New! '75
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Brain Grönland Records (Re-Release) |
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Title (number) |
6th |
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46:22 |
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Studio (s) |
Conny Planks Studio, Bonn |
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New! '75 is the third and last studio album published jointly by the founding members Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger by the German Krautrock band Neu! .
It was recorded and mixed in Conny Plank's studio between December 1974 and January 1975 . The first release took place in 1975 on the German label Brain Records . In Great Britain the label United Artists Records took over the distribution. New! '75 was re-released on May 29, 2001 via Herbert Grönemeyer's label Grönland Records and was thus officially available on CD for the first time , after numerous illegal CD versions ( bootlegs ) circulated in the 1990s . The album was re-released in the USA via the Astralwerks label .
Emergence
In the year that became New! 2 had passed, the approaches and tastes of Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger had diverged from each other - while Dinger wrote aggressive guitar music, Rother was increasingly interested in ambient- like sounds. They agreed on a compromise that the first page of the album would be recorded in the usual Neu! Manner as a duo, with things on drums. On the other hand, on the second page you could hear things singing and playing the guitar, with his brother Thomas and Hans Lampe playing the drums simultaneously.
The result is new! '75 an album in two parts. The first half offers melodic sounds, while the second half is dominated by aggressive guitars that anticipate punk and new wave elements. Dinger's rock song Hero was an inspiration to many musicians of the time, including John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) of the Sex Pistols and is an example of the protopunk style. Overall, however , Neu '75 is less experimental than its predecessors.
Track list
All pieces were composed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother.
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page 1 Drums: Klaus Dinger,
Duration: 20:50 |
Page 2 Drums: Thomas Dinger, Hans Lampe,
Duration: 21:52 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by Thom Jurek on Allmusic.com (accessed July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Review by Pat Blashill (archived) on web.archive.org (accessed July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Review by Brent S. Sirota on Pitchfork.com (accessed July 27, 2017)