Patrik Mata formed the legendary American band Kommunity FK in Los Angeles in 1978.

Mata is the sole founding visionary, composer, lyricist, musical arranger, vocalist/guitarist, and style chameleon.

When Kommunity FK was first formed by Mata there was no such thing as Gothic music, industrial music and any other terms known by the music scene of today. His vision was new and his creation was raw. First reviews of Kommunity FK were headlined with Patrik's quotes such as "Any noise that fits...". Kommunity FK's music was so artistic, so strong, so dark, yet so inspiring that the only term that even came around through the press to classify Mata's band and music was "gloom & doom" and "deathrock". Mata and Kommunity FK was heavily inspired by Surrealist artists the likes of Dali, Jean Cocteau, and David Bowie.

Within one year of live performances (all booked and promoted by Mata himself) Kommunity FK had attracted world wide attention as well as a record label. Kommunity FK has performed with:

PiL

Killing Joke

Alien Sex Fiend

Specimen

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Sex Gang Children

Christian Death & Shadow Project

Peter Murphy

Nina Hagen

Toys Dolls

Lords Of The New Church

Modern English

Gun Club

Nick Cave

Gene Loves Jezebel

Flesh For Lulu

45 Grave

Lydia Lunch

The Virgin Prunes

Xmal Deutschland

Clan Of Xymox

and more legendary bands.

With Mata's world wide following Kommunity FK is the most covered band for inspiring today's genre of gothic and industrial music. Artists such as Perry Farrell of Janes Addiction, Elijah Blue Allman (Cher's and Greg Allman's son) of Deadsy (Deadsy has covered and recorded numerous Kommunity FK songs such as 'No Fear', 'Bullets', 'Anti-Pop', and more), Jonathon Davis of Korn, Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, and many others attribute Kommunity FK as one of their main influences.

Author Brendan Mullen has written the biography of Jane's Addictionand Perry Farrell titled "Whores" (released in June of 2005), in which Patrik Mata of Kommunity FK is a fairly large part of, being mentioned several times throughout the book. Perry Farrell was so taken by Patrik Mata he followed him to Mata's place of work (Fiorucci in the year 1978) just to stare at Mata and his unique star demeanor and stylish fashions. Farrell's biography written by Dave Thompson in the '90s mentions Patrik Mata and his influence upon the L.A. underground music scene numerous times. Once Farrell decided to start making his own music his Kommunity FK influences became more than obvious when he incorporated barking dogs at the beginning of the Jane's Addiction song "Been Caught Stealing" in the mid 1990s. Farrell took this idea from Kommunity FK's song "Incompatible Disposition" written in 1979, that is found on the Kommunity FK album "The Vision and The Voice."

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