Spylab, a.k.a. Kenny Inglis and Jon Gillies, met back in 1992 while working in the same record store and soon afterwards began recording together with whatever equipment they could beg, borrow, buy or build.
Six years later, the duo officially founded Spylab, based upon a fundamentally live philosophy, showing up to rock the dance floor armed with a cache of electronic devices. From sweaty basements and dingy underground bars to muddy open air festivals, Spylab turned out a string of memorable live shows which garnered rave reviews and helped them to forge the dynamic sound that became the foundation of their debut album.
Spylab's groundbreaking debut 'This Utopia' was a cerebral and cinematic exercise in electronic counter culture that walked the thin blue line between the moodiness of Massive Attack and the technological acumen of Orbital, Moby and Meat Beat Manifesto.
Warm spine tingling soundscapes gracefully gave way to moody melancholic ballads, dark suspenseful interludes and body rocking pyrotechnics. This was state-of-the-art wiretapped grunge electronica which united music lovers across the indie/dance divide.
Vanishing from the radar in 2003, Spylab went underground. Is this an operational silence, or have they been re-assigned....?
