Einstürzende Neubauten
1/2 Mensch (LP)
LabelPotomakGenreElectronic
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2024 repress; LP version. This is the third album by Einstürzende Neubauten, also known as Halber Mensch, originally released in 1985. The album opens with the startlingly oppressive, almost fully a cappella title track, with contrapuntal, atonal, en masse chanting. The album progresses to include quite a repertoire of electronically-generated sounds, finding the band developing their mishmash of industrial experimentation matched by terrifying clangs, stomps, and of course, the theatrical, poetic vocal delivery of Blixa Bargeld. An incredibly aggressive album, with insistent, pounding rhythms and razors on metal, and Bargeld's voice dominating your dreams for a month after listening.
Format
The back cover of this version of the record is entirely in black and white.
Recorded at Hansa + Tritonus Studios 84-85 Berlin.
"Sehnsucht" by BBC for John Peel session in 1983.
Including printed inner sleeve, containing lyrics in German and English.
Originally released in 1985.
Release notes
The back cover of this version of the record is entirely in black and white. Recorded at Hansa + Tritonus Studios 84-85 Berlin. "Sehnsucht" by BBC for John Peel session in 1983. Including printed inner sleeve, containing lyrics in German and English. Originally released in 1985.
| A1 | Halber Mensch | 4:16 | |
| A2 | Yü-Gung (Fütter Mein Ego) | 7:12 | |
| A3 | Trinklied | 1:17 | |
| A4 | Z.N.S. | 5:36 | |
| B1 | Seele Brennt | 4:05 | |
| B2 | Sehnsucht (Zitternd) | 2:54 | |
| B3 | Der Tod Ist Ein Dandy | 6:43 | |
| B4 | Letztes Biest (Am Himmel) | 3:21 |
- Minus
- Design [Redesign]
- Animal House
- Design [Sleeve]
- Nainz Watts
- Engineer
- Thomas Stern
- Engineer
- Alexander Hacke
- Performer
- Blixa Bargeld
- Performer
- F.M. Einheit
- Performer
- Mark Chung
- Performer
- N. U. Unruh
- Performer
- Vincent Huang
- Photography By
- Gareth Jones
- Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By
- Einstürzende Neubauten
- Producer, Written-By
- Michael Zimmerling
- Recorded By, Mixed By (B1)
- Ma Gita
- Vocals
- Monika
- Vocals
- Sabine
- Vocals
- Verena
- Vocals
