Chakk - 10 Days In An Elevator

Requested by Brewmaster. Chakk was: Mark Brydon, Dee Boyle, Sim Lister, Jake Harries Profile: Chakk existed between 1982 and 1987. Their first single, Out of the Flesh, was recorded by Richard Kirk at Cabaret Voltaire's Western Works Studio and reached No. 3 in the UK Indie Chart in the Autumn of 1984. The next single You/They Say, released on their own FON label the following March, was also an Indie Chart top 10 and lead to publishing and recording deals with MCA Music and MCA Records. The size of the advance they got from MCA Records is something of a legend since it was large enough to finance the building of Sheffield's first large commercial recording studio, FON Studios, completed in the summer of 1985. Chakk's original sound was centred around Alan Cross' eight track tape machine, some self built effects and small mixing desk. They had always believed that the most important instument a band could use was the studio itself. FON became a successful commercial studio after the recording of Chakk's album Ten Days in an Elevator (1986), and was a focal point for local sound engineering talent. Robert Gordon, Alan Fisch, Steve Cobby and Phil Jones, to name just a few, spent time honing their skills there. Chakk left MCA after their album failed to sell in sufficient quantities to satisfy the record label accountants and, back on the Fon label, released the Time Bomb ep in autumn 1986. The band decided to split in the following year. Tracklisting: 1 Stare Me Out (4:43) 2 Imagination (Who Needs A Better Life) (5:06) 3 Big Hot Blues (5:26) 4 Over The Edge (7:28) 5 Lovetrip (5:08) 6 She Conceives Destruction (5:22) 7 Falling (5:02) 8 Years I Worked (6:49) 9 Murderer (5:42) 10 Big Hot Mix (3:41) 11 Stare Me Out (Crash Mix) (7:37) 12 Cut The Dust (5:54)

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gangway (2009-05-08)

Can't wait to hear what this is all about! I have some music by bands such as Essential Logic ,The Cravats, and The Lounge Lizards ( w/ Arto Lindsay of DNA ) which kind of fall into that label of Experimental Jazz/Post-Punk ethos. Tnx 80zforever! Always keeping it interesting and diverse! Hats off!

Brewmaster1 (2009-06-10)

Thanks a million 80z! Great!

smurphyzeke (2011-03-04)

Thanks

the808 (2011-04-20)

erikphnx of course you don't know about them, these are RARE posts, none of us know most of these bands, we all decide to "check them out", you sound silly, this is about music exploration, not a what you know or don't know game

JohnPaul_II (2011-07-10)

Thanks a lot for this. Just heard of them in a film about Sheffield music, looking forward to hearing it.

k-372 (2011-08-14)

Oh my!!! I used to love Chakk!!! They were back around '84/'85 viewed as one of Sheffield's coolest bands!
Sadly they never did live up to the promise (or the hype), and by the time that this album came out, their star was already falling.
Not sure about the rest of them, but Mark Brydon went on to considerable critical/commercial success with Moloko... while Jake Harris and Simeon Lister went on to form Heights of Abraham, with releases on Lister's Twenty Three Records and the legendary ZTT!