Eat Static

Eat Static is J Hinton, M Pepler and S Everitt. A splinter group from Ozric Tentacles (consisting essentially of the rhythm section), Eat Static specialises in an up-tempo, spacey trance-techno, with some Eastern elements. Two early '90's albums were released on the Planet Dog record label, 'Abduction' and 'Implant', along with the excellent 'Lost In Time' EP. They gained a huge following thanks to the MegaDog circuit, where they have played numerous live gigs. Further single releases included the Bony Incus EP and Epsylon EP, which saw Eat Static explore the realms of harder trance and drum and bass. Eat Static then moved to Mammoth Records and released their 'Science of the Gods' album in 1997, followed by a live album, 'B-World', which featured live and exclusive tracks. 2001 saw the release of the album 'Crash and Burn'.

Track Listing: Prana Gulf Breeze Kalika Splitting World Kinetic Flow Forgotten Rites Abduction Intuder Xenomorph Inner Peace

This is a great album. Released in '93 on Planet Dog Records, there's some really rhythmetrical tracks here that aren't like a lot of Eat Statics earlier material, which tended to be a little plinky plonkey and squelchy!

Track Listing: Survivors Abnormal Interference Implant Dzhopa Dream Panspermia Area 51 - Nucleonic Mix Cydonia Uforic Undulance

Released 1994 on Ultimate Records. Rather standard bleepy trance with Cydonia and Dzhopa Dream standing out a bit. Thanks to Brian Harris for this information.

Track Listing: Lost in Time Gulf Breeze Zetan mix The Brain

Released 1993 on Planet Dog Records. Gulf Breeze is probably one of Eat Statics finest tracks ever. The original mix of Gulf Breeze is on the Abduction album.

Track Listing: Epsylon Dionysiac Peeow! Undulattice Uforic remix

Released 1995 on Planet Dog Records. The title track is opens all very atmospherically, typical Eat Static. The beat kicks in with a host of accompanying blips, squelches and other atypical Eat Static samples, but they fail to liven up this slow affair.....onto Dionysiac, which is more of a drum n bass kind of thing, with ethnic samples woven in....too clickerty clackerty for my liking. Peeow is yet more samples strung together, this time to a housey type beat. Boring. Its only Undulattice that saves this EP. A solid beat throughout, ethnic chants, flutey bits and the usual Eat Static squelchy bits. And it's a track that actually goes somewhere which is something the other tracks on this EP fail to do.

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Track Listing: Original mix Remix by the Man With No Name Shape Head mix Mucor mix

Released in the UK early '96 on Planet Dog Records. The Original mix is a kicking track for Eat Static and just proves they can produce stuff that's not all bleeps and squelches. Its got a scorching psychedelic/hard-trance remix courtesy of the Man With No Name. Stomp on Eat Static!

Track Listing: Hybrid - Eat Static Remix Hybrid - Dave Angel Remix Yum Yum Remix

Released 1997 on Planet Dog Records.

Track Listing: Contact - De Niro Remix (7.53) Contact - Jon the Dentist Remix (7.13)

Released 1998 on Planet Dog Records. Home straight in on the Jon the Dentist Remix which is an excellent hard-edged trancer.

Track Listing: Contact - Eat Static Remix (9.58) Contact - Jon the Dentist Remix (7.16) Contact - Live Version (9.22)

Released 1998 on Planet Dog Records. Great stuff, straight-on Eat Static sound through all three hard-hitting tracks. Thanks to Brian Harris for this information.

Track Listing: Mondo A Go-Go! - Radio Edit Bondo Mondage Wall Banger

Released 5/00 on Mesobeat. All tracks written by Eatstatic. Decks and scratches on track 3 by Will White. Taken from the album 'Crash and Burn'.

Other Info :

For further information on Eat Static see their official web site.

All previous releases on the Planet Dog label are still available from Planet Dog directly. See the official Planet Dog web site.