Editing Ladytron (section)

===Band formation and debut single===
[[Liverpool|Liverpudlian]] producers and DJs [[Daniel Hunt]] and [[Reuben Wu]] met in the 1990s. Hunt was a member of the bands [[Venini]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Venini |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/511046-Venini |publisher=discogs}}</ref> and Jules Verne<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jules Verne |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/16937-Jules-Verne |publisher=discogs}}</ref> and also founded the indie record label Invicta Hi-Fi and a nightclub.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ladytron Format Magazine Urban Art Fashion |url=http://formatmag.com/features/ladytron/ |last=Hagen |first=Carmel |date=14 December 2008 |website=Format |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218090619/http://formatmag.com/features/ladytron/ |archive-date=18 December 2008 |access-date=22 August 2011}}</ref> Wu trained in Industrial Design at [[Sheffield Hallam University]] and graduated in 1997.<ref name="blurb">{{Cite book |url=http://www.blurb.com/b/2274359-svalbard-12-inch-version |title=SVALBARD [ 12-inch version ] by Reuben Wu &#124; Blurb Books |date=23 June 2011 |via=blurb.com}}</ref> He became an [[industrial designer]] at [[Team Consulting]] Limited,<ref name="blurb" /> until finally going full-time with the band around 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reuben Wu |url=http://uk.linkedin.com/in/reubenwu |publisher=[[LinkedIn]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715010614/http://uk.linkedin.com/in/reubenwu |archive-date=15 July 2012 |access-date=13 June 2011}}</ref>

Using a moniker inspired by the song "[[Ladytron (song)|Ladytron]]" by [[Roxy Music]], Hunt and Wu recorded the debut single "[[He Took Her to a Movie]]" for [[£]]50 with the guest vocalist Lisa Eriksson (who later formed the band Techno Squirrels)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Techno Squirrels: Bio |url=http://www.technosquirrels.com/bio.php |publisher=Techno Squirrels |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623124111/http://www.technosquirrels.com/bio.php |archive-date=23 June 2011 |access-date=13 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisa Eriksson |url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lisa-eriksson/30/702/16b |publisher=LinkedIn |access-date=14 December 2012}}</ref> and released it in July 1999.<ref name="InvictaHiFi">{{Cite web |title=Home of Ladytronix |url=http://www.invictahifi.co.uk/ladyinfo.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010306194647/http://www.invictahifi.co.uk/ladyinfo.html |archive-date=6 March 2001}}</ref>

In the summer of 1999, Hunt and Wu met Scottish student [[Helen Marnie]] through various DJ gigs,<ref name="nettskinny">{{Cite web |title=3/29 – Ladytron – 'Best Of: 00 – 10' |url=http://nettskinny.com/release/20110214/329-ladytron-best-00-10 |date=14 February 2011 |website=Nettwerk Press Blog |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224110841/http://nettskinny.com/release/20110214/329-ladytron-best-00-10 |archive-date=24 December 2013 |access-date=13 June 2011}}</ref> and  Bulgarian-Israeli [[Mira Aroyo]] through a mutual friend.<ref>{{Cite web |title=V I D E O V I S I O N : Cato Salsa Experience Interview |url=http://www.videovision.org/vv_interviews-ladytron.html |date=5 June 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030605162352/http://www.videovision.org/vv_interviews-ladytron.html |archive-date=5 June 2003}}</ref> Marnie and Aroyo joined the band as vocalists and keyboardists. [[Helen Marnie]] studied music at the University of Liverpool where she received a Bachelor of Arts in pop music in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Insight — Autumn 2006 |url=http://www.liv.ac.uk/media/livacuk/insight/Insightautumn06.pdf |date=9 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909235918/http://www.liv.ac.uk/media/livacuk/insight/Insightautumn06.pdf |archive-date=9 September 2014}}</ref> [[Mira Aroyo]] was a postgraduate research geneticist in the Department of Biochemistry, [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="dailyrecord">{{Cite web |title=60-second interview: Ladytron's Mira Aroyo – The Daily Record |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/music-news/2008/06/01/60-second-interview-ladytron-s-mira-aroyo-78057-20591556/ |date=3 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303011146/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/showbiz/music-news/2008/06/01/60-second-interview-ladytron-s-mira-aroyo-78057-20591556/ |archive-date=3 March 2011}}</ref>