Einstuerzende Neubauten
 

Is anyone else here a subscriber to the neubauten.org supporters project?

For those who don't know, the supporters project is an offshoot of the neubauten website, where supporters of the band basically fund its existence by paying in advance for a release that won't be available for another year or so. In return for their money supporters get a CD that isn't otherwise available, access (by live feed) to the band's recording sessions, and even the chance to influence the band's direction in a small way by critiquing the music as it's being created.

See here for more info: http://supporter.neubauten.org/blixa...3edb8c e1f267

I saw that cd a few days ago and it looked really familiar. that little yellow guy... then I realized that a liars ep altered that cover with witchhats and such. It was pretty awesome and now I wanna hear them.

What do they sound like?

Like nothing else on earth

Like free jazz played in a car crash

Like a javelin just flying through the air

Like an angel with a migraine


Does that help?

"Like free jazz played in a car crash"
haha
couldn´t agree more

I love the Neubauten
but i´m not an official supporter

Wheer the famous Hacienda nightclub in Manchester used to be is now apartments or something, but there's a series of engravings at the back documenting bands that appeared at the Hacienda. For Einstuerzende Neubauten, it say something like: Einstuerzende Neubauten were banned after attacking a concrete pillar with a pneumatic drill during their show. If ever you need a reason to listen to a band, you've git it right there.

neubauten are pretty cool, and obviously extremely influential to all industrial style music. ive only got strateges against architecture volume 1, and i dont listen to it a whole lot, but theres some intensly amazing stuff on there. i especially love the tool based percussive sounds. i heard one of the songs was recorded by micing up the struts of a bridge...

I'm not a supporter, but I think they're pretty cool.

no i am not a supporter, should be tho.. love neubauten.....+



check vidz here http://www.neubauten.org/en-video.html

I got the Strategies vol. 1 earlier this year and it is mindblowing. Before hearing it I was under the impression that EN was closer to post punk, but their early material is time to time pure noise. I'm going to get Kollaps next.
There's a blixa bargfeld interview video at brainwashed.com, which sheds light on their history and other things related to them.
According to it the use of tools and other unconvienient things as instruments wasn't so much of an artistic decision but an economic, which I find funny. I guess being poor results in creativity.

I got lazy and played the Sonic Youth DJ hour on my radio show I had last year once. I really liked the song that Lee picked out by them. Seele Brennt. The long silences are great.

Einstuerzende Neubauten have just released their first live DVD, "Palast Der Republik". The DVD consists primarily of concert footage from a historic concert at the Palast der Republik in Berlin on November 4th, 2004, where the band played in and with the former Parliament building of East Germany before it got torn down. The band is joined by a choir of 100 supporters from the Phase 2 of the supporter project.

 

Track Listing
Haus Der Luege
Armenia
Weilweilweil (Rampe)
Youme & Meyou
Perpetuum Mobile
Dead Friends (Around the Corner)
Grundstueck:
GS:1
GS:2
Unseasonable Weather
GS:3
Vox Populi
Was Ist Ist
Ein leichtes leises Saeuseln
Sabrina
Alles

Bonus material
Die Befindlichkeit des Landes
Redukt
Full length band commentary in German and English
Two separate audio tracks: CD quality stereo; 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround

Trailers:
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US Orders: Amazon.com
Worldwide orders: Neubauten shop

For some reason the DVD is not yet available on any other Amazon sites, but the band are trying to rectify that.

To further upset all the people who are already upset that London gets all the best events, there will be a screening at the ICA to coincide with the DVD's official UK release on Thursday December 14th. No booking details on the ICA website yet, but as soon as I have them, you'll be the first to know :)

Of further interest, from the ICA website:

Call for performers: Einstürzende Neubauten re-enactment - Perfomance of Concerto for Voice & Machinery, auditions taking place in October 2006

Performers/artists/musicians (male & female) needed for re-enactment of infamous Einstürzende Neubauten gig originally performed at the ICA, 3/1/84. Comprising members of EN and other musicians it was titled Concerto for Voice & Machinery as the performance was centred around the use of industrial machinery/tools, some singing, destruction of various raw materials and ultimately, the theatre stage.

Interested artistes should be comfortable with live, on-stage performance, physical activity as similar tools etc will be used such as cement-mixers, road-drills and chainsaws and although no traditional musical knowledge and conventional instrument playing required, a sense of timing and rhythm is essential. An interest in experimental music/theatre performance would be beneficial aswell as knowledge of the original performance.

Auditions will take place in October leading towards the re-enactment performance in Feb 07 at the ICA, London.

For further enquiries, please call Jo Mitchell on 020 8519 5215 or 07726 747939

Ace, thanks very much for that Mr L.

Neubauten... incredible band. If I weren't a mendicant at the moment I'd almost certainly sign up.

I met a chap in Camden with that same tattoo in the same place... you don't have a pink industrial mohican type hair thing going on do you?

I might not be an "official" supporter, but I have been supporting them for several hundreds euros spent on CDs, DVDs, live-CDRs, concert tickets, etc over the years... hope that counts too.

I supported them, insofar I bouht a biography for a friend and a soundtrack on LP by them a few years back for the same person. I personally do not own any of their material in cd or vinyl format, but I have borrowed "Ende Neu" from the same guy a few years now. Kollpas and Halber Mensch are my favorite things I've heard by them.

no ...........

Mhmm. Someone lets me use their account. Which I'm forever grateful for!

i also found this funny. there is this picture that i love from the Kollaps album, showing them standing with all their equipment on the floor and Berlin's olympic stadium in the background: it looks like they just went to some building site and stole everything they could steal. One of my favourite band pictures, certainly.

they probably did. it is easy here isnt it? did you go to the mv/ee show on sunday?