Maurizio Fasolo Enzo Regi Alessandro Micheli Bram Declercq
ex Paolo Favati, Davide Ragonesi, Nardo Lunardi, Gianluca Becuzzi, Alessandro Gimignani, Sebastian Koch, Alessandro Cellai, Massimo Michelotti, Sergio Pani, Mario Massa, Fabio Pallanti, Valerio Viti, Caterina Figaia, Mauro Fasolo Pankow are the pioneers of Italian EBM/industrial.
They formed in Florence in 1979 and started experimenting with electronic machines from 1981.
The second singer,
Alex Spalck, has been the composer of all the lyrics from their first release,
the EP on cassette
Throw Out Rite (1983), followed by the legendary first EP
Pankow EP on KinderGarten Records (1984) until 2007.
The 1st LP came in 1987 on Contempo Records, [m=81822] and was produced by pankow-панков and
Adrian Sherwood.
1989 on Contempo Records, [m=81720] produced by pankow-панков and
Rico Conning.
1990 on Contempo Records [m=81826] produced by pankow-панков live album
1992 on Contempo Records, [m=81718] produced by pankow-панков and
Paul KendallIn 1993 the band split up, Spalck went to live in Australia
In 1996 fm released the 5th LP with GB of
Limbo the album named
Pankow produced by pankow-панков.
2003 with Alex Spalck back,
Life Is Offensive And Refuses To Apologise out on Minus Habens and in 2007 with
Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire out on Wheesht.
2013 on Out of Line [m=746363] with the new front-man Bram Declercq, produced by pankow-панков.
Pankow were the first Italian electronic band to gain wide success in Europe and the USA, they did a tour of 30 dates in the States at the beginning of the 90s’.
The band is currently active and based in Italy/Australia/Belgium with the heads of the band Maurizio Fasolo and
Alex Spalck, the frontman singer Bram Declercq and Enzo Regi.