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Jones and Elliott left to pursue their own projects by 1997. Since then, Amp has centered around Charff and Walker plus a succession of collaborators, including:

• Guy Cooper and Gareth Mitchell of The Secret Garden, who worked with Amp on Astralmoonbeamprojections (1997)
• Robert Hampson (Loop/Main), who worked as producer on Stenorette (1998)
• Olivier Gauthier, on Stenorette and L'Amour Invisible (2001)
• Jan Zert, on L'Amour Invisible
• Donald Ross Skinner (a collaborator of Julian Cope), Marc Challans, and Ray Dickaty, on US (2005)

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Discography

• Green Sky Blue Tree (1992)
• Sirenes (1996)
• Astralmoonbeamprojections (1997)
• Perception (1997)
• Passe Present (1997)
• Stenorette (1998)
• Saint Cecilia Sinsemilla (2000)
• L'Amour Invisible (2001)
• US (2005)

References

• Amp page at The History of Rock Music website
• Amp biography on Southern Records website