Einstürzende Neubauten
Berlin Super 80 (Music Underground West Berlin 1978 - 1984) (2LP)
A 2LP documentation of Berlin's highly creative underground NDW/experimental/art scene from 1978 to 1984, released by Monitorpop Entertainment in 2005 in and edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies and featuring Malaria!, Die Tödliche Doris, Christiane F., Sprung Aus Den Wolken, Valie Export, DIN A Testbild, Frieder Butzmann, Einstürzende Neubauten a.o.
1/2 Mensch
2024 repress; LP version. This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost fully a cappella title track, with contrapuntal, atonal, en masse chanting. The album progresses to include quite a repertoire of electronically-generated sounds, finding the band developing their mishmash of industrial experimentation matched by terrifying clangs, stomps, and of course, the theatrical, poet…