Admittedly I was new to the game when I bought this . I had heard of them but I didn't know what they sounded like . I bought this and I haven't regretted it . This is something that is impossible to describe in words . If anything the music is incredible ( OK it has drills and the bleeps of mobile phones but all credit for experimentation - let it continue ).

If you are intrigued by this band - I would suggest you buy this straight away . If the sound of drills and such like isn't for you then that's OK - whatever you are into is of your own concern .

I just recently bought this record, and living in finland, Einsturzende Neubauten records are hard to come by.

Therefore, it is my first EN record. I am a fan of noisy, experimental sound in music, and having heard of EN, i knew they were a band i would like.

What i liked in their music, was the lack of synthezisers.

They have a very unique sound to their music. Blixa Bargeld is a fitting singer for the band, and in my opinion, is able to bring out emotion nicely.

Especially the live versions of the songs have lot of energy, the spontaneus pieces are very coherent, not degenerating into uncomprehensible rabble.

Some of the songs in there are quite unusual, silent and ambientish, while some are rough rides.

I liked it very much, and i believe if anyone fancies experimental, industrial music he should grab this one.

This 2-cd set of rare & previously unreleased music they did in the 90's shows some sides of Neubauten we hadn't seen before & offers more of what we knew. It has angular noise, futuristic minimalism that changes in increments over a vast fabric of repetition. Jarring ambience. There are some live versions of songs from 90's EN albums. They sound different live. It gets 4 stars because the music is so great. I can't give it more because the music is so uneven that it can be kind of hard to listen to sometimes. But I also feel like since this was released almost simultaneously with Berlin Babylon, their most solid album ever, they must have made this one so uneven on purpose....

Here they show us what experiments they'd been keeping to themselves in the 90's. Their futuristic minimalism that sometimes evolves into textures & fabrics like those of composer Steve Reich is exhilerating. In their capable hands it's also very unique. On some songs on this cd there really might be more silence than sound, & in others there can be up to like 7 tracks of repetition. The live selections are ok, interesting, but not my favorite. The remixes & alternate versions are great. But I'm only giving it 4 stars rather than 5 because all the different veins these songs explore go in so many different directions that it's like a frayed, unraveled rope -- hard to hold onto. As an album, it can be spotty.