James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer, famous for his role in bands such as Khanate

Khanate (band)

Khanate was a drone metal supergroup that brought together James Plotkin and Alan Dubin, two members of the defunct band OLD, as well as Tim Wyskida and Stephen O'Malley )) fame)....

  and OLD

OLD (band)

OLD was a grindcore / industrial metal band from Bergenfield, New Jersey, signed to Earache Records...

, but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has performed guitar duties for bands Phantomsmasher

Phantomsmasher

Phantomsmasher is an experimental grindcore/electronic band led by musician James Plotkin, previously known as Atomsmasher.The band signed to Ipecac Recordings in 2002, and is reportedly currently working on a third album.-Members:...

 and Scorn

Scorn (band)

Scorn was an English electronic music project. The group was formed in the early 1990s as a side project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen...

 and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null

KK Null

KK Null is a Japanese experimental multi-instrumentalist. He began as a guitarist, but soon added composer, singer, electronic musician and drummer to his list of talents, and also studied with the Butoh workshop....

, Nadja

Nadja (band)

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff . Nadja began in 2003 as a solo project for Baker to explore the heavier/noisier side of his experimental/ambient music performed mainly on the electric guitar...

, Sunn O)))

Sunn O)))

Sunn O))) is an American doom metal band known for its synthesis of diverse genres including drone, ambient, noise, and black metal. Supported by a varying cast of collaborators, the band has two core members: Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson .-History:Sunn O))) is named after the Sunn...

, ISIS

Isis (band)

Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...

, Pelican

Pelican (band)

Pelican is a post-metal quartet from Chicago, Illinois.-Biography and description:The band is known for its dense combinations of different melodies and extended track lengths. Its distinctive sound draws from stoner rock, doom metal, post-rock, and other influences...

 and Earth

Earth (band)

Earth is an American musical group based in Seattle, Washington, formed in 1989 and led by guitarist Dylan Carlson.Earth's music is nearly all instrumental, and can be divided into two distinct stages...

. He tends to work with grindcore

Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....

, industrial metal

Industrial metal

Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

, noise music

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

, drone metal

Drone metal

Drone metal is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music...

, dark ambient

Dark ambient

Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Although it had its roots in the 1970s, Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of newer, smaller, and more affordable Effects units, synthesizer and sampling technology...

, digital hardcore

Digital hardcore

Digital hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk incorporating influences from electronic music. Digital hardcore fuses elements of hardcore punk with various forms of electronic music...

, and post-metal

Post-metal

Post-metal is a music genre, a mixture between the genres of post-rock and heavy metal.Hydra Head Records owner and Isis frontman Aaron Turner originally termed the genre "thinking man's metal", demonstrating that his band was trying to move away from common metal conventions...

.

Solo work

• James Plotkin - A Strange, Perplexing - 1996
• James Plotkin - The Joy Of Disease - 1996
• James Plotkin / Pole
  Pole (musician)
  Pole is the artistic name of Stefan Betke, a German electronic music artist commonly associated with the glitch genre as well as dubtronica.-History:Pole took his name from a Waldorf 4-Pole filter which he accidentally dropped and broke in 1996...
  
   - Split Series #8 (withdrawn version) - 2000
• James Plotkin / Pimmon
  Pimmon
  Pimmon is the recording name of Australian musician Paul Gough. He has released records on labels such as Fat Cat Records, Fällt, Tigerbeat6, Staalplaat and Staubgold, and collaborated with Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi, among others....
  
   - Split Series #8 - 2000
• James Plotkin - Kurtlanmak/Damascus - 2006
• James Plotkin - Indirmek - 2007

Collaborative releases

• James Plotkin & Kazuyuki K Null - Aurora - 1994
• Jimmy Plotkin & Alan Dubin
  Alan Dubin
  Alan Dubin is an American vocalist/singer most widely known for his role in the now defunct doom metal band Khanate. He is noted for his tortured and distinctive vocal approach...
  
   (2X self titled 7"'s) - 1995
• James Plotkin & K.K. Null - Aurora Remixes - 1996
• James Plotkin & Mick Harris
  Mick Harris
  Mick Harris commonly known and credited both as Mick Harris or occasionally M.J. Harris, is an English musician....
  
   - Collapse - 1996
• James Plotkin & Mark Spybey - A Peripheral Blur - 1999
• James Plotkin & Brent Gutzeit - Mosquito Dream - 1999
• James Plotkin & David Fenech
  David Fenech
  David Fenech is a French composer, guitarist and singer born on 19 July 1969 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine.-Biography:David Fenech had a guitar for his tenth birthday and never ceased making music since then. Between 1990 and 1995, he was very active on the mail art network and published tracks on...
  
   - Strings and Stings compilation - 1999
• James Plotkin & Tim Wyskida - 8 Improvisations - 2006

With OLD

OLD (band)

OLD was a grindcore / industrial metal band from Bergenfield, New Jersey, signed to Earache Records...

• Old Lady Drivers
  Old Lady Drivers (album)
  Old Lady Drivers is the debut album from the band OLD. It was made as a parody of the grindcore acts during the 80's.-Track listing:# "Total Hag" - 2:49# "Corpse Full of Gunk" - 1:31# "Supermarket Monstrosity" - 0:56# "Lepers w/o Feet" 2:04...
  
   - 1988
• Assück
  Assück
  Assück was an anti-capitalist and anarchist grindcore and deathgrind band from Saint Petersburg Florida, active from 1987 to 1998. The band proved influential, with their album Anticapital voted number 4 in the Terrorizer list of their top 20 US grindcore albums, who described it as a "low-calibre...
  
   / O.L.D. - Split - 1990
• Lo Flux Tube
  Lo Flux Tube
  Lo Flux Tube is the second album by the band OLD. It marked a drastic change in style for the band, abandoning their previous grindcore parody in favor of a much more industrial and experimental sound...
  
   - 1991
• The Musical Dimensions Of Sleastak - 1991
• Hold On To Your Face - 1993
• Formula
  Formula (OLD album)
  "Formula" is an album by industrial/metal band OLD . It is their last full-length to date, and the group was condensed to a duo, with James Plotkin handling all instruments and Alan Dubin handling all vocals...
  
   - 1995

With Scorn

Scorn (band)

Scorn was an English electronic music project. The group was formed in the early 1990s as a side project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen...

• Evanescence
  Evanescence (Scorn album)
  Evanescence is an album by Scorn, originally released in 1994 on Earache Records. It was remastered along with its remix album and released as a two disc set in 2009.-Track listing:# "Silver Rain Fell" - 7:36# "Light Trap" - 6:11# "Falling" - 4:59...
  
   - 1994
• Anamnesis - Rarities 1994 - 1997

With Khanate

Khanate (band)

Khanate was a drone metal supergroup that brought together James Plotkin and Alan Dubin, two members of the defunct band OLD, as well as Tim Wyskida and Stephen O'Malley )) fame)....

• Khanate
  Khanate (album)
  Khanate is the debut album by Khanate. The album was released in 2001 through Southern Lord Records.A CDR demo edition titled "tektonikdoom", of which only 20 in yellow vellum were made was released prior to the release of the actual album. On some copies of the demo, "Pieces of Quiet" was titled...
  
  - 2001
• Live WFMU 91.1 - 2002
• No Joy (Remix) - 2003
• Things Viral
  Things Viral (album)
  Things Viral is the second album by American drone metal band Khanate, released in 2003 on the Southern Lord label.The CD was released in two versions: a European digipack version and a U.S. jewelcase version. There was also a LP version on LOAD Records with 1000 gatefold plus 12" copies...
  
   - 2003
• KHNTvsSTOCKHOLM - 2004
• Live Aktion Sampler - 2004
• Capture & Release
  Capture & Release (album)
  Capture & Release was the third album by the drone metal band Khanate. It was released in 2005 and is on the Hydra Head label.The album contains only two tracks, "Capture" and "Release," both of which provide the album its name...
  
   - 2005
• It's Cold When Birds Fall From The Sky - 2005
• Clean Hands Go Foul - 2009

With Phantomsmasher

Phantomsmasher

Phantomsmasher is an experimental grindcore/electronic band led by musician James Plotkin, previously known as Atomsmasher.The band signed to Ipecac Recordings in 2002, and is reportedly currently working on a third album.-Members:...

• Phantomsmasher - Atomsmasher - 2001
• Phantomsmasher s/t - 2002
• Phantomsmasher - Podsjfkj Pojid Poa w/ Venetian Snares remix (7" EP) - 2002

External links

• James Plotkin's homepage