http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMeYZtcOAfo

I've been a fan of Laibach for 12 years & I believe there are very few things in music that could be compared to Laibach's earlier albums. The intensity and the darkness of their music is unmatchable. I'm sure there are ignorant people that today, 25 years after Laibach's creation, still think of Laibach as an act of eccentric neo-nazism, without having any clue of what the true essence of Laibach & NSK has always been. One of the most accurate articles I've read that tries to analyze the Laibach phenomenon, is the work of Peter Clarke. ''MORE TOTAL THAN TOTALITARIANISM - THE STRATEGY OF NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST'' was submitted to the Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary studies in Candidacy for the Degree of: B.A. Fine Art (Painting) and can be found here:

http://homepage.eircom.net/~peterc/a/nsk.html

Clarke's words coudn't be more precise:
''Through the constant and universal appropriation of totalitarian language of all types, NSK build a model of totalitarianism, engaging in every facet, in itself more total than any one of the individual systems that make up the different examples and forms of totalitarianism as a universal, yet not unified phenomenon. NSK unify totalitarianism not to affirm it but to parody it. In order to do this successfully, it must not be obvious, or else it would too be subject to manipulation, therefore, NSK create pastiche totalitarianism - parody without the comedy, humour that is not a joke.''

Originally uploaded by blackcorridors on Apr 30, 2009