Einstürzende Neubauten - Silence is Sexy

As requested by Jorge, i'll be uploading some EN works from the the late 90's-early 00's. We start with this magnum opus.

Disc 1

Disc 2

Crass - Penis Envy

Crass at times get a bad image mostly because they were so overtly political and whatnot. A lot of people discard them as just a typical pamphleteering, anarcho band refusing to give them a shot. It's sad because the truth is that they were sonic madmen with close ties to the entire post-industrial, crazy, black magick, UK music scene from the late 70's and 80's. Collaborations by members with Current 93 and Nurse with Wound prove this.

In this album the ladies take over. Eve Libertine sings most of the songs with some help from Joy De Vivre. Together they hit us with a barrage of lyrics tackling feminism, consumerism, marriage, sexual repression, love, the health industry, oppression, ext.... Musically it was some of the most experimental stuff they ever did. A complete onslaught of punk, post punk, noise, and dark industrial-esque sound collages. Listen to the madness that is "What the Fuck?" and tell me it couldn't be a long lost Cabaret Voltaire song or something like that.

They'll fuck our mind so they can fuck us silly.

Thanks to commecial zone for the link.

Esplendor Geométrico - Tarikat

Spain's premier Industrial/Electronica terrorists. A great compilation of classic 86-89 material. Web site of the group here.

Macao 1
Macao 2

Have A Nice Life - Deathconciousness

Deathconsciousness is a 5 year long labor of love from Connecticut duo Have A Nice Life. This is a shoegaze masterpiece, hailed by many as one of the best releases of 2008. This is one of those epic albums that has to be experienced in its entirety, originally released as a double album and included a 75 page booklet which Ive yet to see(if you find it let me know) the budget was a thousand bucks which included recording plus packaging, an incredible feat if you consider the time it took and the grandeur of the material.
The album's cover art features Jacques-Louis David's infamous portrait: The Death of Marat. A very strong statement considering the history of said painting. The music features droning bass lines, screeching goth-tuned guitars and catatonic beats which really steal the show. Their influences vary from Swans to My Bloody Valentine to Joy Division amongst other masters.
Just try not moving with the beat of "Bloodhail"'s chorus line or getting the hair's in your arm to stick up halfway through "Earthmover"

Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000

Savage Republic - Customs

"One of the most original bands to come out of Los Angeles during those fervent years was Savage Republic, led by guitarist Bruce Licher. Tragic Figures (1982) introduced a psychedelic and industrial music that was mostly instrumental and percussive, inducing trance and fear. The EP Trudge (1985) incorporated more explicitly elements of world-music. The atmospheric Ceremonial (1985) and Jamahiriya (1988), featuring new member Brad Laner, perfected their synthesis of psychedelic drones, middle-eastern cantillation and tribal rhythms. By the time of Customs (1989), their last album and their masterpiece, they had coined a musical language of extreme tension, instrumental subtlety and exotic appeal. "- Scaruffi

Throbbing Gristle, Glenn Branca, oil drums on fire, tribal percussion, situationist chants, monotoned guitars, two bass drone, next to nothing...

Rapeman's First EP

Big Black - The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape

This album is a CD compilation of Big Black's Atomizer album & the Headache EP. For anyone not familiar with Big Black's sound imagine an afternoon in the woods with a serial rapist about to sodomize you with a chainsaw when all of a sudden a rock slide engulfs you both.
"Big Black was a band that went where few bands dared to go (and where many felt bands shouldn't go), and for good or ill their pervasive influence had a seismic impact on indie rock. At the same time, Big Black was a group who maintained firmly held ideals when it came to doing business; they paid for their own recordings, booked their own shows, handled their own management and publicity, and remained stubbornly independent at a time when many independent bands were eagerly reaching out for the major-label brass ring." [Allmusic]


I think I fucked your girlfriend once, maybe twice I don't remember.

Einstürzende Neubauten - Strategies against Architecture '81

Discarded metal being hit, drilled, heated, manipulated. Junkyard scraps submitted to harsh treatments. Circuit bending and primitive electronics. Guitar and bass abused and mangled. This is fucking Industrial. If you can't handle it, go back to VNV Nation. These fuckers used goggles to protect their eyes from the debris, not as a ridiculous dancefloor accessory. They once drilled a hole in the wall in one of their shows and left the venue through it. They destroyed the floor of the ICA trying to find an underground secret tunnel that linked it to Buckingham Palace. They recorded themselves digging huge holes in the Autobahn. As one does. A thing of beauty.

"Einsturzende's first compilation album summed up all that was brilliant and thrilling about the young band, who perhaps more than anyone else encapsulated exactly what "industrial" consisted of -- honest-to-goodness mechanistic pummeling and musique concrete remade for a newer generation. Selections from Schwarz and Kollaps feature, along with single-only cuts and various live performances as well, giving a striking picture of the group's varying approaches. Bargeld's rasped, whispered vocals and sudden screams crawl with threat and dread in a consciously dramatic but never overtly hammy fashion, while the rough rhythms and harsh clattering which serves as a bed for his delivery touches on everything from free jazz to minimal Krautrock rhythms. That the volume often gets amped to its absolute highest is only to be expected, but silence and space between sound matters just as much, especially on a slew of songs toward the end. Guitars and bass appear more often than might be expected, but the way they're played is something else entirely, muddied deep in the mix or roaring as undifferentiated noise stabbing in here and there. It's also interesting to hear the earlier version of the band in contrast with the later, when a slightly more formal rock presentation took the fore. Given that on the recordings here the group consisted mostly of percussionists beating on metal and whatever else was to hand, it's little wonder things sound even more aggressive. Maybe for some this will only sound like the backing music on a Sprockets sketch, but the impact on any number of sound terrorists then and since from this album can't be measured. " - Ned Raggett

KOLLAPS

Cabaret Voltaire - Living Legends

This comp is a pretty good starting point to get into the sonic juju of this hugely influential Mancunian pioneers. It includes their best known singles and album tracks, including the fabulous "Nag Nag Nag". More info about them here.

Duce headkick

Nurse With Wound - She And Me Fall Together In Free Death (2003)

NWW is Steven Stapleton.

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