Artist: Einsturzende Neubauten
Title: 2X4
Label: ROIR
Format: CD
Catalog: RUSCD8235
Price: 13.00 USD
About 2X4:
In 1984 ROIR, then a cassette-only record label, released a LIVE cassette-only European concert tape by Einsturzende Neubauten ("Collapsing New Buildings"). E/N's "2 x 4" has become a classic, receiving both lavish praise from the press and commercial success from its legions of fans (over 20,000 cassettes sold). Available now for the first time on CD (remastered).
About Einsturzende Neubauten:
Since 1980 these conceptual avant-garde anti-artists have released over twenty recordings on labels such as Mute, Some Bizarre, Rough Trade, Thirsty Ear, Homestead, Etc. Their newest studio recording "Ende Nue" has just come out in Germany on Rough Trade and will be released in the U.S. by Nothing Records early in 1998 in connection with an extensive U.S. tour.
"Far and away the most listenable recording from the premiere noisests. Almost as riveting as seeing them in person." - Rockpool 1985
"2 x 4 documents German noise terrorists Einsturzende Neubauten in their most nightmarish and nihilistic form - live. The sheer intensity of Neubauten's unconventional outpourings is the aural equivalent of waking up sweating in the middle of the night, wracked with doubt and fear, with Blixa Bargeld's disembodied voice agonising over a backdrop of tense musical extremities. Sensory exorcism guaranteed." - Kerrang
"...capturing the group during their most elemental phase, when improvisations were the rule and the triumph of the non-musician was complete. Its admixture of noise and quiet captures the Berlin group in all their utter visceral starkness. Absolutely essential." - Wire UK
"These legendary 'godfathers' of industrial have influenced everyone from Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. For those of you that know and love this band then you need to have this to complete your collection. For those of you who don't know of these industrial pioneers then you definitely need this to discover where ol' Mr. Reznor stole all his ideas from." - Faze 3
Track List:
- Fleish "Blut Haut" Knochen [3:51]
- Sehnsucht (Nie mehr) [2:26]
- Womb [5:15]
- Krach der Schlagenden Herzen [7:49]
- Armenisch Bitter [8:53]
- Zum Tier machen [1:57]
- Sehnsucht (Still stehend) [2:59]
- Durstige Tiere [4:51]