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EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN

Along with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten ("collapsing new buildings") 

helped pioneer industrial music with an avant-garde mix of white-noise guitar drones, vocals verging on the unlistenable at times, 

and a clanging, rhythmic din produced by a percussion section consisting of construction materials, power tools, 

and various metal objects. Einstürzende Neubauten were founded by vocalist/guitarist Blixa Bargeld 

and percussionist/American expatriate N.U. Unruh in Berlin as a performance art collective

"KOLLAPS"

<reissue, originally published in 1981>

LP     ZICKZACK RECORDS     ZZ 65 

MADE IN GERMANY    1986 circa REPRESSING (2nd press on Zickzack)

[There are three pressings of this LP on Zick Zack: 

1) The first pressing (Kollaps) has "Rip Off Vertrieb" credited on the back cover. 

Initial quantities of the first pressing included a 16-page DIN-A 4 b&w booklet with discography, lyrics and photos. 

THIS ONE, The second pressing (Kollaps) (ca. 1986) and distributed by EFA and has the labelcode LC 9283 printed on the labels. 

The third pressing (ca. 2003?) and was distributed by Indigo (2) and has the labelcode LC 9283 printed on the labels, as well as the barcode 4015698251715. 

2) All three releases share the same Matrix#s 76.26174-01-1 // 76.26174-01-2 in run-outs. 

3) The back cover of the album is a play on the back cover of Pink Floyd's "Ummagumma", 

which shows all of Floyd's equipment laid out on the tarmac next to their tour van. 

4) A7 is a cover-version "Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus" by Serge Gainsbourg. ]

SINGLE COVER

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: ZICKZACK - BLACK LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - SILVER TEXT

Label Code: LC 9283

Catalog on cover: (spine) ZZ 65    (rear) ZZ 65   (rear, boxed, top right): EfA 2517  LP 08

Catalog on labels: ZZ 65

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped & Etched): 76.26174 - 01 - 1   Hi

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped & Etched): 76.26174 - 01 - 2   Hi

On labels: rim text reads "Alle.............Hamburg"

GEMA

LC 9283

On back cover: ZICKZACK  ZZ 65

Tel. 040/439 55 18

tracklisting

Side A: TANZ DEBIL - STEH AUF BERLIN - NEGATIV NEIN - U-HAFT MUZAK

DRAUSSEN IST FEINDLICH - HÖREN MIT SCHMERZEN - JET'M

Side B: KOLLAPS - SEHNSUCHT - VORM KRIEG

HIRNSÄGE - ABSTIEG & ZERFALL - HELGA

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RECORD NEAR MINT but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Einstürzende Neubauten's first album, as one might imagine, is their most primitive and radical effort, the purest expression 

of their original aesthetic. This makes the album both historically significant and conceptually intriguing, of course, but what's 

most interesting about this album is that it still sounds surprising decades after its release. Often, albums that are considered extreme 

art statements upon their debut sound almost quaint a few years later, but while Kollaps perhaps sounds less extreme to ears 

that heard industrial music turned into disco pabulum by the likes of Nine Inch Nails than it did before, songs like the eight-minute 

title track and the rumbling live closer, "Negativ Nein," are still a fascinating blend of rhythm and random bashing, tonality and atonality, 

with anguished vocals by Blixa Bargeld that often seem to have little connection with anything else in the piece. The brief tracks, 

like the 80-second "Sehnsucht," are even more extreme explorations of pure noise. Starting as early as the next album, 

Einstürzende Neubauten would begin slowly introducing more mainstream musical concepts into their aesthetic, 

making Kollaps as undiluted a listening experience as there is in the entire catalog...(AllMusic)