PANKOW was the very first electronic/industrial acts coming out from Italy, in 2020 the core consists of multi-instrumentalist/synthesizer and sample manipulator fm (maurizio fasolo), german vocalist Alex Spalck, flemish vocalist Bram Declercq and sample manipulator Enzo Regi. Dark and nihilistic in the extreme, as well as intermittently scatological, Pankow become part of the Wax Trax! stable of industrial artists and they saw their first U.S. release in 1988 with an EP called Freedom for the Slaves. 1989's Gisela, the band's second full-length album, contained a cover of the Normal's "Warm Leatherette," as well as the notorious "Me and My Ding Dong," which musically updated the sensibility of Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling." "Me and My Ding Dong" was remixed and issued as the centerpiece of an EP entitled Pankow Show You Their Dongs, upon which point the band parted ways with Wax Trax! Pankow resurfaced in 1991 with a live compilation on ROIR, Omne Anima Triste Post Coitum (which translates as "All Animals Are Sad After Coitus"). September 2020 Pankow announces the new EP "Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom" on Contempo Records and in June 2021 the long awaited new album "Never Trust a White Man" , will be finally released!~ Steve Huey, Rovi and fm