Neu!
Studio album by Neu!
Released	1972
Recorded	December 1971
Genre	Krautrock
Length	45:51
Label	Brain
Producer	Conny Plank, Neu!
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (9.7/10) link
Neu! chronology
Neu! (1972) Neu! 2 (1973)

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It was recorded in December 1971 at Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios, Hamburg, Germany, mixed at Star-Musik Studio, Hamburg, Germany, and released in 1972 by Brain Records. It was reissued by Astralwerks on May 29 2001. Location Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE6 First Mayor Ole von Beust (CDU) Governing party CDU Votes in Bundesrat 3 (from 69) Basic statistics Area  755 km² (292 sq mi) Population 1,754,317 (11/2006)[1]  - Density 2,324 /km² (6,018... Astralwerks is an New York based record label which releases primarily electronic music. ...

This was Rother & Dinger's first recording together after they left Kraftwerk in 1971. They continued to work with Conny Plank, who had been producing the Kraftwerk recording sessions. Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) is a German musical group from Düsseldorf that has made key contributions to the development of improvisational rock and electronic music, most notably within the latter categorys sub-genres which later became known as synthpop, electro, techno, house and IDM. Early musical...

The track Negativland provided the name for a later group of American musical satirists. Negativland is an experimental music and sound collage band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. ...

There are two songs on the album which contain the influential "motorik" beat. These are "Hallogallo" and "Negativland". Motorik is a term coined by music journalists to describe the 4/4 beat often used by some so-called Krautrock bands such as Neu! and Kraftwerk. ...

Track listing

1. "Hallogallo" - 10:07 ("Hallmark")
2. "Sonderangebot" - 4:51 ("Sale")
3. "Weissensee" - 6:46 (Weissensee is a town in Carinthia, Austria.)
4. "Im Glück" - 6:52 ("Lucky")
5. "Negativland" - 9:47 ("Negative land")
6. "Lieber Honig" - 7:18 ("Dear honey", or "Rather honey")

The song "Hallogallo" was covered by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree on the Insignificance demos. Weissensee is a town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia in Austria. ... Carinthia (Kärnten in German, Koroška in Slovenian) can refer to: Carinthia - a federal state of Austria Carinthia - an informal province in Slovenia Carinthia - a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire and crownland of Austria_Hungary Karantania - the first Slovenian state This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Porcupine Tree is an English progressive rock band formed in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England by Steven Wilson. ... Insignificance consists of a series of demos, unused songs and outtakes by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. ...

Personnel

• Konrad "Conny" Plank – Producer, engineer.
• Michael Rother – Guitar, bass guitar.
• Klaus Dinger – Japanese banjo, drums, guitar.