Album Rating: 4.7

ICH BIN SECHS METER GROSS UND ALLES IST WICHTIG

ICH BIN NEUN METER GROSS UND ALLES IST MEHR ALS WICHTIG

ICH BIN ZWÖLF METER GROSS UND ALLES IST UNVORSTELLBAR

Album Rating: 5.0

germans were on fire back then, between this, DAF and Kraftwerk they pretty much influenced all non-twee music that came afterwards

germans are still on fire

Album Rating: 4.0

unsure if that comment is related to music or societal position

art i think you were the first finnish person i ever met online.

Album Rating: 4.0

cool

just felt like sharing this nice and interesting fact

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blixa's inhaly hiss-whine-screams rule

the compressed air man

Album Rating: 4.7

Love that shit, amazing he hasn't blown out his voice doing that though

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sometimes im really scared for his voice too yeah )) i guess he is just stronger than chino



unrelated, found this very funny/braindead review:

By the late seventies and early eighties, the concept of ‘music’ and the concept of ‘records’ had well and truly become divorced. The mid-sixties had seen the rise of extremely creative production and engineering through the work of groups like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Love - to name a minuscule handful. Improvements in generally available recording technology and the incorporation of electronic instrumentation throughout the seventies saw an occasional focus on texture (rather than melody or performance) begin to emerge. The result of all this was a general realisation of one thing: that it was possible to create ‘records’ without necessarily ‘making music’ in a traditional sense.



Two schools emerged. One focused on combining African percussive influences, incorporation of samples from others’ records, and spoken-word poetry in order to angle towards a music based on rhythm, rather than melody. This school was hip-hop; by the end of the eighties, it was essentially America’s dominant popular musical style. The second school, though, was never so successful. Practitioners of ‘industrial music’ aimed at crafting abrasive, anti-pleasure soundscapes: hollering and screaming, constant dissonance, the breaking of glass ... one gets the aural picture. A few groups managed to work through the late seventies and eighties, but the zeitgeist was never with them.



In my opinion, that is a rather good thing. There is something totally sinister about the minds that take to creating art like this record, or the work of Throbbing Gristle. One looks through the lives of these practitioners and finds severe mental illness, harm done to others and themselves, usually very young deaths, and terrible existences in meaningless circles. One hears all this emptiness and nihilism in this work, and it is relatively unbearable in my opinion. I don’t want to think about this worldview. I am an idealistic and optimistic person, and I search for beauty where I can. People who do not at least try to are people who I find rather terrifying. Besides these personal and philosophical reasons, the record is just not very good. It is very much a constant drone of nothing, and would be rather easy for anybody to produce an excess of a hundred of these sorts of records if they were charged with the task. Very much so a waste of vinyl. At least groups like the aforementioned Throbbing Gristle both tried their hand at genuine music and at genuinely disturbing noise creations. Einstürzende Neubaten fill the half-hour-plus of ‘Kollaps’ with nothing.

Album Rating: 5.0

I was waiting for "God" to pop up in that review at one point.

Album Rating: 5.0

Also, best album cover ever?

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yes!



has anyone heard their single Thirsty Animal? with lydia lunch + birthday party guitar man. it owns



have been so into 12" singles lately and it's just about guaranteed that cool bands have cool weird non-album stuff

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

i often get the feeling that sputnik is JUST FOR albums but i prefer briefer collections tbh

Album Rating: 4.7

probs the pinnacle of Industrial along with Horse Rotorvator

Album Rating: 3.5

'Yü-Gung (Fütter mein Ego)' is an absolute banger

this might be my fave rock-ish leaning industrial album I've heard thus far, hmm

Album Rating: 4.7

Feel like they more sway periodically in that direction but yeah they coalesced into a more straightforward direction on this one

Album Rating: 4.0

The 3 LP run from this to Haus der Lüge defined my adolescence. Still getting goosebumps from Yü-Gung.

Album Rating: 3.5

Kollaps is kind of irritating at times. I just wanted the guy to stop moaning so I can take in all the clattering machinery properly

...who'd have thought it was the human element (i.e. vocals) that would be the distracting part of the equation?

the snippet of Stahldubversions I heard tickled my fancy a little more actually. I'll have to revisit as the whole thing is a modest 17 mins

Album Rating: 5.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdBrATEMPjM



Here's Blixa (aga "the guy moaning") making some nice black risotto. The most hypnotic thing I've seen in some time.