It Took Seconds

Five minutes and fifty-six seconds: The name Eon was, I only realised last year when I found out he’d died, a pun on “Ian” - Ian Loveday, one of a host of one-man bands and bedroom producers who got going after acid house armed with second-hand equipment and a bunch of film samples. As Eon Loveday made slamming, kinda nerdy tracks like “Spice” and “Basket Case”, and it was a bunch of sometime comics fans who introduced me to his stuff, vibing off the Dune snippets as much as the beats I’m sure. Well chosen snippets too - “He who controls the spice controls the Universe!” has a do-you-see factor (hmm hmm what IS this ‘spice’ you speak of eh) but also keeps its melodramatic charge, and actually benefits from being in a context where it, you know, makes sense. RIP.

What 5’56 track would you have chosen?