F.S.K. (band)

[1][2] The band has been associated with avant-garde fringes of Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) of the early 1980s and with techno and house music since the mid 1990s.

The band was formed in Munich in 1980 by Wilfred Petzi, Thomas Meinecke, Justin Hoffman and Michaela Melian, contributors to the underground magazine Mode & Verzweiflung (Fashion & despair).

The band name is a reference to the German motion picture rating organisation Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft, which uses the same acronym.

From 1985 the band was championed by British disc jockey John Peel, recording six sessions for his BBC radio show,[3] and were themselves strongly influenced by the independent British music scene of the time, such as by the unusual interpretation of country music by the Mekons.

frequently played with David Lowery of Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker and recorded in his studio in Richmond, Virginia.