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Granted there is the more experimental shit, and the less experimental shit, but ... based solely on "Metal Dance" and "High Anxiety" ...

CLASSIC. "High Anxiety" can mix with europop, electro, or italo, which is great. one thing that dance classics seem to have in common is that they traverse multiple genres at the same time.

YAY SPK!

― Cameron Octigan, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

seriously?! nobody?!

― Cameron Octigan, Friday, 13 April 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, is this *the* SPK or another one?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 April 2007 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

Definately not THE SPK.

HATE bands that use other organizations' names without modification.

Bauhaus, Cabaret Voltaire, ***SPK***, etc.

― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 13 April 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

not the Marxist organization, but the band. i love MUSIC, not i love politics. although ... it has it's place.

― Cameron Octigan, Friday, 13 April 2007 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

Zamia Lehmanni = absolute classic, but I haven't checked out any of his other stuff, probably because I fear it won't be as good.

― StanM, Friday, 13 April 2007 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

live at garibaldi's 1979, just a few tracks:

http://rapidshare.com/files/15738581/SPK_Garibaldis_21-04-1979.rar

they do a metal urbane cover

― nonightsweats, Friday, 13 April 2007 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

the early stuff rules. zamia lehmanni rules. the covers for the "metal dance" period always put me off so i never checked it out.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 13 April 2007 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

K-lassic

― baaderonixx, Friday, 13 April 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

the real SPK is pretty classic too

― baaderonixx, Friday, 13 April 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

metal dance = classic. zamia lehmani = classic. leichenschrei = classic. auto dafe = classic. most of junk funk = dud.

― stirmonster, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Which one is the one subtitled 'flowers of Byzance' or something like that?

― baaderonixx, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

zamia lehmani - flowers of byzantine.

― stirmonster, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

( Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers )

― StanM, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I used to adore that album but when I played it recently, I found it a bit cheesy.

― baaderonixx, Friday, 13 April 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

there has to be a couple threads on SPK already? and why Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv, why not Surgical Penis Klinik?

― Edward III, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

ps leichenschrei always klassik

― Edward III, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.spkpfh.de/Electronic_class_struggle.htm

― baaderonixx, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

stirmonster OTM, I also like Information Overload Unit for its sheer brutality. There are some great live recordings out there also. Gonna have to have my stateside friend grab that Garibaldi's stuff, thanx.

Also worth noting that the LP version of "In Flagrante Delicto" off of Zamia Lehmanni has totally different vocals than the CD - possible copyright infringment? Anyone know?

― sleeve, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

i've unfortunately never come across a copy of information overload unit. one day!

― stirmonster, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Leichenshrei is my all-time favorite industrial LP. Wall to wall classic, decades ahead of it's time.

― Soukesian, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of fired-up to hear about the Metal Urbain cover, but I don't really do fileshare. One of my all-time favorite bands covering another - which track?

― Soukesian, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

yo stir:

http://search.ebay.com/spk-information_W0QQfromZR40

― sleeve, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

stirmonster. when you were here in San Francisco you should've been taken to Recycled Records. they have a copy of that LP in mint for $20.

― Cameron Octigan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

thanks for the link sleeve. cameron, i spent about an hour in recycled records but somehow managed not to spot that.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 14 April 2007 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

ah, that's the worst. i know Ryan helped you guys around, so i would have thought he'd take you there but you never know. they have a copy of Leichenschrei. this one:

http://www.discogs.com/release/76543

― Cameron Octigan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

that's the copy i have. i listened to it today inspired by this thread. i was lucky enough to see them on the junk funk tour and even though that album is very hit or miss they completely blew my teenage mind to shreds. i also fell head over heels for sinan leong. it was pretty much like this

― stirmonster, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i guess it was the machine age voodoo tour. i always call that album junk funk for some reason.

― stirmonster, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Just picked up a copy of Leichenshrei on Thermidor. This one: http://www.discogs.com/release/137883

Only $15 at Amoeba in San Francisco! Well, to make a long story short, I've only heard this album (classic), Information Overload Unit (classic), and Machine Age Voodoo (classic - but in a different way).

What else should I check out?

― Cameron Octigan, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

auto-da-fé

― Edward III, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

the first time I heard spk was when a friend lent me his copy of the thermidor leichenschrei. haven't seen a copy in the 20 years since. love the cover.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/thermidor_leichenschrei.jpg

― Edward III, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

YOU LEAVE ME BREATHLESS
YOU TAKE MY BREATH AWAY

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I have a very distinct memory of first listening to leichenschrei over headphones while laying in my dark bedroom. nighty night pleasant dreams hahaha.

― Edward III, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

factoid: leichenschrei means "scream of the dead" in german

― Edward III, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

or "corpse cry" if you're google language tools

― Edward III, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

I think the German refers to the noises occasionally emitted by decomposing bodies. Just thought I should share that.

― Soukesian, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

"corpse queef"

― Edward III, Thursday, 6 September 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

I probably should not have shared that.

― Edward III, Thursday, 6 September 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

interview with tone generator for an upcoming doco

― haitch, Thursday, 6 September 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

"Slogun" is brutal.

― no-nonsense, Thursday, 6 September 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

ooh that rapidshare link up there still works :)

I was introduced to SPK by a guy called 3r1c 3lvy who used to run goth/alternative nights in Greenock. He was always trying (and usually failing) to get people into more experimental & industrial stuff along with EBM and Newbeat. I have him to thank for a lot of the stuff I have lying around.

― onimo, Thursday, 6 September 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent Tone Generator interview, definitely up for the doco. (Like it or not, being interviewed as a shadow on a tombstone is definitely Goth As Fuck.)

I wonder if I ever met 3r1c 3lvy. We were probably both at the Edinburgh Caley Pally SPK gig. Was he behind the one-off 'Incence Subdues The Sheep' club at the Hootch, I wonder? Still got the poster for that somewhere.

― Soukesian, Friday, 7 September 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

i was at that SPK Caley Pally gig too. I once leant a Die Krupps record to some bloke from Greenock (I forget his name now). I wonder if it was the same guy?

― stirmonster, Friday, 7 September 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

He used to run a goth/alternative night called Sensoria at various clubs in the West of Scotland (between 86 and 90 or thereabouts - usually in Greenock) that attracted anyone remotely alternative like moths to a light as there was nothing else on without going to Glasgow. His record collection was the envy of everyone I knew.

The last I heard he was going to US/Canada to DJ with Ministry. That was nearly 20 years ago (fuck, I'm old!). I never got to thank him properly for offloading those Neon Judgement and Cassandra Complex 12"s on me before he left :/

I just googled him and it appears he's working as a chef (his 2nd love) in Canada.

― onimo, Saturday, 8 September 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

There should be a thread about people who shaped your life with their enthusiasm and stupidly huge record collections and willingness to make tapes but I cba starting it. To this day he's the only person I know who had an 11" single.

― onimo, Saturday, 8 September 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yep, there have been some of that sort of folk in my life, bless 'em.

― Soukesian, Saturday, 8 September 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

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