• A Merchandise archive with images of old t-shirts, buttons, flyers, and misc merch (a fruitelodeon stein?  okay!).  Thanks to Zach Patterson, Mikhail Ivanov, Luke Delengowski, and Kevin Martinez for the images.  I know there’s more out there (anyone have the Gameboy thought-cloud shirt?), so send in what you’ve got!
• As a direct result of creating this image-heavy page, a site-wide improvement of the image galleries has been implemented.  Pages load faster, and images are much easier to navigate as a result.
• A YouTube channel was set up, and playlists were created listing all of the videos and songs I could find on the site.  Some of these playlists have been integrated to the various pages in the archive… which brings me to this:
• A full 53 minute video of a 2006 set has surfaced!  Thanks to Epileptic Peat (of This Place Is Haunted and You Bred Raptors?) for providing the footage, George Force for filming, and Kaptain Carbon for providing the show flyer image.

Fan-designed Heart of Sawdust shirt:

• Color design: Photoshop – 21 MB – PNG – 5.8 MB - Cafepress
• Black and White design: Photoshop – 7.6 MB - PNG – 3.0 MB – Cafepress

Flyers:

• Fourth US Tour Flyer by Chris Berdoz: Full Res PNG – 613 KB

Misc: 

• Thumbs up “Mugelodeon”: Cafepress
• Sprite Slowdown Oval Thing: Cafepress
• Fruitelodeon Stein: Cafepress

I was not in attendance for this show. Heck, I’m not even sure I had even heard of the band at this point. It wasn’t until the Pause re-release of The Final Recordings that I got to experience what I now regard one as one of my favorite albums of all time.  Listening to The Final Recordings for the first time set in motion a chain of events that has led not only to a new appreciation of a branch of music that I hadn’t really explored before, but also to meeting a whole group of people I’m happy to count as friends.  So, despite not even having seen a live Chromelodeon show, I can think of no other band which has had such a profound effect on my life.

Perhaps it’s because I missed out on Chromelodeon’s heyday that I started seeking out live recordings and video clips, looking for glimpses of the “viceral” performances I had only read about. This was the beginning of my own personal archive. It wasn’t until a handful of years later that the idea of putting together an online archive such as this set in.

And now, five years to the date of Chromelodeon’s last show, I’m happy to reveal this ‘labor of love’: the Chromelodeon Archive.

Part of my intent with this website is to have a means to share my endless appreciation of this band with others. In the past, I’ve passed links to the Final Recordings album to friends to be greeted with enthusiastic responses… and then having to guide people through an endless array of broken mediafire links to Chromelodeon’s other, out of print material. This site serves as a central location to grab the past releases.

For those who already have all of the usual stuff and looking to complete their Chromelodeon collections, I wanted to gather up whatever live recordings and rarities I could find. In a lot of cases this was challenging: a LOT of time was spent scrounging through old message board posts only to find long dead links to individual MP3s. Luckily, I’m not the only dedicated fan out there, and a few kind individuals dove into their collections and shared what they had.

As well, I’ve put effort into procuring the highest quality encodings available. Where possible, I’ve included lossless FLAC downloads in addition to the regular MP3s. In cases where no lossless source was available, transcoded sources were avoided. (Yes, I fully admit to being an audiophile douche bag. I’m sure someone out there appreciates my effort.)

Lastly, I intend for this site to become not only a central location for Chromelodeon’s audiovisual output, but to host editorials, reviews, and first-hand accounts of live shows. I’m not really much of a writer so I open up the floor to anyone willing to contribute: shoot me an email!

This website and it’s content would have not have been possible without the contributions and permissions of many, including (but not limited to) the following (in alphabetical order):

Brendan Becker
Chris Berdoz
Dino Lionetti
Edward Tsang
Johnny Rogers
Kyle Crouse
Mikhail Ivanov
Patrick Todd
Pierre Capillon
Ryan Soloby
Shawn Phase

Enjoy.

• Wily’s Castle [4:22] – MP3 – 5.8 MB
• Mysteriousness: Outer Space [6:46] – MP3 – 9.3 MB
• Voder [5:08] – MP3 – 4.7 MB
• Eloquence is Dead [13:19] - MP3 – 12 MB (lyrics)
• Five [6:26] – MP3 – 9.3 MB
• Theatreland [6:07] – MP3 – 7.0 MB

• Remix by Aaron Himelright [4:20]
• Remix by Adam [3:51]
• Remix by Adele [4:10]
• Remix by Brenden [3:57]
• Remix by CJ [3:52]
• Remix by Damien [3:52]
• Remix by Kyle [3:49]
• Remix by Mario [3:51]
• Remix by Tim [4:27]
• Remix by TJ [6:18]

Miscellaneous Remixes:

• Polygon Sun (Temp Sound Solutions vs. Chromelodeon) [3:50] – Bandcamp
• Yusef Plays Higgeldy Piggeldy [4:46] – Soundcloud

• Triangular Womanizer (Britney Spears mashup, version 1) [3:47] – MP3 – 4.7 MB
• Triangular Womanizer (Britney Spears mashup, version 2) [4:17] – MP3 – 9.8 MB

• Doom (alternate ending from live performance) [4:30] – MP3 – 7.7 MB
• G. A. H. (alternate mix, less backing)  [3:57] – FLAC – 23 MB – MP3 – 5.8 MB
• G. A. H. (alternate mix, more backing) [3:57] – FLAC – 22 MB – MP3 – 5.7 MB
• Triangular (alternate mix, less backing) [7:28] – FLAC – 48 MB – MP3 – 11 MB
• Triangular (alternate mix, more backing) [7:31] – FLAC – 50 MB – MP3 – 10 MB
• Triangular (medley of various mixes) [7:25] – FLAC – 44 MB – MP3 – 11 MB
• V.S. (hybrid of unfinished, demo, and live versions, version 1) [3:03] – MP3 – 5.3 MB
• V.S. (hybrid of unfinished, demo, and live versions, version 2) [2:57] – MP3 – 5.0 MB

Notes: These unofficial alternates are combinations of various versions of songs, edited and mixed to highlight sections not included or prominent in the regular album versions.

Edits:

• Two (clean intro) [5:23] – FLAC – 36 MB – MP3 – 10 MB
• Higgeldy Piggeldy (clean outro) [4:45] – FLAC – 35 MB – MP3 – 8.5 MB
• Wackadelly (clean intro) [3:39] – FLAC – 27 MB – MP3 – 6.1 MB
• Aluminum (clean outro) [5:55] – FLAC – 40 MB – MP3 – 9.6 MB

Notes: These unofficial edits were prepared for a radio broadcast where they would be played outside of the context of the album.  The intros and outros were edited to remove the between-song transitions.

• Shuffle (early mix of Triangular) [7:25] – FLAC – 43 MB – MP3 – 11 MB
• V.S. (unfinished and unmastered) [3:09] – MP3 – 4.3 MB
• V.S. (live demo) [2:52] – MP3 – 6.6 MB

Sprite Slowdown demos:

• Ecco The Dolphin 2 (demo) [1:49] – MP3 – 754 KB
• Red Max (early mix) [3:51] – FLAC – 25 MB - MP3 – 6.9 MB
• Road Rash (unfinished and unmastered) [4:42] – MP3 – 6.5 MB
• Sega CD (demo) [2:20] – MP3 – 2.1 MB
• Warsong (demo) [3:28] – MP3 – 3.2 MB
• Zillion (demo) [1:47] – MP3 – 3.3 MB

Misc:

• Live  Show Interlude Collection – MP3 (zipped) – 10 MB

• Polygon Sun (Glitch Master) [3:33] – video by The New Jedi Order / Johnny Rogers – MOV – 204 MB – Youtube – Vimeo
• Red Max [3:53] – video by Jason Clarke – MP4 – 6.2 MB – Youtube – Vimeo
• Triangular Womanizer [4:18] – video mashup by jmr – MP4 – 94 MB – Youtube

Youtube:

1. Red Max [3:56]
   Backing Track: Game Boy + Synths
   Click Track: Game Boy
2. Polygon Sun [3:40]
   Backing Track: Game Boy + Synths
   Click Track: Game Boy
3. Higgeldy Piggeldy [4:31]
   Backing Track: Game Boy
   Click Track: Game Boy + metronome clicks
4. Wackadelly [3:38]
   Backing Track: Game Boy
   Click Track: Game Boy + occasional metronome clicks
5. G. A. H.  [3:46]
   Backing Track: Sequenced backing
   Click Track: Backing + occasional metronome clicks
6. Aluminum [5:57]
   Backing Track: Game Boy
   Click Track: Game Boy + metronome clicks
7. Triangular [6:31]
   Backing Track: Game Boy
8. V. S. [2:35]
   Click Track: metronome clicks
9. Doom [4:24]
   Backing Track: Synths
   Click Track: Drums + Metronome clicks

Downloads:

• MP3 (zipped) – 81 MB
• MP3 (original) – 36 MB
• Polygon Sun – Game Boy (edit) [3:33] – MP3 – 3.31 MB
• G. A. H. – sequenced backing [3:49] – FLAC – 10 MB – MP3 – 4.1 MB

Notes:
This recording was provided to me as a single continuous stereo MP3, with the click track in one channel (for the drummer) and the backing track in the other (for mixing into the PA output).  As these were “never listened to as one stereo image”, when I split the file into individual tracks, I also split it into two mono MP3s.
I also have included versions of Polygon Sun and G. A. H. from alternate, higher quality sources.

Setlist:

1. Finale [2:39]
2. One [5:26]
3. Red Max [3:54]
4. Polygon Sun [3:40]
5. Higgeldy Piggeldy [4:36]
6. Wackadelly [3:37]
7. G. A. H. [3:47]
8. Aluminum [5:54]
9. Triangular [6:35]
10. V. S. [2:39]
11. Doom [4:54]
12. Chaosium Sword [3:02]
13. The Parasprinter [4:08]
14. Ashtar [2:59]
15. Zillion [5:04]
16. Sonic & Knuckles [1:50]
17. Warsong [4:43]
18. Five [5:41]
19. Six [4:15]
20. Voder [5:43]

Audio:

• MP3 (zipped) – 117 MB

Video:

• One [1:33] – MP4 – 6.8 MB – Youtube
• One  [0:31] – MP4 – 2.3 MB – Youtube
• Red Max [1:29] – MP4 – 6.5 MB – Youtube
• Polygon Sun [3:39] – MP4 – 16 MB - Youtube
• Polygon Sun + Higgeldy Piggeldy [1:31] – MP4 – 6.6 MB – Youtube
• Higgeldy Piggeldy [1:30] – MP4 – 6.6 MB – Youtube
• Wackadelly [1:22] – MP4 – 6 MB – Youtube
• V.S. [0:37] – FLV – 1 MB – Myspace
• One + Red Max + Higgeldy Piggeldy + Wackadelly [6:41] – MP4 – 23 MB – Youtube
• G. A. H. + Aluminum + Triangular [8:31] – MP4 – 18 MB – Youtube
• Doom + Parasprinter + Zillion + Five + Six + Voder [9:28] – MP4 – 21 MB – Youtube
• Wackadelly + Triangular + Chaosium Sword + Ashtar + Zillion  [4:16] – MP4 – 9.2 MB – Youtube
• Thunderstorm Chant [0:13] – MP4 – 1.0 MB – Youtube

Youtube:

Flyers:

• Full Resolution JPEGs (zipped) – 45.9 MB

Tracklist:

1. Polygon Sun [3:46]
2. Higgeldy Piggeldy [4:42]
3. Wackadelly [3:38]
4. G. A. H. [3:57]
5. Aluminum [5:53]
6. Triangular [7:28]

Download:

• FLAC (zipped) – 206 MB
• MP3 (zipped) – 47 MB

Artwork:

More Info:

• Pause
• VGMdb
• Discogs
• RYM