Dead Air for Radios

Dead Air for Radios
Studio album by Chroma Key
Released	December 16, 1998
Recorded	Bill's Place, North Hollywood, CA
Genre	Electronica
Length	44:04
Label	Fight Evil Records
Producer	Kevin Moore, Steve Tushar
Chroma Key chronology
Music Meant to Be Heard (1995) Dead Air For Radios (1998) You Go Now (2000)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Sputnikmusic	5/5[2]

Dead Air for Radios studio album by Kevin Moore, under the musical moniker Chroma Key. It was released through Fight Evil Records on December 16, 1998.^[3] The album was recorded by Steve Tushar at Bill's Place Rehearsal Studio in Hollywood, mixed by both Steve Tushar and Kevin Moore with final mastering by Eddy Schreyer. Since its release the album has sold around 10,000 copies.^[4]

Themes

The voice of a woman repeating words and numbers in German during "Even the Waves" is from a famous numbers station broadcast on shortwave frequencies. "S.O.S." was one of the first songs Moore wrote for the album. The spoken sample is of a German man Moore met in Santa Fe who described his experiences of hitch-hiking from LA to Santa Fe.^[5] The speech synthesizer in "Hell Mary" recites a paragraph from the Bayside prophecies by Veronica Lueken.^[6] Moore has stated that the song "has something to do with the end of the world, I think. And hallucinogenic visions thereof as experienced by a computer."^[5]

Track listing

All lyrics and music written by Kevin Moore, except track 8 lyrics by Todd Farrington.^[7]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Colorblind"	4:52
2.	"Even the Waves"	6:33
3.	"Undertow"	4:49
4.	"America the Video"	4:32
5.	"S.O.S."	5:25
6.	"Camera 4"	3:49
7.	"On the Page"	4:21
8.	"Mouse (Now Watch What Happens)"	5:41
9.	"Hell Mary"	4:03

Personnel

Musicians

• Kevin Moore - vocals, keyboards, bass
• Mark Zonder - drums
• Jason Anderson - guitars
• Joey Vera - bass on tracks 3, 4, and 5

Production

• Kevin Moore - artwork, producer, mixing
• Steve Tushar - engineering
• Eddy Schreyer - mastering
• Steve Tushar - producer, mixing
• Esther Mera - artwork

References

1. Sheridan, Tim. "Chroma Key Dead Air for Radios". AllMusic. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
2. Voivod (staff) (March 27, 2010). "Chroma Key Dead Air For Radios". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
3. "Dead Air for Radios by Chroma Key". Bandcamp. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
4. "Kevin Moore Japanese Website (ケヴィン・ムーア日本語版オフィシャルウェブサイト)". Kevinmoore.jp. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
5. Gary Davis (1998-08-26). "Artist Shop/Kevin Moore Chat Log". Artist-shop.com. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
6. "UFO's - transports from hell - December 24, 1973". Tldm.org. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
7. "Dead Air For Radios at Discogs". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 2013-09-18.

External links

• Official site where the entire album is available to listen