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Janine Rostron, better known by her stage name Planningtorock, is an English electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany.
Life and career
Early life
Rostron enrolled in an art school in Sheffield before she moved to Berlin in 2002. In 2004, she launched her label Rostron Records with Planningtorock’s EP Eins, following it in 2005 with a compilation LP Carousel of Souls that featured songs from The Knife and The Soft Pink Truth.
2006–2009: Have It All
After signing to Chicks on Speed's record label in 2006, Planningtorock released the limited edition 7" single "Changes/I Wanna Bite Ya," before her debut album was released the following summer.
In 2006, Planningtorock remixed the song "Marble House" by The Knife.
2010–present: Tomorrow, In a Year and
In 2010, Planningtorock collaborated with The Knife and Mount Sims to write an opera for the Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma. The opera, titled Tomorrow, In a Year, is based on Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Tomorrow, In a Year was later released on March 9, 2010, by Mute Records and received generally favorable reviews from contemporary critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 67/100.
Rostron worked as the sound designer for the Bruce LaBruce film The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange in 2010.
Rostron began correspondence with James Murphy after he sent her a fan email that said 'Really like the Planningtorock stuff – just saying." Murphy later invited her on LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver tour before signing her to his label DFA Records. Planningtorock was featured on the song "Answering Machine" from the album From the Cradle to the Rave by DFA label-mate Shit Robot in 2010. DFA released Rostron's second studio album on May 17, 2011. Rostron had been working on the album's songs since 2007, eventually writing more than 27 songs. received positive reviews from contemporary critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it garnered an average score of 72/100. The album included a cover of Arthur Russell's song "Janine."
Artistry
Rostron has cited Danielle Dax, Snakefinger, Peaches and the science-fiction writing of Doris Lessing as sources of inspiration for her music and live shows. She stated that the distortion of her vocals allows for the "playing around with gender alongside communicating what I feel is the emotions within the songs. Because I am really interested in expanding upon the limits that we live in – how we are defined – and it is an experiment." Rostron's wearing of a distorted, masculine Nero-esque prosthetic nose in her live shows and the music video for "Doorway" has been described by the singer as a continuation of the androgyny in her vocals.
