TCCDM Pulls One Out..."NEU! - "NEU!" (1972 - 2020)
"NEU!" - NEU! (1972 - Rei 2020) "There's no excuses, my friend. Let's push things forward." (The Streets) And that is exactly what Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother were doing with their debut album. Hailing from Düsseldorf, Germany, the duo left the early incarnation of Kraftwerk and created a wonderfully experimental, hypnotic, trippy, and very proto-atmospheric feast. Variations of some avant-garde goodness, for sure. But it's the driving hypnotic German "motorik beat" of "Hallogallo" and "Negativland" that puts the lead in your pencil. Everything else is just delicious brushstrokes of trippy weirdness. " NEU!" wasn't necessarily the first album to take this direction, but one can certainly hear the influences this one had on later artists. Since picking up this album, I've dropped the needle on it almost daily. It's gotten under my skin. The album might have been recorded in 1972, but