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Intended to be "unlistenable," Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten's 1981-debut album Kollaps has attracted listeners four decades after it was recorded.
Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West Berlin, Kollaps is a product of its time while remaining as vital, exhilarating and surprising as the day it was released.
The book explores the contexts, themes, and influences that shaped Kollaps. It describes the early days of Einstürzende Neubauten in West Berlin, the manic energy of their performances, their use of scrap metal, drill
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Intended to be "unlistenable," Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten's 1981-debut album Kollaps has attracted listeners four decades after it was recorded.

Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West Berlin, Kollaps is a product of its time while remaining as vital, exhilarating and surprising as the day it was released.

The book explores the contexts, themes, and influences that shaped Kollaps. It describes the early days of Einstürzende Neubauten in West Berlin, the manic energy of their performances, their use of scrap metal, drill hammers, bodily sounds, and tape loops, their preoccupation with nihilism and subversion, and what Nick Cave called the "incredibly mournful, haunting" nature of their music. The beginning of a 40-year career, this first burst of energy remains their purest statement.
Autorenporträt
Melle Jan Kromhout is a sound scholar and musician from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His work deals with the conceptual relations between music, sound, and media from the 19th century to the present. He is the author of The Logic of Filtering: How Noise Shapes the Sound of Recorded Music (2021). Jan Nieuwenhuis is an independent artist and author from Utrecht, the Netherlands, amongst other things writing on the intersection of music and philosophy.