Pankow - Gisela

Name: Pankow
Album: Gisela
Year: 1989
Style: Electronic, Synth, Industrial
Similar Bands: Borghesia, Nine Inch Nails, Nitzer Ebb, Einstürzende Neubauten, Crash Course in Science
"One-Word" Review: Industrial Gothic Fusion Dance
Based Out Of: Italy
Label: Wax Trax

 Cover, Lyrics, Record

Back, Lyrics, Record

Gisela (1989)

1. I'm Lost, Little Girl 5:20
2. Warm Leatherette 3:50
3. Die Beine Von Dolores 2:59
4. Let Me Be Stalin 4:35
5. Pankow's Rotkappchen 3:00 /
6. Me & My Ding-Dong 4:35
7. Happy As The Horses Shite 4:27
8. Deutsches Bier 3:50
9. Madness (Danke Gisela) 2:16
10. Follow Me In Suicide 4:06

Album Rating (1-10): 6.0

Members & Other Bands:

• Maurizo Fasolo - RE301, Samples (FM & Paolo, Kowp, la Corte Di Orfeo, LAShTAL, Scudcrow, Hardsonic Bottoms 3, Diaframma, De Glaen)
• Alex Spalck - Vox
• Paolo Favati - Samples (Die Larm, Exit, FM & Paolo, Kowp, Pippola Music, Poppers, Templebeat, Vanish Memory, Verdiana Raw, Wave Workers Foundation, Meathead)
• Alex Gimignani - Drums (Circosmosi, Exit, Gezz Zero Hrup, Indoeuropean Music Ensemble, Kowp, London Underground, Neon)
• Carlo Rossi - Recording, Space Guitar
• Adrian Sherwood - Mixing, Erased Sounds
• Rico Conning - Mixing, Editing, Helicopters
• Paola Faggioli - Mad Girl
• Nardo Lunardi - Guitar
• Alessandra Micheli - Delightful Girl
• Michela Crociani - Female Voice
• Daria Piccini - Record lending
• Carlo Mauro - Choir 
• Helnwein - Cover Painting
• G Von Toma - Cut

Unknown-ness: Never heard of this band...it came into the oddball thrift store I used to volunteer at. From the label Wax Trax, and the unnerving cleft palate painting on the cover, I can only guess it is some weird dark industrial shit.

Album Review: So this band is a pioneer in the EBM (Electronic Body Music)/Industrial scene, as they started 10 years before this record came out. The sound is exactly as the genre dictates: Industrial meets synth punk electronically. There are a bunch of samples, mash ups, and style changes, but underlying it all is a dark, cold industrial soundscape. The music could be interpreted and used as futuristic music in films like Robocop or a bombed out Russia, to show what the anarchist kids are into. "Die Beine Von Dolores" and "Follow Me In Suicide" are nearly vocals only with minimal music accompaniment.

Stand Out Track: Warm Leatherette (cover of The Normal's song & sounds like CCIS)

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