Kommunity FK

Kommunity FK
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Background information
Origin	California, USA
Genres	Deathrock Gothic rock
Years active	1978–present
Labels	Invisible Cleopatra Independent Project Mobilization Records
Associated acts	Texylvania, Patrick Mata
Website	[1]
Members
Patrick Mata

Kommunity FK is a Deathrock band that helped establish what came to be known as the deathrock scene in Los Angeles. The band was formed in 1978 by American rock singer Patrick Mata influenced by Throbbing Gristle, David Bowie and Joy Division. Mata also introduced his own influences, inspired by the 1916 Dada Movement, Anti Art, noise & musique concrète, plus the "cut up method" invented by Brion Gysin but executed by William Burroughs into his music. Though initially named Kommunity Fuck, the band's name was soon shortened to Kommunity FK by Patrick Mata. Mata has stated that the band's name was inspired dually by the cold shoulder given him by local unimaginative media venue talent buyers and industry powers. He dubbed the trio "kommunity fuck", and by a piece of paste-up art he created of the same name.

Their first album The Vision and the Voice was released in 1983.

Discography

Full albums

• The Vision and the Voice (Independent Project 1983, Cleopatra 1994-1998, Kommunity PM 1998, Mobilization Records 2006)
• Close One Sad Eye (Independent Project 1985, Cleopatra 1993)
• Abandoned Here... Planet Ruled By Bastards (Invisible Records 2008)
• La Santisima Muerte (Kommunity PM Rekords 2010)

Compilations

• Art Of Gothic
• Mystic Sampler #1 (Mystic Records 1984)
• Radio Tokyo Tapes II (1984)
• Scream Compilation (Geffen 1984)
• Viva Los Angeles II (Viva 1990)
• The Whip (Cleopatra 1993)
• Gothik (Cleopatra 1995)
• Goth Oddity (Cleopatra 1998)
• Witchcraft (Cleopatra 1999)
• A Life Less Lived (Rhino 2006)
• Kaliffornian Deathrock (Strobelight 2006)

External links

• Allmusic
• Official site