This first lineup featured Beate Bartel and Gudrun Gut, Blixa Bargeld, and N.U. On 1 April 1980, Einstürzende Neubauten made their first appearance, at the Moon Club in West Berlin. Subsequent recordings found the group's sound growing somewhat more conventional, yet still containing many unorthodox elements. Their early albums were unremittingly harsh, with Bargeld's vocals shouted and screamed above a din of banging and scraping metal percussion. One of their trademarks is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments. Unruh ( custom-made instruments percussion vocals), long-time contributor Alexander Hacke (bass vocals), plus Jochen Arbeit (guitar vocals), and Rudolf Moser (custom-built instruments percussion vocals), who both joined the line-up in 1997. The group is currently composed of founder members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals guitar keyboard) and N.U.
'Collapsing New Buildings') is a German experimental music group, originally formed in West Berlin in 1980. Einstürzende Neubauten ( German pronunciation:, lit.
