Konstruktivits is a British industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 band. Formed in 1982, they were mostly active in the 1980s, with recording activity continuing until today.

The band was formed by Glenn Michael Wallis from his previous band Heute, a krautrock

Krautrock

Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. The term is a result of the English-speaking world's reception of the music at the time and not a reference to any one...

-influenced trio. 1990s members were Wallis, R. Alcapone Shiells and Mark Crumby.

In 2000, Wallis changed the band's name to Konstruktivist, with the spelling Konstruktivists also being used.

Albums

• A Dissembly (Flowmotion LP, 1982)
  1. Asylum - Semi Sex Act
  2. Karnage
  3. Kalm
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. Beirut
  6. Karnal
  7. Physikal Jerk
• Psykho Genetika (Third Mind Records TM02 LP, 1983)
  1. (side A) Masonik No 1 (4:46)
  2. Free Form Fetish (4:17)
  3. P.T.I. (Bebor Racket) (4:57)
  4. Aural Wallpaper (7:18)
  5. (side B) Kopa (4:33)
  6. For Each Of Us (9:29)
  7. Andropov '84 (3:12)
  8. Film-O-Sonik (3:13)
  9. Masonik 2 (2:52)
• Black December (Third Mind Records TMLP05 LP, 1984)
  1. Nostalgia
  2. The Crimson Path
  3. Shadows Of White Sand
  4. In Kabul
  5. Extasie
  6. Decadence
  7. Red October Black September
• Glennascaul (Sterile Records
  Sterile Records
  The Sterile Records record label was formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions. With a background in the mail art networks, their intention was to create and promote a new form of music...
  
   SR10 LP, 1985)
  1. Konstruktivist
  2. Carlou
  3. Two Hands Held
  4. How You Say
  5. White Design
  6. Half Hearing
  7. New York
  8. Incognito
  9. Maribel
  10. White Design II
  11. Sierra Nevada
• Live At The King Charles Ballroom (Harsh Reality Music HR46 cassette, 1985)
  1. (side A) Kontakt
  2. After Thee Summer
  3. Lunatik
  4. (side B) What Would You Say
  5. Kontakt 2
  6. After Thee Winter
  7. Lunatik 2
• Spanish Movements (Harsh Reality Music HR11 cassette, 1986; Alternate Media Tapes ALMED143 cassette, 1989)
  1. (side A) Tudor Forest
  2. Third International
  3. Desire Part 1
  4. Desire Part 2
  5. Joeboy
  6. Espana Viva Granada
  7. El Bluesay
  8. Grey Wolves
  9. Nonplus
  10. (side B) Nonplus 2
  11. Ice
  12. Video Musica
  13. Industrial Surrealist
  14. Necropolis
  15. Your Song
  16. Our Song 1
  17. Our Song 2
• NKVD Compilation (with NKVD and Vagina Dentata Organ) (Audiofile Tapes aT77 cassette, 1989)
• Dark Odyssey (self-release, 2006)
  1. Driving
  2. Killing It
  3. Kandyman
  4. Heartbeat
  5. Little Star
  6. Because of You
  7. Dong
  8. Is Real Life
  9. Wanna Be Free
  10. Berlin
  11. Ascension

Compilation appearances

• "Beirut" (live) on Untitled (Requiem Productions cassette)
• "Andropov '84" on The Elephant Table Album
  The Elephant Table Album
  The Elephant Table Album: a compilation of difficult music was a 1983 compilation album, released on Xtract Records. The double album was compiled by music journalist Dave Henderson following a series of articles by him in Sounds, the British music paper...
  
  (Xtract Xx001 2×LP, 1983)
• "Shadows Of White Sand" on Cadavres Exquis (Chimik Communications cassette, 1984)
• "How You Say" on Funky Alternatives Three (Concrete Productions/Pinpoint Records CD, 1989)
• "Black on Black" on Rising From The Red Sand vol. 1 (RRRecords
  RRRecords
  RRRecords is a used and new record shop. RRRecords is distinguished as being the first American record label to specifically publish underground noise music in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and many more artists...
  
  /Statutory Tapes STATAP 09 A cassette)
• "Masonik 1" on Rising From The Red Sand vol. 3 (RRRecords
  RRRecords
  RRRecords is a used and new record shop. RRRecords is distinguished as being the first American record label to specifically publish underground noise music in the early 1980s, and published the first American vinyl by Merzbow, Masonna, The Hanatarash, Violent Onsen Geisha, and many more artists...
  
  /Statutory Tapes STATAP 09 C cassette)

External links

• Kontruktivits (discogs.com)
• Konsort (official home page)