Noise from the ruins
West Berlin is baked into the DNA of Einstürzende Neubauten. Pioneers of the nascent industrial scene, they are a band that could only have been forged in that uniquely creative island city, with all its dereliction, poverty and cold war paranoia.
Forced to fashion unconventional instruments out of electronics and “found” objects such as sheet metal, drills, jackhammers and various detritus due to lack of money, necessity proved the mother of invention. That lack of expensive instruments encouraged experimentation as they embarked on a string of landmark albums in the best tradition of Dadaism and musique concrète.
Forced to fashion unconventional instruments out of electronics and “found” objects such as sheet metal, drills, jackhammers and various detritus due to lack of money, necessity proved the mother of invention. That lack of expensive instruments encouraged experimentation as they embarked on a string of landmark albums in the best tradition of Dadaism and musique concrète.