New! (Album)
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Brain Grönland Records (Re-Release) |
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6th |
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45:51 |
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Windrose Dumont Time Studios, Hamburg |
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New! is the debut album of the influential Krautrock band Neu! from 1972.
History of origin
After Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother left the Kraftwerk group , they founded the band Neu !. They continued their collaboration with Conny Plank , who produced the first Kraftwerk albums, and recorded their first album.
The debut album was recorded in December 1971 in the Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios in Hamburg and mixed in the Star-Musik Studio. Plank acted as the sound engineer for the recordings. In March 1972 the first work was published.
In 2001 the album was re-released on LP and CD by Grönland Records . In the USA, the re-release took place on the Astralwerk label .
To individual titles
page 1
The record begins with the ten minute piece Hallogallo , which is one of the most famous and well known of the group. It is a classic Neu! Title, which is characterized by Dinger's mechanical drum rhythm and Rother's guitar playing with only a few, monotonous, but melodically-harmonious chords over the entire length of the title. The bass line doesn't serve the rhythm, but rather acts as a guideline for Dinger's drumming. This typical Neu! Style is known as motor skills . The piece was used for a while in the TV commercial for Metz flash units.
Page 2
The second title on the second page, Negativland , is also one of the best-known titles. It sounds very harsh, mechanical and industrial; like Hallogallo , this piece is a typical example of motor skills. The last track on the album, Dear Honey , is the most experimental on the album; Dinger's groaning voice can also be heard here.
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The motor skills , as it is especially evident in the titles Hallogallo and Negativland , influenced many artists, e. B. David Bowie for his so-called Berlin trilogy , which includes the albums Low and Heroes . The piece Hallogallo was played very often on the radio program of the English Radio 1 DJ John Peel , which is one of the reasons for its popularity.
Track list
All pieces were composed by Dinger and Rother.
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page 1
Duration: 21:45 |
Page 2
Duration: 22:58 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ulf Kubanke: Two fighters write music history on Laut.de (accessed on July 27, 2017)
- ↑ Review by Thom Jurek on Allmusic.com (accessed July 25, 2017)
- ↑ Review by Brent S. Sirota on Pitchfork.com (accessed July 27, 2017)