Wednesday, April 29, 2009

CHROMATICS ON BLAST

When one thinks of the band Chromatics, they think of the italo/late night disco group fronted by the beautiful Ruth Radelet, but the band didn't start out sounding like this. It would be impossible to try to figure the band out based on their record label releases. They've gone from dirty/sassy/no-wave punk to danceable/Giorgio Moroder-inspired disco. They've also gone through many line-ups with Adam Miller being the only original member. To truly understand how they've transformed into the present-day Chromatics, you would have to listen to all of their self-released tour cd-r's. Since 2003, every time the Chromatics went on tour, they would sell cd-r's made specially for the tour.


http://www.zshare.net/download/59398013a3f52720/


Rat Life Vol. 1



















Track Listing:

01. (Intro)
02. Ice Hatchets

03. Beach of Infants

04. Curtains
05. Jesus

06. Fertile Future
07. Love You

08. Crabs of Sunset
09. Three Hearts
10. In the Garden

11. Monarch

12. Thanks we're KRMTX


Line-up:
Adam Miller - Vocals, Guitar, Drum Programs,Percussions
Nat Sahlstrom - Bass

Rat Life Vol. 2




















Track Listing:

01. Healer
02. Surrogate
03. Three Hearts
04. City Beds

05. Witness

Line-up:

Adam Miller - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Percussion, Melodica, Drum Pograms

Nat Sahlstrom - Guitar, Bass, Drum Programs





Tour CD-R 2004





















Track Listing:

01. Healer

02. Witness
03. Shining Violence
04. Ice Hatchets

05. City Beds


Line-up:

Lena Okazaki - Vocals, Bass, Melodica

Adam Miller - Vocals, Guitar, Drum Programs
Johnny Jewel - Piano, Drums, Arrangements



Unreleased TMU Sessions























Track Listing:

01. Jade, Diamonds, Rubies

02. Mannequin

03. Magic
04. Untitled #1

05. Hands in the Dark

06. Untitled #2

07. Nite Delivery

08. Witness (12" Instrumental Mix)
09. At the Door

10. Healer (12" Mix)


Line-up:

Lena Okazaki - Vocals, Bass, Melodica

Adam Miller - Vocals, Guitar, Drum Programs
Johnny Jewel - Piano, Drums, Arrangements



Shining Violence Demos





















Track Listing:

01. Birds of Paradise

02. Nite

03. Mere Secret

04. Beach of Infants

05. The Guest

06. Date with a Vocoder
07. Glass Slipper
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8. City Beds

Line-up:
Adam Miller - Vocals, Guitar

Lena Okazaki - Vocals, Bass

Johnny Jewel - Drums, Synthesizer



Fall 2006 Demos

























Track Listing:
01. Shining Violence
02. In the City
03. Lady
04. Hotel
05. At the River
06. The Price of Love
07. Hands in the Dark
08. Icey Jungle
09. The Gemini
10. Animal Nitrate
11. Lanterns Flicker
12. The Wanderer
13. Shining Violence (Reprise)
14. Baby
15. The Guest

Line-up:
Adam Miller, Johnny Jewel,
Ruth Radelet

Chromatics Discography:
Beach of Infants 7" (
Hand Held Heart)
Cavecare EP
(Hand Held Heart)
Arms Slither Away 7" (K Records)
Chromatics/Die Monitr Batss split 7" (Gold Standard Labs)
Chrome Rats vs. Basement Ruts (Gold Standard Labs)
Ice Hatchets 7" (Gold Standard Labs)
Rat Life Vol. 1 (Self-Released)
Rat Life Vol. 2 (Self-Released)
Plaster Hounds (Gold Standard Labs)
Tour CD-R 2004 (Self-Released)
Unreleased TMU Sessions (Self-Released)
Healer 12" (Troubleman Unlimited)
Shining Violence Demos (Self-Released)
Nite EP (Troubleman Unlimited)
Fall 2006 Demos (Self-Released)
In the City 12" (Italians Do It Better)
Nite Drive (Italians Do It Better)



*I'll be uploading a video of an old chromatics show circa-2004 when i find the DVD*

15 comments:

  1. PS : could you post the Nite EP released on Troubleman Unlimited ? if you got it, indeed.

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  2. Chromatics are out of this world. Thank you for this post, much appreciated! I found the link here on their official Myspace page blog.

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  3. I'm really interested by your post but the ZShare link seems not work...

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  4. Wow, this is an incredibly cool collection, and it's very generous of you to share with the world, with art and everything. I can't wait to check all of these out!

    Cheers.

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  5. thanks for this post! really cool

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  6. could anyone upload it on another carrier like megaupload or rapidshare, zshare is very unstable and stops downloading at some point far from finishing please!
    thanks

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  7. Many thanks for this really cool stuff cheers !!

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  8. I find this post pretty helpful to me,and you provide information through photo and other, thanks for sharing this information with us.
    Drum programs

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  9. Has this file been deleted? can't get at it.

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  10. Hi, could you please relink the download to these amazing tracks?

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