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Absolut Null Punkt

Japanese rock band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 29, 2024
Entity authoritySource title only
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Absolut Null Punkt is a Japanese rock band formed by KK Null and Seijiro Murayama in 1984. ANP's music incorporates elements of free jazz, heavy rock, industrial music, and glitch music. Although the group disbanded in 1987, they reformed in 2003 for a series of live performances. Recordings of these performances make up the Live in Japan album, released on the Important Records label. This was followed by Metacompound, the group's first studio recording in 19 years, also released on the Important Records label.

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“Absolut Null Punkt” enters the record as japanese rock band. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Absolut, Null and Punkt can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Absolut Null Punkt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.