Career
Since disbanding Rosetta Stone in 1998, he has pursued a career in digital audio and Pro Tools production. King has also taken the opportunity to work with the French progressive act Mellow, for whom he has done many remixes - which culminated in the production of material which King developed from their musical score created for the Roman Coppola art-house movie CQ. He has also continued to play and write guitar for the critically acclaimed Liverpool band Mulu. King began writing and recording his own material again late in 2005 under the guise of On 17 July 2007, has released the vaporware ep, consisting of four tracks, for free download via the community website MySpace.
Describing King"s remix style: Xfm Radio said in their review of the song Coming Second by Elbow, "misery:lab"s Porl King - delivers something that sounds not unlike Depeche Mode at their heaviest" - and made it single of the week.
He says, "I wanted to provide a more grounded realistic sense of horror. Foreign the last couple years, Porl has done an Occultwave/Witchwave/Analog project called
On 11 September 2007, King suffered a heart attack in Leeds and was taken by ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary, where he survived and was put on an eight week recovery programme.