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Christopher Horne, known on-stage as christ., is a Scottish musician. He disclaims any religious meaning in the stage name; he describes it as short for his full name, and the full stop or period as indicating that status as an abbreviation.
christ. performs as a solo electronic music artist, and his music is often likened to that of the (also Scottish) electronic group Boards of Canada. In fact, credited as Chris H., he was an early participant in the nebulous Hexagon Sun collective from which Boards of Canada emerged, and was a collaborator with the group until approximately 1995. He appeared on the Twoism album, reissued by Warp in 2002. Horne’s departure was amicable and he thanks the duo on his Pylonesque EP issued on the Benbecula Records label in 2001. He followed this release with a full-length album Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle on the same label which was very well received within the genre.
christ. has toured the UK, Europe and Japan and performed a live session for John Peel at Maida Vale studios in London on 17 December 2003. This session became notable among Peel’s fans as being the only known occasion upon which the legendary DJ requested an encore. He released his fourth full-length album, his second for Benbecula, on 22 January 2007 (after delays, due to manufacturing and marketing issues extending past the intended November 2006 date).
Show me show me (3xs)
What about, w-what about the one?
Hold up can anybody really tell me why we stand up
And shout and dance, waving our hands without a purpose
Cause everything I hear today is really really catchy catchy
But I can't quite catch on to the real real message.
*The way, the truth, the life is still Christ but
How would you know from what is shown?
Between what's right and wrong is there separation?
I wanna know where we wen't wrong.
**What about the C.H.R.I.S.T?
Somebody tell me. Somebody tell me.
Why don't we still B.E.L.I.E.V.E
He never changes? His word is ageless
Well here's a wake up call,
Are you for him or against him?
Don't you know that you're losing time-time?
So show me show me.
I wanna see what you're saying.
Don't need no wishy-washy-ness.
That's just not the way we act. No-uh-uh.
Uh-uh~, Oh-uh-uh~, Uh-uh~
What about the one, one?
We're fighting for the only one
Who was and is and is to come.
Will you be ready (when he appears?)
Or will you give in to what sounds good,
Looks good, feels good? Am I understood?
*, **
What you see on MTV, in magazines,
And what society says you should be
Is all designed to deceive and distract you
From the one who died for you.