Chaos Royale

After a year of false starts, the first real Chaos Royale album “You realize, this means war” is finally available.

Initially this was intended to be an album full of heavy but crowdpleasing tunes like Anna Supernova or Spartan Ogre, but for reasons I’ll go into another time it expanded into something more ferocious.

A highlight for me is the inclusion of a track featuring the 8-bit sounds of NYC gameboy guru Bit Shifter, plus a duet with {name removed} which…you’ll understand when you hear it.

The whole album is guaranteed to upset dubstep purists, chiptune purists, and noise purists alike but if you like to really dig deep into massive, complex, layered sounds, there’s a lot to discover in it for you.

Also, the basslines are fucking savage.

In the leadup to the new album: here is a short trailer featuring live video to a track off the album, “Spartan Ogre”.

The album is crazy, I’ve finally overcome my doubts about it, and it will drop in December 2011.

I don’t usually write about my “creative process” because it’s mostly nothing more than “hear noises in my head, try to make those noises outside of my head”, however the collaboration with Bit Shifter at Saturday’s Blip Festival Tokyo was such an anomaly I thought it might interest a few people to see how it happened. Read the rest of this entry »

Longtime friend of Luke Chaos, Japanese actress and model Aya Tensho has a matching set of 2 CR jewelry pieces. A piece based on her gorgeous custom choker will soon be on sale at a select shop in Shinjuku and can also be ordered from the  jewelry page .