Robots Eat People was formed under the great Yew tree of Stoke Gabriel in South Devon, UK. The original five members of the band, D. Newton Archimedes (DNA), Maxwell James (Quark), Herschel Born (ConCERN), Zachary Smith (The Doctor), and Fermi Rossum (Luke H) all met while attending a lecture of renown physicist Stephen W. Hawking (Quantum Cosmology, M-theory and the Anthropic Principle) in January of 1999 at Cambridge University. The five mates stumbled upon their love of music while experimenting with frequency-locked loops that, due to a malfunction in the equipment, produced a pattern that reminded them of classic sci-fi film scores. This, was the beginning of Robots Eat People. REP's music evolved from lo-fi sample-based macro orchestrations to the current complex arrangements as technology grew (true evolution of music). Their fascination of future-vision and the role of artificial intelligence drives the context of their message, which is simply, "enjoy the moment you are in, it is fleeting." Their songs are a mixture of apocalyptic foreshadowing, to sweet enlightenment for both humans, and for organic and mechanical brethren. Their first album, Robots Creating People Creating Robots - Origins, released April 2005, went straight to #1 on the Billboard Charts in Japan and stayed there for 5 weeks. Receiving little attention in the UK or the States, REP decided to launch a world tour that comprised of small villages, hamlets, and outposts. The tour was a phenomenal success and built their grassroots following one villager at a time. DNA commented on the tour, "It was difficult at times when we would go to a tribal village in Indonesia where there was not electricity. Our laptops were our main instruments, so we had to make sure we were fully charged before the show started. It is not like we are pulling out an acoustic guitar and playing around a campfire. So, basically, at these power-free locations, the show would end, when all our laptop batteries were dead...kinda poetic, isn't it?" REP took a long hiatus after the tragic death of bandmate Fermi Rossum. The irony of his death was the fact that he was killed while preparing a robot to compete in the US during a BattleBot convention. "We know this is how he would have wanted to go, if he had a choice." Said Maxwell James. "Fermi might have argued that he, being a carbon-based lifeform, was actually not eligible for competition with his robot, and his robot should be disqualified for attacking a non-registered human. This was his sick sense of humor, but we all loved it." The band finally returned to the studio in late 2009 and are currently working on their sophomore effort "Waking Up Digital" due out late 2011.