The third film within our play loud! (live) music series features two giants of German avant-garde pop music. Hans Joachim Irmler is the founding member of the krautrock legend Faust, inventors of industrial rock. FM Einheit is a former member of Einstürzende Neubauten and a recognized industrial percussionist. The historical encounter was captured by filmmakers Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios in the style of Direct Cinema at the world famous Berlin club Berghain.

PRESS REVIEWS
"(...) both performers are producing a unique sound together. Irmler alone would have offered a kind of psychedelic soundtrack, like his 2006 solo album Lifelike. FM alone is always a concrète music performance, but leaning on Irmler's kosmische sounds he adds epic action in this cinematic atmosphere. Almost symbolic of a body/mind relationship, the duo is a worthy collaboration, and its muscular and hazy music definitely an impressive live experience."
Concert review by Antoine Richard, founder of "The V Sessions"

"Es folgten, im fahlen Licht weißer Scheinwerfer, FM Einheit und HJ Irmler mit einem Auftritt von ätherischer Pracht. Von der Decke des Berghains hängende Industrie-Bassfedern wurden von Einheit mit Stahlstiften, Gummihämmern und Bohrmaschinen bearbeitet, dazu orgelte Irmler, als wähnte er sich in einer verwunschenen französischen Kathedrale."
Aus dem Blog "Dissonanz" von Max Dax

"Die abwechslungsreiche, sonntag-abendgerecht entspannte Weise, in der die beiden miteinander Klangflächen flochten und sich Irmlers spirituell geweitetes Keyboardgebrumm mit Einheits zärtlichem Hammer- und Bohrmaschinengebrauch mischte, zerstreute jede Bedenken. Irgendwann in der Mitte des Auftritts blieb Einheit dann noch mit seiner kleinen Bohrmaschine in einer großen Spirale stecken; ein Bild von ausgewachsen begeisternder Sexualmetaphorik."
Jens Balzer Berliner Zeitung

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play loud! (live) music series

CONCEPT BEHIND THE SERIES

The “play loud! (live) music series“ is based on three precepts: Alan Lomax´s work as an archivist and chronicler, John Peel´s BBC radio sessions, and the work of Direct Cinema pioneers, such as the Maysles Brothers, Leacock, Wildenhahn, Blank and Pennebacker.

play loud! aims to create an extensive archive of interesting popular music and culture that includes both material from the filmmakers' large amount of unreleased footage and material from other sources.

play loud!’s music films have been called raw, rough, canny, straightforward, adventurous, witty, insightful, direct, non-tricksy, minimal, unpretentious handheld camera work, artful film paintings, minimalist filmed paintings, painted films…

Some of the live performances are filmed with only one camera in one continuous shot and without any edits.

“When we film live shows, we don't use a TV style, but one that is very personal, intuitive and playful. Nothing is staged for the shoot. You go along with whatever happens.” (Dietmar Post)

Streaming offers everyone- fans, researchers, journalists- the opportunity to access the archive and support the use of the material by others. Paying a small fee to view the material helps to cover the immense costs of a private archive.

If there is great demand, some of the recordings will be made available on vinyl.

"Shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do." (Jonathan Demme)

001 Floating Di Morel: A Summer Evening (2009) (VOD, DL)
002 Doc Schoko: Oktopus im Pentagramm (2009) (VOD, DL)
003 FM Einheit + Irmler: Live at Berghain (2012) (VOD)
004 Faust: Live at Klangbad (2010) (DVD, VOD)
005 Gebrüder Teichmann: Live at Maria (2011) (VOD, DL)
006 Christy & Emily: Live at Klangbad (2012) (VOD, DL)
007 Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers: (2017) (VOD, DL, LP)
008 Camera feat. Rother & Moebius: Live at HBC (2012) (VOD, DL)
009 Friedman & Liebezeit: Live at Festsaal Kreuzberg (2013) (VOD)
010 Lydia Lunch & Philipp Petit: Live at Volksbühne (2013) (VOD)
011 Guru Guru: Live at Lido (2014) (VOD, DL)
012 Gisela Oberbeck & Limpe Fuchs: Animare (2015) (VOD, DL)
013 Limpe Fuchs: Live at Klangbad Festival (2015) (VOD, DL)
014 Die Regierung: Live in Essen (2015) (VOD, DL)
015 Anima in Two Films (1972-1973) (VOD)
016 Die Regierung: Live at Berghain (2017) (VOD, DL)
017 Locust Fudge: Live at Privatclub Berlin (2018) (VOD, DL)
018 Alan Vega: Live at Rockpalast (1982) (LP, DVD, DL)
019 Gods Gift: Live in Rotterdam (1984) (DVD, DL)
020 Martin Rev: Live in Berlin (2006-8) (LP, DVD, DL)

Up-coming:
Atari Teenage Riot, Barbara Manning, and many more.
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LINKS
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/play-loud-live-music-series/219-fm-einheit-irmler-live-at-berghain.html
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/19-play-loud-live-music-series