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01. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Tanz debil
02. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Steh auf Berlin
03. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Negativ Nein
04. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - U-Haft-Muzak
05. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Draussen Ist Feindlich
06. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Schmerzen Hören
07. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Jet'm
08. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Kollaps
09. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Sehnsucht
10. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Vorm Krieg
11. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Hirnsäge
12. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Abschied & Zerfall
13. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Helga
14. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Schieß euch ins Blut
15. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Rohrbombe [Stahldubversion]
16. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Futuristischer Dub [Stahldubversion]
17. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Sado-Masodub [Stahldubversion]
18. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Liebesdub [Stahldubversion]
19. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Spionagedub [Stahldubversion]
20. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Mikrobendub [Stahldubversion]
21. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Gastarbeiterdub [Stahldubversion]
22. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Rivieradub [Stahldubversion]
23. EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Lünetest [Stahldubversion]
ARTIST
TITLE
Kollaps
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
POTOMAK 825171 POTOMAK 825171
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/20/2015

2022 repress. Includes a large format 12-page booklet. Originally released in 1981, Kollaps is the seminal, form-destroying debut album by German industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten (trans. "Collapsing New Buildings"). The band's use of junk metal, power drills, jackhammers and other surprising instrumentation would come to define their challenging and continually inventive career, making them not only one of the originators of industrial music, but one of the world's most influential and far-reaching forces at the intersection between avant-garde and rock music. Formed in 1980 in the wave of the Dadaist movement Die Geniale Dilletanten, after a series of devastating live performances and personnel changes (one of which briefly involving electronic musician Gudrun Gut), the band's line-up cemented itself with core members Blixa Bargeld, F.M. Einheit (previously of Hamburg-based post-punk band Abwärts) and N.U. Unruh. On Kollaps, a violent collision of urban primitivism and punk sensibilities, the trio declared war on every conventional way of listening, combining an intense mess of atonal guitar drones with brutal scrap metal percussion. At a time in Germany in which the wall encircling West Berlin transformed the city into a state-subsidized, near-paradisiacal freak-enclave for artists, Einstürzende Neubauten offered cathartic cascades of noise, employing steel parts, tin drums, drills, hammers, saws and untuned electric guitars, all crowned by Bargeld's bloodcurdling screams and feverish, apocalyptic texts. Kollaps, with its atonal essence, embodied exactly what the title suggested: decay and destruction, illness, doom and death. Years later, with the fall of the Berlin wall behind it, Kollaps still sounds as radical and extreme an artistic statement as ever.