These days, reveling in North Korean kitsch is about as old hat as you can get, but there's something so completely unhinged about the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble that I must speak. Named after a village where Kim Il-Sung personally machine-gunned thousands of Japanese occupiers in a revolutionary frenzy, the PEE (as I like to call them) are a massive band that plays only electronic instruments in a shocking physical frenzy of revolutionary proportions. Comrade Musicians are decked out in silver sequined tuxedos while Comrade Interchangeable Lead Singers wear organza death-gowns from hell as they perform in front of a massive Hypno Wall that flickers and pulsates and sends subliminal "Activate!" signals to sleeper agents all over the world as the curtains, stage floor, and proscenium arch freak out in a spastic light show that was clearly designed to weed out the epileptics in the audience. The musical style is a lunatic mash-up of oompah-band beer garden beats, operatic vocals cranked up like power drills and buggy, sparking electronic organs squeezed and tortured until they short circuit in a sonic eruption of bleeps and blarts. Every note is clearly played by people who've not only received the Manchurian treatment but are also bombed out of their minds on a powerful pharmaceutical cocktail of super-strength Prozac and military-grade speed.

Check out their videos on Youtube and join the PEE army:

I don't know the name of this song but it might be the most representative of all of PEE's music as it contains soaring, insane vocals, a nose-bleed-inducing use of lights, a menacing shouted chorus by Comrade Keyboard Players and an ample garnish of electronica relish. Also, the enormous fabric flower on Comrade Interchangeable Lead Singer's left shoulder is clearly covering up a bullet wound incurred while on a secret mission to the West.

At the conclusion of "Look At Us" the PEE traditionally transform their instruments into sophisticated laser cannons and use them to destroy all weak-minded reactionary scum in the audience. Warning: do not stare directly at the Hypno Wall during the introduction to this rousing number.

"Socialism is Good" is probably one of their more restrained numbers but it offers one of the only trips behind the Wall O'Keyboards so you can see the lunatic fingers of the Men in Silver. 

Plenty of other PEE classics like "Is the Dear Leader Healthy?" (trick question) and "My Happy Country" are also available on Youtube.