Mick Barr doing Christmas songs? Yep, this 7" from a few years ago features Mick Barr (Orthrelm/Octis/Ocrilim) as part of his old spazz-tech-core duo Crom-Tech doing twelve versions of classic Christmas songs like "Silent Night", "Deck The Halls", "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" and pretty much every other holiday staple you can imagine. The thing is, these renditions are given new titles like "Silent Plarm", "Here Comes Mobo-Clais", "O-CLimtwist Tree", "Crestnobs On Open Flimor" and are otherwise totally mutated by the bizarre sci-fi stylings of Crom-Tech, and the music itself is only barely recognizable. The original festive melodies are now speedy, fucked up skronk freakouts, trilly shredfests over Malcolm McDuffie's hyperactive clatter explosions, while goofy chipmunk vocals spew out crazed drug-blasted variations of the original lyrics, the voices sped up and slowed down as if being played back on a malfunctioning tape recorder. Completely fucking INSANE. This was originally recorded and released in 1996 as a cassette, but was reissued on red colored vinyl by Troubleman for this release, in a limited edition of 750 copies. We have limited quantities of this, as you might expect.