cEvin Key
Al Nelson
Dwayne Goettel

Al Nelson and cEVIN Key first performed together as members of the short lived punk outfit Illegal Youth in 1979. Key left Canada for Japan while Nelson remained a punk catalyst. When Key returned from Japan he had brought back with him a new vision of an electronic musical age. With that knowledge he co-founded Images In Vogue and later, as a backlash to the commercialism of that band, Skinny Puppy.

Meanwhile, Nelson had formed Flu and after some small-time success in 1984, he eventually became the cinematic visionary for Skinny Puppy's live performances while resuming a music collaboration with Key. With the harried prolific state of Skinny Puppy's output, the material was never able to surface but eventually Key, Nelson, and Skinny Puppy's Dwayne Goettel found themselves in Toronto where they were able to begin regular jamming in 1987.

The trio named themselves Hilt and Nettwerk Records dared them to make a record "real cheap". Up for the dare, Hilt went to Vancouver and enlisted Skinny Puppy producer Dave "Rave" Ogilvie who just happened to be producing the big budget release of Caterwaul's latest release which allowed Hilt the use of additional musicians in the form of Betsy & Mark (Caterwaul), Don Harrison (Sons Of Freedom) and the improvising Ogilvie himself.

The debut album was entitled 'Call The Ambulance (Before I Hurt Myself)' in 1990. Several EPs followed which led to the 1991 sophomore effort 'Journey To The Centre Of The Bowl'. The act eventually splintered as Skinny Puppy's career began to take up more time for Goettel and Key.




Singles
1990 Get Stuck [4 song 12" EP] (Nettwerk) W1-3042
1990 Stoneman [4 song 12" EP] (Nettwerk) W1-3045
1991 Orange Pony [4 song 12" EP] (Nettwerk) W1-6311

Albums
1990 Call The Ambulance (Before I Hurt Myself) (Nettwerk) W1-30044
1991 Journey To The Center Of The Bowl (Nettwerk) W2-30056
2003 The Worst of the Flu 1985 - 1989 (Sub-Conscious - US) SUB-027
2007 Minoot Bowl Dropped the Ball (Sub-Conscious - US) SUB-34
Video
1991 "Stoneman" on 'Attitude: A Video Compilation' (Nettwerk)

Compilation Tracks
1990 "Stoneman" on 'Nettwerk Sound Sampler Vol. III' (Nettwerk)
1991 "Superhoney" on 'Decadence' (Nettwerk) W2-30100
2003 "Pass the Pappadum" on 'Encore' (Sub-Conscious)





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