Born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1969, Hans Platzgumer released his first album 'Tod der CD!' ('Death to the CD') by the age of 17 after rushing through school and classical guitar studies at the conservatory. The record made a point against the upcoming Compact Disc industry and remains a sought-after cult-classic even today, being one of the first intentional lo-fi indie albums of that time. Living partly in Vienna and Berlin he finishes his electro-acoustic studies at the Musikhochschule in Vienna in 1989, already touring all over Europe and various Eastern-Bloc-countries. He performs and releases new albums solo and with groups like KÖB, Capers, Platzlinger (a duo with Berlin-based free jazz drummer Peter Hollinger). Summer 89 sees him and his mate Frank Puempel move to New York City where they start the infamous indie-group HP Zinker which quickly becomes rooted in the Lower Eastside-scene, playing with bands like Sonic Youth, Ween, Helmet, Lemonheads or the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Matador Records is set up to release the first Zinker album 'And There Was Light'. While the band's sound veers more and more towards progressive hard-rock they release further albums and video clips on Roughneck (London) and Thrill Jockey (Chicago). Constant touring in the US and Europe finally pays its toll and the band releases their last album 'At The Mountains Of Madness' in 1994 on NYC's Energy Records. Its spectacular sleeve, designed by Stefan Sagmeister, wins several art prizes and gets nominated for a Grammy. By now Platzgumer has already moved to Los Angeles where he got involved with scoring films and writing music for theatres. He even gets to play a main part in the full-length feature 'Deep Up There'. The end of HP Zinker makes Hans move back to Europe. In Hamburg, Germany, he joins legendary (post-)punk band 'Die Goldenen Zitronen' with whom he records 2 albums and tours around Europe several times. At the same time he starts to delve deeply into the art of electronic music and releases his first 12"es and albums under new names such as Aura Anthropica, Seperator or Fingerfood. For his output of electronic music he finds a new home in Munich's techno label Disko B where he later even starts his own sub-label 'The Seperator Series' to release diverse new electronica. 1997 he moves to Munich, gets into deejaying, sets up his own studio Son Montuno and produces not only his own new music and many remixes but also the commercially successful German rock group Tocotronic. He joins forces with Austrian electro pioneer Gerhard Potuznik as Cube + Sphere, with Japanese Artist/Singer CaMi Tokujiro as 'Shinto'', forms Queen Of Japan with "Miss Le Bomb" Catriona Shaw and releases on Disko B, Cheap, Angelika Koehlermann (Vienna), Domino (London), Heimelektro Ulm (Germany) and The Music Cartel (NY). By the End of the century he DJs and performs live on different continents and works in collaboration with artists of all directions on different fusions of music with theatre, food, sculpture, fine arts, radio drama and video art.