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
God's Deneuve on
KinderGarten Records (1984) until 2007.
The first LP came in 1987 on
Contempo Records, and was produced by
Adrian Sherwood.
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'. In 1993 the band split up, Spalck went to live in Australia.
In 1996 fm released with Gianluca Becuzzi of
Limbo the album named
Pankow .
Pankow returned 2003 with Alex Spalck back as the front man and 2 new CDs
Life Is Offensive And Refuses To Apologise out on
Minus Habens and
Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire out on
Wheesht.
The band is currently active and based in France/Belgium with the frontman singer
Bram Declercq, the head of the band
Maurizio Fasolo, Enzo Regi,
Paolo Favati and
Alessandro Gimignani.