Chocolate Synthesizer

by Boredoms

Chocolate Synthesizer cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 July 1994
  • Label: WEA Japan
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:00:21
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The album marks a transitional phase for the Japanese ensemble, moving away from pure noise and chaotic punk toward more structured, rhythmic, and psychedelic compositions. Frontman Yamantaka Eye's frenetic vocalizations and the dual-drummer attack lay the groundwork for the more trance-inducing sounds they would explore later in the decade.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, avant-garde, noisy, experimental, extreme, electronic, abrasive

Tracklist

  1. Acid Police (4:54)
  2. Chocolate Synthesizer (0:51)
  3. Synthesizer Guide Book On Fire (2:27)
  4. Shock City (4:43)
  5. Tomato Synthesizer (3:49)
  6. Anarchy In The UKK (4:41)
  7. Mama Brain (3:59)
  8. Action Synthesizer Hero (4:15)
  9. Uoredoms (6:01)
  10. B For Boredoms (2:44)
  11. Eeedoms (5:02)
  12. Smoke 7 (2:45)
  13. Turn Table Boredoms (4:59)
  14. I'm Not Synthesizer (YPY?) (3:08)
  15. Now Dom Go Synthesizer Way (Why?) (6:03)

Credits

  • Akimoto - artwork by [illust thanx]
  • Dirty Rotten Graphucks - artwork [art work]
  • Ishiguroo - artwork [art work]
  • Shoohey - artwork [art work]
  • ATR - performer
  • Hira - performer
  • Seiichi Yamamoto - performer
  • Toyohito Yoshikawa - performer

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