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On October 19th, Einstürzende Neubauten are to release their new, independently produced album "Alles wieder Offen" for the EU market (US fans will have to wait until October 23). Working outside normal record business market mechanisms, Einstürzende Neubauten recorded the CD over some 200 days in their own studio funded by their world-wide network of subscribing Supporters via www.neubauten.org. In an interview for Re-public Blixa has been quoted saying that if the record releasing process (i.e. supporter subscriptions, self released album, independent promotion) doesn't work out financially this time around they "will not be able to continue working". If this means that the band would fold alltogether is not clear yet. However, it also means that releasing material outside a label is not always the easiest thing to do, especially financially.

The album will also find a regular distribution via the band's record label Potomak. But the "fan" version will have a number of extra songs and an optional DVD about the making of the album. Release in the meantime has revealed the list of countries with the most paying supporters:
Germany: 662
USA: 405
UK: 256
France: 109
Sweden: 81

The total number of supporters for this release, in the third phase of the supporter project, was 2245. More than phase one but less than phase two. The tracklist for the commercially available CD is as follows:
Die Wellen
Nagorny Karabach
Weil Weil Weil
Ich Hatte Ein Wort
Von Wegen
Let'S Do It A Dada
Alles Wieder Offen
Unvollstaendigkeit
Susej
Ich Warte

Source: http://www.side-line.com/