FSK (band)

Voluntary self-regulation, from 1989 Rated short, named after the Institute was founded in 1949, is a German avant-garde band. It was created in 1980 in a by the emerging punk, New Wave and New German Wave oriented environment. It was founded in Munich by Thomas Meinecke, Justin Hoffmann, Melián and Wilfried Barnaby Bear. The band, who had fought for aesthetic reasons against long drummer, took 1990 Carl Oesterhelt on as such.

History

The band members had about the magazine fashion and despair ( published 1978 to 1986 ) met, they published together. Their first EP was released in 1980 at the Hamburg label zigzag of Alfred MoP.

Your aesthetic models ranged from power plant on the Velvet Underground to Roxy Music. They rejected "authenticity" from and were primarily interested in cultural breaks. They refused to aesthetic reasons, which were in their reading and politically, offers big record companies who approached euphoria in the wake of the "New - German wave " in the early 1980s also unusual bands.

In 1985, F.S.K. their first Peel session at the BBC - the six more followed (the last shortly after Peel's death). F.S.K. John Peel was declared German favorite band, and also the British music press as the NME was at this time a keen interest in the music of the FSC.

From the late 1980s Rated employed reinforced with " electrified - broken, contemporary transatlantic Folklore " ( among other things inspired by the British Mekons ). She tried so, to explore the roots of German music in the U.S. and reimported to Germany. During this time she worked closely with musician and producer David Lowery ( Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker ) together, took her albums in his studio in Richmond, Virginia, and toured several times in the United States.

The mid-1990s, the band turned to house and techno. Since then, she took on only in the Uphon Studios by Mario Thaler Bavarian Weilheim. However, it is also not about imitation, but the emphasis on the breaks and deconstruction predetermined pattern. So the band took to the "electronic" pieces with conventional instruments and confronted among others, the Detroit House producer legend Anthony " Shake" Shakir with her quirky material. In May 2012, her most recent album act, a stairway appeared down rising to the record label Buback.

Thomas Meinecke works alongside the band successful as a writer, Melián is a visual artist, Justin Hoffmann director of the Kunstverein Wolfsburg and Wilfried Barnaby Bear photographer.

Discography

As voluntary self-regulation:

  • Forward, 1981, zigzag ZZ 80 (12 " LP)
  • Ça c'est le Blues, 1984, zigzag ZZ 2001 ( 12 "LP )
  • American Sector, 1987 Ediesta CALC 32 (12 ", EP )
  • In Dixieland, 1987, zigzag ZZ 1987 / Ediesta CALC LP 042 ( 12 "LP / CD) [CD includes " Magic Moments " EP]

As F.S.K.:

  • Double Peel Sessions, 1989 Strange Fruit Records SFPMA204 ( 12 "LP / CD)
  • Original Gasman tape, 1989, zigzag ZZ 8000 ( 12 "LP / CD) [CD includes " American Sector " EP]
  • Budweiser Polka / Cannonball Yodel, 1990, Sub Up Records ( 7 "Single )
  • Son Of herb, 1991, Sub Up Records SUBLP 12 (12 "LP ​​/ CD)
  • The Sound Of Music, 1993, Sub Up Records subup25 ( 12 "LP / CD)
  • The German - American Octet, 1994, Return To Sender (Normal Records) RTS 8 (CD)
  • International, 1996, Sub Up Records subup28 ( 2x12 "LP ​​/ CD)
  • Instrumentals 4, 1997, Disko B 64 (12 ", EP )
  • Tel Aviv, 1998, Sub Up Records subup31 ( 12 "LP / CD)
  • Did You See Davidopoulos Hit That Ball ( FSK) / Landla (HP Falkner & Cpt. Schneider ), 1999, private pressing ( 7 "Single )
  • X, 2000, Sub Up Records subup34 ( 12 "LP / CD)
  • First Take Then Shake, 2004, Disko B DB123 (12 " LP 7" Single / CD)
  • Voluntary Self-Monitoring, 2008 Buback BTT 95 (CD)
  • Voluntary self-regulation is a fashion & despair product, 2011, Disko B ( Best of 30 Years, 3 CD Box)
  • Act, Descending a Staircase, 2012
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