Epsilon Minus
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Epsilon Minus were a Canadian EBM/techno/trance band formed in 2000Template:Citation needed by Bogart Shwadchuck and Jennifer Parkin.<ref name="Alfa Matrix">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The name "Epsilon Minus" is a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World.Template:Citation needed
History
Epsilon Minus was started in 2000 by the duo of Bogart Shwadchuck and Jennifer Parkin.<ref name="Alfa Matrix"/> They released their self-titled debut album, Epsilon Minus, with Parkin on vocals, in May 2002 on Belgian record label Alfa Matrix.<ref name="Alfa Matrix"/><ref name="Epsilon Minus RIP">Template:Cite press release</ref> They followed in April 2003 with an electronic dance album titled Mark II.<ref name="Alfa Matrix"/><ref name="Epsilon Minus RIP"/> Parkin left the band during the making of Mark II to form Ayria and released Debris on Alfa Matrix.<ref name="Side-Line">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="EM_bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In an interview with Side-Line, Shwadchuck stated:<ref name="Side-Line"/> Template:Quote
Shwadchuck continued Epsilon Minus as a solo act, releasing the Pre-Initialized EP and the Reinitialized LP, exhibiting greater psychedelic trance and intelligence dance influences, in 2004.<ref name="Alfa Matrix"/> Reinitialized featured collaborations with Kristy Venrick (The Azoic), Martha M. Arce (Distorted Reality), Eric Oehler (Null Device), and Ned Kirby (Stromkern).<ref name="Side-Line"/><ref name="EM_bio"/> Shwadchuck ended the project in 2005,<ref name="Alfa Matrix"/> releasing the short R.I.P. EP of leftovers and outtakes,Template:Citation needed and continued to record under his own name, as well as under the aliases "Artifice," "Sex Genius," and "Chester Fantastico."Template:Citation needed He briefly resurrected Epsilon Minus to perform a remix for The Gothsicles.Template:Citation needed
Discography
- Epsilon Minus (Alfa Matrix, 2002)
- Mark II (Alfa Matrix, 2003)
- Pre-Initialized (Alfa Matrix, 2004)
- Reinitialized (Alfa Matrix, 2004)
- 20 EP (Self-released, 2022)
References
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