Category: Chromatic Flights

Artist: Chromatic Flights
Title: Favorite Cat EP
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk211
Release Date: 2009/05/03

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A long time coming, the third Monotonik release from Chromatic Flights, aka Florida’s Kyle Wyss, debuts after some heavy buzz for his main project, the two-man band Blind Man’s Colour, online.

In fact, with none other than Kanye West linking his Blind Man’s Colour material and the band signed to Kanine Records (Grizzly Bear, Mommy And Daddy), we’re delighted to be continuing to put out his solo material for Monotonik fans.

Continuing from his first and second free releases on Monotonik, ‘Memories From The Audible Color Wheel’ and ‘Heavy Stars Will Fall’, respectively, this new EP continues to layer in gorgeous mixes of shoegazing melodies and electronic goodness. We very much appreciate Kyle’s support and patience.

(And on that front, note to Monotonik listeners – sorry we’ve been slowing down our output of late. Real life — and the overwhelming amount of music available on the Internet — has been intervening. We’ll try to keep it going at a reasonable pace.)

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Credits:
pic by kyle

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Tracklist:
01 – Orangle Balloon
02 – Warmer Morning Storms
03 – Favorite Cat
04 – The Story Of The Sun

Artwork:
Front Cover

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)

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Artist: Chromatic Flights
Title: Heavy Stars Will Fall
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk200
Release Date: 2008/04/06

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Monotonik has made it to its 200th MP3-based release (and probably somewhere over its 400th overall release, counting sublabels and .MODs), and this milestone comes in the form of Chromatic Flights’ second release for the label, ‘Heavy Stars Will Fall’.

Florida-based Kyle Wyss follows up his ‘Memories From The Audible Color Wheel’ Monotonik debut with more vaguely psychedelic, beautifully phrased idm, strangely strung out but wonderfully put together. It starts with ‘Found Glow’, all spaced out groove and smiling pauses.

Other standout tracks include ‘Fish Follow Shine’, with pulsating top notes and a strangely offkilter groove, and the echoing strange beauty of ‘Blue Supergiant’, although any of the 8 tracks can be sampled on its own for much enjoyment. A fitting release for the milestone!

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Credits:
pic by Paul Loudon

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Tracklist:
01 – Found Glow
02 – Moon Heated
03 – Fish Follow Shine
04 – Heavy Stars Will Fall
05 – Blue Supergiant
06 – Star Hop Pt. 1
07 – Star Hop Pt. 2
08 – Preparation Anxiety (First Attempt: Failed, The Second: A Perfect Liftoff)

Artwork:
Front Cover

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)

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Artist: Chromatic Flights
Title: Memories From The Audible Color Wheel
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk184
Release Date: 2007/05/19

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A debut, then, for Florida-based Kyle Wyss, under his electronic music alias Chromatic Flights, with the floating, serene indietronica of ‘Memories From The Audible Colour Wheel EP’ – some of the lusher, more indie-influenced instrumental grooves we’ve run across in a while.

Wyss is just 17 years old, and we’ll let him explain: “This is my first solo EP (Memories from the Audible Colour Wheel), but I’ve been playing in an indie/experimental rock band for about 4 years. I decided over the past year or so that i wanted to make some even more experimental/acoustic organic indie with the advantages of electronic music while still using my own live samples of guitar, keyboard and vocals throughout.”

So, for starters we have ‘What Came To Life When The Toy Store Closed’, all kinds of lush tinkly indie-ish grooves that reminds of Transient vs. some of the more expansive indie organgrinding oddities of recent years, before ‘Trip To Wipilon’ pops up, casually strummed guitar tailing off into ambient airwaves. From there, there’s the radio tune-in of ‘Dripped’ before we end out with ‘A Cold Drift By The Reef’, which is happy and triumphant and reveals itself in carefully choreographed stages. An auspicious start, for sure.

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Credits:
pic by chromatic flights

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Tracklist:
01 – What Came To Life When The Toy Store Closed
02 – Trip To Wipilon
03 – Nado Con El Pulpo
04 – Dripped
05 – A Cold Drift By The Reef

Artwork:
Front Cover

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

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