Chrome - Half Machine From The Sun, The Lost Chrome Tracks From '79-'80 FLAC

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Credits

• Engineer – Oliver DiCicco
• Mixed By, Mastered By – Jay Tausig
• Mixed By, Producer, Performer – Helios Creed
• Producer, Performer – Damon Edge

Notes

Released using the Pledge Music site

All tracks were originally engineered by Oliver DiCicco at Mobius Music Recordings. Final mixing was completed by Helios Creed and Jay Tausig at Studio Lemuria and all tracks were mastered by Jay Tausig. All tracks were written and composed, produced and performed by Damon Edge and Helios Creed except Morrison written by Damon Edge and Do Anything, Looking for Your Door, Sound & Light, Sub Machine and The Rain which were written by Helios Creed.

Album cover by Monet Clark (collage artwork, concept and design) and Shalo P. (digital wizardry).

Inside cover:
Chrome the seminal Avant-Punk Psychedelic outfit were groundbreaking in their experimentation in sound and raw energy. They are known for their de/re-construction of Rock ‘n Roll and a Sci-Fi-Punk collage of searing rock with noise, innovation, weirdness, sound-bites, hooks, pile driver rhythms (including scrap metal percussion), effects laden vocals and Hendrixian guitar work, and mind-bending audio manipulations. Chrome’s originality has influenced a wide range of musical genres as well as generations of bands. They exploded the possibilities of what Punk, Psychedelic, New Wave and Industrial Rock could sound like.

The band was founded by vocalist and drummer Damon Edge in 1975 who was influenced by proto-Punk pioneers such as the Stooges, as well as the sound art experimentation of John Cage. Guitarist and vocalist Helios Creed joined Chrome, replacing their original guitarist, in 1976. Composing songs with Edge he came in to make Chrome’s commercial and artistic breakthrough album Alien Soundtracks in 1977. Creed and Edge comprised the main creative force behind their next album Half Machine Lip Moves in 1979, which has a remained an underground classic, and Red Exposure in 1980.

These Lost Chrome Tracks were made in the years 1979 and 1980. The prolific creative output of Edge and Creed produced a plethora of songs. When it came time for selecting which ones to release this amazing collection was left behind. At the time their ears were attuned towards more experimental pieces. Many of these previously unreleased tracks are simply more accessible, while still maintaining Chrome’s signature weirdness. Others are pure experimental noise. In all this double album opens a window back in time to this groundbreaking era in Rock and completes the audio record of classic Chrome’s creative range.

A big thank you goes out to all our ‘pledgers’ who supported the realization this project, especially Karim Gabou, Mark ‘Demon One’ Johansen, L. Erickson, Thomas Cherryhomes, Austin ‘ThornBrain’ Scholl, Mark Bourdeau, Alex Tenenbaum, Mike B. Anderson, Darren Power, Joe McLaughlin, Vincenzo Carlin, Paulie Kraynak, Robert Temple, John Eisenhart, Jonas Osterlof, Robert Kowalski, The Truth About Frank, Gary “Nervo’ Mollica, Don Lloyd, Loachfilet, Kyle Curtsinger, Gene Mullett, Matt Brislawn, Todd ‘SpaGuru’ Joyce and David Kelley and the artists that helped with the campaign: Mark Steger, Angie Skulls, David Uzarrdi, Ruby Ray, Smash & Grab Studio, and David Lawrence. Thank you to our executive producer’s Nevic & Sophia Donnely of the Circus of All Saints. Special thanks to Monet Clark without whom this album wouldn’t have been possible, Brent Marley, Nick and Crystal, Z Silver, Rose Johnson, Alex Johnson, Eric Adrian Helsley, Eos Creed, Joyce and John, Joe Dupre, Arlo Acton, Dale Hoyt, Doktor Sleepless, Len Del Rio, Stephen Waichulis,
and Aleph Omega, Keith Thompson and Tommy Grenas.

Companies

• Engineered At – Mobius Music

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