Amp are an English electronic

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band formed in

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by Richard F. Walker (also known as Richard Amp) in 1992, after collaborating with David Pearce of

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on The Secret Garden and the Distance projects. Amp recorded the

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''Green Sky Blue Tree'' with Ray Dickaty (subsequently a member of

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and

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, amongst others), while Walker was studying at the

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in 1992. After a two year break, Amp resurfaced with French vocalist Karine Charff, Bristol experimentalists Matt Elliott (Flying Saucer Attack and later The Third Eye Foundation), and Matt Jones (

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) on board. MC Strong in 'The Great Indie Discography' described Amp as "Occupying musical territory somewhere between shoegazing and the Bristol 'Trip Hop' sound, AMP had created a work of sweeping soundscapes, echoing ambience and waves of feedback." Jones and Elliott left to pursue their own projects by 1997. Since then, Amp has worked with Charff and Walker and a succession of collaborators, including: *Guy Cooper and Gareth Mitchell of The Secret Garden, who worked with Amp on ''Astralmoonbeamprojections'' (1997) * Robert Hampson (

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), who worked as producer on ''Stenorette'' (1998) *Olivier Gauthier, on ''Stenorette'' and ''L'Amour Invisible'' (2001) *Jan Zert, on ''L'Amour Invisible'' (2001) *Marc Challans on ''US'' (2005) *Ray Dickaty, on ''Green Sky Blue Tree'' (1992), ''US'' (2005), ''Transmissions (Phase 1)'' (2005), ''All Of Yesterday Tomorrow'' (2007) *

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(a collaborator of

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and former member of Baba Looey), on ''US'' (2005), ''Motus'' (2008), ''Oetinger Villa'' (2009), ''Outposts'' (2011) Walker has also released solo records as "Richard Amp" and "Amp Studio".

Discography

*''Green Sky Blue Tree'' (1992) *''Sirenes'' (1996) *''Astralmoonbeamprojections'' (1997) *''Perception'' (1997) Darla US, Ampbase UK *''Passe Present'' (1997) *''Stenorette'' (1998) *''VV.AA. - A Tribute to Spacemen 3'' (1998) *''Saint Cecilia Sinsemilla'' (2000) *''L'Amour Invisible'' (2001) *''US'' (2005) *''Transmissions (Phase 1)'' (2005) *''All Of Yesterday Tomorrow'' (2007) *''Motus'' (2008) *''Oetinger Villa'' (2009) *''Outposts'' (2011) *''Live At Corsica Studios'' (2013) *''Switched On And Live'' (2016) *''Q Factors (A Mixtape)'' (2017) *''Entangled Time'' (2018)

References

External links

official Amp website Amp page at bandcamp.com website Amp page at discogs.com website Amp page and biography on Apple Music
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