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Biography
Eat Static was formed in 1989 by Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton as a creative outlet for the diverse range of electronic music that the pair were writing... This year see's them reach the magical 30 years of performing! Always primarily intended as a live band, Eat Static can legitimately claim to be one of the UK's first live techno outfits. Eat Static quickly developed a spectacular live show that included a huge light-show and a giant illuminated brain. A loyal following quickly formed, with the crowds realising that dance could be performed live at a time when 'live' performances by other bands were often mimed PA’s. Since that time Eat Static have played hundreds of gigs headlining festivals and shows around the world.
Early Eat Static releases were on the band’s own imprint - Alien Records, and laid the foundations of the band’s sound with inventive editing, B Movie samples and a sense of humour and unpredictability. They then signed to Michael Dog’s legendary label Planet Dog, which captured the spirit and idealism of a heady time. The album Abduction was a particu
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Eat Static is Merv Pepler, an electronic music project from England, UK formed in 1990. Joie Hinton left the group in February 2008 after 18 years to spend more time with his family.
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 Ozrics incorporated elements of electronic music, Pepler and Hinton were drawn towards the rave-oriented dance music. In 1988 they collaborated on a project under the name of Wooden Baby which hinted at early rave and techno sounds as well as numerous other styles, and by 1990, the project had evolved in to Eat Static. Pepler 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!" The duo toured in parallel with the Ozric Tentacles for several years until 1994, when they left the band to pursu
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EAT STATIC: Chart Success
When Eat Static's last album entered the UK charts at number 11, the techno duo threatened to overshadow the achievements of their previous group, Ozric Tentacles. On the eve of their follow‑up, Jonathan Miller teleports to darkest Somerset to face conspiracy theories relating 'recovered' alien spacecraft to developments in music technology...
In the relatively brief period since the release of Eat Static's acclaimed debut album Abduction in mid‑1993, a host of accolades have been showered upon this unassuming Somerset duo. 1993 ended on a high, with the debut 'Lost In Time' EP achieving 'Single Of The Week' status in Melody Maker, and the group being nominated 'Best Dance Act' in the NME Readers' Poll. The band topped this in 1994 when their second album Implant entered the UK national album charts at number 11, and in 1995 they headlined at the Glastonbury and Phoenix festivals. 1996's 'Bony Incus' release was an instant club favourite, full of pulsating techno beats, and provided a taster of what is to come with the release of the group's thi
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