― 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
<3 <3 <3 bookmarking for later
Ende Neu tour I saw in 1998 remains one of my top ten concert experiences
― sleeve, Friday, 22 December 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
I saw them four times over the years: in 1989 in a tiny club in L.A., in 1990 at the (new) Ritz on 54th Street, in 1993 at Roseland, and in 2000 (I think) at Irving Plaza. Always fantastic, but the 1989 and 1993 shows were the life-changing ones.
And thanks to this thread's revival reminding me of their existence, I just bought a very rare (so rare it's not even listed on Discogs) Japanese 3CD set that contains Strategies Against Architecture Vols. I and II on eBay.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 23 December 2017 02:33 (six years ago) link
Saw them for the first time on the Ende Neu tour in London, it was incredible and have tried to see them every time they've rolled around since, that YouTube concert is fantastic but man, the illuminated perimeter of the stage is like some Trypohobic nightmare.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 23 December 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
So despite having invented crowdfunding 20 years ago, they're now doing the next Supporter's Project on Patreon:
https://supporter.neubauten.org/
Yes, yes, grumble moan about Patreon being terrible if you're outside the US, but there are some wonderful perks. The usual webcasts and online shenanigans (TIL that German guitarists use Vah-Vah pedals, which is what I will always call them from now on!) - a proper album in April 2020, but also downloads and 7"s of spontaneous 'Jewels' and Dave projects.
And this is the kicker - they're digitising Blixa's enormous collection of 80s cassettes, rarities, rough mixes, live soundboard recordings from the early days, source material tapes, field recordings - and they will be making downloads of that material available to supporters. Some of the tracklists they've teased are just o_0 amazing.
Anyway, I've seen almost nothing about this floating about online - so if you know anyone who would be salivating over this sort of thing, please pass it on? Cheers!
― Einstürzende NEU!bauten (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
Weedy scream, why I oughta... saw them only last year, and at 60, Blixavoice is still powerful enough to shake building foundations. So there.
― Einstürzende NEU!bauten (Branwell with an N), Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
http://www.drinkswithtony.com/ep-16-hackedepicciotto-and-blixa-bargeld/THis was interesting Alex hacke and partner talking for an hour about various things including her 2 books. Followed by a 2007 interview with Blixa.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 16 May 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
there is a breathing, pulsing quality to silence is sexy that is deeply satisfying
― j., Wednesday, 28 August 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
i saw them in 1987 at the olof palme festival near munich. they were drilling and making other not so funny sounds. they were better than the awful toten hosen. i was pissed out of my head at that festival. but i must say that i never became a fan. later on i bought "das haus der lüge" which was less abrasive and i kind of loved it. blixa bargeld is a strange guy. my fave lyrics by him:"nagel mein herz ans fensterkreuz", ie "nail my heart at the crossbar of the window". it says a lot about him.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't call Blixa strange particularly. Perhaps the strangest thing about him is his career trajectory from emaciated, hollow-cheeked metal-basher into portly, three-piece-suit-wearing respected literary figure about whose writing conference papers are now given. He's a highly intelligent, cultured and charming man but he doesn't suffer fools gladly.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
xxp I once saw Blixa do an amazing solo set based entirely around his voice and a loop pedal, I am really feeling that description
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link
also, Neubauten on the Tabula Rasa tour was one of the best shows I have ever seen in my life
I spent an hour with him for Alternative Press in 2002 or so and he was like a cross between Bryan Ferry and Hannibal Lecter. One of the most fun interviews I've ever done.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
i put them on one time and was about to go in the dressing room but overheard him shouting at the other members about (i presume) how badly they had played (i hadn't noticed anything amiss and had thought they had been wonderful). he is very scary when angry.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
Blixa can, in a good mood, be very sweet and thoughtful? He recently sat down and patiently explained all of his favourite Kraftwerk albums to me, which was really quite above and beyond. I'm vaguely terrified of him, but he's actually lovely?
One of the things I've noticed about him is that he is just naturally an incredibly LOUD human being, even in his default mode, he seems like he's shouting. So if he's irritated, the irritation seems much more magnified by the volume. But him refusing to suffer fools is often when he is at his wittiest. (So long as you're not the target.) There's no putdown quite like a Blixa putdown.
I'm quite sad that the current supporter's project isn't getting any attention at all. They're still doing some really wonderful and pleasing work - funnily enough, the almost-throwaway "Dave" experiments have been resulting in some of the most enjoyable and playful, freeform, almost surreal tracks.
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 6 September 2019 10:06 (four years ago) link
That is very interest8nbg.
― stirmonster, Friday, 6 September 2019 10:18 (four years ago) link
That is very interesting. Perhaps when I encoutered him then he wasn't actually angry at all.
― stirmonster, Friday, 6 September 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
No, I mean, he also can be scarily, incandescently angry - and the volume combined with the rapier-sharp wit makes that terrifying.
But he's also kind of weirdly (almost childishly) excitable. Which is unexpected in someone with a reputation for being so icy uber-cool. So I do think that sometimes "Blixa shouting loudly in German" is read as him being angry, when he's just begeistert and laut?
But he really, really does not suffer fools gladly. (Which is why I'm so terrified of him - I'm 110% fool.)
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 6 September 2019 10:24 (four years ago) link
I don't know when I became such a Captain Save-A-Prussian. I just love him, OK?
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 6 September 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
the intro track I coulda listened to for a half hour, if my mother wouldn't have run in screaming
amazing!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
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