War Games 95-99 [6CD BOX]

Flutter - War Games 95-99 [6CD BOX]

War Games 95-99 is the definitive and extended collection of the ultimate teenage midwestern three-piece noise band notorious for live shows using a full desktop computer on stage. While there were predecessors to the stage, Flutter was the first mostly computer-generated noise to emerge from the harsh noise subculture dominated by pedals in the '90s tape scene. Unapologetically domestic, Flutter blended seemingly wholesome Midwest extracurricular activities with a soundtrack of suburban angst and placed all of this in a psycho-melancholic explosion of blinded circuitry, twisted band-room freak out and full-on bedroom ultra-creativity that only invention as necessity could birth. Flutter have remained a project for those in-the-know and are the phoenix who rose on the elegant and sinister Elsie And Jack And Chair CD compilations, splits on Xerxes and Bob Marinelli's distorted vision record and who were poised for graduation on the Groundfault album that should have been, here they rise from smoke of the '90s and now firmly rest the trophy of history on the mantel of today's noise-americana. Brutal and fun -- this 6CD box is a collection based around their proper full-length cassette -- War Games -- and extends into obscurities such material from splits with Âmes Sanglantes, Napalm Jesus, material for Joe Lombardo and essentially unheard relics of live recordings, the mysterious Self Abuse tape for Patrick O'Neil's distribution and the fabled and notorious unreleased Groundfault recordings full length CD! Includes unseen time capsule live and recording photos, liner notes/mini poster, and download code, packaged in clamshell box. Painstaking cassette restoration and detective work by Kris Lapke. 01. War Games - 21 Revolution (8:09)_x000D_ 02. War Games - Boredom Cycle (10:40)_x000D_ 03. War Games - You Scratch My Back (8:12)_x000D_ 04. War Games - Killing Floor (3:46)_x000D_ 05. War Games - Child Labor (7:03)_x000D_ 06. War Games - High Rise (5:59)_x000D_ 07. War Games - A Modest Proposal (0:40)_x000D_ 08. War Games - Power Lunch/Penny Arcade (5:52)_x000D_ 09. War Games - Placid Youth Fight Back (3:22)_x000D_ 10. War Games - Social Status On Charts And Graphs/Cut And Paste (7:12)_x000D_ 11. Linoleum - A Machine For Living In (8:21)_x000D_ 12. Linoleum - Family Bath Night (7:18)_x000D_ 13. Linoleum - Dead Mall (4:45)_x000D_ 14. Linoleum - I Can Do Anything With You By My Side (4:16)_x000D_ 15. Linoleum - Spring Break In Cancun (4:50)_x000D_ 16. Linoleum - Last Batch Of Brownies (9:11)_x000D_ 17. Linoleum - A Girl Pool (10:58)_x000D_ 18. Linoleum - Honeymoon Salad (7:20)_x000D_ 19. Linoleum - Jeremy Kaurnen's Car (2:36)_x000D_ 20. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 1 (5:44)_x000D_ 21. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 2 (7:19)_x000D_ 22. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 3 (2:41)_x000D_ 23. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 4 (5:52)_x000D_ 24. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 5 (4:46)_x000D_ 25. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 6 (4:21)_x000D_ 26. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 7 (4:21)_x000D_ 27. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 8 (6:00)_x000D_ 28. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 9 (4:31)_x000D_ 29. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 10 (3:31)_x000D_ 30. Groundfault - Unreleased Ground Fault 1 (9:00)_x000D_ 31. Groundfault - Unreleased Ground Fault 2 (9:06)_x000D_ 32. Groundfault - Unreleased Ground Fault 3 (21:23)_x000D_ 33. Antibody Split - First Snow (6:00)_x000D_ 34. Antibody Split - Harper's Woods (5:15)_x000D_ 35. Antibody Split - Universal Adaptor (5:45)_x000D_ 36. Antibody Split - The Girl Next Door (3:26)_x000D_ 37. Antibody Split - Ghetto Blaster (Live) (5:43)_x000D_ 38. Antibody Split - Home Of The Super Burrito (2:01)_x000D_ 39. Antibody Split - Gigabet (2:37)_x000D_ 40. Napalm Jesus - Introduction By Gabe (11:32)_x000D_ 41. Napalm Jesus - Benny Hinn (7:02)_x000D_ 42. Napalm Jesus - Tammy Fay Baker (4:42)_x000D_ 43. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 1 (15:19)_x000D_ 44. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 2 (4:41)_x000D_ 45. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 3 (4:30)_x000D_ 46. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 4 (3:16)_x000D_ 47. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance