Chrome Sparks - Live at Hype Machine's Hype Hotel

Jeremy Malvin, a former University of Michigan student and current Brooklyn resident, makes fascinating percussion-backed synthesizer tracks under the name Chrome Sparks. Malvin, whose background in classical percussion clearly shines through, plays everything from tambourine to shakers to electric piano, even throwing in the occasional vocal loop.

Chrome Sparks took the stage with help from two friends, mesmerizing the audience at Hype Hotel in Austin with a live performance of cuts from his innovative first EP, Sparks. Check out our 30-minute concert capture from The Syndicate's Conflict of Interest party, featuring some songs that will make you lose yourself in their dreamy and ethereal nature, and other more upbeat tunes which call upon a full drum set and dueling mallet percussion to add that extra something to the pulsating beat.

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- Hahahaha - Oh, no.
I feel music in your eyes Rainbows in your kiss
Rainbows, rainbows
I feel music in your eyes Rainbows in your kiss
I have never reached such heights Could heaven ever be like this?
- The hideous lonely emptiness of existence Nothingness.
The predicament of man forced to live in a barren godless eternity Like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void.
With nothing but waste, horror, and degradation Forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh
Eh eh ooh ooh ooh
I gotta cry
Eh eh ooh ooh ooh
'Cause crying Eases the pain, oh yeah
'Cause crying Eases the pain, oh yeah
Eases the pain, oh yeah
Rain rain
Rain, rain, rain Rain, rain, rain
Rain, rain, rain Rain, rain, rain
I gotta cry I gotta cry
Rain, rain, rain Rain, rain, rain
I gotta cry Rain, rain, rain
Oh, yeah Rain, rain, rain
I gotta cry Rain, rain, rain
Hoo hoo hoo
'Cause cryin' ooh ooh ooh eases the pain, oh yeah Oh, yeah Eases the pain, oh yeah
Bring on the pain Eases the pain, oh oh
Bring on the pain
Eases the pain, oh yeah
Summer time
Get up, get up
Summer time
Get up, get up
Summer time
Start the summer.
Start the heat
I would give it all up for you to be with me
Under the covers Under the sheets
I would give it all up for you to be with me
Get up, get up
Yeah, oh no.
Get up, get up
Yeah, no no
Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Start the summer Start the heat
I would give it all up for you to be with me
Under the covers Under the sheets
I would give it all up for you to be with me
Summer time Summer time
Summer time Summer time
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Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah makes you sing ah
Ah ah ah ah ah
Aahh aahh aahh aahh aahh aahh aahh aahh Aahh aahh aahh aahh aahh aahh aahh
Aahh aahh aahh ah-a-a-a-a ah-ah-a-a-a
Aahh aahh aahh ah-a-a-a-a ah-ah-a-a-a
Aahh aahh aahh ah-a-a-a-a ah-ah-a-a-a
Aahh aahh aahh ah-a-a-a-a ah-ah-a-a-a
Aahh aahh aahh

Chrome Sparks is the project of Jeremy Malvin, a 22 year old musician and producer living in Brooklyn by way of Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor. With a background in classical percussion, Jeremy combines his love for synthesizers, beat music, and dance music into a unique blend. Just before he started studying percussion at University of Michigan, Jeremy bought a pair of Technics 1200s on craigslist. Once in school, he lied and told people he could DJ, and after a few months of spinning house party after house party, that became true.