''Dead Air for Radios'' studio album by

Kevin Moore Kevin Moore (born May 26, 1967) is an American keyboardist, composer, and founder of the Chroma Key music project. He is also a former member of the American progressive metal/ rock band Dream Theater, co-founder of the progressive rock supe ...

, under the musical moniker

Chroma Key Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on colour hues ( chroma range). The technique has been used in many fields to ...

. It was released through Fight Evil Records on December 16, 1998. The album was recorded by

Steve Tushar Steve Tushar is an American Latin Grammy nominated record producer/remixer and musician. He has been a keyboardist, remixer, programmer and producer for metal band Fear Factory, record producer for Beto Cuevas and Chroma Key, and keyboard player fo ...

at Bill's Place Rehearsal Studio in Hollywood, mixed by both Steve Tushar and

with final mastering by Eddy Schreyer. Since its release the album has sold around 10,000 copies.

Themes

The voice of a woman repeating words and numbers in German during "Even the Waves" is from a famous

numbers station A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocal ...

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.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

- vocals, keyboards, bass * Mark Zonder - drums *Jason Anderson - guitars *

Joey Vera Joey Vera (born April 24, 1963) is an American bassist who is known as a member of the heavy metal band Armored Saint and progressive metal band Fates Warning. During 2004 and early 2005, he toured with Anthrax as a fill-in for Frank Bello, who ...

- 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

External links

Official site
where the entire album is available to listen {{Authority control Chroma Key albums 1998 albums