A Brand Neu! SoundNeu! had only booked into the studio, to record their first LP, for four days. Yet, two days in, they barely had anything worth using. Drummer Klaus Dinger and multi-instrumentalist Michael Rother had been in an early version of Kraftwerk (on drums and guitar) in 1971, and, in love with how it felt playing those repetitive, machine-like rhythms live, they'd formed their own band. They were called Neu!, and their goal was that simple: to make a kind of music that was wholly new, unlike anything that'd come before. Bunkering down with Kraftwerk producer Conny Plank in a Düsseldorf studio, Dinger and Rother were hoping for magic. With half their time gone, they were struggling.
(By Anthony CarewAlternative Music Expert)
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