{"id":39885,"date":"2024-03-30T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39885"},"modified":"2024-03-24T07:28:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T11:28:33","slug":"einsturzende-neubauten-announce-new-album-rampen-apm-alien-pop-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39885","title":{"rendered":"Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten\u00a0announce new album\u00a0\u2018Rampen (apm: alien pop music)\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On April 5,\u00a0Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten\u00a0will release their new double album<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018Rampen (apm: alien pop music)\u2019\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/na5zlk\/3m9fkn\/b1150q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">pre-order<\/a>). The band has shared<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><em>Ist Ist<\/em> the first single to be released from the upcoming release. Listen to the track now via\u00a0YouTube\u00a0below or on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/na5zlk\/3m9fkn\/7l350q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">all digital platforms<\/a>\u00a0for any playlist shares.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxDriPLyBqo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the band was founded on April 1, 1980, Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten has been shifting the parameters of mainstream and subculture to make the inaudible audible \u2012 perhaps the unheard as well. This experimental field research, spanning more than four decades, is now entering the next stage. In its 44th year of existence, the band is going back to its roots while redefining itself. It&#8217;s a change in self-image, for which the Berlin quintet plus one created its own genre in 2024: apm \u2013 alien pop music.<br>\u00a0<br>Constant evolution \u2013 that&#8217;s how Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten&#8217;s body of work can best be summarized. A musical evolution, that began with the debut album<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u2018\u2018Kollaps\u2019\u00a0in 1981 and is now being manifested with the release of<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u2018Rampen (apm: alien pop music)\u2019 on which\u00a0Blixa Bargeld, N. U. Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Jochen Arbeit, Rudolph Moser, and\u00a0Felix Gebhard\u00a0present themselves from their most unpredictable and unconventional sides. On their new album, the Neubauten now put an \u2013 albeit belated \u2013 end to all sound speculations.<br>\u00a0<br>Since the mid-1980s, Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten has been experimenting on stage with what they call \u2018Rampen\u2019: public improvisations with open developments and outcomes; launchpads into the still unexplored. The recordings of the Rampen that the band performed in 2022 during the encore on its last Alles in Allem tour serve now as the basis for the new album.<br>\u00a0<br>\u2018Rampen (apm: alien pop music)\u2019\u00a0is pop music for parallel universes and in-between worlds \u2012 for hyperspaces and interzones. It is microcosmic and intergalactic at the same time. It&#8217;s a demi-sophisticated claim outside of all physical laws, with which Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten enters a stylistic no man&#8217;s land between the past and future. There&#8217;s a return to the roots on one side, while a new art form emerges on the other from powerful eruptions of noise encountering cryptic, often fragmentary lyrics: popular music for aliens and outcasts. Anti-pop has become alien pop. Outlandish. Spun like a cocoon. Unheard. Sonus inauditus. Not unintentionally, the reduced artwork on the cover is reminiscent of the iconic layout on The Beatles&#8217;\u00a0\u2018White Album\u2019.\u00a0\u201c<em>It&#8217;s based on the idea that the Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten is just as famous in another solar system as The Beatles are in our world,\u201d<\/em> Blixa Bargeld said, noting the balancing act between avant-garde and tongue-in-cheek, provocation and pop -cultural discontinuity.<br>\u00a0<br>This approach also directly defines the central theme running like a common thread through all the songs: change, utopian mind games, and transience.<br>\u00a0<br>\u201c<em>On the album, I found a few solutions and formulated things in ways I haven&#8217;t formulated them before, because they were never so clear to me,&#8221;<\/em> Blixa Bargeld says. &#8220;<em>I&#8217;m someone who believes you can achieve knowledge through music. It&#8217;s always been that way. I follow the conviction. I&#8217;ll find something in the music that I didn&#8217;t know before. And sing something that I didn&#8217;t know. Something that turns out to be true. Or, to take this down a notch, something that at least has meaning.\u201d<\/em><br><br>This album represents the next step in this evolution, where the familiar language is finally left behind, opening further, infinite possibilities: alien pop music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6E94BA7C-5409-48CA-9EA9-CDC2191F315E.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"990\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6E94BA7C-5409-48CA-9EA9-CDC2191F315E.jpeg?resize=1000%2C990\" alt=\"Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten Rampen (apm: alien pop music)\u2019 cover artwork\" class=\"wp-image-39887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6E94BA7C-5409-48CA-9EA9-CDC2191F315E.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6E94BA7C-5409-48CA-9EA9-CDC2191F315E.jpeg?resize=300%2C297&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6E94BA7C-5409-48CA-9EA9-CDC2191F315E.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6E94BA7C-5409-48CA-9EA9-CDC2191F315E.jpeg?resize=768%2C760&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018<strong>Rampen (apm: alien pop music)\u2019\u00a0tracklist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Wie lange noch?<br>2. Ist Ist<br>3. Pestalozzi<br>4. &nbsp;Es k\u00f6nnte sein<br>5. Before I Go<br>6. Isso Isso<br>7.&nbsp;Besser Isses<br>8. Everything will be fine<br>9. The Pit of Language<br>10. Planet Umbra<br>11. Tar &amp; Feathers<br>12. Aus den Zeiten<br>13. Ick wees nich (Noch nich)<br>14. Trilobites<br>15. Gesundbrunnen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>On April 5,\u00a0Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten\u00a0will release their new double album\u00a0\u2018Rampen (apm: alien pop music)\u2019\u00a0(pre-order). The band has shared\u00a0Ist Ist the first single to be released from <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39885\" title=\"Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten\u00a0announce new album\u00a0\u2018Rampen (apm: alien pop music)\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,28,30,1907],"tags":[11459,11456,11458,11457],"class_list":["post-39885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-music","category-new-release","category-news","tag-apm-alien-pop-music","tag-einsturzende-neubauten","tag-ist-ist","tag-rampen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5E43F173-602B-4256-9F0A-33FB3A057FF2.jpeg?fit=1260%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-anj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14597,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=14597","url_meta":{"origin":39885,"position":0},"title":"Dumb Numbers announces 10&#8243; splits with David Lynch, Melvins &#038; David Yow","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"August 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Dumb Numbers is Australian video maker and musician Adam Harding with\u00a0a revolving cast of musical collaborators, including Lou Barlow\u00a0(Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr), Dale Crover (Melvins), Murph (Dinosaur Jr),\u00a0David Yow (Scratch Acid, the Jesus Lizard), Kevin Rutmanis (Cows,\u00a0Melvins), Alexander Hacke (Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten), Bobb Bruno (Best\u00a0Coast), Jenny Lee Linberg (Warpaint), Bonnie Mercer (Grey\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;live&quot;","block_context":{"text":"live","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?cat=25"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/dumb-numbers.jpg?fit=600%2C364&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/dumb-numbers.jpg?fit=600%2C364&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/dumb-numbers.jpg?fit=600%2C364&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6641,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=6641","url_meta":{"origin":39885,"position":1},"title":"Mouse On Mars remix Brandt Brauer Frick","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"April 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Electronic music innovators,\u00a0Mouse On Mars, have\u00a0remixed Brandt Brauer Frick's Broken Pieces, featuring vocals by Jamie Lidell. 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