Epsilon Minus
{{Short description|Canadian EBM/techno/trance band}}
{{for|the caste described in Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley|Brave New World}}
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| origin = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| genre = Electronic dance, trance
| years_active = {{start date|2000}}–{{end date|2005}}
| label = Alfa Matrix
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Epsilon Minus were a Canadian EBM/techno/trance band formed in 2000{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}} by Bogart Shwadchuck and Jennifer Parkin.{{cite web |url=http://www.alfa-matrix.com/bio_epsilonminus.php |title=Epsilon Minus |website=Alfa Matrix |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928010410/http://www.alfa-matrix.com/bio_epsilonminus.php |archivedate=28 September 2013 |accessdate=22 September 2013 |url-status=dead }} The name "Epsilon Minus" is a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World.{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}}
History
Epsilon Minus was started in 2000 by the duo of Bogart Shwadchuck and Jennifer Parkin. They released their self-titled debut album, Epsilon Minus, with Parkin on vocals, in May 2002 on Belgian record label Alfa Matrix.{{cite press release|title=Epsilon Minus RIP |date=16 January 2005 |publisher=Alfa Matrix |url=http://www.alfa-matrix.com/news_comments.php?id=81_0_2_0_C |accessdate=22 September 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928010253/http://www.alfa-matrix.com/news_comments.php?id=81_0_2_0_C |archivedate=28 September 2013 |url-status=dead }} They followed in April 2003 with an electronic dance album titled Mark II. Parkin left the band during the making of Mark II to form Ayria and released Debris on Alfa Matrix.{{cite journal|date=6 May 2004 |title=Epsilon Minus: Re-Initializing a Brave New World |journal=Side-Line |issue=47 |accessdate=22 September 2013 |url=http://www.side-line.com/interviews_comments.php?id=1587_0_16_0_C |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906213032/http://www.side-line.com/interviews_comments.php?id=1587_0_16_0_C |archivedate=6 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.epsilonminus.com/em/bio.html |title= Epsilon Minus is Bogart Shwadchuck |website=Epsilon Minus |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218075412/http://www.epsilonminus.com/em/bio.html |archivedate=18 February 2012 |accessdate=22 September 2013}} In an interview with Side-Line, Shwadchuck stated:
{{quote|text=Jenn and I just didn't belong together. I grew out of the kind of music we were making, and there wasn't room for a partner in the things I wanted to be doing. ... In the end, we were only stopping each other from doing what we wanted to be doing, and there was no reason to continue working that way.|sign=Bogart Shwadchuck|source=Side-Line (47), 6 May 2004}}
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. Reinitialized featured collaborations with Kristy Venrick (The Azoic), Martha M. Arce (Distorted Reality), Eric Oehler (Null Device), and Ned Kirby (Stromkern). Shwadchuck ended the project in 2005, releasing the short R.I.P. EP of leftovers and outtakes,{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}} and continued to record under his own name, as well as under the aliases "Artifice," "Sex Genius," and "Chester Fantastico."{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}} He briefly resurrected Epsilon Minus to perform a remix for The Gothsicles.{{Citation needed|date=September 2013}}
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
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.epsilonminus.com/}}
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Category:Canadian techno music groups
Category:Musical groups established in 2000