Depeche Mode are an English electronic band that formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.
 The group consists of founders Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (guitar, keyboards, vocals), and Andy Fletcher (keyboards, bass guitar).
 Depeche Mode released their debut album "Speak & Spell" in 1981, bringing the band onto the British new wave scene.
 Original band member Vince Clarke (keyboards, guitar), left the band after the release of the album, leaving the band as a trio to record "A Broken Frame", released the following year.
 Gore took over the lead songwriting duties and, later in 1982, Alan Wilder (keyboards, drums, bass guitar) officially joined the band to fill Clarke's spot, establishing a line up that would continue for the next 13 years.
 Depeche Mode have been a trio again since 1995, when Wilder left.
Mu-Tron EP is the third extended play (EP) by English electronic band Ladytron.
 It was released in the United Kingdom in October 2000 by Invicta Hi-Fi Records on CD and 12" formats.
 The title "Mu-Tron" is a reference to the manufacturer of electronic musical effects with the same name.
 The cover has been designed by the band member Reuben Wu.
Morcheeba are an English electronic band formed in the mid 1990s with founding members vocalist Skye Edwards and the brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey.
 They mix influences from trip hop, rock, folk-rock and downtempo, and have produced eight regular studio albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.
 Their last studio album, "Head Up High", was released in October 2013.
 Edwards left the band in 2003, after which the brothers used a number of singers before she rejoined in 2009.
 They recruit additional members for their live performances and have toured internationally.
 In 2014 Paul Godfrey resigned from the band, thus ending Morcheeba.
 Edwards and Ross Godfrey later formed Skye|Ross and released a self-titled album in September 2016.
 They continue to tour, on occasion being listed as "Morcheeba / Sky & Ross Trio".
The Pinkees were an English power pop band from Basildon, Essex, active in the 1980s.
 The band members were Paul Egholm (vocals, guitar), Andy Price (vocals, guitar), Max Reinsch (guitar, keyboards), Nevil Kiddier (bass) and Paul Reynolds (drums).
 Piano and additional vocals, when recording, were supplied by their producer Keith Bonsoir.
 They released four singles and an album on Creole Records from 1982–1983.
 Their second single, "Danger Games", reached number 8 on the official UK charts (although it was claimed to have achieved the feat through chart hyping and suspicious sales patterns, and did not appear on some other charts at all) and gained them appearances on BBC TV programmes such as "Top of the Pops" and "Pebble Mill at One".
 The eponymously titled album was released on vinyl and cassette but it has never been issued in CD format.
 It stands at number 123 on the list of albums in the "Ultimate Power Pop Guide".
The Hics are an English Electronic band formed in London in 2012 by frontman Sam Paul Evans and drummer Jacob Welsh.
 Originally a two piece electronic indie band, the band was soon joined by Matt Knox on bass, Roxane Dayette on vocals, Geordan Reid-Campbell on guitar and David Turay on saxophone.
 They released their first EP, "Tangle", in 2013.
Robert Downs (born 24 July 1955) is a former English professional cyclist from Basildon, Essex.
 He won the Sealink International in 1980 and competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics in the Men's 100 kilometres Team Time Trial.
 At the 1982 Commonwealth Games he won a gold medal in the 100 km T.T.T.
 He rode for Manchester Wheelers' Club and was a professional between 1984-1989 ending his career with Percy Bilton.
The Vandals were a late 1970s English rock band from Basildon in South East Essex.
 Playing in the punk rock style, they are mainly notable for featuring vocalist Alison Moyet; 'Alf' as she was then known, who later found fame as one half of 1980s synthpop act Yazoo.
 The other members were Robert Marlow, who during his tenure with the band was known as 'the guitarist with no name', two other female backing singers, Kim Forey and Sue Paget (Susan Ryder Paget), who also played bass at the band's later gigs, and Simon Kirk on drums, who was later replaced by John Dee, formerly of Southend band The Machines.
The discography of English electronic music group Depeche Mode consists of fourteen studio albums, six live albums, ten compilation albums, eight box sets, thirteen video albums, fifty-three singles and seventy music videos.
 The band's music has been released on several labels, including Some Bizzare, Mute Records, Sire Records, Reprise Records, and Columbia Records.
 Formed in Basildon, Essex, England in 1980, the group's original line-up was Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981), Andy Fletcher (keyboards) and Vince Clarke (keyboards, chief songwriter 1980–81).
 Vince Clarke left the band after the release of their 1981 debut album "Speak & Spell" and was replaced by Alan Wilder (production, keyboards, drums), who was a band member from 1982 to 1995.
 Following Wilder's departure, Gahan, Gore, and Fletcher continued as a trio.
Static Icon is a synthpop band.
 They started in Adelaide, Australia as a three-piece band called "Das Concept".
 In their first incarnation they were a Depeche Mode cover band.
 Gradually they introduced more and more original material into their set.
 To complete the transition to a fully original band, they changed their name to Static Icon and dropped all but one or two Depeche Mode covers from their set.
Scott Denny Hann MBE (born 26 June 1980) is an English gymnastics coach, currently serving as the Director of Coaching for the South Essex Gymnastics Club in Basildon, Essex.
 Most notably, he has coached 2012 Olympian, 2016 double Olympic Champion, and World Champion Max Whitlock, and World Medalist and Olympic team member Brinn Bevan, Jamaican team member Reiss Beckford and elite Jay Thompson.

Question: What is the name of this English electronic band that formed in BAsildon, Essex in 1980 and were covered by Static Icon?
Answer: Depeche Mode