Konstruktivists.

Konstruktivists is the project of Glenn Michael Wallis from Kent, England. The catalogue starts on cassette around 1980, with the first vinyl LP A Dissembly appearing in 1982 (some sources 1983) and continuing on cassette and vinyl ever since. Wallis came up through the late-1970s Throbbing Gristle / Industrial Records circuit as a control agent for the band: he acted as control agent for them · which involved anything from checking out venues to acting as bouncer / heavy. Before Konstruktivists he led Heute, a krautrock-influenced trio using both electronic and conventional guitars and bass.

Around 1980 Wallis began circulating cassettes on the British cassette imprint Flowmotion. The Flowmotion releases (one solo cassette plus the early Konstruktivists Vol. 1 and Vol. 2) sit at the catalogue's archival beginning; almost two hours of this 1980–1982 material was later compiled as the double LP The Flowmotion Years 1980–1982 (VOD69). The first vinyl LP A Dissembly followed in 1982. The signing to Third Mind Records produced Psykho Genetika (1983), the catalogue's central early-period statement. Black December (1984) moved the rhythmic vocabulary further toward beat-oriented forms.

In 1984 Wallis collaborated with his friend Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle / Chris and Cosey) on the CTI release Conspiracy International One. Across the same period Wallis was a part-time member of Whitehouse, playing live with them in several countries and appearing on the LP Great White Death. In June 1985 Wallis spent a week at Chris and Cosey's Studio 47 (3-7 June 1985) recording eleven tracks that became Glennascaul, produced and mixed by Chris Carter and released on Nigel Ayers' Sterile Records. The record marked a complete shift toward a beat-oriented rhythmic mode · proto-electro at its best, in the description of the 2019 Dark Entries reissue · with Wallis's vocals laid over the rhythmic groundwork. The back-cover declaration: No guitars. No Fairlights. The sleeve is a co-production of Trevor Brown, Nigel Ayers and a Wallis-supplied image. The 2019 Dark Entries reissue (DE-258) adds two contemporary bonus tracks newly on vinyl.

The mid-1980s also saw Wallis working under the name Vagina Dentata Organ with the explicit permission of the project's founder Jordi Valls (the Catalan one-person VDO operator filed elsewhere in this archive at vagina-dentata-organ.html). The Wallis-as-VDO solo releases sit alongside Valls' WSNS catalogue as a methodologically distinct strand of the same brand-name · one of the catalogue's most unusual cross-author arrangements and a marker of the closeness between the Konstruktivists and VDO operations across the 1985–1990 period.

After a seven-year hiatus through the late 1980s and early 1990s the band returned on World Serpent with the LP Forbidden, which introduced a more accessible sound in the tracks Tic, Tac, Toe, Hurts So Good and She Loves It. Tic Tac Toe as a club single. Mark Crumby (also known as Mahk Rumbae) joined in 1997, bringing the catalogue further toward a techno vein. Crumby is a multi-project author (Ghost Actor, Mitra Mitra, Oppenheimer MKII, Statik, Codex Empire) and is the catalogue's second permanent voice from 1997 onward. The 1990s lineup at various points carried Glenn Michael Wallis, Mark Crumby, Lawrence Burton, Joseph Ahmed and R. Alcapone Shiells. Across the last twenty-five years the band has mostly operated as the Wallis / Crumby duo.

In 2000 Wallis adjusted the band name to Konstruktivist (singular); the Konstruktivists plural also remains in continuous use, and the original German-language spelling Konstruktivits (no s in the middle) sits across the early catalogue. The post-2000 work runs through Wallis's own Interior Recordings imprint and through the Anost / Mannequin / Dark Entries / VOD reissue programme that has rescued the catalogue's early material across the 2010s. The Last Moments Of 1923 is Wallis's stated favourite Konstruktivists recording. Seventh Soviet Symphony (2009, originally Interior Recordings micro-edition of a handful of CDRs) extends the same dark-atmospheric idiom. Industrial Surrealist (subtitled Musik Von Glenn Michael Wallis, EE Tapes 2001, limited numbered edition of 100) covers material recorded 1982–1999.

Anarchic Arcadia and Destiny Drive (both 2015) and Konstruktive Kontinuum (2020) form the recent trilogy. The 2020 record combines abstract rhythmic electronics with Wallis's vocals on tracks like Sin and Sinners, Revolving Revolver, The Vanguard of Total Obscurity, Torture in Black, Love Light Eyes and Pain and Torment. The Schalko / Bandcamp release page describes the band's position at the vanguard of total obscurity · records that defy classification, but stretch the boundaries of industrial, dark ambient, krautrock and dance music.

Citation. The Bureau files Konstruktivists at Tier I as the long-running UK experimental project sitting between the British industrial network (TG, Industrial Records, Whitehouse, Sterile Records, World Serpent) and the German krautrock and synth-electronic tradition (Can, NEU!, Cluster, Harmonia) the catalogue draws on. The cross-references across this archive: the Throbbing Gristle and Chris Carter / Chris and Cosey files (Wallis's TG control-agent role and the Chris Carter production credit on Glennascaul); the Whitehouse Great White Death appearance; the VDO partnership through which Wallis released solo material under the Vagina Dentata Organ brand with Valls' explicit permission; the Hafler Trio connection through The Murray Fontana Orchestra side project. Konstruktivists remains one of the longest-running continuous practices in the British industrial tradition · over forty-five years of recorded output, mostly through the Wallis solo studio at the N.K.V.D. Konservatory in Kent and Norfolk.