Browse by Artist: EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Silence Is Sexy
Label:	MUTE UK (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STUMM 182CD

"The new album Silence Is Sexy has been recorded in various locations since 1998, following their exhaustive tour in 1997. It consists of 2 CDs in a special digipack with a 20 page booklet. The first CD has 14 new tracks and features the single 'Total Eclipse Of The Sun'. The second consists of an 18 minute vocal improvisation over the mechanical installation of a drill hitting a row of aluminum strips. Recorded live without cuts of overdubs. Other instruments used on the album include metal bar, cellular phone, vase and brushes, car tires, free falling objects, plastic percussion and vibrator, presence, silk and polystyrene -- not to mention the more conventional pneumatic piston and drills."

Artist:	EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Palast Der Republik
Label:	MVD AUDIO
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
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:	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:	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:	Liebeslieder
Label:	STUD!O K7 (GERMANY)
Format:	DVD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	K7 021DVD

"Einsturzende Neubauten was one of the key pioneers of industrial music. Known for their avant-garde methods, Einsturzende Neubauten have used jackhammers, drills, chainsaws, junk metal, tapes and amplified guitar noise and a multitude of found sounds over the past twenty years to make music. Much more than a spectacle of disaster and ruin, Neubauten's great and various noises eroticize de-sensitized and dead zones of contemporary life. Surprisingly, given their extraordinary visual spectacle, Liebeslieder is the first proper Einstürzende Neubauten documentary. Commissioned by the German WDR TV's architecture division, it charts their beginnings in a hole beneath an Autobahn overpass in Berlin, where guiding spirit Blixa Bargeld and NU Unruh made music by hurtling themselves at its metal walls. It takes you through the early Untergang years, when they picked up momentum -- and members FM Einheit, Alex Hacke and Mark Chung -- through a seemingly perverse celebration of collapse and decline. Using interviews, concert material and often rare film footage, Liebeslieder plots their spreading influence around the world, their blitzes on moribund British and American music scenes, and their outings as teen idols in Tokyo. The documentary also highlights their theatre work with Peter Zadek, Heine Müller, Japanese Butoh dancers, Erich Wonder and La La La Human Steps. On top of this Liebeslieder includes concert footage from their 1993 tour and, in full, their first ever music videos 'Interim' and 'Blume.' After Einstürzende Neubauten, everything else is silence." -- Biba Kopf. DVD, region-free, 2-sided for worldwide format access (side A= PAL, side B = NTSC); 100 minutes, stereo.

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Artist:	EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Perpetuum Mobile
Label:	MUTE USA
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.50
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:	EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Title:	Palast der Republik
Label:	MVD VISUAL
Format:	DVD
Price:	$19.00
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:	EINSTÜRZENDE 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'."

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