Portion Control

Portion Control in 2005.

Portion Control is a British electronic and industrial band from South London. The band calls its music style electropunk or hard rhythmic electronics. They are one of the most famous obscure electronic music acts in the world and have been honoured and namechecked by the likes of Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, Orbital, The Prodigy, and others and blatantly and unashamedly ripped off by many other artists .

History

Portion Control first formed in 1980 and the original incarnation of the group existed until 1987. They released a variety of seminal recordings on a variety of indie labels, some self-produced but mainly on Illuminated Records, as well as Rhythmic Records and Dead Mans Curve. In 1987 Portion Control signed to London Records and promply vanished. They reformed a few years later as Solar Enemy which survived from 1990 to 1993. Portion Control weren't seen again until 2002 when fansite 319 Online announced a resumption of activities by the band resulting not long after in a free downloadable software demo featuring graphics, a rare remix of an old track, and samples of new material. Nothing else was released by them, however, until early 2004 with the release of the critically acclaimed double album Wellcome (the title inspired by the work of Sir Henry Wellcome).

Since then Portion Control have been highly active with concert and festival appearances as well as multiple releases on a variety of formats.

Members

*John Whybrew
*Dean Piavani (1981 - present)
*Ian Hicks (2002 - 2006)
*Ian Sharp (1980 - 1987)

Discography

Singles

Raise The Pulse (1982)
Rough Justice (1984)
Go Talk (1984)
The Great Divide (1985)
Stansted (2005)

EPs

Dining on The Fresh (1981)
Surface and Be Seen (1982)
Hit The Pulse (1983)
Purge (1986)
Stansted (2005)

Studio albums

A Fair Portion (1980)
Gaining Momentum (1981)
With Mixed Emotion (1982)
I Staggered Mentally (1982)
A-MAG (1983)
Step Forward (1984)
Psycho-Bod Saves The World (1986)
Wellcome (2004)