Cyberchrist (EP)

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Cyberchrist
Sphere Lazza - Cyberchrist.jpg
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Released1993 (1993)
Genre
Label Reactor
Sphere Lazza chronology
Fatal Ignorance
(1993)
Cyberchrist
(1993)
+incinerate
(1994)

Cyberchrist is the second EP by Sphere Lazza, released in 1993 by Reactor Records. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Music

The song "Justified?" from Cyberchrist was released on Blood and Computers II: The Return of the Cyberpunks by Paradise Movement and later on the band third EP +incinerate and Electro Industrial Assassins by Cleopatra Records in 1995. [5] The album was remastered and packaged with the band's next release, titled +incinerate , for the band's 1995 compilation album Incinerate on Fifth Colvmn Records. [6] [7]

Reception

Sonic Boom called Cyberchrist "habitually addictive dance industrial" and said "very original work here, a bit of the deep background percussion is mildly reminiscent to older Front by Front area Front 242, but the comparison ends there." [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tony Spaz and David Trousdale.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Under Pressure"4:26
2."Victim of the Flesh"5:03
3."Cyberchrist"3:07
4."Damned Nations"2:10
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Justified?"3:19
2."Diminish" 
3."Mortal Wounds"5:05

Personnel

Adapted from the Cyberchrist liner notes. [9]

Sphere Lazza

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1993Reactor CS 001

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  5. "Various Artists: Electro Industrial Assassins > Overview". AllMusic . Retrieved September 4, 2020.
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  9. Cyberchrist (booklet). Sphere Lazza. Ocala, Florida: Reactor Records. 1993.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)