Einsturzende Neubauten Live At Rockpalast CD

When the band Einst?rzende Neubauten was being founded in 1980 there were hardly any others that could have been compared to them. Instead of playing conventional instruments, the band used tools and other objects of daily use to create atonal industrial collages predicting a near downfall ("Kollaps"). They started with a destructive and nihilistic basic attitude that corresponded to the zeitgeist of post-punk in the early 80's; however, the realization could not be any more radical than this: percussionist F.M. Einheit maltreating the stage with a power drill, mastermind and singer Blixa Bargeld playing the guitar with an electric shaver. If there existed any parallels, then to "musique concrete" at best. But very soon, nearly unnoticed by their steadily growing community of fans, the picture refined: at an early stage, Blixa Bargeld rejected already comparisons to the British oil barrel beating epigones of Test Department or SPK and during an interview I had with him in 1985, he wondered why the parallels to a group like Ton Steine Scherben could be neglected carelessly. Indeed, the Neubauten managed to escape pure industrial clich?s very fast by their individuality, sophistication and above all, their lyrical substance. Even without blaring metal, on albums like Die Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. and 5 auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala the Neubauten were able to produce gloomy, filgrane and spheric soundscapes ("Armenia", "Kein Bestandteil sein"). The Rockpalast concert at the Philipshalle in D?sseldorf combines in a unique and compact way all the songs that were relevant and had shaped the band's style (according to the criteria formulated by Bargeld) to this date. The interaction of the line-up which at that time featured Blixa Bargeld, Alexander Hacke, N.U. Unruh, F.M. Einheit and Mark Chung has hardly been captured as perfect and so to the point as in this film document.

1. Prolog 2. Feurio 3. Der Tod Ist Ein Dandy 4. Sehnsucht 5. Armenia 6. Yu GNG 7. Zerst÷rte Zellen 8. Trinklied 9. Ich Bin's 10. Ein Stuhl in Der H÷lle 11. Der Ku 12. Haus Der L?ge 13. Kein Bestandteil Sein 14. Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T 15. Sand 16. Ich Bin Das Letzte Biest Am Himmel 17. Prolog 18. Feurio 19. Der Tod Ist Ein Dandy 20. Sehnsucht 21. Armenia 22. Yu GNG 23. Zerst÷rte Zellen 24. Trinklied 25. Ich Bin's 26. Ein Stuhl in Der H÷lle 27. Der Ku 28. Haus Der L?ge 29. Kein Bestandteil Sein 30. Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T 31. Sand 32. Ich Bin Das Letzte Biest Am Himme