Half Machine from the Sun: The Lost Tracks from '79-'80

by Chrome, Damon Edge, Helios Creed

Overview

Very much ahead of their time in their original 1977 to 1982 incarnation, Chrome fused pre-industrial beats with jagged guitar textures, electronic noisemaking, and found sounds to created a new, vital sound that would anticipate much what would happen in experimental and electronic music in the decades to come. In 2012, Chrome leader Helios Creed discovered a cache of lost tapes featuring unheard compositions from the sessions for 1979's Half Machine Lip Moves and 1980's Red Exposure; the group launched a crowdfunding campaign to buy back the master tapes (which were seized when the group forgot to pay a bill at a recording studio), and in late 2013 the recordings, remixed and restored to sound the way the artists had intended, were released as Half Machine from the Sun: The Lost Tracks from '79-'80. These long-lost compositions are at once an extension of Chrome's music from an important and prolific period and an example of how their prescient approach remains relevant in the 21st century. ~ Mark Deming

Product Details

Release Date:	11/05/2013
Label:	King Of Spades Records
UPC:	0829707040023
Rank:	221472

Tracks

1. Anything
2. SALT
3. Looking for Your Door
4. Tomorrow Yesterday
5. The Inevitable
6. Fukishima (Nagasaki)
7. Charlie's Little Problem
8. Ghost
9. Sound and Light
10. Autobahn Brazil
11. Sub Machine
12. Morrison
13. The Rain
14. Something Rhythmic (I Can't Wait)
15. Housewarming Party
16. Sugar Moog Pops
17. Intervention
18. Sunset

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Chrome   Primary Artist
Helios Creed   Primary Artist,Bass,Noise,Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards,Guitar Feedback,Synthesizer Strings
Damon Edge   Primary Artist,Drums,Vocals,Keyboards,Percussion,Tambourine,Synthesizer,Drums (Electric),Moog Synthesizer

Technical Credits

Ruby Ray   Photography
Shalo P   Design
Monet Clark   Design,Artwork,Concept
Oliver di Cicco   Engineer
Damon Edge   Composer,Producer
Helios Creed   Mixing,Composer,Producer,Liner Notes
Jay Tausig   Mastering,Mixing