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Einstürzende Neubauten (Collapsing New Buildings)is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980.  The band’s name refers to buildings constructed in Germany after 1945. These are often regarded as cheaper, flimsier, and less aesthetically attractive than Altbauten, or pre-1945, especially pre-modernist buildings. Due to the extensive destruction throughout Germany during the Second World War, and the extensive rebuilding thereafter, Neubauten constitute a very familiar element of German cities.

The band is often classified as industrial music or electronica. One of their ‘trademarks’ is the use of custom made instruments (usually, but not always, made out of scrap metal and building tools) and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments. Neubauten has always experimented with sounds, originally in noise music and recently in very diverse styles.

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Blixa Bargeld is probably the best-known member of the group.  With two albums, Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala (“Five on the open-ended Richterscale”) in 1987 and Haus der Lüge (“House of the Lie”) in 1989, were great successes in the United States and Japan.

A spring tour in Europe is announced on band’s website. The band is scheduled to play 32 dates in 19 countries. (Taken from www.musicheadquarter.de and www.wikipedia.org)