Prior to forming Ghostland Observatory vocalist Aaron Behrens had played in the bands Dismount and Walking Helix, the latter with future Ghostland Observatory drummer/synth player Thomas Ross Turner. The pair made their debut on the album “delete.delete.i.eat.meat” issued by Turner’s Trashy Moped Recordings in 2005. A year later the sophomore “Paparazzi Lightning” arrived earning a number of positive reviews, despite the saturated electronica/indie market in which they are based. The band subsequently played at the 2006 Austin City Limits festival, which was recorded and later released as the live album “Austin City Limits: Music Festival 2006".
In 2007 the duo made their television debut performing the song “Sad Sad City” on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and released their second live album “Live At Lollapalooza”. Later in 2007 Ghostland Observatory released the EP “Twin Cities” on Trashy Moped ahead of their third full-length “Robotiqe Majestique” in 2008. The record was supported with a national tour including dates at California’s Coachella and New Orleans’ Voodoo Experience. The band’s fourth studio album “Codename: Rondo” appeared in October 2010 promoted by a show at Cedar Park Centre in Texas. The performance saw the duo expand their live show to include visual as well as auditory stimulants including lazers, mirrors and smoke rarely seen at live speed. In 2011 the pair performed in a light-hearted battle against rapper Snoop Dogg at Red Bull SoundClash on South Padre Island, Texas. Ghostland Observatory subsequently played sets at Pacific Festival in Orange County, California, CounterPoint Music Festival in Georgia, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.
Do you like dancing, EDM music, and seeing a man on stage wearing a Texas flag for a cape? Do you want to rock so hard your face melts off like at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark? Then stop messing around and get your ass to a Ghostland Observatory show!
Aaron and Thomas know how to put on a good concert. Aaron spends the majority of the show running back and forth on the stage like a frantic madman, spitting lyrics like watermelon seeds and making sure every single member of the audience gets a taste. Thomas, stationary behind a synthesizer and sporting a long Texas flag as a cape, rocks the beats and forces everyone to move their butts.
Then there's the light show. Every Ghostland show i've been to was like being at a 4th of July fireworks show, except with lasers and and more smoke (most of it coming from the audience). Lights + Beats + Lyrics = Face Melting Awesomeness.
Unfortunately as of January 2014 Ghostland Observatory is on hiatus while frontman Aaron works with his side project, but will return one day. When it happens, don't get left out of one of the best damn artists to come out of Texas.