NEU! 2
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Stereolab must be quietly fuming: the sweet repetition on the 11-minute opening track "Fur Immer" on Neu! 2 defines the parameters of the Franco-poploving bachelor pad band's sound so accurately it's uncanny. Until this long-overdue reissue, however, only a handful of famous musicians--David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Add N To (X), DAF, Blur --had heard this relatively obscure album, first released in 1973. Stereolab aren't the only group this experimental, minimalist, unsettlingly beautiful Germanic duo influenced though; you can hear traces of Suicide's aggressive disco-punk and almost every present-day dance band within Klaus Dinger's almost robotic, forceful drumming on "Spitzenqualitat" and the final "Super". What strikes the listener most about Neu! 2, however, is the sheer enjoyment these aural visionaries were deriving from their conveyor belt grooves: ecstatic yelps of ecstasy sometimes obliterating the percussive din, keyboardist Michael Rother thumping his guitar like he's the first child on a new motorway of sound which, indeed, he was. Tracks are speed-up and then slowed-down, almost at random. Indispensable listening. --Everett True Review: The roots of everything - Welcome to your third Neu! album. Haven't got the other two (we'll ignore Neu! '86 for now)? Then come back when you've absorbed the genius of NEU! and NEU! 75 , because Neu! 2 won't make any sense till you have. But only when you have Neu! 2 will you have a map for the whole journey. Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother, together known as Neu!, invented everything interesting about alternative music since the mid-70s. In terms of importance, they're up there with The Beatles, Elvis Presley and The Velvet Underground. They invented (if you'll forgive a bit of exaggeration) ambient, electronica, industrial, techno, trance and punk. They inspired minimalist cover art when British "progressive" bands were fixated on necromancers and the revealing science of God . They had a rhythm named after them (motorik). They invented remixing. Eno and Bowie came to Germany to meet them and learn their secret, while John Lydon did a distance-learning course in How To Sing Like Klaus Dinger. The punks, the new-wavers, the ravers, the Madchesters and the alt-rock-hipsters copied them like mad. And they had a slogan: "NEW! music for mind and pants." Motorik is the remorseless 4/4 that drove Hallogallo , the stand-out track on the first Neu! album. On Neu! 2, Dinger and Rother took it a stage further with the even longer Für Immer (Forever), with a harder edge and more insistent guitar. Hallogallo is a river; Für Immer is an autobahn. Then the album descends into rhythmic noise till the heavy drums and shouted vocal of Lila Engel usher in the punk era three years early. Then Dinger and Rother ran out of money. What was Side Two of the vinyl album is two tracks: the rhythmic trance of Neushnee and the punk assault of Super: two tracks Neu! had earlier recorded as a single. Dinger and Rother remixed them, fast and slow, with out-takes and noise experiments to fill up the album. On first hearing it sounds like exactly that: sterile and pointless. By the third listen it starts to make sense, as these two push the boundaries of music not as songs, but as an enveloping cerebral experience. With the music speeded up to 78rpm and slowed down to 16rpm, and with the twisted distortions of Hallo Excentrico!, Neu! stretched the boundaries of music more than any other contemporary group. Neu! 2 is an indifferent listen on first hearing. Only Für Immer and Super stand out: Neu! fans should buy the album for Für Immer alone, while anyone interested in the roots of punk should buy it for Super, which is punkier than anything recorded before 1977. Only those two and Neushnee should be listened to on their own, but played all the way through, Neu! 2 is a mind-bending experience, yet one that clears and frees the mind at the same time. Review: !!! - Lovely transfer of a great album... Necessity is the mother of all invention ( side 2 😉 )
| ASIN | B003HJWJYG |
| Best Sellers Rank | 117,251 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl ) 1,531 in Electronica 26,705 in Vinyl 42,020 in Rock |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (210) |
| Is discontinued by manufacturer | No |
| Item model number | GRON 2 |
| Label | Groenland Records |
| Manufacturer | Groenland Records |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Original Release Date | 2010 |
| Product Dimensions | 0.81 x 31.37 x 30.91 cm; 290.3 g |
P**N
The roots of everything
Welcome to your third Neu! album. Haven't got the other two (we'll ignore Neu! '86 for now)? Then come back when you've absorbed the genius of NEU! and NEU! 75 , because Neu! 2 won't make any sense till you have. But only when you have Neu! 2 will you have a map for the whole journey. Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother, together known as Neu!, invented everything interesting about alternative music since the mid-70s. In terms of importance, they're up there with The Beatles, Elvis Presley and The Velvet Underground. They invented (if you'll forgive a bit of exaggeration) ambient, electronica, industrial, techno, trance and punk. They inspired minimalist cover art when British "progressive" bands were fixated on necromancers and the revealing science of God . They had a rhythm named after them (motorik). They invented remixing. Eno and Bowie came to Germany to meet them and learn their secret, while John Lydon did a distance-learning course in How To Sing Like Klaus Dinger. The punks, the new-wavers, the ravers, the Madchesters and the alt-rock-hipsters copied them like mad. And they had a slogan: "NEW! music for mind and pants." Motorik is the remorseless 4/4 that drove Hallogallo , the stand-out track on the first Neu! album. On Neu! 2, Dinger and Rother took it a stage further with the even longer Für Immer (Forever), with a harder edge and more insistent guitar. Hallogallo is a river; Für Immer is an autobahn. Then the album descends into rhythmic noise till the heavy drums and shouted vocal of Lila Engel usher in the punk era three years early. Then Dinger and Rother ran out of money. What was Side Two of the vinyl album is two tracks: the rhythmic trance of Neushnee and the punk assault of Super: two tracks Neu! had earlier recorded as a single. Dinger and Rother remixed them, fast and slow, with out-takes and noise experiments to fill up the album. On first hearing it sounds like exactly that: sterile and pointless. By the third listen it starts to make sense, as these two push the boundaries of music not as songs, but as an enveloping cerebral experience. With the music speeded up to 78rpm and slowed down to 16rpm, and with the twisted distortions of Hallo Excentrico!, Neu! stretched the boundaries of music more than any other contemporary group. Neu! 2 is an indifferent listen on first hearing. Only Für Immer and Super stand out: Neu! fans should buy the album for Für Immer alone, while anyone interested in the roots of punk should buy it for Super, which is punkier than anything recorded before 1977. Only those two and Neushnee should be listened to on their own, but played all the way through, Neu! 2 is a mind-bending experience, yet one that clears and frees the mind at the same time.
D**Y
!!!
Lovely transfer of a great album... Necessity is the mother of all invention ( side 2 😉 )
J**N
7
Arrived on time.
D**E
Four Stars
like this album
C**Y
Five Stars
Another classic from Michael Rother& Klaus Dinger
R**C
Krautrocktastic
Great Krautrock classic
G**G
Neu2
Burn all of side one and two tracks of side two and Bobs your uncle perfect but short follow up to first album.
S**N
Soaring Highs,Banal Time Filling
Neu 2 is a delightful yet frustating experience.Tracks such as Fur Immer( a soaring opener ), Lilac Angel, Neuschnee and Super, are Neu at thier driving best, pounding monotone beats alongside soaring, spacey guitars and keyboards. If only some of those tracks were longer.Because apparently Neu 2 ran over budget with only some 30 minutes recorded and it was felt best to save time and record the remaining 10mins using slowed down or speeded up versions of tracks else where on the album. Mostly it sounds silly and after several plays becomes rather annoying. Despite this Neu 2 is worth buying for the 30mins of great, timeless music to be found on it, but buy Neu! or Neu 75 first.
D**E
Nice item...
B**N
Fantástico lp de Neu! Si no los conoces, el disco importante es Neu! Es el anterior a este, uno de los lps imprescindibles del krautrock y de una influencia brutal sobre el rock más arriesgado que se hizo décadas más tarde (Sonic Youth sin ir más lejos, escuchad Negativland). Este segundo lp de Neu! Es una continuación natural, contra Conny Plank en la mesa, no añade grandes ideas a su sonido respecto a su predecesor pero lo disfrutarás a tope, sobre todo la cara a. La cara b como bien apunta un colega, es más experimental (todavía más!) con remezclas (?!?) a 78 y 16 rpm de temas previos. Respecto a la edición, excelente, de Grönland records, sonidos de fuentes original y reproducción de calidad de la portada original. La única pega, el vinilo es de color blanco, pero es una opinión personal porque creo que los vinilos de colorines suenan peor que los negros.
G**S
Ich glaube Daniel Miller hat dieses Album zu einem seiner Lieblingsalben gekürt. Tarantino hat ein Stück der legendären B-Seite für den Film genutzt und manche haben behauptet, dieses Album habe das Remix erfunden. Beim letzteren muss ich aber etwas schmunzeln und hüsteln. Die A-Seite ist wie aus einem Guss. Bei der B-Seite war halt die Zeit im Studio aufgebraucht und man nahm die vorab veröffentlichte Single in die "Bearbeitung". 2 Stücke, die mal länger, mal kürzer abgespielt werden und ein Kassettenrekorder mit Bandverzerrung. Man drückt auf die Taste und das Band eiert schön. Na, ja. Egal, Remix auf prähistorisch! So nebenbei kam Punk gar nicht aus England sondern aus der westdeutschen Bundesrepublik. Hier kann man es hören. Der letzte Beweis dafür ist NEU!, LA DÜSSELDORF, Klaus Dinger und Michael Rother.
長**明
クラフトワークを抜けたミハエル・ローター、クラウス・ディンガーが結成したバンド。 1973年の２ｎｄアルバム。 コニー・プランクから多大な影響を受けた、元助手のハンス・ランペが参加。 オリジナル発売数年後外盤で購入したアナログは元々盤質が悪く、聴き過ぎて劣化したので、トイレの壁のインテリアとして使用。 離脱組の方が好き勝手やるという、元１０ｃｃのゴドレー＆クレームのような立ち位置か。 まだ、世間が、「解散したビートルズだ、ストーンズだ、ツェッペリンだ、最近出て来たクイーンがいいね、いや、英国プログレに勝るものなし、違う、イーグルス、ドゥビー、リトル・フィートとか次々出て来るアメリカでしょう、CSN＆Yはどうなるんだ」と言っていた時代に、ドイツはこんなに未来を視越した実験性濃厚かつパンキッシュなサウンドを構築していたワケだ。 おそらく、二人は、CANに深くインスパイアされたと思う。 １曲目だけという意見が多いけど、残り10曲も、素晴らしい。 ノイズ、インダストリアル系が好きな方々は、意外とスロッビング・グリッスルより前の音は認めないというケースが多々いらっしゃるけど、是非、聴いてみて欲しいです。 それにしても、後にMPNのメンバーになったり、DAF他多くのミュージシャンのプロデュースを手懸けたコニー・プランクって、やっぱ、とんでもない人だったんだと再認識。 原点は、ホルガー・シューカイも師事した、シュトックハウゼンという巨人なのだろうなあ。
G**L
gelungene Neuauflage des Elektronic - Klassikers von 1973 in weißen Vinyl. Top Qualität
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