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Like so many suburban children, IC was conceived, born and raised in the basements of split levels and modified bungalows, cheap studio spaces and smoky, all-night coffee shops. As the digital world redesigned the spaces where we live, IC evolved into an etherial band.
IC is fed by Heineken and vodka, bottomless pots of blissfilled coffee, public libraries, credit lines, green belts, culverts and cornfields. Sometimes subtle and often obvious intertextual reference to Utrecht and Amsterdam, OMD, dark streets, lonely bedrooms, Brian Eno, Joy Division, anything with a plug, Wire, WW2 airplanes, battleships and views from train windows, empty factories, cubase, wortlerstump, Dostoevsky, Nietzche and Johnny Cash, Neu!, Velvet Underground, sequential circuits, jet propulsion, sonic mirages, reason, Barnett Newman and Gerhard Richter lurk in the aural landscape IC calls home.

Eric Klaver: Synthesizers, programming.
Eric is a Libra with no regard for astrological significance. More influenced by concrete and light patterns than his parents’ religious views, his synaesthetic relationship with the visual world is communicated through his structural influence on IC’s music. Quantum physics, landscapes of industrial and emotional experience, and double salted licorice inspire his creativity.
Bob Hanley: Vocals, synthesizers, programming.
While the stars and nebula inform Bob's music, his Aquarian roots have less influence on his creative babies than Wim Wenders and Keira Knightley. A lover of salted herring and good film, weekends out of the studio are spent camping in the Canadian Muskokas and cycling in the Tour de France style. The experience of an ocean-set overcast sky has been known to hijack his spare thoughts for weeks on end.
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