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Features Disc of the day
Neu!
Neu! 2
(Brain, 1973)
Heroic Düsseldorf duo's fantastic screw-up.
In the marbled hall of the rock'n'roll era's brain warping rhythmic breakthroughs - see also Bo Diddley's 'shave-and-a-haircut, two bits' beat, the Amen Break or Clyde Stubblefield's Funky Drummer - there's a special plinth for the "motorik" beat devised by the late drummer Klaus Dinger for his band Neu! A good place to immerse yourself in it - not always for the most logical reasons - is the second long-player by Dinger and his guitarist/ electronicist partner Michael Rother. As on the first Neu! album, you're initially held in magnetic suspension by the ten-minutes-plus opening track, but while that album's Hallogallo was a clean grid of forward motion, here Für Immer (Forever) turns up the synths, colours, thunder crashes and riffage to build inexorably into an altered state of sublime repetition. Thereafter, Spitzenqualität is the Neu! beat played inside a steel tank and the yabbering Lila Engel is where their punk side begins to foam in earnest. Then you can flip it over to hear what can happen when a band runs out of cash before finishing their album properly; Dinger and Rother just got existing tracks and speeded them up (78 rpm!) or slowed them down (16 rpm!) to fill the space. It's as preposterous and aggravating as it sounds, but isn't this what krautrock was supposed to be about? Dinger and Rother would split soon after but would reform on two more occasions, and their endless monorail of 4/4 nirvana is recognised this May by the new compilation Brand Neu!, which sees Oasis, Kasabian, Primal Scream paying tribute. The beat goes on, für immer.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 01/04/2009
Further Listening
Neu! - Neu! (Brain, 1972)
Harmonia - Musik Von Harmonia (Brain, 1974)
La Düsseldorf - La Düsseldorf (Radar, 1976)
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Preaching to the converted. I already own all of NEU'S! wonderful albums, including the long-deleted 4th effort,and Michael Rother's Neutronics '98 (a tribute to Conny Plank)which as the title suggests, has been around for a while.I'm looking forward to hearing the late, great Klaus Dinger's contribution to this album though.
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maybe in the future MOJO should send you an e mail in advance say as you don't waste your time reading reviews of albums you already have, Pete!
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