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Levinarium, No.

It is not an easy matter to describe Einstürzende Neubauten (lit. ‘Collapsing New Buildings‘) and their style. One thing is for sure true of them: experimental music, combining industrial, noise, percussion, poetry, ballet, work with the newly invented instruments made out of shopping carts, plastic barrels and so on.

They were formed in West Berlin in 1980 and are active to the present day, although the period of open protest had since long gone.

Anyway, they started drifting to the classical sound after 1993, so the first 13-15 years are of most interest.

English title: Einstürzende Neubauten “Waste Land”
Original title (German): Einstürzende Neubauten “Wüste”

First published in the Levinarium Telegram Channel (now closed and deleted)