Everything is Pop, Pop is Everything: RIP Peter "Sleazy .

Early yesterday morning came sad intelligence that one of the great pioneers in electronic music has died. Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson died in his sleep, at aged 55. As a founding member of Throbbing Gristle, he was partly of one of the most experimental, influential and notorious British groups of all time. Considered to be the foremost industrial band, their music spanned styles from machine-like noise to pure electro-pop.

Formed in 1975, their performances (which included performing naked and vomiting onstage) inevitably created considerable controversy. At the time, British MP Nicholas Fairbairn famously gave the band their ultimate seal of hypocritical condemnation/approval when he marked the band "wreckers of civilisation" - shortly before he was arrested for indecent exposure himself.

Christopherson helped Throbbing Gristle frontman Genesis P-Orridge form the similarly influential Psychic TV Christopherson and his collaborator John Balance (pop's firstly openly gay duo) formed the pioneering band Coil. Fronted by Christopherson, Coil produced intensely dark music that appeared in the films of Derek Jarman. Prior to this, Christopherson worked as a designer for the hugely influential design agency Hipgnosis, creating iconic record album track for the likes of Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel. RIP Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson Longtime ally and collaborator Chris Carter shared this fond remembrance of his friend: From boingboing.Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson 27th February 1955 - 24th November 2010 Peter Christopherson, affectionately known as Sleazy, died peacefully in his rest on the 24th of November at his house in Bangkok, Thailand.The medicine and art world has missed a great talent whose unique approach ignored the conventions of the day and frequently challenged the status quo. Sleazy's playful and inspiring creativity saw him pushing boundaries as a musician, video director and designer throughout his life. He had lately returned to Thailand from Europe, where he had played a dead but spectacular series of live shows as a member of Throbbing Gristle and in the new formed trio X-TG with Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter. Sleazy's visual art career included work as a member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis, creating iconic record sleeve artwork in the 1970s for Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and, later, Factory Records. He took the first promo photographs of the Sex Pistols, created a highly controversial window display for Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothing shop, SEX, and went on to aim the logo of the enormously popular fashion company, BOY. In 1976 Sleazy met Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and Genesis P-Orridge and together they formed electronic music provocateurs Throbbing Gristle and Industrial Records, creating one of the 1st independent record labels of the era and laying the basis for a new genre of music. The ring was infamously described in the Daily Mail by Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn as "the wreckers of civilisation". TG ceased operations in 1981, after which Sleazy formed Psychic TV with Genesis P-Orridge and they produced two albums. The second, Dreams Less Sweet included his next life partner Jhonn Balance as a member, with whom he went on to form Coil and to release an extensive body of act up until Jhonn's passing in 2004. Subsequently, Sleazy left the UK to be in Bangkok, Thailand and to cover his aesthetic and musical vision in the pretext of The Threshold HouseBoys Choir and Soisong.Following their original break-up, Throbbing Gristle's legacy steadily grew within the medicine and art world, leading to their reformation in 2004 and a series of sold-out performances, including in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.At the sentence of his death, Sleazy was in the thick of collecting what was to be Throbbing Gristle's next project: a cover version of Nico's Desertshore album. Peter was a form and beautiful soul. No language can show how often he will be missed.Throbbing Gristle / X-TG Cosey Fanni Tutti Chris Carter