Other than Kraftwerk there's another German band from the 70's that heavily inspired today's electronic music scene. Founded in 1971 by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother, the German krautrock band Neu! was produced by the legendary Conny Plank and has left its mark on generations of musicians.
Rock acts like David Bowie, The Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, U2, Radiohead and Primal Scream amongst many others, all owe a creative debt to Neu! - not to mention their impact on the electronic music of the last twenty years.
Beginning of this month Groenland Records have released a limited edition Neu! vinyl box set. It’s a retrospective of one of the most influential German bands of the seventies. In addition to the three original Neu! studio albums the package contains two additional vinyls. One record (dubbed Neu!86) contains material recorded in 1986 revised and reworked by Michael Rother. The other record (Neu!72) is a previously unheard live recording of the band in Duesseldorf in 1972.
Previously released as Neu! 4 the 1986 recordings were subject of a long dispute between Dinger and Rother, that drove them apart forever. Neu! 4 was released 1995 without Rother's input, knowledge, or consent, and in 2007 he still referred to it as "a rather painful disaster between Klaus Dinger and myself." But after Klaus Dinger died in 2008, he apparently changed his mind and reworked the original recordings to "definitive' versions of the tracks, as now released.
TracksAndFields have a remix contest up for one of the tracks off the 1986 recordings. The track is called 'Crazy' and it's your job to go crazy with it.
The winning remix will be the bonus track on the iTunes version of the album or will be used as a free download available from Amazon.
Deadline is July 2nd - so don't wait.
Go, go go!
Neu! Remix Contest
