Browse by Artist: EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Live At Rockpalast 1990
Label:	MADE IN GERMANY (GERMANY)
Format:	DVD/CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MIG 90537DVD

"This concert was recorded at the creative peak of the Einstuerzende Neubauten, the first German avantgarde band that could not be compared to anyone else. Their mixture of analog industrial noises paired with the sensitive and visionary lyrics and the expressive performance of Blixa Bargeld was far ahead of it's time. This concert was recorded 1990 around the release of their classic album Haus der Luege and contains many of their independent hits like 'Yü Gung', 'Sand' and 'Feurio'. This concert features the classic line up of Bargeld, Chung, F.M. Einheit, Hacke and Unruh." NTSC region 0 format; 71 minute runtime. Includes an audio CD of the concert.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	On Tour With Neubauten.org
Label:	MONITOR POP ENTERTAINMENT (GERMANY)
Format:	DVD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	MPE 020DVD

The legendary German band Einstürzende Neubauten, known since the '80s for their uncompromising approach to music has come up with yet another groundbreaking project far ahead of its times, enabling them to work on their endeavors without needing to bow to the music industry's rules and regulations. What impact this cheeky use of modern technology has had on the band, their fans and the music industry is portrayed in this documentary Einstürzende Neubauten - On Tour With Neubauten.Org by Danielle De Picciotto. Danielle De Picciotto, an American artist living in Berlin since the fall of the wall, has influenced Berlin's cultural scene since 1985 in many ways as the co-innovator of the Love Parade, the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut and Kunst oder König, the club-cultural exhibition series presenting Berlin's creative cross-culture internationally. Also an active member of Berlin's music scene (former singer of the Space Cowboys) she has known Einstürzende Neubauten personally for almost twenty years, following their development with interest. After becoming a member of their new project Neubauten.org, in 2003 she was asked to document the ensuing tour in 2004 by Blixa Bargeld, singer of the band, to provide material for future concert documentaries. Besides filming every show, she interviewed countless "supporters" worldwide, ending up with this documentary -- a courageous example of how following an individual, courageous path can change people's lives worldwide. Includes fascinating bonus material such as: "Die Intonatore," a short film from the supporter "Dihcar and Ste van Holm," a "Making Of" interview with Alexander Hacke, a Blixa Bargeld live track, as well as two slideshows. NTSC format DVD, 4:3, DVD 9, stereo, digipack. Running time: 90 mins.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Strategies Against Architecture IV
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 6949CD

"Strategies Against Architecture IV is a double disc release that collates the band's output from 2002-2010, a period which saw Einstürzende Neubauten release Perpetuum Mobile, embark on the Musterhaus series (a collection of very limited edition experimental albums that were available exclusively via the band's website), the release of Grundstück (2005), Palast der Republik (2006: material from the band's deeply symbolic appearance at Berlin's Palast der Republik -- the former seat of power of the German Democratic Republik, featuring The Social Choir of 100 supporter voices), Alles Wieder Offen (2007) and The Jewels (2008)."

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Perpetuum Mobile
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MUTE 9237CD

"Following Silence Is Sexy and the Strategies Against Architecture III anthology, Einsturzende Neubauten's long-awaited new studio album has arrived at last, Perpetuum Mobile. Time brings about changes, and since their foundation, Einsturzende Neubauten have, like no other band, reflected these major and minor, public and private vicissitudes. Perpetuum Mobile expands the range of their music, enriching it with new facets: like in the radicalism with which melancholia, wafted through with farewells, is portrayed here. Or the long, almost epic narratives that rigorously take all the time they need to develop their perfect dramaturgy. Alongside these, we find subtle sonic images, whose intensity develops out of reduction, or songs that breathe a fragile beauty ('Paradiesseits') and deeply felt mourning ('Dead Friends (around the corner}'). But Einsturzende Neubauten also immediately continue their search for that unexpected new sound, with new installations (see 'Boreas') or surprising instrumentations consisting of wind players, tubes, pedal steel guitars, the clavichord, bird calls, and air compressors."

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Palast Der Republik
Label:	MVD AUDIO
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.50
Catalog #:	MVDA 4596CD

"This is a CD of the Einsturzende Neubauten Palast Der Republik DVD. This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliment building and symbol of the no-longer extant DDR (East Germany). The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100-member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org Internet project, they played in and with the building of their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion."

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Palast der Republik
Label:	MVD VISUAL
Format:	DVD
Price:	$9.50
Catalog #:	DR 4564DVD

"This performance was filmed on November 4, 2004 at the Palast der Republik in Berlin, the former Parliament building and symbol of the no longer extant DDR (East Germany). The Neubauten found the steel skeleton of the ruins of the Palast a congenial location for their architectural-musical fantasies and field studies. Accompanied by a 100 member choir, recruited from the supporters of the www.neubauten.org internet project, they played in and with the building in their inimitable, almost literally building-collapsing fashion. Contains previously unreleased songs, band commentary and more." Length: 82 minutes, 4:3 Color, Stereo 5.1, DVD 5, NTSC.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	OST Berlin Babylon
Label:	OUR CHOICE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RTD 3839CD

"The project: Berlin Babylon is the soundtrack for the same titled documentary movie by Berlin director Hubertus Siegert. Berlin after the fall of the Wall. Observations on the radical reconstruction process in the city's centre. Pictures of a never-ending Babylonian building site. Assembled into a documentary vision. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German capital has been striving to overcome its catastrophic past, trying to recover the city structure that had been destroyed in the 20th century, to construct in an attempt to shake off the shadows. The film shows pictures of a city undergoing radical changes. It's about real estate, about investors, politicians and city planners being observed in work situations. No interviews, no statements. The music provides the commentary. A Babylonian civilisation tale about the violence of building lives on in the reunited metropolis. New departures turned into stone. The music that comments this film is by Einstürzende Neubauten, a band that could not be better suited to the theme; a band whose twenty-year history and even its name are rooted in Berlin. Although the band didn't know about director Hubertus Siegert's project at the time, 'Die Befindlichkeit des Landes' (The State of Mind of the Country), a track off their latest album, 'Silence is Sexy', already dealt with this permanent building site in Berlin's centre, and so the thoughts that had originally been conceived in isolation from each other, came together -- expressed in music on the one hand and in cinematic pictures on the other. Apart from 'Die Befindlichkeit des Landes', which features in different versions, all other tracks are original compositions. The soundtrack is completed by a text penned by Walter Benjamin, presented by actress Angela Winkler, and an excerpt of Ludwig van Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 3'."

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T./Drawings Of O.T.
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 819902

2002 release. Originally released in 1983, Einstürzende Neubauten's second album marks a radical progression in the band's sound as well as a revolutionary step forward in the realms of industrial and experimental music. Bassist Marc Chung (ex-Abwärts) and electronics engineer Alexander Hacke (later a member of Crime And The City Solution) joined the band during this time, and singer Blixa Bargeld also became a full-time member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds. Despite each members' background, Einstürzende Neubauten's ethos -- "Destruction is not negative, you must destroy to build" -- treaded on ground that was explicitly anti-music. Through their intuitive compositional approach and application of found, industrial objects into song forms, the band's sonic trajectory was intent on generating entirely alternate modes of music-making. In contrast to the all-out destructive barrage of their debut, however, Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T. reveals an astonishing maturity in its varied and dynamic range of textures while still being no less uncompromising. From the gritty live wire pulse of opening track "Vanadium-I-Ching" to the disorienting field recording and jarring mechanical upheaval of "Hospitalistiche Kinder/Engel Der Vernichtung" to the panicked steel abrasions of "Neun Arme," this album is a masterpiece of what-the-fuck urban primitivism. Most effective of all is "Armenia," one of the most essential songs the band has ever made, with its subtle, slow-building tension and haunting Armenian orchestration taking Bargeld's signature inhuman screams to uncharted levels of psychological turmoil. This digitally-remastered reissue includes 3 bonus tracks and comes housed in a deluxe six-panel tri-fold digipack with an attached 16-page booklet of lyrics in German and English.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Haus Der Lüge
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 820002

2002 release. This is the fifth album by Einstürzende Neubauten, originally released in 1989, now remastered. Highly energetic and possessed of a certain level of danceability, Haus Der Lüge was perhaps the most accessible for the band so far in terms of straightforward industrial-rock, with less grinding experimentation. However, this album is far from any sort of mainstream convention, with some of the most convincing alchemy of the best of the group's sonic clang, combined with some of the most captivating singing by Blixa Bargeld yet. The title track is a theatrical chug with the sounds of breaking glass, strings, and a strident vocal line, and "Schwindel" is a gentle, contemplative, almost spiritual drone-piece with jangly guitars, the quiet chime of wood tapped on bowls, and ascendant vocal chants. This album showcases all the best aspects of the band's musique concrète experimentation reigned in by impressive song-structure that doesn't diminish any of Einstürzende Neubauten's conceptual or ear-bashing impact. CD includes 3 bonus tracks and is housed in a 6-panel tri-fold digipack with an attached 14-page booklet of lyrics in German and English.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Kollaps
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 825172

2003 release. Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten (trans. "Collapsing New Buildings"). The band's use of junk metal, power drills, jackhammers and other surprising instrumentation would come to define their challenging and continually inventive career, making them not only one of the originators of industrial music, but one of the world's most influential and far-reaching forces at the intersection between avant-garde and rock music. Formed in 1980 in the wave of the Dadaist movement Die Geniale Dilletanten, after a series of devastating live performances and personnel changes (one of which briefly involving electronic musician Gudrun Gut), the band's line-up cemented itself with core members Blixa Bargeld, F.M. Einheit (previously of Hamburg-based post-punk band Abwärts) and N.U. Unruh. On Kollaps, a violent collision of urban primitivism and punk sensibilities, the trio declared war on every conventional way of listening, combining an intense mess of atonal guitar drones with brutal scrap metal percussion. At a time in Germany in which the wall encircling West Berlin transformed the city into a state-subsidized, near-paradisiacal freak-enclave for artists, Einstürzende Neubauten offered cathartic cascades of noise, employing steel parts, tin drums, drills, hammers, saws and untuned electric guitars, all crowned by Bargeld's bloodcurdling screams and feverish, apocalyptic texts. Kollaps, with its atonal essence, embodied exactly what the title suggested: decay and destruction, illness, doom and death. Years later, with the fall of the Berlin wall behind it, Kollaps still sounds as radical and extreme an artistic statement as ever. This expanded digipack reissue includes 10 bonus tracks, including 9 tracks from Stahldubversions, a rare 1982 cassette release. CD comes housed in a deluxe six-panel tri-fold digipack with 23-page attached booklet.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	1/2 Mensch
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 826142

2002 release. This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost fully a cappella title track, with contrapuntal, atonal, en masse chanting. The album progresses to include quite a repertoire of electronically-generated sounds, finding the band developing their mishmash of industrial experimentation matched by terrifying clangs, stomps, and of course, the theatrical, poetic vocal delivery of Blixa Bargeld. An incredibly aggressive album, with insistent, pounding rhythms and razors on metal, and Bargeld's voice dominating your dreams for a month after listening. Members include: Blixa Bargeld, Mark Chung, F.M. Einheit, Alexander Hacke, and N.U. Unruh. Housed in a six-panel tri-fold digipack including an attached 6-page booklet with lyrics in German and English. Includes 3 bonus tracks, including a remix of "Yü-Gung" by Adrian Sherwood.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Fünf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 826502

Digitally-remastered 2002 release. This is the fourth album by German avant-garde industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, originally released in 1987. The bonus track "Adler Kommt Spaeter" is an early version of "Zerstörte Zelle." Considerably lower-key than all their previous releases, Fünf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala (trans. "Five On The Open-Ended Richter Scale"), with especially puzzling, almost country-rock track "Morning Dew," sung in English, but with moments of whip-cracking and atomic explosions. There's the same attention to rhythmic assault on this record as on the others, but there's a quieter, more sinister, darker, lower-key ambience at work here, with Blixa Bargeld's vocals right at the center-front of the mix, as he experiments with breath, lower pitches, whispers, and barely-audible squeals. There's a barely-restrained, beautiful tension here that never gets resolved, sounding as if the band is holding itself back from complete annihilation. CD is housed in a 6-panel tri-fold digipack with an attached 10-page booklet of lyrics in German and English.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Alles Wieder Offen
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 904431

2007 release. Working outside normal record business market mechanisms, Einstürzende Neubauten recorded this album over some 200 days in their own studio funded by their world-wide network of subscribing supporters via www.neubauten.org. Possibly informed by the title of 2000's Silence Is Sexy, the word on the international music scene was that Einstürzende Neubauten had become calmer, quieter even. Alles Wieder Offen blows this assumption out of the water; it is an urgent and compelling album in every aspect. The instruments do not exhaust themselves by a consumptive struggle against each other as they might have on prior recordings, but instead create an unprecedented fusion of Einstürzende Neubauten-typical instruments with conventional ones. Alexander Hacke's bass has never sounded warmer, Jochen Arbeit's guitar more graceful, the metal of Rudolf Moser and the percussion of N.U. Unruh more unsettling and diverse, or Blixa Bargeld's voice more mercurial yet forceful. It's the little details that first draw the attention: Jochen Arbeit's whizzing guitar on "Unvollständigkeit," seeming to anticipate the outburst that follows: a rain of light, falling aluminum sticks; the way Alexander Hacke electronically deconstructs Rudolph Moser's rounded, flowing rhythm on "Weilweilweil"; the deft combination of uplifting organ and the almost tender feedback that rends the sky open on "Nagorny Karabach." This album also is very conscious of the band's history. On a lyrical level, "Unvollständigkeit" is a sister piece to both "DNS/Wasserturm" (1983) as well as "Redukt" (of Silence Is Sexy, 2000); "Nagorny Karabach" refers to "Armenia" (1983), which is the sun of the EN-cosmos; "Von Wegen" quotes both their first single and a line from the song "Sehnsucht" from Kollaps (1981). Moreover, musically "Von Wegen" mirrors the structure of "Zerstörte Zelle" (1987). "Susej" is based around a rhythm guitar figure that Bargeld recorded in a flooded cellar of the Hafenklangstudio in Hamburg in the early '80s. Many layers have deposited themselves around the group's original nucleus. At the same time, the energy and the sheer willpower of the early days is still powerfully evident here. Perhaps the most emotionally-affecting and intellectually-stimulating album of Einstürzende Neubauten's career. Gatefold with full color printed inner sleeves.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	The Jewels
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$28.50
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 919781

Originally released between 2006-2007 digitally track-by-track at a time, and only available to web site subscribers of the "Phase III Supporter Project," Einstürzende Neubauten's The Jewels was assembled piece-by-piece and was contextually drawn from singer Blixa Bargeld's dreams. Eventually officially released on Potomak in 2008, The Jewels is now available on vinyl. The Jewels album is the result of an experiment to search for a navigation system, which led the band back into hidden niches of the Einstürzende Neubauten universe that have not been especially brightly illuminated before now; into those corners, which have remained in the dark or have been forgotten despite two decades of restless movement. This visualization of their musical cosmos began at the same time as work on Alles Wieder Offen (POTOMAK 904431). Initially, these miniatures were conceived only as download presents for the supporters of "Phase 3" of www.neubauten.org. Consequently, the time that could be spent on jewel-cutting was limited; two days had to suffice to go from the first inspiration to a finished song. The result is a concept album with miniatures -- small jewels, 2-3 minutes in length, about which Neubauten say: "At first we considered this process a gigantic digression, but after a while we noticed that the excursions that led us away from the normal album work were justified by the results, because they allowed us to deliver some of our most ego-free compositions up to now." Deluxe gatefold packaging, including a 20-page booklet with full-color photos, a text by Blixa Bargeld and lyrics in German and English.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Ende Neu
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 919822

Einstürzende Neubauten's Potomak label reissues their classic 1996 release, Ende Neu -- originally released on the Mute label, now available with digipak CD artwork and also reissued for the first time on vinyl. On this release, the quintessential scientists of the post-avant-garde abstain from focusing on listener disintegration tactics as they did on prior albums, but opt instead to hone their craftsmanship in new compositional areas. Some followers of their earlier material might object to the obvious and comparatively conventional song structure and style that is displayed on Ende Neu -- picking up a power tool to highlight a piece rather than centering the entire work around it, or leaving a stage before setting it ablaze -- but the destruction has already been performed, and here they erect a brave new anti-building of musical art. Exploring intricate processions of time and toying with melodious harmonies, this album reveals Blixa Bargeld and company maturing gracefully. The opening cut, "Was Ist Ist," is a furious, fast-paced slander of the greediness of mankind while simultaneously serving as a tongue-in-cheek remark on how absolute, scientific power overrules impossibility. From there, Ende Neu continues to musically rewrite the band's style, using familiar topics such as ethereal chaos ("Die Explosion Im Festspielhaus"), cosmic complacency ("The Garden"), revolt ("Installation Nº.1"), and even a Kafka-esque piece, "Der Schacht Von Babel." This was the band's first release after the departure of founding band member Mark Chung, and it is obvious that the remaining members took the time to contribute to the void left by his departure. Ende Neu delivers a precision-fed matrix of audio-encrypted knowledge in a manner not like the chaotic Neubauten of the early '80s, but more strategic, and more mature. Dark, focused explosions, with theatrical strings and tightly-wound vocal structures. This reissue includes reworked artwork and the CD version contains the bonus track "Bili Rubin," plus videoclips and sound samples.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Silence Is Sexy
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 957051

Gatefold vinyl reissue of Einstürzende Neubauten's Silence Is Sexy, originally released in 2000 from singer Blixa Bargeld and his band partners (N.U. Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Jochen Arbeit and Rudolf Moser). This vinyl double album contains the track "Pelikanol," first available as a bonus track with the 2000 release of the album and now for the first time available on vinyl. A concept of "conceptlessness" was created at that time from a spontaneous idea (many thought it was an April Fool's joke when Einstürzende Neubauten first stood on the stage at Berlin's "Moon" on April 1, 1980; now over 30 years ago), from which the "brilliant dilettantes" developed their own strategy against social and musical architecture using metal pipes, feathers and machines. Blixa Bargeld constructed metaphor-laden poetry around which unique worlds of sound were built up from objects of the most varied origins. The band discovered sounds beyond the pain barrier, the beauty of dissonance and the aesthetics of the scrapyard. They are regarded as the most important engines in the development of new musical strategies. Hardly another German band has characterized the musical landscape as lastingly as Einstürzende Neubauten. Their influence on the music world was and is as great as their timeless character. Silence Is Sexy finally receives a long-awaited reissue on the band's own label Potomak. The element of surprise was and continues to be routine for Einstürzende Neubauten. On Silence Is Sexy they masterfully celebrate the unexpected in the exploration of silence. It is a wonderful album in the classical Neubauten sense; lyrical and melancholy. It's a musical coming-of-age from metal-defying scrap iron sound to constructed melodiousness, with a familiar rhythmic undertow -- playful, arrogant, poetic, subversive, dandified and mature. From its first release in 2000 (marking the 20-year existence of the band) to date, it has doubtlessly remained the group's most complex work and the most fascinating in its evolution. It shows the Neubauten universe from both a known, emotionally moving side, as well as one that is deliberately constructive. It clearly breathes the inimitably rough Neubauten handwriting, while Blixa's voice cuts through intellectual and cryptic texts. It is carried by metal sounds, from which individual instruments can almost no longer be extracted -- and by silence. Ultimately, nearly inaudible tones or laughter in the right place can seem more destructive than the most enduring rage. This is an album that won't be ignored; a unique appearance in the history of German rock music. 180 gram audiophile pressing.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Silence Is Sexy
Label:	POTOMAK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	POTOMAK 957052

Reissue of Einstürzende Neubauten's Silence Is Sexy, originally released in 2000 from singer Blixa Bargeld and his band partners (N.U. Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Jochen Arbeit and Rudolf Moser). A concept of "conceptlessness" was created at that time from a spontaneous idea (many thought it was an April Fool's joke when Einstürzende Neubauten first stood on the stage at Berlin's "Moon" on April 1, 1980; now over 30 years ago), from which the "brilliant dilettantes" developed their own strategy against social and musical architecture using metal pipes, feathers and machines. Blixa Bargeld constructed metaphor-laden poetry around which unique worlds of sound were built up from objects of the most varied origins. The band discovered sounds beyond the pain barrier, the beauty of dissonance and the aesthetics of the scrapyard. They are regarded as the most important engines in the development of new musical strategies. Hardly another German band has characterized the musical landscape as lastingly as Einstürzende Neubauten. Their influence on the music world was and is as great as their timeless character. Silence Is Sexy finally receives a long-awaited reissue on the band's own label Potomak. The element of surprise was and continues to be routine for Einstürzende Neubauten. On Silence Is Sexy they masterfully celebrate the unexpected in the exploration of silence. It is a wonderful album in the classical Neubauten sense; lyrical and melancholy. It's a musical coming-of-age from metal-defying scrap iron sound to constructed melodiousness, with a familiar rhythmic undertow -- playful, arrogant, poetic, subversive, dandified and mature. From its first release in 2000 (marking the 20-year existence of the band) to date, it has doubtlessly remained the group's most complex work and the most fascinating in its evolution. It shows the Neubauten universe from both a known, emotionally moving side, as well as one that is deliberately constructive. It clearly breathes the inimitably rough Neubauten handwriting, while Blixa's voice cuts through intellectual and cryptic texts. It is carried by metal sounds, from which individual instruments can almost no longer be extracted -- and by silence. Ultimately, nearly inaudible tones or laughter in the right place can seem more destructive than the most enduring rage. This is an album that won't be ignored; a unique appearance in the history of German rock music.

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Alles Wieder Offen
Label:	RYKO/POTOMAK
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	POTO 2007/9

"This long awaited 10th full length studio album release, translated as 'Everything Open Again,' further cements the pioneering status of the legendary German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten. Still fresh after 27 years, this album ranges from percussive exuberance to melodic reflective tunes, showcasing the masterful playing of their unusual instruments and the coherence and energy of a band completely confident in themselves. Old fans will enjoy this album as the result of the evolution of almost three decades; new listeners will find themselves pleasantly surprised if they can get past the intimidating reputation and name."

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Wüste/Blume/Salamandrina
Label:	SLOW TO SPEAK
Format:	12"
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DG 009EP

"Arisen from the ashes of 1970s West Berlin, Einstürzende Neubauten set out to demolish the mediation between their music and the material reality that encompassed them -- an attack on the false consciousness of rock, that self-rewarding exercise in egoism that could do nothing but tell the same tail a thousand times over, hopelessly ineffective in an age of expanding and increasing scopes of power. That their primary use of instrumentation was the very means of industrial decay around them -- utilizing the metallic and concrete wastelands of overdevelopment as the offensive tools of pure sound -- is evidence to their resolve to express the reality of commodity society and the corollary residues of alienation and dissatisfaction through the very apparatus of their music. Obviously, their methodology of absolute dissonance resulted in their being accused of creating 'anti-music,' a slander that the leading proponents of experimental industrial noise surely reveled in with great satisfaction. Indeed, Einstürzende Neubauten's positions on sound and performance, 'the band' and 'the album' were radical departures from the established norms of group music, their creations more pieces of aural theory and philosophy than attempts at formative structures or recognizable refrains. Their lead vocalist Blixa Bargeld spent most of his time alternating between tormented wailing and muddled theoretical exposition, pushing their project in head-on confrontation with the very language and discourse of pop culture and political beautification. This was a time of great uncertainty, when divisions between the so-called Communist bloc and the 'free' West were coming to a new head; like many in their generation, Einstürzende Neubauten were put off by the protocol of this false dialogue. Excluded from real political participation and discouraged to reflect in any meaningful way on basic social relations, they decided to make their aesthetics their politics and vice versa, refuting the stream of unanswerable lies and inversing the alienation of capital by using its very physical means to express a total refusal to it. Master dissectors of the intricacies of urban alienation and the despair of the failure of the revolutionary movement, Einstürzende Neubauten resolved the dilemma of a youth incapable of any real concrete means of social change, responding not with political terrorism but rather the piercing aural and philosophical terrorism of their 'music' -- reinventing the very purpose of the rock group and revolutionizing the conceptual fortifications of performance culture, an all out attack on the stagnant leftovers of the first wave of punk rock music and a revolutionary new view on industrial decay." "Wüste" and "Blume" taken from the album Tabula Rasa. "Salamandrina" taken from the album Interim.

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