Neu The Forth

 

Neu! - 4 [CTCD-020 JPN 1995 FLAC]

After a break of nearly ten years, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger returned to the studio in late 1985 to start on the fourth Neu! album. It was never to see an official release as it was never finished, plus the band could not find a suitable label for it. Well at least that's the story on the Neu! website. Neu! had numerous contractual disputes with labels (add in some in-house artistic bickering) so this album would never see the light of day, except for this rather suspicious grey-area import CD from Japan which snuck out in 1995 on an obscure Japanese electronica and krautrock label. The album featured more commercial tracks as Crazy (eventually a single) and Dänzing. Again, the album was to be built around a melody, this time the beautiful synth-strings of Wave and sequencers of Crazy.

Klaus Dinger sadly passed away in 2008. Michael Rother returned to the studio in December 2009 and finished the album. It was eventually released in 2010 as Neu! '86. Not all the tracks on Neu! 4 would appear on Neu! '86, and of those which did had been reworked and updated by Rother. 

01 Nazionale

02 Crazy

03 Flying Dutchman

04 Schöne Welle (Nice Wave)

05 Wave Naturelle

06 Good Life (Random - Rough)

07 86 Commercial Trash

08 Fly Dutch II

09 Dänzing

10 Quick Wave Machinelle

11 Bush - Drum

12 La Bomba (Stop Aparthijd World-Wide!)

13 Good Life

14 Elanoizan