Neu!

Neu! was a German band and an archetypal example of the krautrock genre. The group consisted of Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother and had as producer Conny Plank . "Neu!" is the German Word for "new" and is pronounced as "nɔɪ". The success of the group active during the short existence was minimal, but there is a great influence to the band awarded on various groups or artists, such as The Sex Pistols, David Bowieand the whole following electronic music scene.



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[hide] *1 musical style  ==Music Style[ Edit] == One of the most valued elements of Neu! is the beat or "motorik" (a term of the composer Hindemith those German words ' motor ' and ' musik ' combines), although the Group did not use this term itself; Dinger himself spoke sometimes of "Apache beat". An important part of their recordings contains these motorik. In it they dress the traditional format of a rock song from and without the stanzas and choruses, intros and resolve them that changes to a single minimalist 4/4-beat, which Dinger repeats continuously throughout the entire number Drummer. Although this seems on paper a recipe for monotony, succeeds Dingers discipline and flair as a drummer in a very strong, focused to create groove, with a strong sense of continuous forward movement (the analogy with drive on a highway is sometimes made).
 * 2 Band members
 * 2.1 central band members
 * 2.2 artists collaborative
 * 3 History
 * 3.1 main period (1971-1975)
 * 3.2 (1975-1984) Inactivity
 * 3.3 (1985-1986) Aborted comeback
 * 3.4 (1987-2000) Bitterness
 * 3.5 (2001-...). CD-remasters
 * 4 discography
 * 4.1 Albums
 * 5 external link

As for the traditional Western harmony in rock music, filled by accepting bills of Exchange to avoid Dingers beats Rother and instead opting for a few chords, harmonic sustained tones – layered with variousoverdubs of electric guitar. The emphasis on changes of timbre rather than harmonic changes. Conny Plank was known as a producer who created an environment in which musicians were free to do such experiments, and also as someone processing the texture in timbre and spaciousness in the music controlled. Many other songs by Neu! were then again slow and quiet, and sketched songs that tend to the laterambient style. ==Band Members[ Edit] == ===Central band members[ Edit] === ===Artists collaborative[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==History<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===main period (1971-1975)<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Neu! was formed in 1971 as an offshoot of an early occupation of another important krautrock band from Düsseldorf, namely Kraftwerk, whose early works were also produced by Conny Plank .
 * Klaus Dinger (1971-1975, 1985-1986) — drums, backing vocals, guitar and keyboards
 * Michael Rother (1971-1975, 1985-1986) — also guitar, vocals and keyboards
 * Conny Plank (producer)
 * Thomas Dinger (1975) — drums
 * Eberhard Kranemann (1972) – bass guitar
 * Hans Lampe (1975) — drums
 * Uli Trepte (1972)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Drummer Klaus Dinger had joined Kraftwerk when the band was in the middle of the sessions of the eponymous debut album. Guitarist Michael Rother was at Kraftwerk against the completion of the album. Before that, Rother in The Spirits of Sound played, a local group in which drummer Wolfgang Flür, who two years later also played at Kraftwerk would play.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Ralf Hütter, founder of Kraftwerk, left the band, and the trio existed for six months Kraftwerk from Rother, Dinger and Florian Schneider. This line-up performed sporadically on and made a live television appearance in the German program Beat Club. Recording sessions in Conny plank's studio were unsuccessful and Dinger and Rother left Schneider and started a new project with Plank: Neu!. Hütter and Schneider re-joined this duo put the recording of a second Kraftwerk album at Shelf further.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The eponymous debut album, Neu!, sold very little to modern standards, although a significant number of 30,000 pieces was for a group with a musical style as Neu!. However, the album was later described as a masterpiece and influenced the artists such as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. It had some typical numbers with the motorik, like "Hallogallo" and "Negativland" and bizarre "songs" such as "Probe rangebot"

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The second album, ''[http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DNeu!_2%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1 Neu! 2] ''contained some of the earliest examples of musical remixes. The Group was motivated to take up a new album, had decided their boundaries by different instruments to purchase. With the rest of the money they had received as a prepayment of the record company, left could only material for half an album recording. The record company refused to increase their advance because the first album not at all sold well and the label wanted no further putting money into something threatened to be a flop. In order to solve the lack of material, the group filled the second side of the LP with edited versions of their already released single "Neuschnee"/"Super".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dinger and Rother had too many differences, which led to their last album of the 1970s, ''[http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DNeu!_75%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1 Neu! 75]''. One side of the more ambient productions of Rother, that what appeared on the music of the first album, but with more keyboards. The second side of the plate, especially the song "Hero" Dingers RAM contained, unintelligible chant through a beat of distortion, with aggressive guitar motorik and boom.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To help with playing the album, especially live, brother Thomas Dinger, Hans Lampe and Dingers came, joined the band to play more music than as a couple was possible. "Neu! 75 "was one of the most varied plates from the krautrockscene. This could be seen as a positive point, but the different musical directions and personal problems not only isolated the Dinger/Rother duo, but also had a bad impact on the Group of fans, which was already very small. After the release of the album kept Neu! the for views. ===(1975-1984) Inactivity<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Rother had already collaborated in 1974 with the German electronic duo Cluster and Harmonia with their under the name Musik von Harmonia album released. In 1975 the next album Deluxe appeared and there followed sessions with Brian Eno, which were only released in the 90 's under the name Tracks & Traces.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The song "Super 16" by Neu! inadvertently became the title tune of Master of the Flying Guillotine, a martial art- Jimmy Wang Yu 's cult classic from 1976. This later became a source of inspiration for urban rapperPaleface Mandingo.

<p lang="en" len="288" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The brothers Dinger and Lampe formed the band La Düsseldorf, a group that also would affect various artists. ===(1985-1986) Aborted comeback<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Between October 1985 and april 1986 tried Dinger and Rother Neu! to create new life by adding more synthesizers and something more commercial compositions. The Group sounded like a cross between the former Neu! and recent new wave groups and personal and musical discord caused again for a break.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">An example of the bright contrast between Dinger and Rother can be found in songs such as "Crazy", Rother attempt to pop music, and " ' 86 Commercial Trash" by Dinger, a collage of dialogue and sound effects from Germany's television commercials of that year. The work in these sessions was made, in 1996 would show up as ''[http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DNeu!_4%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1 Neu! 4] ''.

<p lang="en" len="111" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Producer Conny Plank died in 1987, his studio was taken over by his widow Christa Fast and his son. ===(1987-2000) Bitterness<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dinger and Rother worked together during the 1990s, there was not even any bitterness between the two, especially when Dinger some old substandard Neu!-recordings released on the Japanese label Captain Trip, without consent of Rother. In 1996 brought this label ''Neu! 4'' recordings from the sessions of 1985-1986.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The label also released ''[http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DNeu!_72_Live!%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1 Neu! 72 Live!] ''recorded in Düsseldorf on 6 May 1972. The term "live" in the title, however, is misleading, because this saves only on the fact that it was a rehearsal on stage, by poor sound quality, and just interesting for large Neu!-fans who want to hear their heroes frustrated working because they don't manage their studio sound on stage after playing. The album is certainly not suitable for Neu! to know you and is regarded as the weakest Edition, but is particularly due to the presence of Eberhard Kranemann, who also work at Kraft was involved.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Captain Trip was also responsible for the cd reissues of Dingers work after Neu! at [http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=nl&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DLa!_Neu%253F%26action%3Dedit%26redlink%3D1 La! Neu?] and La Düsseldorf. ===(2001-...). CD-remasters<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The rights of the Neu!-catalogue belonged jointly to Rother, Dinger and plank's widow, Christa Fast. Over the years, disagreements between Rother and Dinger could not come to an agreement both for the licenses for the making available of the music of Neu! on cd. During that period were illegal bootleg CDs of inferior quality, recorded from old vinyl records, distributed by a group calling itself Germanofon mentioned.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Fortunately, the situation in 2001 finally resolved, when Rother and Dinger put their differences on the side, and the studio pulled to their three classic Neu! albums to convert to cd, starting from the original master tapes. These albums appeared on the Astralwerkslabel, and packaged with stickers which people living in the recent contemporary music scene namesakes, such as extolling the virtues of the Thom Yorke albums.Finally was the music of Neu! available to the public, without having to buy or illegal albums rare and expensive vinyl records to have to track down.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Neu! nothing new has since included ''Neu! 4'' and remained inactive. Michael Rother then wrote and produced solo albums, Klaus Dinger also wrote and produced solo albums and was responsible for the back issues of La Düsseldorf. Thomas Dinger died on 9 april 2002, earlier, he had a number of unsuccessful solo albums released.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On March 21, 2008 at the age of 61 Klaus Dinger died of a heart attack<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="156" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2010 Halogallo 2010 the occasion formation plays including Michael Rother of Neu! drummer Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth and a number of live performances with work by Neu! Among other things on ATP andIncubate in Tilburg. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="318" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">All albums by Brain Records were re-released in 2001 by Astralwerks. The albums on Captain Trip Records were deleted.
 * (1972) Neu! (Brain Records) – studio album
 * (1973) Neu! 2 (Brain Records) – studio album
 * (1975) Neu! ' 75 (Brain Records) – studio album
 * (1982) Neu! Black Forest Gateau (Cherry Red Records)-compilation
 * (1995) Neu! 4 (Captain Trip Records)-1986 collection of fragments
 * (1996) Neu! ' 72 Live! (Captain Trip Records) – rehearsal recording