Drone Records

CHROME - Ghost Machine

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Klanggalerie gg242

Release Year: 2017

Note: re-issue of this "lost gem" (from 2002) in the discography of the sci-fi / industrial rock / punk band from San Francisco, when HELIOS CREED had re-activated the band after the death of DAMON EDGE with diverse new musicians, for example ALEPH KALI (from AUME and F-SPACE) => the perfect amalgam of psychedelic punk, avantgardish wave-pop and tape experimentation, always rhythmic and intoxicating, like ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO on a psych-rock trip?

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.50

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Chrome was founded in San Francisco in 1975. Their sound wasn't easy to label - being ahead of their time, Helios Creed and Damon Edge created music that featured heavy elements of feedback and distortion.They experimented in mixing synthesized noise with rock instrumentation, therefore they are now seen as part of the post punk movement (even when punk was still in full flow at that time). Their breakthrough came in 1977 with their second album Alien Soundtracks. The band largely abandoned conventional rock compositions, instead employing cut-up and collage techniques and heavily processed sound to create a kind of sci-fi punk style. The album was given 4 out of 5 stars in the UK music paper Sounds, and Chrome began gradually to gain a cult reputation in the UK and in Europe. In the 1980s Damon Edge released several rather electronic records under the Chrome name, but Helios Creed had by that time left the band. He pursued a solo career but picked up the name Chrome again after Damon Edge died in Paris. The album Ghost Machine came out in 2002 on the German Dossier label. It is an often overlooked gem in the band's discography and has been out of print for over a decade. Creed reinstalled all the Chrome trademark sounds mixing electronics with his distinct guitar sound, and unusal production and mixing methods. This new edition comes in a digipack and with remastered sound.

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