Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh - Berlin 12´´

More post-punk action from early eighties Berlin. Alexander Hacke was a member of an earlier incarnation of the band and can be heard on a couple of tape releases. He was not involved in this 12" though.

It's the kind of bleak, monochrome post-punk you'd expect to come out of the grey Mauerstadt, with a riffing saxophone, angular, martial rhythms and theatrical, overwrought vocals that straddle a thin line between crazed anguish and bizarre wackiness. Not quite essential, but pretty good stuff nonetheless.

Named after the great Magma album of the same name, MDK musically resembles their namesake very little. Instead of the prog com krautrock cum hippie art jam that Magma is, MDK taps into the Rough Trade/post punk of their time (admittedly with a tad of krautrock). Their sound is one of contrasts: tight playing with rough production, guttural spit-out vocals with semi-smooth sax. Alexander Hacke (Von Borsig, P1/E, Blässe, Sentimentale Jugend, Sprung Aus Den Wolken and one of the early members of Einstürzende Neubauten) was one of the former member.

Recorded at Beat Studios, Berlin Germany June 1982.

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Tracklisting

A1 Berlin
A2 Die Babies von heute
B1 Der Tag schlägt zu (The Message)
B2 Werwolf

Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh - Berlin (12'', 1983)

(192 kbps, cover art included)