Padded Cell

Originating from London, the electro duo Padded Cell maintains an affiliation with DC Recordings while displaying touches of post-punk revival in the manner of the DFA. The project was formed in 2002 by veteran producers Richard Sen, formerly of the Bronx Dogs, and Neil Higgins of the Dirty Beatniks, who drew primary inspiration from the early-'80s New York post-disco and post-punk milieu that included Arthur Russell, ESG, and Liquid Liquid. Their first joint effort as Padded Cell was a 2003 remix of Big Two Hundred's "Let It Bleed" issued on DC Recordings, the London-based label run by J. Saul Kane under his Depth Charge alias. A few years afterward they issued their production debut on the imprint, the 12" EP Signal Failure, which inaugurated a run of further EPs that comprised Are You Anywhere? (2006), Moon Menace (2007), Savage Skulls (2008), and Word of Mouth (2008). In 2008 the duo delivered its first full-length album, Night Must Fall, again on DC Recordings.