Pankow + Statiqbloom // Urban Spree, Berlin

aufnahme + wiedergabe presents PANKOW live The pioneers of Italian EBM/industrial www.pankow.bandcamp.com STATIQBLOOM live EBM/Industrial/Techno www.statiqbloom.bandcamp.com pankow-панков (founded back in 1980) were the very first electronic/industrial acts coming out from Italy. The founding member maurizio fm fasolo and his five co-band members at that time created sounds inspired by the likes of Joy Division, TG and early Kraftwerk, they just released a couple of tracks on some local compilations: (‘We are the Joy’ and ‘Wither’) After various line-up changings and the arrival of the charismatic lead-singer and poet Alex Spalck, the project started to become noted also abroad and a first live-appearance in Berlin in 1983 marked the start of a long ongoing and successful career for the band. Statiqbloom is the brainchild of Fade Kainer. began 2014 in Brooklyn NYC, later a duo with Denman C. Anderson (2016- 2020). Currently based in Berlin, he is combining hardware and software in creating noisy modular-engineered industrial techno his live sets mesh hard industrialised rhythms with unfolding blackened atmospheres and disorienting vocals