Portion Control

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Portion Control
Portion Control in 2005.
Background information
Origin	London, United Kingdom
Genre(s)	Electronic Industrial
Years active	1980–1987 2002–present
Label(s)	In Phaze Records Illuminated Records Dead Man's Curve www.portion-control.net
Associated acts	Solar Enemy
Website	www.portion-control.net
Members
John Whybrew Dean Piavani (1981–present)
Former members
Ian Sharp (1980–1987) Ian Hicks (2002–2006)

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 ^{[citation needed]}.

1 History
2 Discography
3 Associated projects
4 Notes
5 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Singles

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

[edit] EPs

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

[edit] 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
Filthy White Guy 2006