Überschall 1996

Die Stadt’s 1996 compilation pairs Stereolab’s motorik-inflected pop with Foetus’s industrial noise and Faust’s krautrock experimentalism—a three-way collision that captures the label’s appetite for genre-defying eclecticism. Each artist occupies a distinct corner of post-punk and electronic abstraction, making Überschall 1996 a snapshot of alternative music’s refusal to settle into easy categories.