Title: Live At Rockpalast
Artist: Einsturzende Neubauten
Label: Made in Germany Musi
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 885513905321
Genre: Ambient

When the band Einstürzende 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 clichés 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 Düsseldorf 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.

Tracks:
1.1 Prolog
1.2 Feurio
1.3 Der Tod Ist Ein Dandy
1.4 Sehnsucht
1.5 Armenia
1.6 Yu GÜNG
1.7 Zerstörte Zellen
1.8 Trinklied
1.9 Ich Bin's
1.10 Ein Stuhl in Der Hölle
1.11 Der Kuß
1.12 Haus Der Lüge
1.13 Kein Bestandteil Sein
1.14 Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T
1.15 Sand
1.16 Ich Bin Das Letzte Biest Am Himmel
2.1 Prolog
2.2 Feurio
2.3 Der Tod Ist Ein Dandy
2.4 Sehnsucht
2.5 Armenia
2.6 Yu GÜNG
2.7 Zerstörte Zellen
2.8 Trinklied
2.9 Ich Bin's
2.10 Ein Stuhl in Der Hölle
2.11 Der Kuß
2.12 Haus Der Lüge
2.13 Kein Bestandteil Sein
2.14 Zeichnungen Des Patienten O.T
2.15 Sand
2.16 Ich Bin Das Letzte Biest Am Himme