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FLUTTER
WAR GAMES 95-99 (6CD BOX)
Compact Disc Box Set

Item no. :HOS816 Barcode :0843563193433 Artist :FLUTTER Product type :Compact Disc Box Set Label :HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS Release Date :01 August 2025
 
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‘War Games 95-99’ is the definitive and extended collection of the ultimate teenage midwestern 3-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 90's 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 90’s and now firmly rest the trophy of history on the mantel of today's noise-Americana. 

Brutal and fun - this 6xcd is a collection is 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 containing the following releases:

War games (Self Released)
The Linoleum Tape (Self Released)
Self Abuse Distribution Tape (Self Released / Distributed By Self Abuse)
Unreleased Ground Fault album
Material From The Split Cassette With Antibody (Loud Cat Production)
Joe Lombardo’s Traveling Salvation Show - From The Split Cassette With Napalm Jesus (Self Released/Napalm Jesus)
Material From The Split Cassette With Âmes Sanglantes (Xerxes)
There’s Snow-body Like You - track from V/A ‘White Eye Of Winter Watching’ (Hospital Productions) 
Unreleased live recording -  Live At Weston Theatre - 10:11

Painstaking cassette restoration and detective work by Kris Lapke.

1. War Games - 21 Revolution 08:09
2. War Games - Boredom Cycle 10:40
3. War Games - You Scratch My Back... 08:12
4. War Games - Killing Floor 03:46
5. War Games - Child Labor 07:03
6. War Games - High Rise 05:59
7. War Games - A Modest Proposal 00:40
8. War Games - Power Lunch/Penny Arcade 05:52
9. War Games - Placid Youth Fight Back 03:22
10. War Games - Social Status On Charts And Graphs/Cut And Paste 07:12
11. Linoleum - A Machine For Living In 08:21
12. Linoleum - Family Bath Night 07:18
13. Linoleum - Dead Mall 04:45
14. Linoleum - I Can Do Anything With You By My Side 04:16
15. Linoleum - Spring Break In Cancun 04:50
16. Linoleum - Last Batch Of Brownies 09:11
17. Linoleum - A Girl Pool 10:58
18. Linoleum - Honeymoon Salad 07:20
19. Linoleum - Jeremy Kaurnen's Car 02:36
20. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 1 05:44
21. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 2 07:19
22. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 3 02:41
23. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 4 05:52
24. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 5 04:46
25. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 6 04:21
26. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 7 04:21
27. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 8 06:00
28. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 9 04:31
29. Self Abuse - Self Abuse Distribution Tape 10 03:31
30. Groundfault - Unreleased Ground Fault 1 09:00
31. Groundfault - Unreleased Ground Fault 2 09:06
32. Groundfault - Unreleased Ground Fault 3 21:23
33. Antibody Split - First Snow 06:00
34. Antibody Split - Harper's Woods 05:15
35. Antibody Split - Universal Adaptor 05:45
36. Antibody Split - The Girl Next Door 03:26
37. Antibody Split - Ghetto Blaster (Live) 05:43
38. Antibody Split - Home Of The Super Burrito 02:01
39. Antibody Split - Gigabet 02:37
40. Napalm Jesus - Introduction By Gabe 11:32
41. Napalm Jesus - Benny Hinn 07:02
42. Napalm Jesus - Tammy Fay Baker 04:42
43. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 1 15:19
44. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 2 04:41
45. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 3 04:30
46. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 4 03:16
47. Xerxes - The Shortest Distance Between Two People Is A Good Laugh 5 05:47
48. Flutter C90 - There's Snow-body Like You 07:02
49. Live At Weston Theatre 10:10