SPK - MEKANO

SPK, the pioneering industrial noise group from Sydney Australia. 1979 recording of the song "Mekano"

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• SPK
• sekret sekret
• cruel sea
• industrial music
• throbbing gristle
• david virgin
• dan rumour
• graeme revell
• ne/h/il

[Galakthoese]

I still love their Punk attitude.. everyone should hold that in mind before touching the screen and call ´em pure industrial genius. There are two ways.. ;-)

[MagnitudePerson]

FUCKING AWESME+AWESOME NICE JOB ON LYRICS PART! ITs right!

[redwraith122]

@Galakthoese I've always believed that a punk influence has always been important in most Industrial tracks.

[FurHarvest]

One of the best bands ever!!!!!

[BoscoBlood]

@taylormacall Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv

[konfuzerkat]

Bloody great!

Pleased I stumbled upon this great Aussie ditty.

It’s now on rotation on my Internet Radio Station

Listen: live365.com/stations/nzgroundz­ero

[taylormacall]

What is spk????

[iLEZtube]

1:15, oh my... fifteen seconds of absolute 8-bit awesome. =)

[blacknganga]

@grisflyt Well, what people dance to today is bass heavy, with the mid-range scooped out, innit? Ok, well SPK may well have been an "Avant garde post-punk band" but no-one plays that sort of music for fun anymore, do they now? No one collects ye olde industrial for anything more than a soundbite here and there. Why I say Dionysian, is because they SERVED THEIR ROLE, just like Gristle, The Stooges, Zappa, The Fugs and other absurdists but they are not collected like Bowie, Numan, Japan, etc.

[grisflyt]

@blacknganga What does early SPK have to do with dance? And SPK is not white noise. Whitehouse is white noise and they have much more in common with Masona and Merzbow than SPK have. SPK was about experimentation. They used outside influences when nobody else would think of such a thing. Perhaps most important, they never turned it into cheap exoticism. You know the way the white middle-class safely experience the foreign, like Asian culture through Jackie Chan and Africa through Paul Simon.

[superspocko]

I have Systems Planning Korporation. I thought it was their first LP. It's a far cry from this which sounds like early Cab V.. -Sys Plan Kor sounds more like TG. Havn't checked out the other vids yet.