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Chroma Key is the brainchild of ex-Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore. It takes the form of very mellow and slightly somber, fairly ambient experimental progressive rock and electronica, which is predominantly keyboard-centred, having practically no common characteristics with what Moore had done with Dream Theater.

Moore has released three albums as Chroma Key:
Dead Air for Radios (1998)
You Go Now (2000)
Graveyard Mountain Home (2004)

All Chroma Key releases have been self-produced and recorded in Moore’s home studios, the locations of which change from album to album.

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progressive rock, ambient, electronic, progressive, atmospheric
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InSorrowWeTrust wrote:
Thursday afternoon

Omg White Robe.

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dtismajesty wrote:
last month

Why not? "Progressive" doesn't mean instrumental talent, solos, and poor songwriting. This is different, and pushing boundaries, so I think it's much more progressive than Dream Theater. Not to many albums like Graveyard Mountain Home, Black Clouds and Silver Linings had been done 100 times before

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TrexxxXx wrote:
last month

they are not related with progressive rock. i think it has been tagged progressive rock beacuse of Kevin Moore

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alex-sonar wrote:
October 2009

wtf with people tagging this as progressive rock

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ColorSlaughter wrote:
October 2009

I hate OSI but love chroma key. :(

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Highhopes4ever wrote:
October 2009

Hey, @Tibberclaw, about the "He needs to get together with Steven Wilson and do some OSI-like blending of styles", yeah sure, or maybe he just needs to do his own thing here.... First time i am listening to Chroma Key (since i recently became a big OSI fan) and first impressions are really good!

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Tibberclaw wrote:
September 2009

If someone gave me all 3 CK albums and made me guess the order they were released, I'd probably think it was the reverse of their actual order. Really like "Undertow", "Get Back In The Car", "Nice To Know", and "When You Drive" Can't believe this guy came from Dream Theater. I'm glad he left though. He needs to get together with Steven Wilson and do some OSI-like blending of styles.

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Thanat0s wrote:
August 2009

@ betolol No questions asked he is much more creative and talented. Go listen to Space-Dye Vest, then listen to something Rudess wrote.

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UnaLaguna wrote:
August 2009

Kevin Moore has recently made the entire of his Memory Hole 1 album available as a free download. It is available in the Audio section of the Chroma Key website http://www.chromakey.com/

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eGe5 wrote:
August 2009

dead air for radios is amazingg

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bmac45 wrote:
August 2009

great songs

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OCVfan wrote:
July 2009

give a listen to my alltimefavourite-band! www.myspace.com/ourceasingvoice

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UnaLaguna wrote:
June 2009

http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/osiinterview.htm Q: "What is the status of [Chroma Key] at this time?" A: "I’m looking at it. I’m not sure. We just finished this project and usually I take a little break from writing. So as soon as I start writing, I’ll see what direction I go in."

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Budenbroki wrote:
June 2009

OSI much more better and he did more successfuly

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Delirium-Cordia wrote:
June 2009

Just because someone is doing something "new" with their sound doesn't make it progressive and progressive doesn't always have to be incredibly technical, either. I'd say this sounds like Electronica with a more atmospheric approach. So many people have this tagged as prog because Moore came from a Progressive metal band, so everyone automatically assumes that it's a prog project.

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benxander wrote:
May 2009

CK seems to be a cross between electronica and ambient

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UnaLaguna wrote:
May 2009

In most of the CK reviews I've read the reviewer has had difficulty classifying the music. I guess it's progressive in the sense it's doing something new and different, not because it's incredibly technical. But to give CK the same label as, say, Genesis, seems wrong. At the end of the day, the label we give the music doesn't really matter.

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Paulmace wrote:
May 2009

If it's not prog, what is it then?

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tihsymtae wrote:
April 2009

There's some really good stuff here, but I really didn't like Graveyard Mountain Home. I'm looking forward to the new OSI album.

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degradinglight wrote:
April 2009

Only preview tracks... Someone do something about that.

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