Biography
THE EVASION ON STAKE was created out of the ashes of Anti Trust by Haiko Herden as a solo project in early 1987, heavily inspired by the 80s New Wave scene. The aim was, to record some more monumental Electro-Wave instead of the minimalistic Trash-Wave of Anti Trust. Until the end of the 80s, the project recorded a couple of tapes, which only were given to friends in minimal editions. After the Label Beton Tapes was founded in late 1990, the tape „Night By Night“ was the first proper release on it, followed by „Prophecy“ in spring 1991. Both tapes received good reviews in the then alive fanzine press and sold many copies worldwide. First contributions to Tape- and CD-Compilations were produced and offers for live gigs all over Germany came in, so Haiko asked Lars Hi. for support as keyboarder and they played some very successful gigs together with then successful bands like Dreadful Shadows, Meszada, Paralysed Age, Cyber, Les Berrtas and many others.
Further tapes on Beton Tapes and other labels came out and also more Compilation appearances. The song „Day by Day“ became a small club hit in many clubs, for example in Brazil. In the mid 90s THE EVASION ON STAKE took a long break until 2003, depending on the personal situation. Now, Haiko Herden re-invented Anti Trust and his 90s project under the new name EVSION II, which will record a very personal idea/mixture of (Electro-) Wave and Pop. Old and new fans will be satisfied with it for sure.
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First of all , this CD features the best tracks of THE EVASION ON STAKE from the early 90s Beton Tapes period, including hits like „Day By Day“, „Waiting“, „The Sad Wedding“, „Changing“ and many others.
As it is hard to describe the sound of the project, just get an impression, what reviewers wrote as comparisons, for example The Cure, Soft Cell, Can, Alien Sex Fiend, Gary Glitter and many more.
So, get the chance to (re-) discover the music of THE EVASION ON STAKE and then be curious for new material in the future.
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Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.