Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten were formed in 1980. It means Collapsing New Buildings, or more acurately, Buildings That Are Collapsing. It’s German, so there are a lot of syllables, but Neubauten, the group, are singular as far as their aesthetic approach and performance idiom go. Live, they played trash. That doesn’t mean their music was trashy; they literally played trash. They beat on scrap metal, they used power tools, and construction equipment, and sheet metal, and they played shows in junk yards and utilized the debris as their instrumentation. Most would probably tell you that Neubauten are the progenitors of “industrial” music. They’ve moved away from the junkyards in recent years, but they’re still extant as a band, wildly... Read More
- Genre:
- Experimental, Noise, Rock
- City Of Origin:
- Berlin, Germany
- Formed Date:
- 1980
