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Prince Rogers Nelson (born June 7, 1958) is an American musician. He performs under the mononym of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an unpronounceable symbol which he used as his name between 1993 and 2000,

During which time he was usually referred to as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. Prince is prolific, having released several hundred songs both under his own name and with other artists. He has won seven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the first year he was eligible in 2004. Rolling Stone ranked Prince #28 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Prince's musical palette covers many musical genres including R&B, soul, funk, rock, blues, new wave, psychedelia, folk, jazz and hip hop. Some of his influences are Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Parliament-Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. The distinctive characteristics of his early-to-mid 1980s work, such as sparse and industrial-sounding drum machine arrangements and the use of synthesizer riffs to serve the role traditionally occupied by horn riffs in earlier R&B, funk and soul music, were called the "Minneapolis sound" and have proved very influential.
rince Rogers Nelson was born June 7, 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to John L. Nelson and Matti Shaw. John was a pianist and songwriter, and Matti was a jazz singer. He was named after his father, whose stage name was Prince Rogers, and who performed with a jazz group called the Prince Rogers Trio. In a 1991 Current Affair interview, John L. stated, “I named my son Prince because I wanted him to do everything I wanted to do.” His childhood nickname was Skipper. As a child, Prince suffered from epilepsy. Prince's mother would later recall to him that he claimed during his childhood, "I'm not gonna be sick anymore, because an angel told me." After the birth of his sister Tyka in 1960, Prince's parents gradually became estranged. After they separated formally (when Prince was ten), he had a troubled relationship with his stepfather that resulted in him going to live briefly with his father, who expelled him after finding him in bed with a female friend. Later he settled in with a neighborhood family, the Andersons, befriending their son, Andre Anderson (later called André Cymone). Prince and Anderson joined Prince's cousin Charles Smith in a band called Grand Central that they formed during high school. (Smith would later be replaced by Morris Day.) His initial contributions were on piano and guitar, but he would share vocals with Anderson in what was mainly an instrumental band, playing clubs and parties in the Minneapolis area. As time went by and Prince's musical interests increased, he began producing the arrangements for the band. Grand Central evolved into Champagne and started playing original music drawing on a range of influences including Sly & the Family Stone, James Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire, Miles Davis, Parliament-Funkadelic, Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix. At one point Prince was a student at the Minnesota Dance Theatre. In 1976, he started work on a demo tape with producer Chris Moon in a Minneapolis studio. Prince also had the patronage of Owen Husney (of The High Spirits), to whom Moon introduced him, a connection that helped him produce a high-quality demo recording. Husney started contacting major labels and ran a campaign promoting Prince as a star of the future, resulting in a bidding war eventually won by Warner Bros. Records as they were the only label to offer Prince creative control of his songs.
Discography
* 1978: For You
* 1979: Prince
* 1980: Dirty Mind
* 1981: Controversy
* 1982: 1999
* 1984: Purple Rain
* 1985: Around the World in a Day
* 1986: Parade
* 1987: Sign “☮” the Times
* 1988: Lovesexy
* 1989: Batman
* 1990: Graffiti Bridge
* 1991: Diamonds and Pearls
* 1992: Love Symbol Album
* 1994: Come
* 1994: The Black Album (recorded in 1987)
* 1995: The Gold Experience
* 1996: Chaos and Disorder
* 1996: Emancipation
* 1999: Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic
* 2001: The Rainbow Children
* 2002: One Nite Alone...
* 2003: Xpectation
* 2003: N.E.W.S
* 2004: Musicology
* 2004: The Chocolate Invasion
* 2004: The Slaughterhouse
* 2006: 3121
* 2007: Planet Earth
* 2009: LOtUSFLOW3R

Primus is an American rock band currently composed of singer and bassist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry "Ler" LaLonde, and drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander.

The diversity of their sound has allowed Primus to gain a modest segment of fans from many different rock sub-genres. They are characterized by their irreverent approach to music. Primus release their records on Claypool's Prawn Song Records label, a parody of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label. Primus began as Primate in El Sobrante, California during the mid-1980s with singer and bassist Les Claypool and guitarist Todd Huth. Claypool rounded out the band with a drum machine which they named Perm Parker. The band would go through many drummers throughout their early history, eventually settling on Jay Lane. When another band called "Primate" threatened legal action, the group decided to change their name. Claypool selected Primus instead after looking up the word directly next to "Primate" in a dictionary. The word is Latin, meaning "chief" or "first". After rising to local music scene stardom with their brand of funk metal fusion, Huth and Lane left in 1989 to pursue other projects. Claypool then recruited former Blind Illusion bandmate and one time Joe Satriani student Larry "Ler" LaLonde, and eclectic drummer Tim "Herb" Alexander. In fact, Claypool & LaLonde recorded & toured with the early thrash band Blind Illusion whose only album "The Sane Asylum" was released on Music For Nations. Larry LaLonde was previously a member of the seminal Death/Thrash Metal band Possessed, a fact which he likes to keep quiet today. Primus received praise from Testament's Alex Skolnick very early into their career. Tim Alexander is originally from Jerome, Arizona and was the drummer in Major Lingo. Primus continued to gain popularity and in 1989 released their first album, Suck on This, a live recording culled from two of their Berkeley concerts. The album was financed by Les' father. In 1990 the band released their first studio album, Frizzle Fry, and released singles for "John The Fisherman" and "Too Many Puppies". With a music video featuring Kirk Hammett, a studio album and a tour with Jane's Addiction, Primus' popularity grew to the point where they attracted attention from Interscope Records, who signed them in 1990. It was during these early years that the catch phrase "Primus Sucks" was started. It began with people constantly stating to the band just how good they were. One day when someone told the band they were good, Claypool turned around and said "No, we suck" and from then on it stuck.
Musical style and influences
Primus' musical style is difficult to define. While the band is usually considered by critics to be funk metal or alternative metal, Primus has been called everything from "thrash-funk meets Don Knotts, Jr." to "alternative rock" to "the Freak Brothers set to music." Les Claypool himself once described their music as "psychedelic polka." Although not a thrash metal band, Primus was heavily associated with the Bay Area thrash scene in their early years. Opening for bands such as Testament and Exodus, whom Claypool almost joined, they picked up a following of fans from the scene as a result. Primus is the only band with its own ID3 genre tag, as extended by Winamp. Primus' influences include Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd. Bands that have cited Primus as an influence include Deftones, Korn and Limp Bizkit.
Band members
Current members
* Les Claypool - bass, lead vocals (1984-2000, 2003-present)
* Larry "Ler" LaLonde - guitar, background vocals (1989-2000, 2003-present)
* Tim "Herb" Alexander - drums (1989-1996, 2003-present)
Former members
* Bryan "Brain" Mantia - drums (1989, 1996-2000)
* Todd Huth - guitar (1984-1989)
* Jay Lane - drums (1988)
Discography
* Suck on This (1989)
* Frizzle Fry (1990)
* Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991)
* Pork Soda (1993)
* Tales from the Punchbowl (1995)
* Brown Album (1997)
* Antipop (1999)
Awards
* 1991 - Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Platinum Album
* 1993 - Pork Soda - Platinum Album
* 1995 - Tales from the Punchbowl - 2x Platinum Album

Primal Scream are a Brit-nominated Scottish alternative rock group formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes (guitar), Martin Duffy (keyboards), Gary "Mani" Mounfield (bass), and Darrin Mooney (drums).

Barrie Cadogan toured with the band in 2006 as a temporary replacement after the departure of guitarist Robert "Throb" Young. Young's permanent replacement has not yet been announced. They have sold 10 million albums to date. The band performed throughout 1982-1984, but their career didn't especially take off until Gillespie left his position as drummer of The Jesus and Mary Chain. The band were a key part of the mid-1980s indie pop scene, but eventually moved away from their more jangly sound, taking on more psychedelic and then garage rock influences, before incorporating a dance music element to their sound. Their 1991 album Screamadelica broke the band into the mainstream. Despite multiple lineup changes, the band has remained commercially successful and continues to tour and record to this day.
Several of their songs have appeared on movie soundtracks including "Trainspotting" in the film Trainspotting, "Miss Lucifer" and "Swastika Eyes" in The Football Factory, "Star" in The Jackal, "Movin' On Up" in Grand Theft Parsons and the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (on fictional Alternative station Radio X), and "Come Together" in Human Traffic. Rocks was featured in the movie Airheads in the scene where Pip and Suzzi start to have sex on the couch. Primal Scream also played "Movin' On Up" live for Michael Winterbottom's film 9 Songs.
Discography
Studio albums
* Sonic Flower Groove (1987)
* Primal Scream (1989)
* Screamadelica (1991)
* Give Out But Don't Give Up (1994)
* Vanishing Point (1997)
* XTRMNTR (2000)
* Evil Heat (2002)
* Riot City Blues (2006)
* Beautiful Future (2008)

Preston School of Industry is an indie rock band formed by Scott Kannberg (aka Spiral Stairs) in 1999, following the dissolution of his previous band, Pavement.

In 2001, Preston School of Industry released All This Sounds Gas. The band released its second album, Monsoon, in 2004, with studio contributions from members of The Minus 5 and Wilco. Preston School of Industry went inactive after their September 2004 Australian tour, though Kannberg revealed in late 2006 he had been slowly working on a record: "Don't know when it's going to be released. Just taking my time, nothing special. I've got the songs, I just haven't figured out how I want to do it yet. This winter, I'll probably get it done."
Albums
* Goodbye to the Edge City EP - 2001
* All This Sounds Gas - 2001
* Monsoon - 2004

Guillermo Scott Herren is a music producer and artist, who has been based out of Atlanta, Barcelona and New York. Herren releases music under various aliases, most notably Prefuse 73, Savath & Savalas, Delarosa and Asora and Piano Overlord.

Guillermo Scott Herren was born in Miami, Florida and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His father is Catalan and his mother is Irish/Cuban. At an early age his parents encouraged him to play piano and other instruments; his mother "forced" Herren to play a wide variety of instruments, even going so far as to teach him the Suzuki Method, in order to "keep him out of trouble". Growing up, Herren's musical tastes branched out, and he became interested in hip-hop, punk rock, and electronic music.
Discography
Prefuse 73
Albums
* Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives (2001)
* One Word Extinguisher (2003)
* Surrounded by Silence (2005)
* Preparations (2007)
* Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (2009)
EPs/Singles/Compilations
* Estrocaro EP (2000)
* Radio Attack / Nuno (2000)
* Out Takes For 88'. (Never released, 2001)
* Wylin Out (Featuring Mos Def & Diverse) (2002)
* The '92 Vs. '02 Collection (2002)
* Extinguished: Outtakes (2003)
* T5 Soul Sessions, Volume 1 (2004)
* Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked (2005)
* HideYaFace (2005)
* Security Screenings (February 6, 2006)
* Prefuse 73 Reads the Books E.P. (2005)
* Interregnums (2007)
* The Class Of 73 Bells (Featuring School of Seven Bells (2007)
Delarosa & Asora
Albums
* Sleep Method Suite (1997)
* Agony, Pt. 1 (2001)
EPs/Singles/Compilations
* Crush the Sight-Seers (1999)
* Backsome (2001)
Savath and Savalas
Albums
* Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey (2000)
* Apropa't (2004)
* Golden Pollen (2007)
EPs/Singles/Compilations
* Immediate Action #1 (2001)
* Rolls and Waves (2002)
* Mañana (2005)
Piano Overlord
Albums
* The Singles Collection 03-05 (2005)
EPs/Singles/Compilations
* Tease EP (2004)
* Torture EP (August 2005)
Guillermo Scott Herren
Albums
* Sleeping on Saturday and Sunday Afternoons (2003), Tour CDR in regular CD jewel case with handmade artwork (front and back inlays) that was sold (for $25) on 2003 Prefuse 73 tour with Four Tet and Manitoba.

Portishead is an English musical group from Bristol. The band is named after the nearby town of the same name, west of Bristol.

History
* Dummy (1994)
Portishead's first album, Dummy, was released in 1994. Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States (where it sold more than 150,000 copies even before the band toured there). Dummy spawned three singles, "Numb", "Sour Times", "Glory Box", and went on to win the prestigious Mercury Music Prize in 1995. In 2003, the album was ranked number 419 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
* Portishead (1997)
After their initial success, Portishead withdrew from the spotlight for three years until their self-titled second album, Portishead, was released in 1997. The album's sound differed from Dummy, characterized as "grainy and harsher." Three singles, "All Mine", "Over" and "Only You" were released, the first one achieving a Top 10 placing in the UK.
* Roseland NYC Live (1998)
In 1997, the band performed a one-off show with strings by the New York Philharmonic orchestra at Roseland Ballroom in New York. A live album primarily featuring these new orchestral arrangements of the group's songs was released in 1998. There was also a long-form VHS video of the performance, and a DVD followed in 2002, with substantial extra material including many early videos.
* Hiatus (1999–2005)
For the next few years, the band members concentrated on solo and other pursuits. In February 2005, the band appeared live for the first time in seven years at the Tsunami Benefit Concert in Bristol. Around that time Barrow revealed that the band was in the process of writing its third album. In August 2006, the band posted two new tracks on its MySpace page described by Barrow as "doodles". Around the same time, Portishead covered Serge Gainsbourg's "Un Jour Comme un Autre (Requiem for Anna)" on the tribute album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited.
* Third (2008)
On October 2, 2007, Portishead stated that the new album, titled Third, had been mixed and was nearly complete, and was due for release in early April 2008. The release was later pushed to April 28. On December 8-9, 2007, the band curated the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, England. The festival featured their first full live sets in nearly 10 years. They premiered five tracks from the new album; "Silence", "Hunter", "The Rip", "We Carry On" and "Machine Gun". On January 21, 2008, a European tour to support the album was announced, together with a headline spot at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 26, 2008. Portishead's newest 11-track album "Third" was made available on last.fm the week before release, attracting 327,000 listeners in just under 24 hours. It was the first time Last.fm had made an album available before its official release date. The site estimates that a quarter of a million people have visited their site expressly to listen to the Portishead tracks. The album was released on April 29, 2008 to coincide with the band's appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. On May 29, 2008 Portishead's Geoff Barrow realized a "boyhood fantasy" when Chuck D of Public Enemy joined the band onstage at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona. He contributed a freestyle rap over Portishead's single 'Machine Gun'. On May 18, 2008, Barrow expressed the band's enthusiasm for recording new material on their official website's blog, stating that he "can't wait to write some new tunes." On December 3, 2008, Universal Music Japan released the albums "Dummy" and "Portishead" as limited SHM-CD versions.
Discography
Studio albums
* Dummy (1994)
* Portishead (1997)
* Third (2008)

Porcupine Tree is a Grammy award-nominated progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is a combination of rock, ambient, psychedelia and metal.

During the nineties the band focused mainly on psychedelic music although they incorporated a wide range of styles of electronic music, from trance, krautrock and ambient due to Steven Wilson and Richard Barbieri's liking for the Kosmische Musik scene of the early '70s, led by bands such as Tangerine Dream, Neu! and Can to more recently metal. For live shows, Porcupine Tree make use of a screen that displays a different projection for each song. This visual element was introduced during the tour for the In Absentia album, when the band started to work with Danish photographer and film-maker Lasse Hoile, whose works help to create a distinctive image for the band. Despite being signed to Roadrunner in Europe and Atlantic in the United States, the band have their own record label, Transmission, which they use to launch some independent releases and special limited editions of their albums. Porcupine Tree have an official online store on Burning Shed (also home for OSI, Chroma Key and Roger Eno among others), now the official online distributor to legendary label Peaceville Records, and to Kscope (both Snapper Music divisions).
Musical style
Influences
As a teenager, Wilson was a fan of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. From this starting point, his interest in music progressed on a cyclic path. When he discovered Seventies music and progressive rock, his interest in metal diminished in favour of experimental music. He later (in the 2000s) discovered bands like Gojira, Mastodon, Neurosis and Meshuggah, which restored his faith in metal music. "For a long time I couldn't find where all these creative musicians were going…", Wilson said, "and I found them, they were working in extreme Metal". Shortly thereafter he went to produce three consecutive albums by Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth and this had a considerable influence in his further songwriting. This shift in influence explains why the musical range of Porcupine Tree can be split into three phases, namely from long psychedelic and space rock pieces in early works, to shorter pop rock songs in late nineties, and darker more metal-oriented songs in the beginning of the 21st century. There is also some noticeable influence from krautrock and electronic music since Wilson sympathizes with bands such as Can, Neu!, Tangerine Dream, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and artists like Klaus Schulze and Conrad Schnitzler between others. Wilson has also mentioned on multiple occasions that he admires American musician Trent Reznor.
Band members
Current members
* Steven Wilson – vocals, guitar, piano (1987-)
* Richard Barbieri – keyboard, synthesizer (1993-)
* Colin Edwin – bass guitar (1993-)
* Gavin Harrison − drums (2002-)
Former members
* Chris Maitland − drums, backing vocals (1993-2002)
Live musicians
* John Wesley − guitar, backing vocals (2002-)
Guest musicians
* Theo Travis − flute, saxophone (1995, 1999)
* Stuart Gordon − violin (2000)
* Nick Parry − cello (2000)
* Aviv Geffen – vocals (2002)
* Mikael Åkerfeldt − guitar, backing vocals (2005)
* Adrian Belew − guitar (2005)
* Alex Lifeson − guitar (2007)
* Robert Fripp − guitar, soundscapes (2007)
* Ben Coleman − violin (2007)
* Rick Edwards − percussion (1995)
* Suzanne Barbieri − vocals (1993, 1995)
Discography
Studio albums
* On the Sunday of Life (1991)
* Up the Downstair (1993)
* The Sky Moves Sideways (1995)
* Signify (1996)
* Stupid Dream (1999)
* Lightbulb Sun (2000)
* In Absentia (2002)
* Deadwing (2005)
* Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)

Polysics (or POLYSICS) is a Japanese new wave/rock band from Tokyo, who personally dubs its unique style as "technicolor pogo punk". It was named after a brand of synthesizer, Korg Polysix. The band started in 1997, but got their big break in 1998 at a concert in Tokyo.

They create high energy music, fusing conventional guitar music, with synthesized and computer generated sound to create a unique mixture of punk and Synthpop, heavily inspired by the American bands Devo and The Tubes, and Japanese bands such as P-Model and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Their song lyrics often consist of Japanese, English, or just plain gibberish. The band has been noted for their extremely energetic live performances and their wild gimmicky outfits, notably their trademark orange boiler suits, with a simple "P" stamped on them, and their straight-bar sunglasses.
History
Polysics was formed in 1997 by Japanese high-school student Hiroyuki Hayashi. After watching some live footage of Devo and becoming heavily inspired by new wave music of the West, the student quit his soccer team and formed a band that would expand on the cartoonish image and musical ideas of the zany art-punk icons he had seen on TV. He was joined by drummer Junichi Sugai and Sako. His friend, Kaneko, also joined in as a synthesizer player in the early years of the band. Around the end of 1997, Kaneko left the band. Kayo joined as the new synthesizer player and with her mechanical stage presence, it provided an asymmetrical dynamic to the frenetic antics of the other three. The name of the band derives from the first synthesizer owned by Hayashi, the Korg Polysix. This synth appears in two of their early music videos. In 1999, Polysics released their first albums 1st P and A.D.S.R.M! on the independent label DECKREC Records. Just after the release of 1st P their bassist, known only as "POLY-2", left. The band dropped the "POLY-X" names, and reduced to a trio, with new member Fumi on Bass Support on some of the tracks from Neu. In 1999, Asian Man Records released their US debut album, Hey! Bob! My Friend! to rave reviews, but weak sales. The album was a compilation of tracks from their first two Japanese releases. In 2000, Polysics signed to Ki/oon Records (a subsidiary of Sony Music Japan Inc.) and released their first major album Neu. The album carried with it the same manic energy as their independent releases but more refined. On the 2001 album Eno, Synthesizers became more prevalent in the mix, but the songs still had an intense punk-like energy. For this album, Fumi returned to the band as a full member, returning Polysics to a quartet. 2002 saw the release of the album For Young Electric Pop, Polysics' attempt at a pop album. The manic punk energy was minimized, but the band showed it had an amazing sense of harmony and style. In 2003, Neu was released in the United States on Asian Man Records to rave reviews and great sales. However, shortly after recording the Kaja Kaja Goo EP drummer Junichi Sugai left the band because his name was not able to be spelt in 2 Katakana letters. After his departion, Hayashi is now the only original member remaining in the band. Ishimaru (drummer for the punk group Snail Ramp) temporarily joined as a replacement. For the 2003 album National P, Polysics went to the US to tour, which was then captured on the PippikkippippiP In USA DVD. Also during 2003, Polysics appeared on UK television for the programme Adam & Joe Go Tokyo performing "Kaja Kaja Goo". In 2004, Polysics released a greatest hits compilation titled Polysics or Die!!!! in Europe and the USA. Yano joined in 2004 as the new drummer. Polysics toured Europe and the US for the 2005 US Release of Polysics or Die!!!!. With the early 2006 release of Now Is The Time!, they toured the US and the UK, supporting high profile UK artists such as Graham Coxon and the Kaiser Chiefs. On February 28, 2007 Polysics released their album Karate House in Japan. Following this Polysics signed for MySpace Records making plans to re-release Polysics or Die!!!! in the US, with the inclusion of the latest singles from Karate House and a bonus DVD of videos and live cuts. Polysics or Die!!!! Vista was released on October 9, 2007 for Myspace Records exclusively for the United States, to mark the band's ten-year anniversary. Hayashi did a remix of the "Teen Titans Theme" by JPop group Puffy AmiYumi. The song "Teen Titans Theme POLYSICS' CR-06 MIX" appears on their US album Splurge. On April 23 2008, We Ate The Machine was released in Japan. It was released on September 30, 2008 in North America.
Members
Current members
* Hiroyuki Hayashi - Guitars, Vocals, Vocoder, Programming
* Kayo - Guitar, Synthesizers, Vocals, Vocoder
* Fumi - Bass, Vocals, Synthesizers
* Masashi Yano - Drums, Vocals
Past members
* Junichi Sugai - Drums, Vocals
* Ishimaru - Drum Support
* Sako - Bass synthesizer, Vocoder, Bread Throwing
* Kaneko - Synthesizer
Discography
Japanese Releases
DECKREC Records
* February 25, 1999 - 1st P (EP DCRC-0001)
* March 18, 1999 - Plus Chicker EP (7" vinyl DCRC-0002)
* October 22, 1999 - A.D.S.R.M! (full-length CD DCRC-0005)
* November 25, 1999 - Modern (7" vinyl DCRC-0006)
* February 25, 2000 - Live in Japan / 6-D (2-CD set DCRC-0012 & DCRC-0013 respectively)
* February 25, 2000 - 6-D (12" vinyl DCRC-0014)
Ki/oon Records (a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan Inc.)
* April 19, 2000 - XCT (maxi-single CD KSC2 341)
* June 21, 2000 - each life each end (maxi-single CD KSC2 345)
* September 20, 2000 - Neu (full-length CD KSC2 357)
* April 25, 20001 - New Wave Jacket (maxi-single CD KSC2 380)
* June 6, 2001 - Eno (full-length CD KSC2 389)
* April 24, 2002 - Lo-Bits (mini-album CD KSCL 453)
* July 24, 2002 - For Young Electric Pop (full-length CD KSCL 460)
* May 21, 2003 - Kaja Kaja Goo (mini-album CD KSCL 547)
* October 29, 2003 - National P (full-length CD KSCL 627)
* May 19, 2004 - Polysics or Die!!!! (Compilation KSCL 686)
* April 27, 2005 - Baby BIAS (CD single KSCL 776)
* August 17, 2005- Coelacanth Is Android (CD single KSCL 877)
* October 19, 2005 - Now Is The Time! (full-length CD KSCL 890)
* June 21, 2006 - Electric Surfin' Go Go (CD single KSCL 1016)
* October 25, 2006 - You-You-You (CD single KSCL 1047)
* January 31, 2007 - Catch On Everywhere (CD single KSCL-1091)
* February 28, 2007 - Karate House (full-length CD KSCL-1119)
* November 21, 2007 - Rocket (CD single KSCL-1183)
* March 19, 2008 - Pretty Good (CD single KSCL-1223)
* April 23, 2008 - We Ate the Machine (full-length CD KSCL-1240-1241)
* March 11, 2009 - Shout Aloud! / Beat Flash (CD single KSCL-1358)
Foreign Releases
* 2000 - Hey! Bob! My Friend! (USA and Korea)
* 2003 - Neu (USA)
* 2004 - Polysics or Die (UK ECD)
* 2004 - Kaja Kaja Goo / Black OUT Fall OUT (UK 7")
* 2004 - New Wave Jacket / My Sharona (UK 7")
* 2005 - Polysics or Die!!!! (USA)
* 2006 - Now Is The Time! (USA and UK)
* 2006 - I My Me Mine / Jhout (UK 7")
* 2006 - Coelacanth Is Android / Coelacanth Is Android (MSTRKRFT Remix) (USA 7")
* 2007 - POLYSICS OR DIE!!!! -VISTA- (USA)
* 2008 - Karate House (USA)
* 2008 - We Ate the Machine (USA)
Compilation Appearances
* 1998 - Tokyo Newwave of Newwave '98
* 1999 - Punch The Monkey! 2
* 1999 - Sweets For My Spitz
* 1999 - Unknown Cover Album
* 2000 - YMO-Remixes Technopolis 2000-00
* 2000 - Smash In La-Ppisch! 2
* 2001 - Japan For Sale
* 2002 - Japan For Sale Vol. 2
* 2003 - Japan For Sale Vol. 3
* 2003 - ID:2 (Aikawa Nanase)
* 2004 - Fine Time - A Tribute to New Wave
* 2004 - Japan For Sale Vol. 4
* 2007 - Rock For Baby
* 2007 - Super Chample-Dancer's Collection
* 2008 - METAL-IKKA
Video Releases
* 1999 - Live At Newwave (VHS)
* 2000 - B.G.V. (VHS)
* 2003 - DVDVPVDVLIVE!! (DVD)
* 2004 - PippikkippippiP In USA (DVD)
* 2006 - Now is the live! (DVD)
* 2007 - CLIPS OR DIE!!!! (DVD)
* 2008 - We ate the show!! (CD+DVD)
Solo Projects
* 2004 - Mitsuami Heroine (Kayo Solo EP)
Soundtracks
* Polysics performed the theme song for the American Jetix television show Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!.
* Polysics' song "You-You-You" is used as one of the opening themes for the anime Keroro Gunso.
* A track from their album Now is the Time!, "Tei! Tei! Tei!", was included in the FIFA 07 soundtrack.
* The Anime Network uses Polysics' track "each life each end" for the Girl Power programming block.
* The Polysics song New Wave Jacket was featured in the animutation Wizard Power.
* The ending theme to the Moyashimon anime is Polysics' "Rocket".
Famous fans
* Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo used a Polysics CD for his office phone system, forcing the people on hold to hear the tracks being played.
* MySpace creator, Tom Anderson, is a big fan of Polysics.

Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a English-Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s.

Hawtin is best known for his abstract, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid 2000s. Hawtin is known for DJing minimal techno sets making use of laptop computers and digital mixing equipment. In May 1990, Hawtin fellow second-waver John Acquaviva founded the Plus 8 record label, which they named after their turntable's pitch adjust function. In 1998, Hawtin launched Minus, primarily for his own projects.
Biography
Hawtin was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in England, but moved when he was aged 9 to LaSalle, Ontario, a suburb of Windsor, Ontario, and just across the river from Detroit, the birthplace of techno. His father worked as a robotics technician at General Motors, and was a fan of electronic music, introducing his son to Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream at an early age. He has one brother, Matthew, who is a visual artist and ambient music DJ. Hawtin attended Sandwich Secondary High School in LaSalle. He began to DJ in clubs in Detroit at 17, and his early style was a mix of house and techno. In 1990, along with Canadian DJ John Acquaviva, he formed the label Plus-8 in order to release his own tracks under the name FUSE. Hawtin was billed for DJ appearances under the name Richie Rich, a name also used by an American hip hop music DJ who was a member of 3rd Bass, and also a UK house music DJ who was actively producing remixes around the same time. He spent part of 2002 and 2003 living in New York City, and has since moved to Berlin, Germany. He said, "I’d always wanted to move to Europe. I needed somewhere that was inspiring and where there were like-minded musicians and artists, somewhere you could still experiment with music and with life. Berlin is so liberal in so many different ways; there’s an amazing club scene, there’s a great development software tech scene, there are so many resources here."
Selected discography
* F.U.S.E.: Dimension Intrusion, 1993
* Plastikman: Sheet One, 1993
* Plastikman: Musik, 1994
* Plastikman: Recycled Plastik, 1994
* Richie Hawtin: Concept 1 96 VR, 1998
* Richie Hawtin: Concept 1 96 CD, 1998
* Plastikman: Consumed, 1998
* Plastikman: Artifakts [bc], 1998
* Richie Hawtin: Decks, EFX & 909, 1999
* Richie Hawtin: DE9: Closer to the Edit, 2001
* Richie Hawtin and Sven Väth: Sound of the Third Season , 2002
* Plastikman: Closer, 2003
* Richie Hawtin and Ricardo Villalobos Live at the Robert Johnson, Offenbach, Germany. 2004
* Richie Hawtin: DE9 | Transitions, 2005
* Richie Hawtin: DE9 lite: Electronic Adventures (Produced with MixMag) , 2006
* Richie Hawtin : Minus Orange 1 Decks, EFX & 909 , 2007
* Richie Hawtin : Sounds From Can Elles , (DJMAG) 2008

Planet Funk is an Italian electronic dance musical ensemble. Members are Sergio Della Monica, Alex Neri, Domenico GG Canu, Marco Baroni, and Alessandro Sommella (the Ghost extra member), in addition to a series of guest singers in collaboration, like Dan Black, Sally Doherty, Raiz and John Graham.

Their first single, "Chase the Sun", reached number five on the UK Singles Chart in 2001. The song has enjoyed a rise in popularity ever since Sky Sports began using it during its coverage of the Professional Darts Corporation's major tournaments. The crowds in the venues are encouraged to chant and sing along to the song during the commercial breaks of matches, and the song has a cult following amongst darts fans. The song is also known to be chanted by supporters, at the games of Australian football club, Newcastle Jets. The Melbourne spring racing carnival used the song during promotional TV advertisements during the mid to late 2000s. Their second single, "Inside All the People", reached no. 9 in the Italian singles charts, but did better on the European dance charts. Their third single was "Who Said (Stuck In The UK)" which also gained significant commercial success. Their 2007 single release, "Static", appeared on FIFA 08. They are also remixers, with their highest-profile work to date being New Order's "Waiting for the Sirens' Call". In May 2006 they became the first musical group to release a single exclusively as a mobile phone download, with the release of "Stop Me" on the mobile network 3. They have recently released the single, "Lemonade", which will feature on their new album.
Discography
* 2002: Non Zero Sumness
* 2005: The Illogical Consequence
* 2006: Static
* 2009: Planet Funk
Singles
* 2000 : "Chase the Sun" - #5 UK, #61 GER(2009), #93 SWI, #100 FR
* 2001 : "Inside All the People"
* 2002 : "Who Said (Stuck in the UK)" - UK 36
* 2003 : "The Switch" - UK 52
* 2003 : "Paraffin"
* 2004 : "Stop Me"
* 2005 : "Everyday"
* 2006 : "It's Your Time"
* 2007 : "Static"
* 2009 : "Lemonade" #17 ITA, #1 Malta
Videography
* 1999 : "Chase The Sun" - The video to this single featured patients in a psychiatric hospital exhibiting a variety of catatonic symptoms.
* 2002 : "Who Said (Stuck In The UK)" - The music video featured the singer jumping around in a white room with a band playing behind him, and was colourised in black and white.
* 2004 : "Stop Me" - This featured a video shot in Guiyu, China (which appears to be a major centre for e-waste recycling), with a robot walking around, appearing to be saddened by the destruction of the electronic goods. The video provided a unique insight into the processing of the large amounts of e-waste created in Europe and the USA

Plaid is a British electronic music duo comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley, and based out of London. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andrew Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid.

They have collaborated with female singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Björk, and have released records on the labels Clear, Peacefrog, Black Dog Productions, and Warp Records. In 2006, the duo composed the original music and soundtrack to the Japanese anime film Tekkon Kinkreet. Aside from their own material, Plaid have done extensive remix work for many other artists, including Red Snapper, Björk, Goldfrapp, and The Irresistible Force. Parts in the Post (2003) contains just a handful of Plaid's remix work to date. Plaid often works collaboratively with video artist Bob Jaroc, whose animations often accompanied the music during live performances. They have developed a DVD consisting of new material and video artwork to accompany the music, entitled Greedy Baby. The project was completed on July 20, 2005, and was first shown at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank Centre, and subsequently at the BFI Imax cinema in Waterloo, London. Greedy Baby was released on DVD from Warp Records on June 26, 2006.
Discography
Albums
* 1991 Mbuki Mvuki
* 1997 Not For Threes
* 1999 Rest Proof Clockwork
* 2000 Trainer
* 2001 Double Figure
* 2003 Parts in the Post (Remix Collection)
* 2003 Spokes
* 2006 Greedy Baby (CD/DVD with Bob Jaroc)
* 2006 Tekkon Kinkreet (Soundtrack for Michael Arias anime)
* 2008 Heaven's Door (Soundtrack for Michael Arias movie)
* Mid 2009 Scintilli
EPs
* 1992 Scoobs in Columbia
* 1995 Android
* 1997 Undoneson
* 1999 Peel Session
* 2000 Booc
* 2002 P-Brane
Compilations
* 2003 Dialp (mix album inserted in deliveries of pre-ordered copies of Spokes)
Visual project
* 2005 Greedy Baby

Placebo are an alternative rock band formed in London in 1994, currently consisting of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest. To date, they have released five studio albums, six EPs and twenty-seven singles.

Their sixth album is expected to be released in June of 2009. The band have gained a considerable amount of international recognition, which includes the non-English speaking world. They have sold over one million albums in the U.K. and over ten million worldwide. Thus far, Placebo are best known for hit songs such as: "Nancy Boy", "Pure Morning", "You Don't Care About Us", "Every You Every Me", "The Bitter End", "Twenty Years", "Because I Want You", "Infra-Red", "Meds" and a cover of the Kate Bush song "Running Up That Hill". Placebo's style has varied greatly. Over time, their sound has softened in intensity. The band's first album featured a raw sound and a fairly minimalistic instrumental lineup. But their proceeding albums have had a slower, more melancholy tone and they began to experiment with synthesizers and other, less traditional, modes of sound production. The band has gained some measure of notoriety for the sexualities of its members (Olsdal is homosexual and Molko is bisexual) as well as for their excessive lifestyles and Molko's androgynous image, which are often referred to in their songs (see Lyrics). In recent years, however, the band has become less sexually charged.

Debut album, lineup change and glam connection (1996-1998)
Placebo's self titled debut album was released 16 July 1996 and was a major success, peaking at five on the UK Albums Charts. Placebo is, arguably, the band's most distinctive sounding album thus far. It features ten tracks (eleven including the hidden bonus track "Hong Kong Farewell"), the most popular of which was the song Nancy Boy. In 1998 Q Magazine readers voted Placebo the 87th greatest album of all time. Due to the initial success of Placebo's first album, they remastered and reissued it on 18 September 2006 for its tenth anniversary. Tension with Schultzberg began to rise. The band initially let him go in September 1995, but he was rehired to record the first seven inch single "Bruise Pristine". After an argument in August 1996, right before doing their first TV show, Molko decided that it would be best for the band if Schultzberg left. Schultzberg suggested playing together until they finished the promotion of their first album, Placebo. Eventually, Schultzberg did indeed leave the band, as they had planned earlier. In September 1996, the band was on a United States tour. Before going on stage for their first show in New York, Olsdal informed Schultzberg that he wasn't going on the tour in Germany that was following the U.S. one. At the manager’s request, Schultzberg did two more shows with the band in Paris after the U.S. tour, the last of which was a performance on “Nulle Part Aillleurs.” Molko has said that he was "tired of being the focus of Robert’s rages against the world". Schultzberg's departure left many fans disappointed, with the band switching to a softer sound after his leaving. By this point they were able to convince Hewitt to come back on board full-time in 1996. In early 1996 Placebo opened several concerts for David Bowie in Italy, France and Switzerland as part of his Outside Tour after he had only heard one of their demos. One of Hewitt's first performances with Placebo, upon returning, proved to be a big one. Bowie invited the trio to play at his 50th birthday bash at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1997. The party also included such luminaries as Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, Robert Smith of the The Cure, and Lou Reed. The band's glam connections continued. In 1998, Placebo recorded a cover of T.Rex's "20th Century Boy" for the Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, the band also having minor roles in the film. Bowie made a special appearance onstage with Placebo during a tour stop in New York. A version of the song "Without You I'm Nothing", which originally appeared on the album with the same name, featured a duet containing both Molko and Bowie. Placebo played "20th Century Boy" live with David Bowie at the BRIT Awards show in 1999.
Drugs
Molko has been open about his use of recreational drugs; in a 1997 interview with New York Doll, he admitted at one point that heroin was "probably the only drug on this planet I haven’t tried." However, he later admitted to experimenting with heroin as well. The band holds that their references to drugs within their songs reflects the nature of current times and to reduce such references, within one of their songs, would deteriorate the meaningfulness of that song.
Discography
Studio albums
* Placebo (1996)
* Without You I'm Nothing (1998)
* Black Market Music (2000)
* Sleeping with Ghosts (2003)
* Meds (2006)
* Battle for the Sun (2009)
Members
Current members
* Brian Molko (1994-present) – lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, saxophone
* Stefan Olsdal (1994-present) – bass, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
* Steve Forrest (2008-present) – drums
Additional live lineup members
* Bill Lloyd (1999-present) – guitar, bass guitar (touring and studio)
* Alex Lee (2006-present) – keyboards, guitar
* Fiona Brice (2008-present) – violin
Former members
* Steve Hewitt (1994, 1996-2007) – drums, percussion
* Robert Schultzberg (1994-1996) – drums, percussion, didgeridoo
* Xavior Roide (2003-2005) (touring member) – keyboards, backing vocals