Salako is a downbeat electro-pop quintet from Hull, UK that was put together in 1995 by Luke Barwell, David Langdale, James Waudby, Stu and Thomas Spencer. In 1998 their debut Re-Inventing Punctuation (printed "rE-InVentiNg; Punc.tU!at?iOn>:) came out on Jeepster as an eye-opener to some parts of the UK indie pop scene, but it never really got the sales to fit the scattered nice reviews, maybe because the sound was as claimed in many of these reviews