Genre: Noise /Power Electronics
Track Listing:
01 First Side of Random
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Intro (To Hell)
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Scotch Metal
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Wasted Days
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Diskbug (Echo Mix)
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Strangling Myself
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Life Is Not So Funny
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W.A.R. Terror
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Brain Overload
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Another Boring Track
02 Second Side of Random
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Love of My Life
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The Sewer of Behaviour
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I Try, I Fail
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No 1 C. B. N. 2 Me
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Happy Is the Cancer
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Quiet End (Au Revoir)
03 Last Side of Random
You hate the hits? Are you tired of experimental, punk, noise, industrial, power electronics? Throbbing Gristle and Brighter Death now are not enough? Whitehouse are too ridiculous?
NOW IT’S TIME TO MAKE YOUR OWN NOISE!!!
The above quote is what the back of this cd says; it could be viewed in two ways, a bit over ambitious and silly. Or how I take it; this Italian cd was a tape made in 1994, when noise’s exposure was low and here I see it is a strong example of a band breaking away from Industrial concerns that dominated noise and developing into what I see as ‘punk noise’. This means no references to; Death, ambiguous dodgy politics, dodgy sex, power, paedophilia…etc. To have done this at the time was fairly radical, it is now the commonplace of the noise underground, there are no sacred cows, whether you sell thousands or make less than a hundred cds you are on equal terms with anyone if you make a well thought out piece of sound. Noise now features in the likes of Terrorizer and the Wire magazines, along with loads of sites like us (mainly us of course ) with our ear to the ground.
The ‘First Side of Random’ begins with the solo riff to Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ but instead of any big break it breaks into obnoxious burp percussed low level ambience clangs and all. This dissolves into machine gun percussion and noise, moving onto a Slint Spiderland like guitar. What is evident here is Der Einzige kicking at the sacred cows of guitar noise and industrial at that time, a total Fuck You attitude. However it is not a comedy cd, they are an effective noise unit, who relied on cheap instruments such as burned amps, old computers, humming walkmen, 6 button drumpads, disposable vinyl’s, headphones as microphones with tape on amongst other things. Despite the funny titles der Einzige master dark atmosphere and all out attack well.
The music here is good, sound wise; not a total break but the beginnings of a break from what came before, but the attitude and sleeve’s total demystification of the recording process, use of electric instrumentation are things that are taken for granted in today’s noise scene. This is a vital link in the chain of history of noise. Clocking in at 51 minutes of Der Einzige’s history and it comes in a nice collectable cloth bag for all us who are format fetishists.
