FM Einheit (also known as F.M. Einheit, FM, Mufti, real name: Frank Martin Strauss, born December 18, 1958, in Dortmund) is an industrial and electronic musician from Germany. In the Gregorian Calendar, December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years), at which point there will be 13 days remaining to the end of the year. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ...

While primarily known for his percussion work with the influential industrial group Einstürzende Neubauten, he has also collaborated with KMFDM, Goethes Erben and recorded several albums in collaboration with other musicians (such as Andreas Ammer, Ulrike Haage) and solo. FM Einheit was also involved in the projects Stein and Gry. Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... KMFDM is an industrial rock band and the brainchild of founding member Sascha Konietzko. ... Gry is an indie/electronic music band featuring Danish female singer Gry Bagøien and German musician FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten). ...

Early years

In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was also a member of the punk bands Abwärts from Hamburg and Palais Schaumburg. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Hamburg from above Hamburgs motto: May the posterity endeavour with dignity to conserve the freedom, which the forefathers acquired. ...

In the early 1980s he joined Einstürzende Neubauten as a percussionist and became a long-time band member. Most of the percussions which FM Einheit played on were self-made metal instruments or such tools as a hammer drill. FM Einheit contributed a lot to the sound of the band. Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... Hammer drill A Hammer drill (as distinct from a rotary hammer drill) is a rotary drill with a hammering action. ...

Live performances of Einstürzende Neubauten with FM Einheit included lots of metal banging, destruction on the stage and even fire. These shows became legendary and influenced the band image. Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... FM Einheit (also known as F.M. Einheit, FM, Mufti, real name: Frank Martin Strauss, born December 18, 1958, in Dortmund) is an industrial and electronic musician from Germany. ...

1990s - 2000s

In the 1990s he was also a member of a band Stein, also featuring Ulrike Haage and Katharina Franck from the band Rainbirds. The Rainbirds was a German Band of the 1980s. ...

FM Einheit left Einstürzende Neubauten in the middle 1990s during work on the album Ende Neu, probably due to strong disagreements with the band's leader Blixa Bargeld. Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... Encoded within their own name as the end of the first and beginning of the last, the album Ende Neu was released by Einstürzende Neubauten in 1996. ... Blixa Bargeld, born Christian Emmerich on January 12, 1959 in West Berlin, Germany, is a composer, author, actor, singer, musician, performer and lecturer in almost any field of interpretative art. ...

One of his major projects after Einstürzende Neubauten was the band Gry with a female singer Gry Bagøien from Denmark. They released two albums: The Touch Of E! (1998) and Public Recording (2000, featuring Pan Sonic and Neubauten's Alexander Hacke) Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... Gry is an indie/electronic music band featuring Danish female singer Gry Bagøien and German musician FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten). ... Pan Sonic (originally called Panasonic) is a Finnish experimental electronic music duo consisting of Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. ... Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... Alexander Hacke (also known as Alexander von Borsig, Alex Hacke, Hacke, born October 11, 1965 in Berlin/Neukölln) is a guitarist, bass-guitar player, singer, experimental / industrial / electronic musician from Germany. ...

FM Einheit is also involved in theater. For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212...

Discography

• 1990 Stein
• 1993 Radio Inferno (F.M. Einheit/Ammer)
• 1994 König Lear
• 1994 Merry Christmas (F.M. Einheit/Caspar Brötzmann)
• 1994 Apocalypse Live (F.M. Einheit/Ammer/Haage)
• 1995 Merry Christmas
• 1996 Deutsche Krieger (F.M. Einheit/Ammer)
• 1997 Sensation Death
• 1999 Odysseus 7 (F.M. Einheit/Ammer/Haage)
• 1999 Prometheus/Lear
• 2000 Frost 79° 40' (F.M. Einheit/Ammer/Gry/Pan Sonic, live)
• 2002 Crashing Aeroplanes (F.M. Einheit/Ammer)
• 2006 Echohce (F.M. Einheit/J.Lidell/d.Link)

• For discography of FM Einheit with Einstürzende Neubauten, see: Einstürzende Neubauten's discography (all releases 1982-1995).
• For discography of FM Einheit with Gry, see: Gry's discography (all releases).

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See also

• Einstürzende Neubauten
• Gry

Einstürzende Neubauten is an experimental music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. ... Gry is an indie/electronic music band featuring Danish female singer Gry Bagøien and German musician FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten). ...

External links

• F.M. Einheit's official website
• F.M. Einheit at Discogs