Eat Static - Prepare Your Spirit

Back to your white noise future

The 1992 debut album by techno trio Eat Static was only available on cassette until a CD issue a decade later, and here it is again for the – no doubt thoroughly bemused – modern dance generation. The olde worlde bleeps and samples in which ES specialised will sound decades old to most but, if you’re over 35, you’ll recall those far-off early 90s days with nostalgia (or horror, depending on your stimulant of choice and how much talcum powder it was cut with).

Reference points are Prodigy’s first album and the very early Orb/KLF stuff, though Eat Static were more mellow and less frantic than either of those contemporaries – as befits their association with the permanently blissed-out Ozric Tentacles, with whom Static founder member Merv Pepler still plays drums. Synth, sampler and sequencer technology has come so far in the intervening 17 years that most of this album will sound pretty dated to even the most resilient survivor of the first glowstick era. Nevermind – there’s bound to be a revival in about five years and, when that happens, Prepare Your Spirit will be the ideal soundtrack.

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Reviewed by Joel McIver
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