2X4 (Einstürzende Neubauten album)

Infobox Album |
Name = 2X4
Type = Album
Artist = Einstürzende Neubauten


Format = Cassette
Background = darkturquoise
Released = 1984
Recorded = 1980 - 1983
Genre = Experimental music
Length = ?:?
Label = ROIR
Producer = Jochem Huelder & Peter Wright (Project Coordinators)
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:m9508qztbtn4 link]
Last album = "Strategies Against Architecture 80-83"
(1984)
This album = "2X4"
(1984)
Next album = "Halber Mensch"
(1985)

"2X4" is a collection of concert recordings by the German group Einstürzende Neubauten. ROIR released "2X4" in 1984 in cassette-only format (as was the case for all early ROIR releases). The live tracks were recorded in various European cities between 1980 and 1983. Kurt Loder wrote the liner notes. The album was re-released on CD in 1997.

The title refers to the four tracks on each side of the cassette (or possibly to dimensional lumber, which the band was likely to use as a part of its instrumentation).

Track listing

# "Fleisch 'Blut/Haut' Knochen" (Belgium 1982)
# "Sehnsucht (Nie Mehr)" (Berlin 1983)
# "Womb" (Hamburg 1980)
# "Krach Der Schlagenden Herzen" (Belgium 1982)
# "Armenisch Bitter" (Berlin 1982)
# "Zum Tier Machen" (Berlin 1982)
# "Sehnsucht (Still Stehend)" (Berlin 1982)
# "Durstige Tiere" (Amsterdam 1982)

Personnel

*Blixa Bargeld
*F.M. Einheit
*N.U. Unruh
*Mark Chung
*Alexander V. Borsig (also known as Alexander Hacke)