Padded Cell

Padded Cell

Padded Cell are a Birmingham electronic duo made up of Richard Sen and Neil Beatnik. The group forms in 2002, with the project emerging in part as a reaction to the conservatism of early 2000s dance music and as a way for the pair to develop more extreme ideas.

Members and background

Richard Sen is previously known as Bronx Dog on Heavenly, while Neil Beatnik is previously known as Dirty Beatnik on Wall of Sound. Padded Cell brings those backgrounds together under a shared project.

Style and context

The act is associated with electronic music and, in the tag set given for this entry, with disco, space disco, death disco and dark disco. The verified genre note identifies alternative metal.

Other act with the same name

The name also appears for unrelated punk and hardcore-punk acts from the Netherlands and from Whittier in the United States.