Silver Apples are what we stand for, a weird beat you can dance and go WTF to at the same time, all in a tune, Program is but the archetype (Hallogallo, Kiss me Again, Mother Ski, Sister Ray, Ruckzuck, Windowlicker, U.F.O. would be other examples). ‘Why do people bother doing music after this?’ asked Massimo the other night when I played them… I guess the kids like to try, we 20JFG nerds observe excited from a privileged position by the side of the road, even the most horrible crashes burn with a beautiful fire.

Chromatics are driving a slick black cadillac in this long trip through Death valley 69, they have been doing it for a long time and today we are posting three different laps of their admirable journey, they drive slow because sometimes intensity expands more effectively sideways than forward, what does it matter depth or length if the blade is sharp enough and the poison sweet, here you have them covering Program by our Silver Apples in three different ways, the first is taken from Plaster Hounds, recorded live back in the days when they were a low fidelity savage post-punk outfit, the other two are more recent demos they gallantly made available in their myspace page, after their weird mutation into shiny and dark disco spiders: while the former one keeps the original rythm oscillating back and forth dizzy yet deadly like Joshua Merlyn’s bulky murderous frame, the latter burn slowly with the neon flame of ice cold psycho-electroid torch-song synths, we stand in awe as a mysterious and otherwordly radio transmission takes our breath away once again, more than 30 years after it was first captured.

Chromatics- Program (Live from Plaster Hounds)

Chromatics- Program (Demo No. 1 2006)

Chromatics- Program (Demo No. 2 2006)

We can’t wait to get our mitts on their forthcoming Shining Violence album, coming out later this year in Troubleman.

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