FRUITED OTHER SURFACES Various Artists 1998

 
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Compilation of noise / experimental bands on Vermiform - Blogatrix  

  

Tracklist

1	Amps For Christ–	Thanksgiving '96	2:43
2	Antisocial Beards–	Ode To The A.S.B.

3:35
3	Bastard Noise–	Repulsive Vision In A Field Of Enormous Beauty	5:04
4	Boomerang (2)–	Roped	3:08
5	Mr. Brinkman–	Frequency Moustache	2:50
6	Bullet In The Head–	Cream	2:20
7	The Catholic Church–	Despoiling The Male	1:46
8	Dropdead–	Untitled

2:32
9	Forcefield (4)–	Sybel Shepurd	1:33
10	Hermit (2)–	Death To The Human Race (Part III)	1:58
11	Huldremose Deleted–	Submerged Displacement Delusion	2:58
12	Human Head–	Liberation Of The Human Head

2:31
13	In Search Of Obsession–	An Excerpt From The Cough Syrup Songs	4:26
14	Jay T. Yamamoto–	Multiple Ejaculator Mix	1:01
15	Krebstar–	Rehab Is For Quitters	1:06
16	Landed–	Coming My Heart	3:13
17	Lightning Bolt–	LB.3.K6K3GU3.GO	3:09
18	Men's Recovery Project–	Verse, Man Owed Money	4:10
19	Mike Nobody–	Rub Salt Into The Wound Until It Tickles	1:04
20	Pleasure Horse*–	4/4

3:12
21	Rah Bras–	Bus Stop	1:39
22	Replikants–	Support Your Local Skyscraper	2:57
23	Rubber O Cement–	.0165 Consult Cardboard Computer	2:14
24	Sinking Body–	Detail Inside Area Outside Vision	0:54
25	Snake In The Monkey's Shadow–	Excerpt From "A Celebration Of Failure"	1:19
26	Spastic Colon–	Have You Ever Had A Spastic Colon?	2:55
27	Tit Wrench–	Both Parties Willing	2:52
28	Vanilla Gross–	Drum & Cymbal (Pink Version)	2:46
29	White Christmas–	The Green Gullies Of Orkney	1:52

 

AMPS FOR CHRIST Thorny Path 1997

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Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny

Electronic primitivist project Amps for Christ was primarily the work of Claremont, California-based Henry Barnes, formerly of sludge metal/hardcore legends Man Is the Bastard and harsh noise offshoot Bastard Noise. An outlet for Barnes' interest in polyethnic folk traditions and faux-Celtic mysticism, Amps for Christ proved equally distinctive for its use of custom-built guitars and electronics, recording with a number of occasional collaborators, including vocalist Tara Tikkitavi, percussionist Joel Connell, and Enid Snarb (possibly an alias for Barnes himself). Beginning with a few cassette releases on lo-fi tape label Shrimper in the mid-'90s, Amps for Christ quietly released new volumes of sound as well as performed sporadically as the years rolled on. Releases of note from the first decade or so of output included 1995's debut Plains of Alluvial, 1997's Thorny Path, 1999's Circuits, 2000's Electrosphere, 2001's Oak in the Ashes, 2004's People at Large, and 2006's Every Eleven Seconds. By the middle of the 2000s, key figures of the burgeoning freak folk meta-movement acknowledged Amps for Christ as an obscure but important early predecessor to the damaged folk sounds of that era. In 2006 Animal Collective invited Barnes and company to open a short West Coast tour with them. This appreciation from a younger generation would continue with Amps for Christ's inclusion on an RRR Records box set of California noise artists in 2008 as well as a collaborative split LP with Brooklyn communal folk-rockers Woods in 2012. Canyons Cars and Crows, Barnes' first release of completely new, singularly Amps for Christ material in over seven years, appeared on Shrimper in 2014. In 2017, Plains of Alluvial was reissued in a limited vinyl release.

Tracklist  

1	Cock Of The Worth	1:28
2	Very Mode-Ular Song	3:47
3	Whisteltron	2:17
4	Native Soil	2:18
5	Inja	1:43
6	Country Core	1:01
7	Patriots	1:00
8	National War	0:40
9	Folkcore	1:49
10	Millennium	1:43
11	Global Warming	0:58
12	Prepared TEAC	0:35
13	Perpared CONN In D Minor	1:30
14	Heathkit	1:40
15	Pain Of The Fire	1:33
16	Carrick Fergus	2:20
17	Lynn Anns' Flower	1:33
18	Raspberry Box	1:40
19	Elleven Twelfths	1:20
20	Hamtar	0:55
21	Old Paint	1:56
22	Wolffskill Falls	1:57
23	Time Is The Coupler	4:24