SHOP > VARIOUS ARTISTS - SONGS FROM THE HYDROGEN BAR

 There is no doubt about it Chemlab were one of the best bands to come out of the Industrial rock / Coldwave what ever you want to call it scene. Maybe they didn’t make it as big as NIN and Ministry; however their influence on a new generation of bands can’t be mistaken.

 Now to pay tribute we have the album Songs from the Hydrogen Bar (named after the Chemlab website and the band’s first album), a collection of covers from contemporaries of the band and some great new acts.
More than your average tribute album, Songs from the Hydrogen Bar shows a real love and appreciation for Chemlab from all the acts involved.

This is what Jared from Chemlab had to say about the tribute.

"Tributes are so often tired, thought-to-sexlessness, over-produced and then mercilessly stuffed deep into the gaping, pustule-festooned maw of the marketplace these days (thank you, Cleopatra) that to build a tribute record that has anything authentic to deliver is a journey embarked on only by the insane or the desperate. Fortunately, "Songs From The H-Bar" is created by the desperately insane, utterly marginalised and ferociously independent. Capricious too. The selection is varied and sprawls across the dial with great success, leaping with alacrity from beat-shuddered extremes, through 22nd century guitar slash to dub-drenched ambience, all of it bathed in the sickly light of fractured grooves and poisonous experimentation. Tributes are neutered when they reek of respect and conventionality, and "Songs" succeeds by refusing to treat itself or its subject like some sacred cow. I could dissect each track, but that would delay you from buying it. Suffice it to say that it makes Chemlab listenable for me again.

-Jared Louche (Chemlab,/Jared Louche & The Aliens)

Update: All white Label Promos have now been sold. If you want the album now you will have to download it from one of the on-line stores below.

Download the CD artwork here

Download the album or Individual tracks from:

E-music
TuneTribe
Rhapsody
Audio Lunchbox

01. FleshField - Chemical Halo (Brusied Regeneration Suture)
02. Cyanotic - Suicide Jag
03. UCNX - 21st Century (Head Like A Whore Mix)
04. 16 Volt - Neurozone
05. Hindu Pez - Exile On Mainline
06. Infocollapse - Chemical Halo
07. Fetish Project - Derailer
08. K-Nitrate - Codeine, Glue & You (White Line Fever Mix)
09. Insight 23 - Jesus Christ Porno Star
10. Typozorg - Neurozone
11. Cross Contamination - Codeine, Glue & You
12. Upon Eventual Collapse - Megahurts
13. Amorphite - Pyromance
14. Idiot State - Blunt Force Trauma
15. The Vinegar Works - Pink
16. D.Grey - Suture