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NEU!
Origin Düsseldorf, Germany
Genre(s) Krautrock
Proto-punk
Art-rock
Electronic music
Progressive rock
Years active 1971-1975
1985-1986
Label(s) Brain Records
Billingsgate
Astralwerks
Grönland Records
Associated acts Kraftwerk
La Dusseldorf
La! Neu?
Harmonia
Hippie Punks
Die Engel des Herrn
Former members
Klaus Dinger
Michael Rother
Konrad "Conny" Plank
Thomas Dinger
Hans Lampe
Eberhard Kranemann
Uli Trepte

Neu! (ger. Düsseldorf (ˈdʏsəldɔɐf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Krautrock is a generic name for the Experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s especially in Britain Art rock is a term describing a subgenre of Rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production Progressive rock (often shortened to " progressive " " prog " or " prog rock " is a form of Rock music that evolved In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Brain Records was a Hamburg based record label prominent in the 1970s releasing several important Krautrock records by bands such as Neu!, Cluster Astralwerks is a New York based Record label that releases primarily Electronic music.  Grönland Records is an independent record label based in London England Kraftwerk (ˈkʁaftvɛɐk German for " power plant " or " Power station " is an influential Electronic music band from La Düsseldorf was a German band, consisting of onetime Kraftwerk drummer and Neu! multi-instrumentalist Klaus Dinger and occasional la! Neu? were a German band founded by Klaus Dinger. After around 1985 Dinger had difficulty getting records released and distributed in Germany but the Japanese record label Klaus Dinger was a German musician and songwriter most famous for his contributions to the seminal Krautrock outfit Neu!, and his invention of the Motorik Michael Rother (born September 2, 1950 in Hamburg) is a German experimental Krautrock Musician and Composer Konrad "Conny" Plank (frequently spelled Planck) ( May 3, 1940 in Germany – December 18, 1987 in Cologne Thomas Dinger ( 28 October[[ 952]]&mdash 9 April[[ 002]] was a German drummer singer and songwriter who was active in solo pursuits in addition to having Uli Trepte (born 1941 in Konstanz in the south of Germany) is a German musician probably best known for his collaborations with various influential Krautrock The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. for "New!", pronounced [ˈnɔɪ] "noy") was a German band, and the archetypal example of Krautrock. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. A musical ensemble is a group of two or more Musicians who perform instrumental or vocal Music. Krautrock is a generic name for the Experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s especially in Britain The band had minimal commercial success when active, but are credited with being a huge influence on a diverse group of artists, including PiL, Joy Division, David Bowie, Stereolab, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Simple Minds as well as the current electronic music scene. Public Image Ltd ( PiL) were an English musical group formed in 1978 by vocalist John Lydon, Guitarist Keith Levene Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. Stereolab are an Alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England Gary Numan (born Gary Anthony James Webb on 8 March 1958 is an English singer composer and musician Ultravox (formerly Ultravox!) were a British New Wave band that rose to prominence in the late 1970s/early 1980s Simple Minds are a rock band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production

The band always wrote their name NEU! in block capitals and with an exclamation mark, intending it as a pop-art slogan. Pop Art is a visual Art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States.

Contents

Overview

Core members

Collaborators

Musical style

Probably the most cherished element of the Neu! oeuvre is what is often called the "Motorik" beat (a portmanteau combining the German words 'Motor' and 'Musik') - although the band themselves do not use this term, Dinger himself sometimes referred to it as the "Apache beat". Uli Trepte (born 1941 in Konstanz in the south of Germany) is a German musician probably best known for his collaborations with various influential Krautrock Motorik is a term coined by music Journalists to describe the 4/4 beat often used by some so-called " Krautrock " bands such as Neu! and At least one third of their recorded output is in the Motorik form. Motorik is a term coined by music Journalists to describe the 4/4 beat often used by some so-called " Krautrock " bands such as Neu! and Here they deconstruct the traditional rock song format, with its verses and choruses, intros and changes, stripping it down to a single minimalist 4/4 beat, which drummer Dinger repeats continuously throughout the entire track. Although on paper this might seem a recipe for monotony, in fact Dinger's discipline and flair as a drummer generates a very powerful, focussed groove, with a great sense of continuous forward motion (the analogy is often made with motorway driving).

In terms of traditional western and rock music harmonic form, Rother would complement Dinger's rhythm by eschewing chord changes, and instead opting for a harmonic drone – a single chord, layering numerous electric guitar overdubs. In music a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or Accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much Timbral change takes over from harmonic change as the main focus of interest. Conny Plank was renowned as a producer for creating a working environment where musicians could be free to explore such experiments, and also as a master of timbral texture and spatialisation. Konrad "Conny" Plank (frequently spelled Planck) ( May 3, 1940 in Germany – December 18, 1987 in Cologne Many other Neu! tracks are very slow and gentle, sketching out traces of a song in what might be called an 'ambient' style. Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes

History

(1971-1975) Main career

Neu! formed in 1971 in Düsseldorf as an off-shoot from an early line-up of another seminal krautrock band, Kraftwerk, whose early works were also produced by Conny Plank. Düsseldorf (ˈdʏsəldɔɐf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Kraftwerk (ˈkʁaftvɛɐk German for " power plant " or " Power station " is an influential Electronic music band from Konrad "Conny" Plank (frequently spelled Planck) ( May 3, 1940 in Germany – December 18, 1987 in Cologne

Drummer Klaus Dinger had joined Kraftwerk midway through sessions for their eponymous debut album. Klaus Dinger was a German musician and songwriter most famous for his contributions to the seminal Krautrock outfit Neu!, and his invention of the Motorik Guitarist Michael Rother was then recruited to the Kraftwerk line-up on completion of the album. Michael Rother (born September 2, 1950 in Hamburg) is a German experimental Krautrock Musician and Composer (Rother had been playing in a local band called The Spirits of Sound, the line-up of which also included drummer Wolfgang Flür, who would himself go on to join Kraftwerk two years later. )

Kraftwerk founder Ralf Hütter left the band at this point, and for a 6 month period, Kraftwerk consisted of a trio of Rother, Dinger & Florian Schneider. Ralf Hütter (born 20 August 1946 in Krefeld, Germany) is the lead Singer, Keyboardist, and reportedly "band Florian Schneider-Esleben (born 7 April 1947, in Düsseldorf, Germany) is one of the founding members of Electronic music band This line-up played sporadic gigs and made a live appearance on German TV programme Beat Club (recently made available on DVD). Attempted recording sessions at Conny Plank's studio were unsuccessful ("a difference of temperament", Rother was later to remark), and Dinger and Rother parted company from Schneider and began a new project with Plank: Neu! (Schneider rejoined Hütter and the pair continued recording the second Kraftwerk album with Plank. Kraftwerk 2 is a 1972 album by Kraftwerk. The album was entirely written and performed )

Their eponymous first album sold very little by mainstream standards (though 30,000 records was a lot for an "underground" band), yet is today considered a masterpiece by many, including influential artists such as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Neu! is the debut album by Krautrock band Neu!. It was recorded in December 1971 at Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios Hamburg, Germany David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968 is a Grammy -winning English Musician, best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the Radiohead It included the Motorik benchmark tracks "Hallogallo" and "Negativland" (the band Negativland took their name from this track), and bizarre "songs" like "Sonderangebot". Motorik is a term coined by music Journalists to describe the 4/4 beat often used by some so-called " Krautrock " bands such as Neu! and Negativland is an Experimental music and Sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s

Their second album, Neu! 2, features some of the earliest examples of musical remixes. NEU! 2 is an album by Krautrock band NEU!. It was recorded in January 1973 at Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios Hamburg, Germany A remix is an alternative version of a song different from the original version The band, excited to record another album, decided to expand their limits by purchasing several instruments. With the money they had left as an advance from the record company, they could only record half an album's worth of material. The company would not increase their advance because the first album did not sell anywhere close to well and the label did not see a reason to further finance what was most likely to become a flop. To rectify the lack of material, the band filled the second side with manipulated versions of their already released single, "Neuschnee"/"Super". The song "Super 16," unwittingly, became the theme song to the 1976 martial arts cult classic Master of the Flying Guillotine by Jimmy Wang Yu. Master of the Flying Guillotine is a 1975 Taiwanese / Hong Kong Martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu, who also wrote Jimmy Wang Yu (王羽 born March 28, 1943, also known as Wong Yu-lung and Wang Yue This film was later referenced by Quentin Tarantino in Kill Bill (Volume 1) by also featuring the track Super 16. Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an Academy Award - BAFTA Award - and Palme d'Or -winning Emmy - and Kill Bill is the fourth film by Writer - director Quentin Tarantino.

Dinger and Rother were both very different when they were left to their own devices, and this led to their final album of the 1970s, Neu! '75. Neu! '75 is an album by Krautrock band Neu!. It was recorded and mixed at Conny Plank 's studio between December 1974 and January 1975 Side One was Rother's more ambient productions which were similar to the first album, albeit more keyboard driven. Side Two (particularly the song "Hero") was acknowledged as important influence by many later involved in the UK's punk rock scene, with Dinger's sneering, unintelligible vocals searing across a distorted Motorik beat with aggressive single chord guitar poundings. Motorik is a term coined by music Journalists to describe the 4/4 beat often used by some so-called " Krautrock " bands such as Neu! and

To aid with performing on the album, and more importantly, live, Hans Lampe and brother Thomas Dinger were enlisted to help execute more music than was possible by two men. Upon its release, and arguably to this day, Neu! '75 is the most diverse record available from the Krautrock scene. While this can be seen as a positive point, the differences in musical direction (as well as personal issues) not only isolated the Dinger/Rother duo, it isolated their already small fan base. Neu! broke up after the release of Neu! '75. Neu are highly praised in Julian Cope's "Krautrocksampler",along with other great Krautrock artists such as Kraftwerk and Can, and Cope has also written a song called "Micheal Rother" which appears on CD2 of the Deluxe edition of "Jehovahkill". Julian Cope (born Julian David Cope on 21 October, 1957) is an English rock Musician, Author, Antiquary Krautrocksampler One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik - 1968 Onwards, written by former The Teardrop Explodes singer Julian Cope, is a book Krautrock is a generic name for the Experimental music scene that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s especially in Britain Kraftwerk (ˈkʁaftvɛɐk German for " power plant " or " Power station " is an influential Electronic music band from Jehovahkill is the eighth Album by Julian Cope, released in 1992

(1975-1984) Band inactivity

In 1974, Rother had already collaborated with German electronic duo Cluster, recording as Harmonia an album titled Musik Von Harmonia. Cluster is a German experimental musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic and Ambient music. Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius Musik Von Harmonia is the debut album from the highly influential Krautrock / Kosmische Musik group Harmonia. In 1975, he subsequently recorded a second Harmonia album, Deluxe, and further sessions followed with Brian Eno, which were not released until 1997 as Tracks and Traces. Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius Deluxe is the second album from the highly influential Krautrock / Kosmische Musik group Harmonia. Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948 commonly known as Brian Eno (ˈiːnoʊ is an English Musician, producer Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Tracks and Traces is the one and only album credited to Harmonia '76, but it is generally regarded as the third album by the highly influential Krautrock

The two Dingers and Lampe formed La Dusseldorf, who were equally cited as influential by David Bowie in a 1979 interview with a music magazine. La Düsseldorf was a German band, consisting of onetime Kraftwerk drummer and Neu! multi-instrumentalist Klaus Dinger and occasional David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger.

(1985-1986) Aborted come-back

Between October 1985 and April 1986, Dinger and Rother tried to rekindle the flame that was Neu! By adding more synthesizers and a slightly more commercial aspect to some compositions, the band sounded like a cross between their old selves and the recent new wave groups, and undoubtedly were torn apart again by personal and musical issues.

An example of the sharp contrast between Dinger and Rother was evidenced by such tracks as "Crazy", Rother's attempt at pop, and "'86 Commercial Trash", a Dingerian collage of dialogue and sound effects from Germany's television commercials of that year. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The work that took place in these sessions would resurface in late 1995 as Neu! 4, see below. Neu! 4 is the final studio album to date by Krautrock band Neu!.

Conny Plank died in 1987.

(1987-2000) Acrimony

Dinger and Rother did not work together during the 1990s, and indeed some degree of acrimony existed between them, not least due to Dinger releasing a couple of old substandard Neu! recordings on the Japanese Captain Trip Records label without Rother's knowledge or consent. In late 1995, this label released the above-mentioned Neu! 4 recordings from the 1985-1986 sessions. Neu! 4 is the final studio album to date by Krautrock band Neu!. It also released Neu! '72 Live In Dusseldorf (recorded on May 6, 1972), considered their weakest release, but notable for the inclusion of Eberhard Kranemann, who was involved with Neu! precursors Kraftwerk as well. Neu! '72 Live! In Dusseldorf is the final album released to date by Krautrock band Neu!. Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Captain Trip was also responsible for the CD reissues of albums from Dinger's post-Neu! aspirations with La! Neu?, La Dusseldorf, Die Engel des Herrn, and Hippie Punks . la! Neu? were a German band founded by Klaus Dinger. After around 1985 Dinger had difficulty getting records released and distributed in Germany but the Japanese record label La Düsseldorf was a German band, consisting of onetime Kraftwerk drummer and Neu! multi-instrumentalist Klaus Dinger and occasional

A 1999 tribute album, entitled "A Homage to NEU!" (Cleopatra Records) features covers from artists by bands including the Legendary Pink Dots, Download, Autechre, Dead Voices On Air, Khan, Sunroof, System 7, James Plotkin, as well as an original track from Michael Rother entitled "Neutronics 98 (A Tribute To Conny Plank)". Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles -based Independent record label. The Legendary Pink Dots ( LPD) are an Anglo - Dutch Experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980 Download is an electronic music group formed by Dwayne Goettel and CEvin Key of Skinny Puppy during 1994 Autechre are an English Electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth both natives of Rochdale, England. Dead Voices on Air is Mark Spybey 's Experimental and Industrial project formed after his departure from Zoviet France. Khan was an English Progressive rock band of the Canterbury Scene during 1971-1972 System 7 (codenamed "Big Bang" and sometimes called Mac OS 7) is a single-user Graphical user interface -based Operating system for Macintosh James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer famous for his role in bands such as Khanate and OLD, but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands Michael Rother (born September 2, 1950 in Hamburg) is a German experimental Krautrock Musician and Composer

(2001- . . . . ) CD remasters

The rights to the Neu! back-catalogue are jointly owned by Rother, Dinger and Plank's widow, Christa Fast. However, for many years a degree of acrimony and legal wranglings existed between Rother and Dinger, and they could not agree on licensing arrangements to make Neu!'s music available on CD. (In the ensuing vacuum, illegal and inferior quality bootleg CDs [mastered from old vinyl records] were distributed by an outfit calling themselves 'Germanofon'. )

Happily, this situation was finally resolved in 2001, when Rother and Dinger put aside their differences and entered a studio to transfer the three classic Neu! albums to CD, from the original mastertapes (reputedly mastering each album three times to make sure they sounded how they wanted the mass public to hear it). These were then released on the Grönland Records label in the U.  Grönland Records is an independent record label based in London England K. and the Astralwerks label in the U. Astralwerks is a New York based Record label that releases primarily Electronic music. S. , packaged with stickers raving about the albums from musical people of recent notice, again including Thom Yorke. Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968 is a Grammy -winning English Musician, best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the Following the release of the first three albums Dinger and Rother entered negotiations to legally reissue Neu 4! Rother has called the failure of those negotiations "unfortunate" but has left open the possibility of at least some Neu! 4 material as well as additional material from the 1985-86 recording sessions in his archives should he and Dinger be able to sort out their remaining differences.

Neu! have not recorded anything new since Neu! 4. With the death of Klaus Dinger in 2008, the likelihood of new Neu! material being recorded is even more remote than previously. Michael Rother has said that he and Dinger had been considering recording a fifth Neu album, but personal issues between them meant that the idea was aborted. He also said that he was unaware of Dinger's illness until just before Dinger died. [1]

As for its members:

Neu! continues to influence musicians decades after its demise. Some examples:

Discography

Albums

All Neu! albums on Brain Records were reissued in 2001 by Astralwerks and Grönland Records. Astralwerks is a New York based Record label that releases primarily Electronic music.  Grönland Records is an independent record label based in London England All Neu! albums on Captain Trip Records are currently deleted.

Singles

Samples

Notes

  1. ^ Michael Rother podcast interview from the Quietus, conducted at All Tomorrow's Parties, May 2008. Neu! is the debut album by Krautrock band Neu!. It was recorded in December 1971 at Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios Hamburg, Germany Vorbis is a free and open source, lossy audio Codec project headed by the Xiph Retrieved on 2008-05-15. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the
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