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SPK
Australian industrial/noise group
Formed in 1978
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SPK are an industrial music group formed in Sydney, Australia in 1978. They are fronted by mainstay member, Graeme Revell, on keyboards and percussion. In 1980 the group traveled to the United Kingdom where they recorded their debut studio album, Information Overload Unit (1981).
According to Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane, SPK were "at the forefront of the local post-punk, electronic/experimental movement of the late 1970s ... [their] music progressed from discordant, industrial-strength metal noise to sophisticated and restrained dance-rock with strange attributes".
In 1983, Sinan Leong joined on lead vocals, after which the group pursued a more commercial industrial dance style with the single "Junk Funk" and their third studio album, Machine Age Voodoo (1984). The group disbanded in 1988. Two years later Revell and Leong relocated to the United States, where Revell worked as a Hollywood film score composer.
In 2025, Revell reactivated SPK, performing two live shows in Europe with his son Robert. A "new entity", named SPKtR, is expected to begin touring in 2026.
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SPK est un groupe australien de musique industrielle et bruitiste, originaire de Sydney, actif entre 1978 et 1988. Graeme Revell, qui devient plus tard un compositeur de musiques de films renommé à Hollywood, est l'un de ses membres.
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Discography
Albums
- 1981 Information Overload Unit
- 1982 Leichenschrei
- 1982 Waffen Der Subversion - S.P.K. Berlin
- 1982 Wars of Islam
- 1984 Machine Age Voodoo
- 1986 Zamia Lehmanni: Songs of Byzantine Flowers
- 1987 Digitalis Ambigua, Gold and Poison
- 2012 Case Study London
- 2014 Paradiso
EPs
- 1983 Dekompositiones