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Two bands have used this name, an Australian and a Croatian. For the Croatian, please use the tag S.P.K. instead.
1) SPK: Myspace
Formed 1978 in Australia, was a 1980s industrial and noise music act once featuring Graeme Revell who later went on to compose soundtracks for film and television, most notably the incidental music for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Details - Personal;
Operator - synthesisers, rhythms, treatments, vocals
Wilkins - guitars, bass, tapes, vocals
Mr. Clean - technician
Tone Generator - synthesisers, treatments
——-The group was formed when Revell (aka Operator) met up with Neil Hill (aka Ne/H/il). They were both working at a psychiatric hospital when they became inspired by the manifesto of the German radical Marxist group known as the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK). The following words, inspired by the SPK manifesto, are used on one of the band’s first recordings, Slogun (1979): “Kill, Kill, Kill for inner peace/ Bomb, Bomb, Bomb for mental health/ Therapy through violence!”. Dominik Guerin (aka Tone Generator) joined in 1980, and was later to concentrate on the band’s notorious visual content. Guerin and Revell recorded the first album, Information Overload Unit (1981), in a Vauxhall squat (during the Brixton riots in London) with the help of Revell’s brother Ash (aka Mr.Clean) and Wilkins (guitar/bass).
1) SPK: Myspace
Formed 1978 in Australia, was a 1980s industrial and noise music act once featuring Graeme Revell who later went on to compose soundtracks for film and television, most notably the incidental music for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Details - Personal;
Operator - synthesisers, rhythms, treatments, vocals
Wilkins - guitars, bass, tapes, vocals
Mr. Clean - technician
Tone Generator - synthesisers, treatments
——-The group was formed when Revell (aka Operator) met up with Neil Hill (aka Ne/H/il). They were both working at a psychiatric hospital when they became inspired by the manifesto of the German radical Marxist group known as the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (SPK). The following words, inspired by the SPK manifesto, are used on one of the band’s first recordings, Slogun (1979): “Kill, Kill, Kill for inner peace/ Bomb, Bomb, Bomb for mental health/ Therapy through violence!”. Dominik Guerin (aka Tone Generator) joined in 1980, and was later to concentrate on the band’s notorious visual content. Guerin and Revell recorded the first album, Information Overload Unit (1981), in a Vauxhall squat (during the Brixton riots in London) with the help of Revell’s brother Ash (aka Mr.Clean) and Wilkins (guitar/bass).
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TheMukeyMu wrote:
SPK 3 amazing letters
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The_Ambience_Ed wrote:
Уровень охуительности зашкаливает.
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Kronn- wrote:
Slishkom Pizdatiy Kollektiv
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pollotoxico wrote:
SPK !!!!!!!!!!!
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skalberg242 wrote:
Emanation Machine R. Gie 1916!
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jm_berserk2012 wrote:
;D
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AMDA wrote:
Super Penis Krieg
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szduhjfdg775 wrote:
Special Provision for Kira? ... I've never listened to this, but if there's a death note reference i'm adding it to my library.
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Downbeatman8 wrote:
Slogun is relentless anger, aggression, brutality, and downright insanity at its finest
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sub-v-Ruiner wrote:
SuperPumpKin! I know Graeme from The Crow and Aeon Flux, gotta check this out
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outrenoir wrote:
soft perfumed kisses
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jump29 wrote:
SPK
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IcyCoughs wrote:
Leichenschrei is an absolute masterpiece!
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Razielek wrote:
v have got this on vinyl
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Moloch93 wrote:
http://industrialintroduction.blogspot.com/2009/10/spk-dokument-iii0-1979-1983.html S.P.K. - Dokument III0 1979 - 1983 (box set)
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iamnotapie wrote:
Leichenschrei is terrific
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aphorism9 wrote:
It gets no better than this!
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RedArmada wrote:
Joy Division doesn't come near to the surreality or industrializing nightmare of SPK. If I were reading Ballard, I'd take SPK any day.
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sewertroll wrote:
I just learned that John Murphy has had quite few industrial acts before knifeladder.. I do hope knifeladder returns.. Anyway, did you guys know John Murphy had a project with Dominic Guerin (Tone Generator). Last Dominion lost.
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sewertroll wrote:
Isn't Joy Division's Atrocity Exhibition soundtrack for that? Anyway, Leichenschrei is pure brilliancy, the whole album is just a behemoth of dark music. I've never heard of so dark atmospheric song as Despair, and don't bother to send me songs that you think could compete with it.
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