Planningtorock

Planningtorock
Birth name	Janine Rostron
Also known as	Jam Rostron
Born	Bolton, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)	Vocalist, songwriter, record producer, music video director, musician
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Rostron Records, Human Level, DFA

Jam Rostron (formerly Janine), better known by her stage name Planningtorock, is an English electronic musician and record producer who lives in Berlin, Germany.

Rostron studied at Blackburn College of Art on the Foundation course in 1990 together with Patrick Bridge, Andrew Hine, Lisa Roberts amongst others. Then 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. She sang backing vocals on the Badly Drawn Boy track 'Outside is a Light 2', a B-Side from the 1999 single 'It Came From the Ground'.

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.

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 9 March 2010, by Mute Records and received generally favourable 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 and componist for the Bruce LaBruce film The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange in 2010.

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