P16.D4 | en

P16.D4 was a German electronic noise music collective, active primarily from 1980 to 1988, whose work was inspired by the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle (German New Wave) scene of the early 1980s, which they ruthlessly mocked in their debut self-released 7", "Bruckenkopf im Neimansland". The group began as the relatively more musical Permutative Distortion, then morphing into P.D. to record one LP, Inweglos, before finally settling on P16.D4. This final incarnation saw them abandon song form entirely, instead embracing tape cut-ups, musique concrète, endless recycling and transformation of previously published material, and many long-distance collaborations with like-minded artists such...