Bargeld remained a full-time member of both Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds until 2003, when he quit the Bad Seeds in order to focus on Einstürzende Neubauten. That group soon disbanded, but Bargeld became a longtime member of one of the bands that sprang from it, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (again featuring Cave and Harvey). It was also a guest performer on Fad Gadget's "Collapsing New People" 7" single's B-side track Spoil The Child, recorded at Hansa Tonstudio, Berlin in November 1983.Īlso in 1983, Bargeld joined the band The Birthday Party (featuring Nick Cave and Mick Harvey) as a guitarist.
The title came from a 1974 book by Leo Navratil, describing the drawings of Oswald Tschirtner. In 1983, Einstürzende Neubauten recorded their second album, Zeichnungen des Patienten O. The live performances with Einheit in the 1980s included much metal banging and destruction on stage.ĭuring their first German tour, Mark Chung (previously the bass player with Abwärts) joined the group of musicians. The industrial noises were obtained from self-made music machines, electronics, and found objects such as metal plates. Einheit (from the Hamburg band Abwärts) joined Einstürzende Neubauten and they released their first LP, Kollaps (" Collapse"), a mixture of rough punk tunes and industrial noises. Shortly thereafter, Alexander Hacke (alias Alexander von Borsig), a sound technician and multi-instrumentalist who was 15 years old at the time, joined the band and became a longtime member.
The two female members, Bartel and Gut, left the band after a short period and founded Mania D. This first lineup featured Beate Bartel and Gudrun Gut, Blixa Bargeld, and N.U. On 1 April 1980, Einstürzende Neubauten made their first appearance, at the Moon Club in West Berlin. Subsequent recordings found the group's sound growing somewhat more conventional, yet still containing many unorthodox elements. Their early albums were unremittingly harsh, with Bargeld's vocals shouted and screamed above a din of banging and scraping metal percussion. One of their trademarks is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments.
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Unruh ( custom-made instruments percussion vocals), long-time contributor Alexander Hacke (bass vocals), plus Jochen Arbeit (guitar vocals), and Rudolf Moser (custom-built instruments percussion vocals), who both joined the line-up in 1997. The group is currently composed of founder members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals guitar keyboard) and N.U.
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