Konstruktivits is a British
industrial band. Formed in 1982, they were mostly active in the 1980s, with recording activity continuing until today.
The band was formed by Glenn Michael Wallis from his previous band Heute, a
krautrock
Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electronic music, a ...
-influenced trio.
1990s members were Glenn Michael Wallis, Mark Crumby, Lawrence Burton, Joseph Ahmed, and R. Alcapone Shiells.
Glenn Michael Wallis worked as musician on early releases by
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, he worked solo under the name of Vagina Dentata Organ with permission by Jordi Valls, and he was member of the band projects Dark Union, Heute, The Murray Fontana Orchestra as a side-project of
Hafler Trio
The Hafler Trio is an English conceptual, performance and sound art collaborative between Andrew M. McKenzie, the only permanent member, and guest sound artists, performers, and/or musicians. The project has seen the release of numerous album ...
.
Mark Crumby was member of the bands Ghost Actor, Mitra Mitra, Oppenheimer MKII, and Statik.
In 2000, Wallis changed the band's name to Konstruktivist, with the spelling Konstruktivists also being used. During the last years Wallis and Crumby run Konstruktivists as a duo.
Discography
Albums
*''A Dissembly'' (Flowmotion LP, 1982)
*''Psykho Genetika'' (
Third Mind Records TM02 LP, 1983)
*''Black December'' (Third Mind Records TMLP05 LP, 1984)
*''Glennascaul'' (
Sterile Records SR10 LP, 1985)
*''Live at the King Charles Ballroom'' (Harsh Reality Music HR46 cassette, 1985)
*''Spanish Movements'' (Harsh Reality Music HR11 cassette, 1986; Alternate Media Tapes ALMED143 cassette, 1989)
*''NKVD Compilation'' (with NKVD and
Vagina Dentata Organ) (Audiofile Tapes aT77 cassette, 1989)
*''Dark Odyssey'' (self-release, 2006)
*''Anarchic Avcadia'' (Exklageto 12 CD, 2015)
*''Fluxus +/-'' (with
Foltergaul & Kommissar Hjuler &
Mama Baer Mama Baer (born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling; 29 October 1981) is a German sound recordist of noise music and post-industrial music. She is a filmmaker and visual artist at Flensburg. She has had solo and group art exhibitions around the w ...
(Psych.KG 543 LP, 2020)
Compilation appearances
*"Beirut" (live) on ''Untitled'' (Requiem Productions cassette)
*"Andropov '84" on ''
The Elephant Table Album
''The Elephant Table Album: a compilation of difficult music'' was a 1983 compilation album, released on Xtract Records. The double album was compiled by music journalist Dave Henderson following a series of articles by him in '' Sounds'', the Br ...
'' (Xtract Xx001 2×LP, 1983)
*"Shadows of White Sand" on ''Cadavres Exquis'' (Chimik Communications cassette, 1984)
*"How You Say" on ''Funky Alternatives Three'' (Concrete Productions/Pinpoint Records CD, 1989)
*"Black on Black" on ''Rising from the Red Sand Vol. 1'' (
RRRecords
RRRecords is a record label and used and new record shop based in Lowell, Massachusetts. RRRecords was the first American record label to publish underground "noise music" in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Maso ...
/Statutory Tapes STATAP 09 A cassette)
*"Masonik 1" on ''Rising from the Red Sand Vol. 3'' (
RRRecords
RRRecords is a record label and used and new record shop based in Lowell, Massachusetts. RRRecords was the first American record label to publish underground "noise music" in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Maso ...
/Statutory Tapes STATAP 09 C cassette)
References
External links
Kontruktivits(discogs.com)
Konsort(home page)
konstruktivists.com(official home page)
Konstruktivits at Last.fm
English electronic music groups
British industrial music groups
English new wave musical groups
Third Mind Records artists
Cassette culture 1970s–1990s
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