COMPILED INFO ON EON

Appeared at Echo Club, Dampfzentrale Bern, Switzerland: Saturday, March 2nd 2002
EON (Longhaul/Trelik/Ifach/Vinyl Solution UK)
supported by Smat (Electro_Shox CH)

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IAN LOVEDAY - EON
Better known as Eon, he did some very good electro-inspired trancey techno, sometimes with samples from science-fiction movies, on Vinyl Solution, including the album 'Void Dweller', and has produced several tracks together with Peter Ford, such as 'Fetish' on 'Bford9', 'A kind of living' (on 'Void Dweller'), 'What is music' (Eon 12'') and 'Dead Eye' (ifach 001) Beside the Minimal Man project, there have been some 12''es on Peter Ford's Trelik label as Tan Ru and R. Rash, two releases ('Wave Angel' and 'Phaze Test') on Jonathan Saul Kane's Electron Industries label and a four track e.p. on Peter's PAL SL label. In the last few years his style has turned more minimal; his releases on Trelik are music for both body and mind, a cleverly produced sort of 'progressive' dance-techno. With Mark Moore of S'Xpress fame, however, he has also produced house tracks.

IAN LOVEDAY - MINIMAL MAN
Minimal Man is a collaboration of Baby Ford and Ian Loveday aka Eon that started in 1993 after the BFORD9 phase. Ian and Peter had been producing 'Fetish' and 'A kind of living' before; indeed Minimal Man has been one of the most important projects that set the spirit for the foundation of the Ifach and Trelik labels. The first release was the 'Minimal Man E.P.' on William Orbit's Guerilla label, a soulful and dubby techno house record with a certain disco flavour and warm analogue, yet powerful technoid sounds combined with awesome samples (Might be hard to find these days, but if you can get it, don't miss it.) The style they introduced with this 12'' was developed further and put in a more technoid, less housey concept with a release on Vinyl Solution called 'Treatment feel', an excellent 3-split track moving somehow between the 'tribal' elements of the Guerilla e.p. and the tricky rhythms they used later on Baby Ford's Trelik label, which was launched in 1995 and on which all Minimal Man releases came out from that moment on. Minimal Man stands for an innovative techno sound that has never stopped to develop itself further. Despite its minimal and experimental character and the will to produce new sounds, the project has never neglected its dancefloor-oriented component.

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