Mekanik Destructiw Komandoh - The Band
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Topic: Mekanik Destructiw Komandoh - The Band
Posted By: Zombywoof
Subject: Mekanik Destructiw Komandoh - The Band
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 21:55
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Hi,
A local record shop holds monthly auctions of rare, mint, vinyl from across many artists, genres, etc. I recently won an album labeled as Mekanik Destructiw Komandoh, thinking it was the infamous Magma record. Much to my dismay, I received a record from a German band of the same name. Quite frankly, I was shocked when I dropped the needle to discover the heavy post-punk / experimental sounds emitting from my turntable. I spent a few hours googling the band with little success and little information. So, I'm wondering ... has anyone else stumbled across this band, who apparently took their name from the immortal Magma? - Ian ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 22:15
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I don't have any of their albums, but havee come across them. I like it, actually. http://rateyourmusic.com/release/ep/mdk_f1/berlin/" rel="nofollow">  http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/mdk_f1" rel="nofollow - MDK Berlin, 1979-1983 MDK aka here's the rateyourmusic page: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/mdk_f1" rel="nofollow - http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/mdk_f1 There's also a New Wave band from the same time called Mekanik Kommando, which I also like. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 16 2011 at 04:22
| Heard about them a long time ago (one of my brothers get maniac about Neue Deutsche Welle a few years ago), but I never managed to go beyond Einstürzende Neubauten, DAF or X-Mal Deutschland when coming to NDW. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: November 16 2011 at 19:49
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Rock critic Chuck Eddy mentions them in his book Stairway To Hell. He reviewed the Berlin EP thusly: If these Krauts ain't Nazis, how come they close with that goose-stepping bootmarch? Don't ask me, 'cause the only decodable English is when Volker Hauptvogel yells "human being" at the end of "Werwolf" (they spell different over there), and the German's a laugh - gratingly ceremonial tragicomic tongue twisters that for all I know just mean today's Volker's birthday and he's jumpy with good will. He cackles his consonants like a banshee as Georg Keller guitars ditto and saxist Stephan Schwietzke bops freestyle over Uli Radike's syndrums (or some organic substitutes called schlagzeugs that sound like 'em), and the more romantically overwrought it all gets, the better: "Die Babies Von Heute" organ-grinds its rhythm like Kurt Weill, "Der Tag Schlägt Zu" is a dirge that goes boom. If it weren't so foreign, I'd probably donate it to the Salvation Army. But no two ways about it, those monikers kill. Like, I understand why "Uli" 's pronounced "U-li" and "Georg" "Gee-orgh" and "Volker" "Woltz-kär", but how come Edgar Domin (on bass) wants us to call him "Zee-tha-i"?? (Chuck's writing style is, shall we say, unique. And I doubt he's ever heard of Magma.) ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |