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SPK was formed in 1978 in Sydney when New Zealand-born Graeme Revell ( aka " EMS AKS ", " Operator ", " Oblivion ") met Neil Hill ( aka " Ne / H / il ").

Revell was working as a nurse on a psychiatric ward at Callan Park Hospital where Hill was a schizophrenia out-patient.

Hill and Revell shared a house and an interest in the manifesto of the German radical Marxist group known as the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv ( SPK ).

The duo were influenced by Kraftwerk, Can, Neu !, Faust, and John Cage – they started playing their own variety of industrial music as SPK.

According to rock music historian, Ian McFarlane the acronym SPK is variously given as " SoliPsiK, SepPuKu, Surgical Penis Klinik, System Planning Korporation and Sozialistisches Patienten Kollektiv ".

The band recruited two teenagers, Danny Rumour on lead guitar and David Virgin on bass guitar ( both ex-Ugly Mirrors, and went on to form Sekret Sekret ), on early recordings by SPK in 1979.

In that year they independently released three 7 " pressings: SoliPsiK as a three-track extended play in April, " Factory " as a single in August and " Mekano " in November.