Rhotation, (14) Into BPM

Hello, Into BPM again today. Starting off the 14th Rhotation are 3 groups that found their musical footing in other succesful acts, in a way they are split offs that have become successful in their own right, no mean feat i should think. Eat Static broke away from Ozric Tentacles to persue that 303 beat hypnotising the rave scene of the day, they threw in some alien/ X-files vibe and went with it..to this day. The Aloof came forth from Sabres of Paradise, first a single here and there until the whole project solidified in 1994 with the release of their first album, Cover The Crime, it was recieved well and they released several more until 2000 afterwhich things have gotten rather quiet around them. Lastly The Grid, Dave Ball of cause was the musical brain behind Soft Cell..still is, and with the Grid he scored some more points, with the help of partner, Richard Norris, featuring on this album are friend Robert Fripp aswell as future ' Propellorhead' Alex Gifford.

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Eat Static - Implant (94 Flac 426mb)

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, Aphex Twin and Leftfield.

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. 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 into Eat Static. The duo toured in parallel with the Ozric Tentacles for several years until 1994, when they left the band to pursue Eat Static full-time. Pepler and Hinton are often joined in the studio by Eat Static's invisible third member Steve Everitt.

Their first album 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. The band's name is taken from a sample (as found on the track Eat Static) from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Implant, their second album, opens floatingly, but then the 303 rhythms and keyboards kick in , and let the progressive house unwind, quick and kicking, with vibes abound. The overall air of spacey samples and sonics at once give the band its identity fusing ambient/new age traces with sharp, slamming beats using differing drum styles and loops aiming for an almost tribal-level of experience before shooting up and out even higher halfway through.

A year later they compiled to EP's into their 3rd album Epsylon(95) , followed by , Science of the Gods(97) showing a sharper, darker techy sound compared to the more organic feel of the previous work. In 98 they released a live album B-world, a collection of various live performances recorded across the UK. Decadance (99) a round up of out takes , before releasing Crash and Burn (2000). With In The Nude (2001) Eat Static recovered some ground but the music scene was moving away from them, still they've kept going and last year they released De-classified, " dedicated to the memory of John Peel, a true maverick and a lover of all music wacky'n weird... You will be sorely missed."



1 - Survivors (7:44)
2 - Abnormal Interference (8:24)
3 - Implant (10:03)
4 - Dzhopa Dream (8:17)
5 - Panspermia (8:02)
6 - Area 51 (Nucleonic Mix) (9:24)
7 - Cydonia (9:00)
8 - Uforic Undulance (10:25)


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The Aloof - Cover The Crime  ( 94 Flac 476mb)

The Aloof were a British rock/electronica supergroup, mixing electronic and dance elements with dub influences. They formed as a strictly dance squad and only later added a vocalist and employed tighter song structures. The band began in 1990 when DJ Dean Thatcher and producer Jagz Kooner (also a member of Andrew Weatherall's Sabres of Paradise) issued the single "Never Get out of the Boat" . By the following year, the duo added vocalist Ricky Barrow and programmer Gary Burns (also with the Sabres) and recorded several singles. The Aloof got fed up with the burnt-out house scene and decided to become a true live band. Adding drummer Richard Thair (later with Red Snapper) in 1993, the expanded quintet set up their own label, Flaw Records, and released Cover the Crime in 1994. The album was well recieved, and earned the Aloof a contract with East West, which reissued the LP in 1995 and also released their second album Sinking one year later. The group played several festivals during the summer of 1996, and watched their single "One Night Stand" reach the British Top 30 late that year. The album Seeking Pleasure followed in 1998, though the group was dropped from East West after weak sales and a shake-up in the label's dance division. Kooner left soon after, and the Aloof moved to Screaming Target Records for 1999's This Constant Chase for Thrills. Not much has been heard of them since, though their myspace has 4 new tracks and lists 2007 line up: Ricky Barrow, Dean Thatcher, Richard Thaid, David Stone and Nick Avinit , i guess that means they are still out there making music.



1 - Cover The Crime (11:35)
2 - Circumstances (7:57)
3 - Society (9:21)
4 - Religion (11:54)
5 - Mind (11:24)
6 - Excursion 94 (4:37)
7 - Victim (Version) (7:10)
8 - Too High (7:43)

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The Grid - Evolver (94 Flac 418mb)

The Grid formed after Richard Norris met Dave Ball in 1987 during the recording of 'Jack The Tab', one of the UK's first Acid House albums. The album was co-produced by Norris and Genesis P.Orridge. The Grid had their first success with the debut single, Floatation in 1990. They went on to release a string of singles and three albums ('Electric Head', '456' and 'Evolver') and a compilation ('Music For Dancing'). Their 1994 single Swamp Thing, was widely popular and sold a million copies. The Grid's 1994 album Evolver, which contained the Swamp Thing single, reached number fourteen in the UK album charts. Other hits by The Grid include Texas Cowboys, Rollercoaster and Flotation. The band took a break in 1995. Contrary to popular belief, The Grid never actually split up, they just mutually agreed to put the act "on ice" so they could both pursue individual music interests they felt would help them to expand musically & that would eventually enhance The Grid in the long term when they decided to continue with the act.

Richard Norris went away and formed The Droyds which went on to remix the likes of Perry Farrell, Black Grape. His electronic band the Droyds have remixed Ladytron, Client and Armand Van Helden amongst others. He has also just finished writing the official biography of Paul Oakenfold which wass published by Bantam Press on 24th Sept 2007. Dave Ball reformed Soft Cell with Marc Almond (another act that has never officially split up) and released a new album on Cooking Vinyl Records, Cruelty Without Beauty, to critical acclaim as well as a live version of classic Soft Cell material and new tracks. Currently he is remastering/remixing a Soft Cell compilation, "Heat" .

By 2005 the pair were back together , as it happens The Grid just released a new single in late 2007 entitled Put Your Hands Together .. A 2nd single is planned along with a new album to follow in 2008 entitled Doppelganger.



01- Wake Up (7:53)
02 - Rollercoaster ( Voc.Susannah Melvoin) (6:34)
03 - Swamp Thing (6:41)
04 - Throb (5:04)
05 - Rise ( Voc.Donna Gardier )(6:07)
06 - Shapes Of Sleep (6:44)
07 - Higher Peaks (6:11)
08 - Texas Cowboys (5:51)
09 - Spin Cycle (5:31)
10 - Golden Dawn (8:35)

The Grid - Evolver (94 ^ 147mb)

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