Kommunity FK is a Deathrock

Deathrock

Deathrock is a term used to identify a sub-genre of punk rock incorporating horror elements and spooky atmospherics, that emerged on the West Coast of the United States in 1979.-Characteristics:...

 band that helped establish what came to be known as the deathrock

Deathrock

Deathrock is a term used to identify a sub-genre of punk rock incorporating horror elements and spooky atmospherics, that emerged on the West Coast of the United States in 1979.-Characteristics:...

 scene in Los Angeles. The band was formed in 1978 by American rock singer Patrick Mata influenced by Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle

Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...

, David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 and Joy Division

Joy Division

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...

. Mata also introduced his own influences, inspired by the 1916 Dada Movement, Anti Art, noise & musique concrète

Musique concrète

Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...

, plus the "cut up method" invented by Brion Gysin

Brion Gysin

Brion Gysin was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born in Taplow, Buckinghamshire.He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, used by his friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs...

 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

The Vision and the Voice (album)

The Vision and the Voice is the first album by the death rock band Kommunity FK.-Track listing:...

was released in 1983.

Full albums

• The Vision and the Voice
  The Vision and the Voice (album)
  The Vision and the Voice is the first album by the death rock band Kommunity FK.-Track listing:...
  
  (Independent Project 1983, Cleopatra 1994-1998, Kommunity PM 1998, Mobilization Records 2006)
• Close One Sad Eye
  Close One Sad Eye
  -Track listing:...
  
  (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