Paul Robb

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Paul Robb

Paul Robb is one of the founding members of the synthpop band Information Society. Robb worked with the band from their inception in the early 1980s until 1992 (after their 3rd release Peace & Love, Inc.). When Information Society's contract with Tommy Boy Records expired, Paul (who at the time had a new infant) chose to work in films and commercials, winning two Clio Awards for BMW ads in the process. In 1996 he started a record company, Hakatak International. Hakatak featured his one-man industrial-tinged band Think Tank, as well as a trip-hop and world music flavored collaboration with Minneapolis folk singer Barbara Cohen named Brother Sun Sister Moon.

When trip-hop briefly gained mainstream popularity following the release of Portishead's Dummy, Brother Sun Sister Moon was signed to Virgin Records, causing the dissolution of Hakatak in June of 1997. No album ever resulted from that deal, however, and to this day neither Robb nor Virgin will say what happened. Robb continued to do TV, film, and commercial work but had no further commercially recorded output until January of 2002, when he reappeared with a new record company named Bleep! Records and an album under the name of Luminous, which turned out to be a renamed Brother Sun Sister Moon. The Bleep! website promised a new Robb solo album under the name "Bitcrusher", but that album was not released before Robb's investors pulled the plug and killed Bleep! in late 2002.

Robb currently owns a recording studio in Los Angeles called Digitalis (a pun on the heart drug), and continues to produce music for advertisements and television shows. His credits include MTV's Real World and Road Rules and the score for Trey Parker and Matt Stone's first movie Orgazmo. He later remixed the theme for Parker and Stone's long-running South Park series and was involved in the Chef Aid album as well.

It was recently announced (in 2006) that Robb and James Cassidy are reforming Information Society and recording a new album, although without original vocalist Kurt Harland (Kurt cited work and family obligations).