17/07/2023
In the early eighteen hundreds, a young medical student, Victor Frankenstein, began a series of experiments in re-animating dead animals using pulses of electricity. Success was finally granted to him when he wired his equipment to a lightning conductor during a very cliched dark and stormy night. The subject of the experiment was a sheep carcass young Victor had purchased from the local abattoir.
The ferocity of the storm was discharged in full through a network of now glowing copper wires and into the woollen mound on the table. As various pieces of equipment sparked and flared, the sheep’s legs thrashed furiously as it drew its first new breath. It broke free of the wires and staggered around the workroom finally laying its head in the lap of its creator, the wool now glowing as purple light danced through each fibre.
In the following days as Victor studied the sheep, now named Bez, he noticed the animal had a particular attraction for music, moving in a peculiar manner and shining more brightly when certain pieces were played. This caused Victor to re-visit an earlier experiment on how his electrical apparatus could affect sound by running a current through a harpsichord and gramophone. As Victor laid down some fine beats on the keys bez immediately picked them up by bustin some moves and cutting some really sweet shapes. Victor began to realize what he had created when he and Bez were regularly invited to student parties as the young people were caught up in the new electronica sounds and joined with Bez’s new wave dance moves.
The duo became so popular that they began to tour Europe giving a much needed boost to the Transylvanian club scene. One final experiment in re-animation resulted in the duo becoming a trio with young Vic on keys, Bez on percussion and shapes and Stitches, or Two Grams (Gramophones) on decks.
A young historian of the time, Miss Mary Shelley, tried to convince the world that the trio tragically disappeared on an ice flow when they had actually become a central part of the club scene in Rekjavik where they set up Austur, now the biggest and oldest night club in the Icelandic capital.