players:

fm - music, synthesizers and re301

massimo michelotti: music, synthesizers

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

a1 - god's deneuve

a2 - cross in my heart

b1 - das wodkachaos

b2 - english waitresses

01 - gimme more in dub

02 - gimme more <much more>

03 - girls and boys

04 - she's gotta be mine

05 - in heaven <everything is fine>

06 - nice bottom <schoener arsch>

07 - sickness takin'over

08 - touch <i'm your bastard>

09 - freiheit fuer die sklaven

10 - nice bottom <nice dub>

11 - gimme more <much more>

12 - girls and boys <hard dub>

13 - touch <i'm your bastard2>

players:

fm:  music, sampling and re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: music and live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: drums

sebi koch: varispeed

TOUCH <I'M YOUR BASTARD>   (1987)

double side a 7"

graphics by fm - polar.sss

players:

fm:  music, sampling and  re301

alex spalck: lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

performed by панков @ sss and transeuropa turin,

mixed and produced by adrian sherwood at studio unknown (empoli)

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

a   - touch <thumping pumping dubbing version>
aa - sickness <sick version>

     - revolution

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: music and live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

italian version:

a - girls and boys (hard dub)
aa - gimme more <much more>

german version:

a - sickness taking over

b - girls and boys (hard dub)

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

side one - kunst und wahnsinn
side two - art and madness

01 - i'm lost, little girl

02 - warm leatherette

03 - die beine von dolores

04 - let me be stalin

05 - pankow's rotkäppchen

06 - me & my ding dong

07 - happy as the horses shite

08 - deutsches bier

09 - madness (danke gisela)

10 - follow me in suicide

11 - warm leatherette

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: bass guitar and sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live and studio drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

01 - art & madness

02 - gimme more (much more)

03 - wet

04 - warm leatherette

05 - texas & paraguay

06 - kunst und wahnsinn

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: music, and live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: drums

sebi koch: varispeed

01 - Warm Leatherette

02 - Nice Bottom

03 - Deutsches Bier

04 - Happy As The Horses Shite

05 - Me & My Ding-Dong

06 - David In The Heater

07 - I'm Lost, Little Girl

08 - Let Me Be Stalin

09 - Wodka!

10 - Der Mussolini

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

guests:

tobias, markus, kai, johann and horst (die erde) and davide ragonesi

lower left alex spalck

upper left fm

upper right alex gimignani

lower right nardo lunardi

lower center paolo favati

photo bt fritz brinckmann

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

guests: alessandra micheli and paola faggioli

peach side - me and my ding dong

black side - germany is burning

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: live sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

01 - remember me (extended remix)

02 - heads will roll

03 - remember me (immortal version)

04 - remember me (immoral version)

05 - untitled

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301, alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: music, bass guitar and sound engineering,

alessandro gimignani: drums, sebi koch: varispeed

guests: davide ragonesi on 07 and sandro neri on 04

01 - nice bottom / schöner arsch (justified remix) - remixed by pankow

02 - kunst und wahnsinn (the 3rd remix) - remixed by pankow

03 - remember me (7" edit) - mixed by goh hotoda

04 - gimme more (much more) (o.4.$.remix)  - remixed by pankow

05 - love is the biggest pig  - produced and mixed by pankow

06 - she's gotta be mine (1991 remix) - remixed by pankow

07 - no fun (in droppin' bombs on berlin or bagdad) - produced and mixed by pankow

08 - sickness takin' over (erased version) - remixed by pankow

09 - germany is burning (verbombte version) - mixed by rico conning

10 - she's lowtta be mine - produced and mixed by pankow

11 - sickness takin' over - remixed by joseph watt

12 - remember me  - remixed by joseph watt

13 - me and my ding dong - remixed by joseph watt

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

walpurgisnacht   16:31

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: sampling and live mixing

alessandro gimignani: drums

sebi koch: varispeed

guest:

davide ragonesi

01 - stupidity (remix)

02 - remembermeremix re-programmed and remixed by lassigue bendthaus

03 - (do the) rotkäppchen

04 - stupidity (idiot men)

05 - rotkäppchen (a filler)

01 - liebe ulrike

02 - my baby can...

03 - florence is dead

04 - young black rebels

05 - i don't want to be nice

06 - you'll never walk alone

07 - treuhund

08 - stupidity

09 - save my life

10 - last song

11 - save your life

12 - liebe ulrike (horstierte version)

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: bass guitar and sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

guests:

horst petersen, elena margarolo, gordon sharp and davide ragonesi

01 - My Baby Can... (Swingalong)

02 - Treuhund (Version An Der Leine)

03 - Save My Life (Resonance Mix #2)

04 - ...

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: bass guitar and sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

sebi koch: varispeed

guest:

davide ragonesi

01 - adrenalina

02 - brucia europa brucia

03 - fronte retro

04 - e-missione

05 - nuova energia

06 - in ostaggio

07 - mai piu idoli

08 - dopo heidegger

09 - grande madre h

10 - eterno presente

11 - totalità

12 - oltre

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

enzo regi: music and sampling

paolo favati: music and engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

guest:

gianluca becuzzi: music lyrics and vocals

a1 - brenne europa brenne

b1 - grande madre h

b2 - fallo

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

enzo regi: music and samples

paolo favati: sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: live electro-drumming

guest:

glb: music lyrics and vocals

01 - wait & search

02 - das wodkachaos

03 - english waitresses

04 - god's deneuve

05 - strawberry sperm

06 - pickel

07 - an den himmel

08 - kyrie

09 - have a nice day

10 - love is the biggest pig

11 - freiheit

12 - stalin

13 - i don't want to be nice #1

14 - trumpet

15 - eine minute zerstörung

16 - wellend

17 - love is an animal

18 - lili marleen

1 taken from "throw out rite" - 1983,

2, 3 and 4 taken from the 12" "pankow", 1984,

5, 6, 7, 9 and 17 unreleased tracks - 1985,

8, 14, 15 and 16 unreleased tracks - 1982,

11 and 13 unreleased tracks - 1986,

12 unreleased track - 1988,

10 taken from svobody! - 1991,

18 unreleased - recorded in 1992.

players:

fm: music, synthesizers, sampling, re301

alex spalck, music, lyrics and vocals

massimo michelotti, music and synthesizers

sebastian koch: varispeed

paolo favati: music and bass guitar on 18

alessandro gimignani: drums on 18

01 - i can feel it

02 - kinderspiel

03 - don't

04 - wäre ich doch ein dichter

05 - ich bin (k) ein patriot

06 - life is offensive

07 - i never thought of the consequences

08 - das gewicht der welt

09 - take it lika a man

10 - escape from beige land

11 - tim the turtle

12 - flamboyant

13 - shutdown

14 - the desperate sons from albury-wodonga

players:

fm: music, synthesizers, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

enzo regi: music and samples

alessandro cellai: music, synthesizers and engineering

guest:

alessio niccolai on 14

01 - fuckart (a symphony for wankers)

videotrack - das gewicht der welt - live at "modulor" - recanati (italy) september 2003

players:

fm: i was sleeping

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

alessandro cellai: music, synthesizers and sound engineering

enzo regi: i was not there

guests:

isabella panero: live "das gewicht der welt" video

paolo favati: live performing on das gewicht der welt

2

3

a1 - i never thought of the consequences

a2 - life is offensive

b1 - shutdown

b2 - escape from beige land

b3 - das gewicht der welt

players:

fm: music, synthesizers, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

enzo regi: music and samples

alessandro cellai: music, synthesizers and engineering

explicit original artwork under this seal

this edition boxset contains the artist cut of the first four of панков's albums:

"FREIHEIT FÜR DIE SKLAVEN" (1987),

"GISELA" (1989),

"OMNE ANIMAL TRISTE POST COITUM" (1990) and

"TREUE HUNDE" (1992)

all on double-folded digipack cds, plus a bonus cd in a cardboard sleeve featuring 4 tracks originally released only on the 12-inch "69SIXTYNINE69" that accompanied the ultra-limited (100 copies) marble cover edition of "gisela" (aka "marble album").

the box also includes an 80-page book called "PANKOW - THE MOVIE" featuring lyrics, pictures, notes and us and german tour memorabilia as edited by original frontman and singer/dancer alex spalck.

re-elaborated by maurizio "fm" fasolo.

the cds contain bonus tracks and partly different tracklistings to the original releases.

FREIHEIT FUER DIE SKLAVEN

(1987)  lp / cd / cass

01 - gimme more in dub

02 - gimme more <much more>

03 - girls and boys

04 - she's gotta be mine

05 - in heaven <everything is fine>

06 - nice bottom <schöner arsch>

07 - sickness takin'over

08 - touch <i'm your bastard>

09 - freiheit fuer die sklaven

10 - nice bottom <nice dub>

11 - gimme more <much more>

12 - girls and boys <hard dub>

13 - touch <i'm your bastard2>

GISELA

(1989)  lp / lp ltd / cd / cass

01 - i'm lost, little girl

02 - warm leatherette

03 - die beine von dolores

04 - let me be stalin

05 - pankow's rotkäppchen

06 - me & my ding dong

07 - happy as the horses shite

08 - deutsches bier

09 - madness (danke gisela)

10 - follow me in suicide

11 - warm leatherette

69SIXTYNINE69

originally 12" in clear vinyl

included in the ltd "Gisela" marble/gold version printed in only 100 copies

01 - 69Sixtynine69 0:25

02 - Warm Leatherette (Instrumental) 3:30

03 - I'm Lost, Little Girl (Helicopterized) 4:59

04 - The Bonus Track

OMNE ANIMAL TRISTE POST COITUM

(1991)  lp / cd / cass

01 - Warm Leatherette

02 - Nice Bottom

03 - Deutsches Bier

04 - Happy As The Horses Shite

05 - Me & My Ding-Dong

06 - David In The Heater

07 - I'm Lost, Little Girl

08 - Let Me Be Stalin

09 - Wodka!

10 - Der Mussolini

TREUE HUNDE  (2005 approved version)

01 - liebe ulrike

02 - my baby can… (swingalong)

03 - you'll never walk alone

04 - i don't want to be nice

05 - treuhund

06 - young black rebels

07 - stupidity (fm+paolo mix)

08 - save my life (resonance mix #2)

09 - florence is dead (holocaust mix) 5:26

10 - last song

11 - liebe ulrike (horstierte version)

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

paolo favati: music, bass guitar and sound engineering

alessandro gimignani: drums

sebi koch: varispeed

" PANKOW - THE MOVIE "

80 page book

featuring lyrics, pictures, notes and us and german tour memorabilia as edited by alex spalck.

01 - deny everything 3:56

02 - heroina (für tobias gruben) 5:12

03 - a wine called anarchy 3:59

04 - flash me with your rage 3:11

05 - extreme 4:11

06 - die wut 3:53

07 - property is theft 4:12

08 - each man 3:57

09 - yagan 5:48

10 - injuries and casualties aside 3:51

11 - the end is nigh

videotrack - die wut by панков, edited by mf

players:

fm: music, synthesizers, sampling, re301

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

enzo regi: music and samples

guest:

massimo michelotti: music, synthesizers and recordworks

laurent malherbe: inspirations

1 - don’t follow (hogremics) by – fm

2 - das wodkachaos (binary park remix)

3 - deny everything (pne remix)

4 - crash & burn (memory lab remix) marc urselli

5 - extreme (omne animal remix) die-6

6 - don’t follow (escorbuto remix) paolo favati

7 - radikal (nems-secam remix)  p·a·l

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301 - alex spalck: music lyrics and vocals

bram declercq: music and vocals

cosimo barberi: music, backing vocals

paolo favati: sound engineering

enzo regi: samples

sebi koch: varispeed

1-01   great minds against themselves conspire

          (from henry purcell's dido and aeneas with "la corte di orfeo")

1-02   dirty old men

1-03   logophobia

1-04   crash and burn

1-05   mortality

1-06   escape from beige land (mmxii)

1-07   regenerated regenerated

1-08   radikal (der alte onkel alex sagt)

1-09   kein entkommen

1-10   don't follow

1-11   no more sleep

1-12   suffocate

1-13   mortality (a'rmx'ageddon by paolo favati)

videotrack: dirty old men with & by scintilla

2-01   das wodkachaos *

2-02   deny everything *

2-03   sickness taking over (rabia sorda remix)

2-04   crash and burn (paolo favati remix)

2-05   me and my ding dong (tying tiffany remix)

2-06   suffocate (ambassador 21 remix)

2-07   das wodkachaos (schwefelgelb remix)

2-08   sickness taking over (paolo favati tekknoware remix)

2-09   no more sleep (ritualz remix)

2-10   extreme 4:06 *

2-11   gimme more <much more> *

2-12   a wine called anarchy *

2-13   sickness taking over *

2-14   don't *

2-15   me and my ding dong *

2-16   das wodkachaos (binary park remix)

*remixed by fm with bram declercq @ sss lille/la madeleine 2009/2010

players:

fm: music, sampling, re301 - alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

bram declercq: music and vocals

cosimo barberi: music, backing vocals

paolo favati: remixes (1-13, 2-04, 2-08), bass guitar on 1-13 and mastering

enzo regi: samples

alessandro gimignani: drums on 1-13

sebi koch: varispeed

guests:

la corte di orfeo on "great minds against themselves conspire", rabia sorda,

tying tiffany, ambassador 21, schwefelgelb, ritualz, binary park, scintilla.

a-01   das vodkalied

a-02   rendez-vous dans un bois

a-03   wait and search

b-01   zz walhalla

b-02   destiny

b-03   i'm food for you

cd version extra tracks

07 - voce

08 - satellite

09 - spinnen

10 - senza titolo

players:

fm: music, re301, roland system100m

massimo michelotti roland system100m, ems-aks

alex spalck: music, lyrics and vocals

white side 1   we are the joy

white side 2   wither

black side 1   only confusion

black side 2   glassy memories

players:

valerio viti: lyrics and vocals

mario massa: bass guitar

fm: re301, roland system100m

massimo michelotti: roland system100m, ems-aks

sergio pani: tenor saxophone

mauro fasolo: drums

andrea da costa freire, inspirations

01 - blockupy <welcometohell>

02 - dona nobis pacem

players:

alex spalck: music lyrics and vocals

bram declercq: vocals

fm: music and electronics

cosimo barberi: music

australis - 45rpm

primis - australia is burning 6:53

circa centrum - there is no such thing as past or future 6:24

borealis - 331/3 rpm

primis - ecocalypse

inter duo - don't fall in love with death

circa centrum - by this river

players:

alex spalck: music lyrics and vocals

bram declercq: music

fm: music, re301 and synthesizers

alessandro cellai: music and synthesizers

antonio bacchiddu: music

The Plague Doctor is the product of the 17th century engraver Gerhart Altzenbach from Köln. It depicts (and the trilingual inscriptions on the original print describe) the costume worn by physicians during the Plague of 1656 which, although it was not characterized by the all-pervading destruction of the pandemic of 1348, is said to have claimed 145.000 lives in Rome and 300.000 in neighboring Naples. Attributing the disease to corrupt vapours, the phisicians protected themselves by means of suits of leather, with large crystal glasses and a long snout containing aromatic spices, employing also a wand with which to issue instructions. They attempted to counter the miasma with prescriptions for such items as spiders and toads to absorb the air, “bottled wind” urine baths, purgatives, stimulants, and, of course, bleeding. Serenity and lightheartedness were deemed particularly desirable, and patients were cautioned to think not of death but to contemplate only gold, silver, and other items which were comforting to the heart.

As Hecker observed, “human science and art appear particularly weak, in great pestilences, because they have to contend with powers of nature, of which they have not knowledge.” As a result the plague doctor was often a subject of satire, as in the following popular 17th century poem.

As may seen on picture here, In Rome the doctors do appear,

When to their patients are called, In places by the plague appalled,

Their hats and cloaks, of fashion new, Are made of oilcloth, dark of hue,

Their caps with glasses are designed, Their bills with antidotes all lined,

That foulsome air may do not harm, Nor cause the doctor man alarm,

The staff in hand must serve to show, Their noble trade where’er they go.

The Beak Doctor was also the subject of another 17th century engraver, Paulus Fürst of Nürnberg, Except for the amusing addition of bat wings to the phisician’s wand and the substitution of more caustic inscriptions, it is identical to our featured print. Moreover, the engraving bears the words, “Columbina ad virum delineavit.” This obscure artist, about whom nothing further is recorded, may well have been the author of both prints.

                    Apocalyptic scenes characterised the 2020 ‘Black Summer’ in Australia. The entire east coast of NSW and Victoria was alight with uncontrollable fires, some burning for six months. An area the size of England was burnt by the end of summer. Toxic smoke 26 times the safe level hovered low for days over Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. The effect of this poison on women, men and children will become clear in future years. More than a billion animals were killed and dozens of species threatened with extinction. Classic images that denote Australia were trashed. Koalas and kangaroos were burnt, shaking and suffering in a white ash landscape spiked with charred tree trunks. The Sydney Harbour, the Bridge and Opera House were barely visible through thick smoke. Balmoral beach was blanketed with black ash pollution.

Five thousand people were stranded for days on Mallacoota beach. Infants couldn’t feed. Mothers with young children, the aged and infirm couldn’t climb the rope ladder to be evacuated. The myth of ‘women and children first’ - clearly proved by Swedish researchers in a study of a century of disasters - is evident again. Yet again, grieving farming or rural women and men were lied to by politicians promising help that frequently won’t eventuate. The Red Cross shuffled millions of donated dollars into their coffers, meagrely drip-feeding funds according to their whim.

Socialisation ensures everyone is on duty after disasters, monitoring enactment of gender roles. How much of a man were you in the fires? Are you a good enough wife and mother? Why aren’t you ‘resilient’ enough? Why aren’t you over it yet? Hide your grief. Hide the violence against you. Pretend to be OK. And the media will do its part in pretending that men are heroes, pretending that women are looked after. Progress towards gender equality is set back 50 years. All part of the plan. Disasters are a window of opportunity for change, and patriarchy will ensure it is regressive change.

Formal reports to government erroneously write of bushfire fatalities of women ‘passively sheltering’ and men ‘actively defending’. State the opposite to the truth often enough and loud enough and people will believe the lies. It has worked for 50+ years. Thatcher and Reagan began the unravelling of post-war intention for a more cohesive, peaceful world. Successive leaders have too frequently taken up their destruction of society and humanity. Neo-liberalism, though transparently flawed, has triumphed. Individual, obscene wealth and greed has been unassailable - until now.

Where democracy has failed, the planet is fighting back. COVID19 is killing old people. Decision-makers and voters raced to new depths of self-interest over recent decades. They widened inequality with indecent disregard for human dignity. They believed in their unassailability. They believed in their power. They had no qualms in using their Goliathan bulk to threaten teenage Greta Thunberg. Her voice for a future was deemed the voice of insanity by grown, fat, powerful, ignorant men.

Men everywhere revealed the depth of misogyny beneath the veneer of ‘gender equality’ in the West.

#YesAllMen. Patriarchy. Capitalism. Colonialism. Invincible - until the Corona Virus.

The mighty dollar, the ludicrous stock market, the mythological ever-expanding economies and the vacuous ‘leadership’ of old men are now exposed. Finally, something is a threat to these stalwarts of the planet’s destruction.

A two degree temperature rise by 2021 is catastrophic, yet the world is headed even beyond this. 99% of climate scientists believe in anthropomorphic climate change. Their increasingly urgent warnings of threat to human survival and environmental destruction have been ignored by those in positions to address global emissions. Their urgency as the calendar flipped to 2020 turned to sadness. Even ‘too late now’ failed to register with wilfully negligent authorities. 80 Australian Research Council laureates and in total 466 scientists co-signed an open letter warning that “adaptation will no longer be achievable’ without action. Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett said, ‘we have so comprehensively failed to take this seriously’.

(https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-summer-of-flame-20200206-p53ydj.html)

We have known of this impending crisis for decades. In 1962 Rachael Carson wrote Silent Spring, warning that if humans poison nature, nature would in turn poison humans. She told a US Senate Committee, “Our heedless and destructive acts enter into the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves”.

The Corona Virus is killing old people, and amongst them, it is killing men at almost twice the rate of women.

Children are the safest so far. COVID19 may be the planet taking charge in the face of incompetence and hubris.

It may be the planet returning to balance.

Dr. Debra Parkinson