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A brief stint as assistant engineer at West London’s Beethoven St. Studio was enough to propel him into his first production job – remixing Bollywood classics for India’s Audiorec. During downtime, he teamed up with Daniel Goganian to experiment with the various analog synths and samplers at their disposal; this slowly grew in to an act they named Children of the Bong.
COTB’s reputation grew through live performances and were signed by Planet Dog Records in 1994. The album ‘Sirius Sounds’ was released in 1995 to critical acclaim and rose to number 3 in the NME’s Indie chart. The strain of constant touring and recording together had taken it’s toll and after completing an albums worth of music for the production company who created C4’s ‘The Word’, they parted company.

The next collaboration was with Nick Trimm, the graffiti artist turned DJ who accompanied COTB whenever they played live. They formed Euphonic and released their debut ep and album on the Different Drummer label. The music is a collaborative affair with various like minded suspects drawn in part from Rob and Nick's friends from the Brooklyn hip hop underground including Dr Israel, Soothsayer, and Trymystic Sound System. Other contributors include vocalists Hedlam and Jennifer Achono (Neech).
It was during this period that Raymond Watts, aka PIG, hired Rob’s talents to remix and produce a couple of tracks for his next release and was asked to collaborate on SOW’s 2nd release ‘Sick’. Rob continued to work with Anna Wildsmith (SOW) which took shape as the album ‘Dog’ in which he wrote and produced 5 tracks.

Rob’s recent offerings are the output of a long time collaboration with Tony Messenger (The Unlimited Dream Company). Deep City was formed from a mutual love of Funk Electro and House and has started to release some club friendly anthems. They have also collaborated on production for The Thought Criminals.

ALBUMS


Rob Bong*
Knee High Dub
2024, 4xFile, WAV, EP, Disco Gecko, ,
Downtempo
Children Of The Bong
Sonic Ambulance
2024, ,
Ambient/Downtempo
Children Of The Bong
(Not Sirius)
2023, ,
Downtempo/Dub/Ambient
Euphonic
Low Orbit Archives
2021, ,
Dub/Breakbeat/Downtempo
The Thought Criminals
Dirty Electro EP
2016, CD, EP, WTII Records
Neech
Thinkin' Bout You
2007, CD, Album, Not On Label, ,
Downtempo/Trip Hop/Soul
Euphonic
Euphonic
1998, CD, Album, Different Drummer, ,
Trip Hop/Dub/Big Beat/Future Jazz/Hip Hop/Acid/Downtempo/Jungle
Children Of The Bong
Sirius Sounds
1995, ,
Dub/Downtempo/Ambient
Children Of The Bong
Untitled
1994, Cass, Dem, Mr. Bong Music
Children Of The Bong
Untitled
1994, Cass, Album, Promo, Not On Label (Children Of The Bong Self-released), ,
Dub/Downtempo/Ambient
Various
DJ Naeem & DJ Phila Presents Liza Heat Vol 2 Rookie Of The Year
CD, Comp, Not On Label
The Thought Criminals
You're A Moral Liability !
2018, CD, Album + File, MP3, Album, WTII Records, ,
EBM/Industrial/Electro/Dance-pop/Synth-pop
The Thought Criminals
No Love Song
2017, CD, Single, WTII Records
Various
Metazoa
2016, LP, Comp, Ltd, Pur, OTB Records
The Thought Criminals
Dirty Electro EP
2016, 12", EP, WTII Records, ,
EBM/Industrial/Electro/Darkwave
The Thought Criminals
All The Freaks
2009, 4xFile, MP3, Single, WTII Records, Dirty Electro
Various
electriXmas 2007
2007, CD, Album, Comp, Promo, Electrixmas
The Thought Criminals
Die Young: Stay Pretty
2007, ,
Techno/Electro/Industrial
Children Of The Bong
Sonic Ambulance
2023
Euphonic
Form And Meaning EP
1998, ,
Electro/Trip Hop/Broken Beat
Children Of The Bong
Interface Reality (The U.S. Remixes)
1996, 12", Mammoth Records, Planet Dog, ,
Techno/Ambient/Trance/Breaks
Children Of The Bong
Sirius Sounds
1995, ,
Dub/Downtempo/Ambient
Children Of The Bong
Hallucinogen
1994, Cass, Not On Label (Children Of The Bong Self-released)

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