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Strategies Against Architecture (CD)

By: Einsturzende Neubauten (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Strategies Against Architecture (CD) Album By Einsturzende Neubauten (Artist...
1   Tanz Debil
2   Schmerzen Horen
3   Mikroben
4   Kreig In Den Stadten
5   Zum Tier Machen
6   Draussen Ist Feindlich
7   Stahlversion
8   Schwarz - (previously unreleased, live)
9   Negative Nein
10   Kalte Sterne
11   Spaltung - (previously unreleased, live)
12   U-Haft Muzak
13   Gestohlenes Band (Orf)
14   Schwarz (Mutieirt)
 
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The Wire (4/00, p.38) - "...The easiest place to access ur-Neubauten...a compilation which includes 'Stahlversion', some live material and studio tracks from their 2nd single 'Kalte Sterne' and debut album proper KOLLAPS..."

Title Note

STRATEGIES AGAINST ARCHITECTURE is a compilation of the group's work from 1980 to 1983, and includes tracks from their first 7" singles, their LP KOLLAPS, rare vinyl EPs, and previously unreleased live tracks.

Compilation producers: Einsturzende Neubauten, Jim Thirlwell.

STRATEGIES AGAINST ARCHITECTURE is a compilation of early tracks by Einsturzende Neubauten. The disc includes material from the band's first EP (SCHWARZ) and LP (KOLLAPS) along with a few b-sides and live versions. On these tracks, Neubauten uses an orchestra of everything from traditional rock instruments to power tools and smashing glass. The record opens with an extended peal of feedback that sets the tone of the entire record. If Lou Reed had taken his METAL MACHINE MUSIC beyond the stage of free-form noise sculpture and added jackhammers and an assortment of chants, wails, and screams (in German) he might have come close to STRATEGIES. As it stands, Neubauten's early work is about as extreme as music can get before it becomes nothing more than noise.

All of STRATEGIES' songs are classics of industrial music. The eerie, slow "Stahlversion" features percussion in the form of drumming on the struts of a hollow bridge. "Negative Nein" is rhythmically constructed from the electronically altered sound of bubbling water and Blixa Bargeld's unearthly vocals and screams. "Kalte Sterene" is probably the closest that EN have ever gotten to traditional rock, though the vocals are so heavily echoed and multi-tracked that they overpower the simple beat patterns.

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