Eat Static

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

Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton met as drummer and keyboard player (respectively) for the Ozric

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

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!" 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.