Planet Funk

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Planet Funk is an Anglo-Italian electronic dance musical group.

Members are Sergio Della Monica, Alex Neri, Domenico GG Canu, Marco Baroni, and Alessandro Sommella (the Ghost extra member), in addition to a series of guest singers in collaboration, like Dan Black, Sally Doherty, Raiz and John Graham. Their first single, "Chase the Sun", reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart in 2001. Their second single was "Who Said (Stuck In The UK)" which also gained significant commercial success. At the moment their last single release is 'It's your time' in 2006.

They are also remixers, with their highest-profile work to date being New Order's "Waiting for the Sirens' Call".

In May 2006 they became the first musical group to release a single exclusively as a mobile phone download, with the release of "Stop Me" on the mobile network 3.^[1]

1 Discography
2 Singles
3 Videography
4 Notes and references
5 External links

[edit] Discography

2002: Non Zero Sumness
2005: The Illogical Consequence
2006: Static

[edit] Singles

1999 : Chase The Sun
2002 : Who Said (Stuck In The UK)
2003 : Inside All The People
2004 : Stop Me
2006 : It's your time

[edit] Videography

1999 : Chase The Sun - The video to this single featured patients in a psychatric hospital exhibiting a variety of catatonic symptoms.
2002 : Who Said (Stuck In The UK) - The music video featured the singer jumping around in a white room with a band playing behind him, and was colourised in black and white.
2004 : Stop Me - This featured a video shot in Guiyu, China (which appears to be a major centre for e-waste recycling), with a robot walking around, appearing to be saddened by the destruction of the electronic goods. The video provided a unique insight into the processing of the large amounts of e-waste created in Europe and the USA^[2]