James Plotkin

James Plotkin is an American guitarist, producer and mastering engineer from New Jersey. He first came to notice as guitarist of the Earache band OLD in the late 1980s, and later co-founded the slow, extreme drone metal group Khanate. Since the 1990s he has moved between metal, noise, dark ambient and improvised music, and he has worked on records by many other artists as a remixer and mastering engineer. James Plotkin made four albums with OLD, from Old Lady Drivers (1988) to Formula (1995).