Label: Old Europa Cafe

(予約受付中 - 3月中旬入荷予定)

8ページブックレット付き、イタリアOld Europa Cafeによる新装復刻版!!Graeme RevellとNeil Hillによって1978年に設立されたオーストラリア伝説的プロジェクトSPK。オリジナルは1983年、現在もリリースを継続している当店激推しレーベルWalter Ulbricht Schallfolienより出版、SPKの貴重なシングル作品を集めたコレクションLP[Auto-Da-Fe]がOECよりCDリイシュー。シンセサイザー、サンプリングを多用した不思議な作風、ある種のシャーマニズムな性質が浸透したトライバルな楽曲、また70年代後半から80年代前半にかけての最もエクストリームな作品[SLOGUN]といった、数々の歴史的名曲を収録した決定版。



After Live at the Crypt / Leichenschrei & Information Overload Unit here comes another SPK re-release on OEC!
This time we are pleased and honoured to go for Auto-Da-Fé.
GRAEME REVELL wrote at the end of 2025 a new and complete introduction to such re-edition.
Those writings are integrated into cover notes for introduce the new (2026) listener into such a very special album who marks an era!

That album came first out on Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien on LP in 1983!

Auto-Da-Fé is a collection of SPK’s singles from between 1978 and 1979.
The first five tracks, from '78 and '79, are basically a scratchy thrashy punk sound, augmented by synthesizers and samples.
Guitars grind, electronics screech, and metal is most thoroughly bashed.

Highlight of these early works, and indeed the album, is the deranged SLOGUN.
The intro to the song, a demented echoing clucking and quacking, leads into a pulverising mechanical grind.
Surely a candidate for most extreme song of the late 70s and early 80s.

The next three tracks come from 1981, and a new more synth-oriented sound has been discovered. "Metal Field" and "Walking on Dead Steps", ever-so-slightly catchy, creepy, with militaristic overtones.
"A Heart that Breaks (In No Time Or Place)", is the stand-out here, a minimalistic, almost EBM track, as an empassioned female voice narrates the amazingly bitter lyrics, while seemingly random percussion bashes quietly in the background.

The final three tracks date from 1982.
On these tracks, a kind of shamanic quality has overcome the music, a tribal, mystical sound has come into effect.
Synth-drum beats hold the songs together, as metallic-percussion inject the tracks with a hint of randomness and confusion.
Vocals are no longer shouted, but delivered calmly, and the synth backing is created through drones, rather than beeps and stabs.

Every single one of these 11 tracks is of highest INSDUSTRIAL quality.
Best and rough sound of the era.
From Industrial-Noise textures to Punk-Trappings to more danceable Industrial Angst-Pop.
A selection of great SPK hits that made the history of Industrial Muzak.