee, WI Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts United States
Venue: Jazz Gallery Center for the Arts. Time: 7:00am. Age restrictions: All Ages. Address: 926 E Center Street. Venue phone: (414) 374-4722. w/ Wavefiler, Blake Zweig, Vectors of Resonant Prescients +1 TBA
06/29/24 Kenosha, WI Pavle’s Lounge United States
Venue: Pavle’s Lounge. Time: 9:00pm. Age restrictions: No Minors. Address: 1724 52nd Street. w/ Ken Sabbar [Madison] & Torrahbull [Kenosha]
06/08/24 Cudahy, WI X-Ray Arcade United States
Venue: X-Ray Arcade. Time: 12:00pm. Admission: FREE / Donation. Age restrictions: No Minors. Address: 5036 S Packard Avenue. w/ Lorna Dune, Bernadette, Donny Mahlmeister, Todd Mattei & visuals by Gordon Karlsson More information
04/13/24 Kenosha, WI Port of Kenosha United States
Venue: Port of Kenosha. Time: 7:00pm. Admission: FREE. Age restrictions: No Minors. Address: 714 50th St.. w/ Bell & Circuit, (D)vices, Michelle Warnecke and Torrahbull (DJ set)

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