Amok Koma

about this album

Amok Koma is an album by the Hamburger punk band Abwärts. The LP was released in 1980 by ZickZack Records. The debut LP was distributed via Rip Off Hamburg. It is considered one of the best-selling albums in the early stages of independently produced and distributed music in the Federal Republic of Germany. Musically, the album is in line with the band's self-titled debut EP released earlier that year, though it does contain more straightforward typical punk rock tunes than the EP did. Nevertheless, the band uses punkrock-untypical instruments such as synthesizers, effect devices or even violins on some of the tracks, so that the LP seems in parts very experimental. Despite the prevailing confrontation in the Hamburg music scene between avant-garde "art student music" on the one hand and rock'n'roll-influenced street punk rock on the other side, Abwärts also enjoyed widespread recognition within the Hamburg punk scene. With the exception of the live version of Japan, all titles on this LP were recorded in the Hafenklang Studio Hamburg. It was largely recorded and produced by the band itself in cooperation with Klaus Maeck, who also took over the distribution of the LP via Rip Off. Also, the record cover was created the group itself. The recordings were completed in August 1980. In October of this year, the LP appeared on ZickZack Records. The live version of the title "Japan" is a recording from the first Abwärts concert from the "Geräusche für die 80er" festival on Decem

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