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Magita Haberland is also known for being the violinist and vocalist of the band Abwärts from 1979 to 1981. She has a website at http://www.margita-haberland.de/

Earle Mankey (sometimes misspelled "Earl" in credits) (b. March 8, 1947, Washington, USA) was a guitarist for the band Halfnelson, later called Sparks. Earle lives in and maintains his studio in Thousand Oaks, California called Earle's Psychedelic Shack and is still active in recording and producing.

Nihilist Spasm Band were formed at least 10 years before punk broke out, but they are included here as probably the most proto-no-wave thing that ever existed. Their 1979 album is just incredible primal scream stuff.

Enstruction - who described themselves as a Dada-Situationist audio production cooperative - made some extremely difficult and complex meta-music with poetic angry spoken word and noisy machines.

Tommi Stumpff is a bit of an industrial music hero in Germany, starting with the punk band Der KFC, but really developing a more interesting minimal synth sound on his solo records as well as the music he wrote for Sylvia.

Rhythm boxes, dark humour, spoken-ish vocals, found sounds, messthetics. Not much info to be found, other than that this is from Southern California.

Simultaneously avantgarde and post-punk with a wonderful ease, Officer! are a super-band that play a tight angular funk with interesting female vox and interspersed with strange sampled sounds. The ever-creative Mick Hobbs seems to be heading the project.

Angry but also surreal avant-punk from Sheffield. Strange vox, sound cut-ups, straight beats, mixed with a funky sound mould to something not to everyone's taste for sure, but definitely worth trying.

One of the European labels that promoted non-European artists was Crammed Discs and Nadjma was an interesting inter-label creation when Iraqi folk singer Nadjma met a number of experimental synth pop producers.