― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 15 September 2003 12:15 (twenty years ago) link
I cannot agree with no. 3.
― OleM (OleM), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:06 (twenty years ago) link
― creative, Monday, 15 September 2003 13:11 (twenty years ago) link
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Monday, 15 September 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
― gravitater, Wednesday, 17 September 2003 12:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
Even better that Blixa would also be a Bad Seed.
― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link
I honestly haven't listened to them in years. Within some time of the initial infatuation, I more or less found them to be inconsistent and often dull. I mostly just haven't been in the mood to listen to that clunky, lugubrious sound in ages. If I was to pick a track to put on now it would be "Kalte Sternen" (it's pretty and catchy) or "Headcleaner".
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 18:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link
Classic, classic, classic.
― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 18 September 2003 04:18 (twenty years ago) link
Maybe not weedy so much as aiming for intensity and power and falling well short of it and sounding like someone throwing a tantrum instead (see William Bennett)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 18 September 2003 10:42 (twenty years ago) link
nagel mein herz an ein fensterkreuz (nail my heart onto the crossbar)
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 18 September 2003 11:05 (twenty years ago) link
― ironic, Friday, 19 September 2003 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
Half Man from 1984 is the album I will treasure; the late-'90s stuff was interesting but not as exciting, and haven't seen/heard them since...
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 20 September 2003 04:59 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― kaliflwr (kaliflwr), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 6 May 2004 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 6 May 2004 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 6 May 2004 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Ende Neu.
― Adelia, Thursday, 6 May 2004 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 6 May 2004 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― AscheDjidoi, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 07:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― hibernating bear, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Can understand why 12-15 year-olds would say "classic", but it's harder to comprehend the notion of adults (17 and up) giving this codswollop the time of day (at least not without extreme embarrassment).
Then again, arrested development is the coin of the realm, ain't it?
― P, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
The music of, say, "Vanadium I-Ching" is the product of a quite focused and disciplined attention to objects and sounds, and the structure of the piece is pretty far removed from any kind of childish tantrum. The entrance of musical lines was determined by a temporal map of cracks in a piece of metal; this kind of conceptual compositional strategy seems pretty coolly analytic and controlled to me.
― Drew Daniel, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
On February 20th, the ICA will stage a Re-enactment of the now-legendary ICA performance, Einstürzende Neubauten’s ‘Concerto for voice and machine.’ The original event took place in 1984 when it was seen as a reaction against music as an easily and readily commodifiable package and industry in post-punk conservative Britain. The event comprised of cacophonous but orchestrated noise and destruction with industrial machinery and tools being used to drill holes in the stage of the ICA and was called to a halt after 21 minutes when ICA technicians turned off the power! On February 20th, emerging young artist Jo Mitchell will direct the re-enactment of this seminal event in an attempt to highlight the gap between the real and the represented and to question notions of expectation, consensus and the conventions of (the different) times.
― a nuclear-powered carrot (braveclub), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 11:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Okay, seriously the last minute or so of Yu Gung: Classickerist or Classicumilingus?
― Bimble, Sunday, 21 October 2007 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
What's their new album like? I sorta tuned out after 'Perpetuum Mobile'
― baaderonixx, Sunday, 21 October 2007 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the new album. Posted this on another thread in September:
Most (okay, probably only) country song on the new Einsturzende Neubuaten album Alles Weideroffen is "Nagorny Karabach, which has a very recognizable Lee Hazelwood (R.I.P.) clippity-clop to it. Lots of repetitive electronic factory clang to the rest of the album, often building gradually into something tangibly if Teutonically identifiable as a groove, with repeatedly chanted harangues on top, which slow-building sometimes makes me more impatient than other times. Faves are opener "Die Wellen" (reminds me of Faust), humorlessly titled and minimally starting "Let's Do It Dada," nine-minute "Unvollstandigkeit," and "Ich Warte" (maybe their most danceable track since Adrian Sherwood produced "Yu Gung" for them 22 years ago.) Part that sounds like "bacon bacon bacon bacon" in "Von Wegen" is also neat. Didn't know they still had it in 'em.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 21 October 2007 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic, but more for the quiet drony bits than the shrieking clanging bits.
Eyethengyew.
― PhilK, Sunday, 21 October 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, is that available through normal channels or is this another website/supporter release?
I also have not heard anything past Perpetuum. Somebody on another thread was extolling their supporter's club deal, it seemed interesting.
― sleeve, Sunday, 21 October 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/281460-02.htm&highlight=neubauten
― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 October 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Lol "Genre: downtempo"
― baaderonixx, Sunday, 21 October 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never heard these guys but they sound like something I like. How are they, compared to like, early Cabaret Voltaire or Throbbing Gristle?
― filthy dylan, Monday, 22 October 2007 03:05 (sixteen years ago) link
more visceral, you need this stuff.
― sleeve, Monday, 22 October 2007 05:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Apropos of sod-all, Dingsaller is bloody fantastic.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 22 October 2007 05:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Please tell me you posted that to a rolling country thread, xhuxk.
― Sundar, Monday, 22 October 2007 07:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Turns out this album hasn't reconciled me with them. Impressive but ultimately a bit boring.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
okay this is pretty cool and then at 4:30 AW YEAH
stick around for blixa's covergirl moment
― Edward III, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
US leg of 30th anniversary tour cancelled
It is with great regret that Einstürzende Neubauten announce the cancellation of their planned thirtieth anniversary appearances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto and New York. While the U.S. Department of Homeland Security did issue approvals for the band’s visas, it was not done in time to secure the appointments at the overseas embassies and consulates that represent the necessary final step in the process.The band members are tremendously disappointed by this turn of events and wish to thank all those fans who purchased tickets for these performances for their support. The band would have loved to do the tour and meet their overseas fans. Because this tour was a time-sensitive production, it will not be rescheduled. Ticket holders can obtain refunds from their point of purchase.
The band members are tremendously disappointed by this turn of events and wish to thank all those fans who purchased tickets for these performances for their support. The band would have loved to do the tour and meet their overseas fans. Because this tour was a time-sensitive production, it will not be rescheduled. Ticket holders can obtain refunds from their point of purchase.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 29 November 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
poop! i was really looking forward to seeing them. i'm especially miffed that it won't even be rescheduled.
― borntohula, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
may as well mention how great the ANBB album Blixa has done with Alva Noto is, its probably my favourite album at the moment
― straightola, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been listening to the recordings of the latest tour (they are doing the Grateful Dead recording every show and selling soundboard USBs at the end of the night) and they are so so so so tight and the setlists are so so so so amazing right now. The world's best live band. Whoever said Blixa needs to stop the inhale scream and wearing suits upthread 15 years ago is a fucking idiot.
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 22 December 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
jesus christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxyWStLB0z0
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 22 December 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
I like that they're just a little less graceful and more turbulent these days, around the time of 'Silence is Sexy' and 'Perpetuum Mobile' it came across quite poised and low-key. Although I do really enjoy those records nowadays
It felt like at the gigs I saw around 'Alles Wieder Offen' they came back to life a bit more.
Did you go to the weekend thing they did in 2010-ish? Oh my lord, that Garage gig was so amazing.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 7 August 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
It is to my great regret that I never got to see them before the Lament shows! I know so many people who have had such great experiences at their ~event weekends~ and the like. I wish I had gone to the Garage thing.
The thing is, I actually like Perpetuum Mobile as an album, more than Alles Wieder Offen. It has more of what I like in music - that Perpetuum was really their 'let's do Krautrock' album, musically. But the clue to their attitude was really in the name - Alles Wieder Offen was where they *felt* more open as a band again, where they felt more connected, more engaged, more happy to be ~doing Neubauten~ again? (And The Jewels, the supporters-only album that was the weirder, even more freeform and 'experimental' companion to AWO, is one of my favourite things they have ever done.) They sounded like they were more "back to life" because they were feeling more back to life.
And I know the parallel in the album names is not deliberate (they actually wanted to avoid it) but Alles in Allem is also very much a "back to life" and an opening-up record. I cannot believe how open and how personal Blixa was willing to get on the record. (And Blixa being Blixa, of course people, including myself, were looking for 8 layers of meaning, when on some songs - no, really, it was exactly what they were saying it was.)
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 7 August 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
Anyway, boom tish, it's just gone live:
https://neubauten.bandcamp.com/releases
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 7 August 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
I must get Alles in Allem. I haven't been very good at following Neubauten more recently; it's time to jump in again.
― Duke, Friday, 7 August 2020 10:48 (three years ago) link
I mentioned upthread that I was going to review Alles In Allem, but I never posted the link. Here it is. Now off to Bandcamp I go...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 7 August 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
25th anniversary concert in Gijon, Spain on April 13, 2005.creditsreleased April 13, 2005
bless them for doing this, seriously, but lol this is not how it works
(I'm biased cuz I need release dates to log radio play)
― sleeve, Friday, 7 August 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
How should they be doing it, then?
(This is a serious question, please be gentle with them - they are a bunch of middle-aged Germans who are a bit perplexed by Bandcamp.)
All of their shows got released as CDRs, memory sticks, etc. about 10 minutes after the end of the set, so that they could be sold at the merch table. So that's what they mean by "released" - it was literally available for commercial sale at the merch stand, and on their web store as soon as the show was over.
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 7 August 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
haha I just mean the "release date" should be the day it was uploaded/"released"
if you could actually let someone know, that would be awesome. totally not a big deal, I was just amused, but I really do use the release dates to log "new" plays for licensing $. I want them to get their fractions of pennies!
and again, it's really cool that they are doing this, I will keep my eye on it. would love a lossless copy of The Jewels, for example.
― sleeve, Friday, 7 August 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
(uploaded to Bandcamp, I mean, although yeah if they were available aftershow then it does muddy those waters a bit but afaict Bandcamp treats reissues as having the release date of the reissue not the original)
― sleeve, Friday, 7 August 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the clarification! It's useful information, and I'll pass it on.
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 7 August 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
Gonna give the new one a proper listen over the weekend, might dig out The Jewels too.
― Maresn3st, Friday, 7 August 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQoBph_FTFI
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 10 April 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNR1nGolZVA
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 17 April 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyaGBSDpiA
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link
Halber Mensch time. yes this is my industrial week because there are limits to how much metal I can consume a year even for me.
this is my very first listen.
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
Ohhhh nice, that's a great record.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
the intro track I coulda listened to for a half hour, if my mother wouldn't have run in screaming
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
my EN favourite.
so many greats; the title track, der tod ist ein dandy, seele brennt, yu gung, sehnsucht....
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
amazing!
yeah this fucking ruuules. anything percussive and mechanical works for me and this has that in droves.
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
How much of their other music have you heard N?
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
somewhere between 0 and none
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
Oh nice, what a journey!
This may be worth your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=posxMfqdgIM
And if you can track down the Liebeslieder documentary also, it's some story.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VsIW3M5p1o
― MaresNest, Sunday, 19 February 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
hell fucking ya
― sarahell, Sunday, 19 February 2023 21:36 (one year ago) link
please sir, can we have some more...
― stirmonster, Sunday, 19 February 2023 22:11 (one year ago) link
<3 N.U. Unruh
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Sunday, 19 February 2023 22:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDriPLyBqo
New single!
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 23 March 2024 09:20 (one month ago) link
Just got the new one. Sort of in vein of Alles In Allem, but less accessible on first two listens. I'm sure it'll sink in.
― Duke, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 21:15 (yesterday) link