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Three decades hence, Neu! to be released on CD
26 April 2001

After some false starts and abortive attempts over the past few years, the three original albums by super influential German ’70s soundscape/ trance/ noise duo Neu! will be reissued next month on CD by Astralwerks for the US, EMI for the UK, and by Herbert Grünemeyer’s Greenland records for Germany.
Neu! came together in Dusseldorf in 1971 as an experimental collaboration between Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother, both of whom had just left Kraftwerk. The band’s first incarnation lasted scarcely two years, during which time they produced the albums Neu! and Neu! 2. They reunited long enough in 1975 to assemble their final album, Neu! 75. Compilations and bootlegs have surfaced now and then over the decades, but it wasn’t until Dinger and Rother and their lawyers got on the same page recently that the CD reissue series could materialize.
Artists claiming influence by Neu! include, among many others, David Bowie, Julian Cope, Brian Eno (who, by the way, releases a new album in collaboration with German DJ J. Peter Schwalm next month), Loop, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and Stereolab. | fan site | | Michael Rother (in German) | | Neu! profile written 1994 | | Astralwerks Records | | bio | | discography | | top of page |

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