New! 4th
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1995 |
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| Label (s) | Captain Trip Records | |||
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14th |
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58 min. 01 sec. |
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| New! '86 | ||||
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May 10, 2010 (box set) / |
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| Label (s) | Greenland Records | |||
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13 |
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44 min. 25 sec. |
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New! 4 is the last studio album of the Krautrock group New! . After a controversial publication as New! 4 in 1995 via Captain Trip Records , a revised version was officially New! Released in '86 through Grönland Records .
The album was recorded between October 1985 and April 1986 in the Grundfunk-Studio, in Dingerland-Lilienthal-Studio (both in Düsseldorf) and in Michael Rothers Studio ( Forst ). At that time, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger went back to the studio to record together for the first time since 1975. However, the sessions did not end and the planned album was ultimately not completed.
history
Between October 1985 and April 1986, Dinger and Rother tried to create Neu! to reactivate. You went to the studio, worked with a lot more synthesizers and geared the compositions more towards commercial aspects. The new pieces sounded like a cross between the original Neu! and the New Wave of the 1980s. During the recording, Dinger and Rother fell out again due to musical and personal differences of opinion.
Examples of the strong contrast between Dinger and Rother include Crazy , a pop experiment by Rother, and '86 Commercial Trash , a collage invented by Dinger, which consisted of dialogues and noises he took from German TV commercials from 1986 would have.
As a result of the split in the dispute, the recordings made in 1985 and 1986 were not published for a long time.
During the 1990s, illegal blackmailing of the first three Neu! -Albums on CD. Klaus Dinger then gave some recordings of the 1985/1986 sessions for publication under the title Neu! 4 free. Rother later explained that Dinger had said that he had done this “out of desperation” about the illegal CD pressing (about which Dinger commented negatively in the accompanying booklet). New! 4 was released on the Japanese label Captain Trip Records, without Rothers participation, knowledge or consent. He himself says that he only found out about the publication via a telegram congratulating him on the release of the new album. In March 2007 Rother wrote that he felt this experience at the time as a "very painful catastrophe between Klaus Dinger and me".
The appearance of New! 4 aggravated the differences of opinion between Rother and Dinger. Among other things, this meant that the two musicians did not come to an agreement for a long time when planning an official CD release of the three original Neu! - studio albums. It was only through the mediation of Herbert Grönemeyer in 2000 that an agreement was reached that allowed the republication of Neu! , New! 2 and new! '75 made possible in May 2001 on Grönemeyers Grönland Records . One of Rother's conditions for the agreement was that New! 4 as well as new! '72 would be withdrawn live in Düsseldorf . Both albums have not been available since then.
Despite Michael Rother's rejection of Klaus Dinger's decision, Neu! 4 , and despite believing that this is nothing new! Album, Rother has declared that he has no problem with fans New! 4 buy used. Furthermore, in 2007 he did not rule out publication with his consent for the future. The Greenland label tried to get at least some parts of the Neu! -4 material released, including as an addition to a planned, extensive Neu! -Collector set, but the negotiations again failed because Dinger and Rother did not agree on the modalities could agree. Rother called this "unfortunate", but did not rule out the possibility that an agreement would be reached in the future and that previously completely unknown material from the 1985/1986 recording sessions would be released.
With Klaus Dinger's sudden death in 2008, an agreement and release of the fourth Neu! Studio album initially seemed even less likely.
New! '86
In early 2010, Rother announced that he and Dinger's heiress Miki Yui had reached an agreement on the publication of the material recorded in 1985/86. Rother has completely revised the album based on the original tapes. The result was called New! '86 released in May 2010 by Grönland Records on vinyl as part of a collector's box with all Neu! Albums. A CD release followed in August of the same year.
New! '86 takes over some pieces from Neu! 4 ; Added to this are newly mixed and previously unreleased pieces.
Track list
New! 4 (1995)
| piece | title | length |
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| 1 | Nazionale | 3:11 |
| 2 | Crazy | 3:15 |
| 3 | Flying Dutchman | 3:56 |
| 4th | Nice wave | 4:30 |
| 5 | Wave naturelle | 5:37 |
| 6th | Good Life (Random Rough) | 3:51 |
| 7th | '86 Commercial Trash | 3:18 |
| 8th | Fly Dutch II | 5:06 |
| 9 | Dänzing | 5:08 |
| 10 | Quick Wave Machinelle | 3:46 |
| 11 | Bush drum | 3:10 |
| 12 | La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!) | 5:59 |
| 13 | Good life | 3:42 |
| 14th | Elanoizan | 3:24 |
New! '86 (2010)
| piece | title | Original title | length |
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| 1 | Intro (slo-mo) | "Nazionale" | 0:33 |
| 2 | Dänzing | "Dänzing" | 5:05 |
| 3 | Crazy | "Crazy" | 3:14 |
| 4th | Drive (basic spark) | (previously unpublished) | 5:13 |
| 5 | La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!) | "La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!)" | 5:30 |
| 6th | Elanoizan | "Elanoizan" | 2:31 |
| 7th | Wave mother | "Wave Naturelle" | 4:52 |
| 8th | Paradise Walk | "Bush Drum" | 5:11 |
| 9 | Euphoria | "Quick Wave Machinelle" | 3:57 |
| 10 | Four 1/2 | "Fly Dutch II" and "Dänzing" | 1:01 |
| 11 | Good life | "Good Life" | 3:41 |
| 12 | November | "Beautiful wave" | 1:42 |
| 13 | KD | "La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!)" | 1:55 |
occupation
- Michael Rother - Fairlight , synthesizer , guitar, bass, programming, vocals
- Klaus Dinger - vocals, guitar, OB8 , drums, percussion, programming
- Gigi - drums in Fly Dutch II and Good Life
- Konrad - bass with Fly Dutch II and Good Life
- Jochen - vocals at La Bomba
- Brigit - vocals at La Bomba
- Michael Grund - recordings
swell
- Rother, Michael. Michael Rother Forum . August 16, 2007.
- Prog Archive New! 4 . 17th August 2007.
- Ankeny, Jason All Music Guide review . September 11, 2007.