After the demise of Skinny Puppy, longtime member and producer
cEVIN Key worked in a variety of projects, including the Teargarden,
Doubting Thomas and
Download. The
Plateau project -- also featuring
Phil Western (aka DJ Phil) from Off & Gone plus
Download's Anthony Valcic -- produced some of Key's most danceable material, with elements of trance accompanying the industrial moods. Plateau signed with Cleopatra's dance subsidiary, Hypnotic, and released its first album in May 1997. The remix EP Dutch Flowers followed two months later, and in 1999
Plateau returned with
Spacecake. ~ John Bush