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Eat Static are Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton, a dance music project from England formed in 1990.

Contents 1 History 2 Musicology 3 Discography 3.1 CD 4 Other projects 5 External links

History

Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton met as drummer and keyboard player (respectively) for the Ozric Tentacles, a long-standing psychedelic "space-rock" band from Somerset. Although the Ozric Tentacles incorporated elements of electronic music, Pepler and Hinton were drawn towards the rave-oriented dance music. Merv explained: "There we were in Ozrics doing all this technically impressive, weird music with mad timings, and getting really involved with it, and this experiment that became Eat Static was a good excuse to ignore all that, get the synths out, and be as stupid as we could!" 1 The duo launched Eat Static in 1990 and toured in parallel with the Ozric Tentacles for several years. In 1994, they left the band to pursue Eat Static full-time.

Their first release, Abduction, immediately established the extra-terrestrial/U.F.O. obsession which is a running motif in their samples, track and album titles, and release artwork.

Musicology

Although most often associated with the psychedelic trance genre, the band actually span almost all forms of dance music, including trance, techno, gabber, drum and bass, and breakbeat. As such they are well-compared to other hard-to-categorise children of the British rave scene, like The Prodigy, Underworld, Orbital and Leftfield.

The electronic elements are frequently mixed with elements of Latin and world music, jazz, absurdist masturbatory soloing, and so on, which helps to give the band's work its distinctively tongue-in-cheek humour, along with the often kitsch vocal samples from B-Movies and TV.

Despite the quote above, Eat Static are also notable within dance music for their frequent use of time signatures other than 4/4.

As of 2005, Eat Static continue to tour their live act.

Discography

CD

• Abduction (Planet Dog Records 1993)
• Implant (Planet Dog Records 1994)
• Epsylon (Mammoth Records 1995)
• Science of the Gods (Planet Dog Records 1997)
• B-World (Planet Dog Records 1998)
• Alien EPs (Mesmobeat Records 1999)
• DecaDance (Mesmobeat Records 1999)
• Crash and Burn! (Mesmobeat Records 2000)
• Prepare Your Spirit (Mesmobeat Records 2000)
• In The Nude! (Mesmobeat Records 2001)

Other projects

Eat Static also produced the soundtrack for the RTS game Conquest Earth, published by Eidos Interactive. The game media also contains the music in Red Book audio format, allowing it to be played back in any standalone CD player.

External links

• EatStatic.co.uk - official website
• An interview with Eat Static in Sound on Sound magazine

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