Hovercraft's material consisted of lengthy songs featuring an avant-garde and moody sound that was a direct reaction to the local grunge scene.
Pearl Jam's Self-Pollution broadcast also featured humorous, holiday answering machine messages from Bobby Tamkin and Matt Lukin of Mudhoney.
The single was initially handed out at gigs; stickers affixed to the plastic slip of ones sold in stores and put on by the distributor boasted, "Featuring Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam".
Tamkin left the band following the tour, and was soon replaced by former Pearl Jam drummer, Dave Krusen, who adopted the stage name "Karl 3-30."
Hovercraft would join Sky Cries Mary and Sweet 75 for Microsoft and World Domination Recordings' joint "Transmissions from Space" tour in November 1995, an interactive, multi-media exposition highlighting the new CD Plus technology.
The stage was shrouded in darkness as a projector played black & white scientific films and space-themed documentary clips from the reel-to-reel era (1940s-1970s), and free-use stock footage, somewhat synchronized to the music.
[2] Examples of film material include insects mating, time-lapse footage of flowers blooming, and asteroids crashing.
Though often featuring fragments of album tracks, each live show was played as a single forty- to forty-five-minute-long semi-improvised piece with no breaks.
Allegedly recorded in a "L.A. garage" in order "to capture the Germs feel", Hovercraft's contribution is a sixteen-minute-long, mostly instrumental reprise of "Shutdown".
Hovercraft even opened for classic rockers The Who on a short series of stadium concerts in the Northwestern United States in late 1996.
Ned Raggett of Allmusic said that "the trio on Akathisia did a fantastic job of whipping up five dark, engrossing instrumentals that avoided any pretense of commercial acceptance.
The vinyl etchings on the four sides of Akathisia were as follows: (This was the slogan of the cult classic 1980s Gottlieb pinball game, Black Hole.)
His much harder-hitting, more visceral style was the apparent catalyst in the band's shift from ethereal 15-minute songs to more concise, angular arrangements.
The track "Epoxy" from the band's upcoming album first premiered for the world on Pearl Jam's Monkeywrench Radio broadcast, on January 31, 1998.
[13] "Shutdown Reprise" "De-Orbit Burn" (remix) (with Scanner) "Stereo Specific Polymerization" (Mad Psychotic Hyper-Accelerated Lower East Side mix) (with DJ Spooky) "Hymn" (with Eddie Vedder) "Stereo Specific Polymerization" (Beneath the Underdog mix) (with DJ Spooky) "Haloparidol" (short version)