Browse by Artist: CHROME

Artist:	CHROME
Title:	Alien Soundtracks
Label:	LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	LP+CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	LR 314LP

"1978's Alien Soundtracks was the second album by the sci-fi obsessed San Francisco experimental rock band, Chrome, formed in 1977 by Damon Edge. A brilliant combination of punk rock aesthetic, with Iggy-esque vocals, jangly guitar, primitive electronics, tape manipulation and sampling, this was also the first album to feature the mad guitar stylings of Helios Creed. Often credited as being the precursors to the industrial metal sound, the band are also akin to experimental punk/noise bands like Pere Ubu and Suicide. Featuring 'The Manifestation (Of The Idea)' originally released simultaneously on the 1982 Chrome Box and on an Italian Chrome compilation, No Humans Allowed." 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	CHROME
Title:	Half Machine Lip Moves
Label:	LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	LP+CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	LR 315LP

"When Chrome first came on the SF punk scene in the late seventies, they were called 'acid punk', due to their penchant for both, but also because their music came from a 'far-out' place -- a place most people could only get to while in a drug-altered state. The sci-fi obsessed Creed and Edge, however, claimed to channel their music directly from the beyond, and when 1979's groundbreaking Half Machine Lip Moves was released -- an angular and metallic sounding album interspersed with electric violin, apocalyptic tape loops, moog, atonal droning distorted guitar and a wall of metallic sounding percussion -- it certainly sounded that way. For the next five years Creed and Edge were a force to be reckoned with, laying the groundwork for the industrial music scene and directly influencing almost every guitar-toting punk ever since. Featuring three bonus tracks--'Anti-Fade', 'I Left My Heart In San Francisco' and 'Meet You In The Subway' -- which originally appeared on the Subterranean Modern compilation, released in 1979 on Ralph Records." 180 gram vinyl.

Artist:	CHROME
Title:	Red Exposure
Label:	LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	LP+CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	LR 316LP

"Humans are the cancer of the planet...all people have untapped psychic powers...acid is good...aliens exist...these are just some of the ideas that the pioneering San Francisco band Chrome was grappling with in its music, labeled 'acid punk' by the press in a desperate attempt to categorize them. Comparing them to everyone from Pere Ubu, to the Residents, to Devo, to Can, to Eno, the reality was that no one knew really knew where they fit in...perhaps because they really were channeling their music from some distant alien planet. In fact, Chrome's founder, Damon Edge, described himself as having something he called 'clairaudient syndrome', a condition that allows you to 'hear something before it happens'...meaning that he would first hear the music in his head, and then 'channel' it onto tape.... and perhaps that explains the music in this LP. For Chrome aficionados this album is more ambient and droning than previous albums, except for the Devo-esque 'Electric Chair'- and one wonders if they didn't write this song to poke fun at the band. Featuring three bonus tracks: 'In A Dream' and 'Danger Zone' both taken from their 1981 12" Inworlds single... and 'Informations', taken from the b-side of their rare New Age 7" released in 1980."

Artist:	CHROME
Title:	Blood On The Moon
Label:	LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	LP+CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	LR 317LP

"For this 1981 release, Edge and Creed brought in brothers John and Hilary Stench on drums and bass. The brothers hailed from the extremely popular local new wave band, Pearl Harbour & the Explosions, formed in 1978 in San Francisco. This new rhythm section can definitely be heard, making Chrome a bit more 'danceable' if you will and the first inklings of that driving industrial metal beat can be heard. Tracks like excellent 'Perfumed Metal' are a perfect example of this transformation. It was also in 1981 that Chrome received an offer to perform live in Italy from a group of Italian fans. Chrome had never appeared live before, but unbelievably they accepted the Italian gig and flew to Bologna, Italy to play their first ever live concert. The 'live instrumental track' included here is from that legendary Italian concert, on July 20, 1981."

Artist:	CHROME
Title:	3rd From The Sun
Label:	LILITH (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)
Format:	LP+CD
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	LR 318LP

"Metallic drums, grating guitar, a driving industrial beat, lo-fi / sci fi, toxic waste... this was the universe inhabited by SF cyber punks, Chrome. Originally released in 1982, on band founder Damon Edge's own Siren Records, this was the band's last official release. Still featuring the rhythmic talents of John & Hilary Stench on drums and bass, and as always, the brilliantly feral guitar playing of Helios Creed, the album kicks off with the jaw-dropping 'Firebomb'. Also featuring two bonus tracks from their rare 1982 Anorexic Sacrifice 7" single."

Artist:	CHROME
Title:	3rd From The Sun
Label:	NOISEVILLE
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NOISE 076CD

"Noiseville is very proud to have the chance to reissue these absolutely must-have traces of interstellar psych perfection from San Francisco's legendary Chrome. The sound was beefed up, and each was repackaged with the original art from their initial release back in the early '80s. These 3 albums (Alien Soundtracks, Half Machine Lip Moves, Third From The Sun) are classics and should never have gone out-of-print. But due to fighting within the band, these CDs will not be repressed and most unfortunately, the LP counterparts never made it past the test pressing stage, until the dispute has been settled by the courts, this is it." Third From The Sun was originally released on Siren Records in 1982, right before the band's break-up, with Damon Edge and Helios Creed chuddering out creepy post-garage industrial murk. Third From The Sun sounds more conventional rock than their prior releases, while still maintaining the garbage-y, weird-space psychonaut vibe that would be their trademark. Grinding guitars, terrifyingly creepazoid vocals, and a bass that sounds like rocks thudding off of someone's head.

Artist:	CHROME
Title:	Alien Soundtracks
Label:	NOISEVILLE
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NOISE 077CD

This is Chrome's second album, released in 1978, and comprised of members Gary Spain (bass, guitar, vocals), Damon Edge (drums, synthesizer), and Helios Creed. Alien Soundtracks is the first of their releases that would later mark them as early innovators of post-punk industrial experimentalism. This release is raw punk heavy on the Stoogeian vibe, featuring Creed's flanging, scrawling guitar sounds backed up by Edge's use of tape manipulation and samples.

Artist:	CHROME
Title:	Half Machine Lip Moves
Label:	NOISEVILLE
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	NOISE 078CD

Originally released in 1979 on Siren/Beggars Banquet, Half Machine Lip Moves is Chrome's third album and is considered an absolute classic of raw punk/experimental genius, authored by the duo of Helios Creed and Damon Edge. "Half Machine Lip Moves was a curious and powerful hybrid, which fused a Stooges-styles aggression with a sci-fi and LSD-inspired otherworldliness, reflected in titles that evidenced their interest in aliens and contemporary technology. This album was arguably their finest moment ... Creed's searing, heavily FX-laden guitar and Edge's eerie Moog and vocals, underpinned by metallic drums, came together to create what could have become a radical new departure point for a nascent form of post-rock." --The Wire; "One of my Personal Top 25 albums of all time, this is certainly one of those records you can keep returning to and find new things buried in all those layers of ZOUND." --Julian Cope

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