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.
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