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Kollaps

THE REVIEW

We are in 1981, a particular year in the world of international music, in fact, a year had passed since Ian Curtis had died by hanging, and in the new wave scene, new bands and new trends were emerging on the musical horizon. Some examples were Cabaret Voltaire, who were pushing the Dadaist concept of electronics to the extreme, the early Depeche Mode who brought a breath of commercialization with their techno-pop, and many other bands that infused sound with bursts of synths and unique sound circulations.

One of these bands is called EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN, and it is a band so unique that even today it can be considered a source of innovation and inspiration for those who see music as a fantastic abstract painting, with strongly industrial tones. In fact, Neubauten used everything to make music, from jackhammers, to wrenches, all the way to canonical instruments like guitar and bass.

The mind of this group, B. B., WAS PRIMARILY IN THOSE YEARS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR ALL OF GERMANY, because it pushed to the extreme some concepts born from a typically post-industrial culture. These concepts were the denial of human evolution, and hence the rejection of the positivist theory that saw man in continuous evolution, or the transcendence of the industrial system seen as useless and harmful, and above all, the attempt to make violent music regardless of meaning and technical efficacy.

All of this is within 'Kollaps', which, for this reason, more than a record, becomes a sort of expressionist painting, where the listener feels part of the brutal violence produced by the jackhammers, or unconsciously participates in the clamor of the wrenches, or sinks into the anguish given and emphasized by the vocal and instrumental interchange of the record.

ANALYZING 'kollaps', you empathize with a new and terrifying world where the listener moves within an industrial press, in which everything is generated and recycled with a surgical speed, and within it, feelings, moods, and sensations become only superficial stages of existence.