SPK is tagged as: industrial, noise, experimental, dark ambient, old school industrial 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 t... Read More About SPK Biography...  Send SPK ringtones to your cell
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