Neu!
Studio album by Neu!
Released	1972
Recorded	December 1971
Genre	Krautrock, Electronic music
Length	45:51
Label	Brain Records/Polygram Records (1972 LP) Astralwerks/EMI (2001 CD)
Producer	Conny Plank, Neu!
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Piero Scaruffi [1] Pitchfork (9.7/10) link
Neu! chronology
Neu! (1972) Neu! 2 (1973)

Neu! is the debut album by Krautrock band Neu!.

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.

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.

The track Negativland provided the name for a later group of American musical satirists.

Two songs on the album, "Hallogallo" and "Negativland", feature Dinger's "Motorik-beat".

[edit] Track listing

1. Hallogallo (Play on "Halligalli", a German slang term for "wild partying", with the word "hallo" being German for "hello" ) – 10:07
2. Sonderangebot ("Special Offer") – 4:51
3. Weißensee ("White Sea" or "White Lake"; Weißensee is a town in Carinthia, Austria, and a burrow of Pankow, Berlin) – 6:46
4. Im Glück' ("Lucky") – 6:52
5. Negativland ("Negative Land") – 9:47
6. Lieber Honig ("Dear Honey" or "Rather Honey") – 7:18

[edit] Personnel

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