Neu! 4

Neu! '86
Neu! '86
Studio album by Neu!
Released	10 May 2010 (Boxset); 16 August 2010 (CD)
Recorded	October 1985 - April 1986
Length	44:14
Label	Grönland Records
Producer	Neu!
Neu! chronology
Klaus Dinger chronology
Singles from Neu! '86
	"Crazy"; Released: 17 April 2010;

Neu! 4
Neu! 4
Studio album by Neu!
Released	17 October 1995
Recorded	October 1985 – April 1986
Length	58:01
Label	Captain Trip Records
Producer	Neu!
Neu! chronology
Klaus Dinger chronology

*Neu! 4*
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

*Neu! '86*
Review scores
Source	Rating
Chart Attack	^[2]
The Independent	Positive ^[3]

Neu! 4 is the fourth and final studio album by krautrock band Neu!, released in October 1995. It was revised and re-released as Neu '86 in 2010.

Recording

Neu! 4 was recorded and mixed between October 1985 and April 1986 at Grundfunk Studio and Dingerland-Lilienthal Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany, and Michael Rother Studio in Forst, Germany. This was the first time Rother and Klaus Dinger had entered a studio together since 1975. However, the sessions were not completed and the planned album was abandoned.

Release

During the 1990s, the first three Neu! albums were available on CD on Germanofon Records, a dubious label allegedly based in Luxembourg who specialized in unauthorized and illegal reissues of otherwise unavailable krautrock albums. Germanofon managed to get a number of their releases, including the three Neu! albums, into mainstream distribution. According to Rother's account, Dinger released Neu! 4 "in an act of despair, so he says" in late 1995 as a response to the bootlegs, which Dinger railed against in the liner notes. Neu! 4 was issued by the Japanese label Captain Trip Records, without Rother's input, knowledge or consent. He only learned what had happened in a telegram congratulating him on the release of the album. Rother, writing in March 2007, described this experience as "a rather painful disaster between Klaus Dinger and myself".

The release of Neu! 4 exacerbated the disagreements between Rother and Dinger, which prevented an official CD release of the first three Neu! albums until 2001. The 2000 agreement between Rother and Dinger which led to the CD releases on Astralwerks in the U.S. and Grönland Records in the UK and Europe called for Neu! 4 to be recalled, and it has been out of print since then.

Despite Rother's continued objection to Dinger's original decision to release Neu! 4 and his oft-stated opinion "that [Neu! 4] isn't a legal/real Neu! album", Rother had no objection to fans buying the CD secondhand and would always leave open the possibility that Neu! 4 could be reissued legally with his consent in the future. Rother and Dinger did attempt to negotiate such a release after the official reissue of the first three albums. In March 2007, Rother termed the failure to reach such an agreement "unfortunate". With Dinger's death in 2008, such an agreement seemed unlikely.

Neu! '86

In early 2010, Rother announced that he had arrived at an agreement arranged with Dinger's heir, Miki Yui, and had completely remastered the album from original multitrack and master tapes to produce Neu! '86, which he termed "our fourth studio album".^[4]

The new album shared several tracks in common with the original release, but contained several new or remixed tracks.

Track listing

Neu! 4 (1995)

All tracks are written by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nazionale"	3:11
2.	"Crazy"	3:15
3.	"Flying Dutchman"	3:56
4.	"Schöne Welle (Nice Wave)"	4:30
5.	"Wave Naturelle"	5:37
6.	"Good Life (Random-Rough)"	3:51
7.	"'86 Commercial Trash"	3:18
8.	"Fly Dutch II"	5:06
9.	"Dänzing"	5:08
10.	"Quick Wave Machinelle"	3:46
11.	"Bush-Drum"	3:10
12.	"La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!)"	5:59
13.	"Good Life"	3:42
14.	"Elanoizan"	3:24

Tracks 5, 6, 7, 8 and 14 were selected by Klaus Dinger from "(then) waste material" and other tracks are from "compilation 4 from 27. April [19]86".^[5]

Neu! '86 (2010)

All tracks are written by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother

No.	Title	Neu! 4 title	Length
1.	"Intro (Haydn slo-mo)"	"Nazionale"	0:33
2.	"Dänzing"	"Dänzing"	5:05
3.	"Crazy"	"Crazy"	3:14
4.	"Drive (Grundfunken)"	new track	5:13
5.	"La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!)"	"La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!)"	5:30
6.	"Elanoizan"	"Elanoizan"	2:31
7.	"Wave Mother"	"Wave Naturelle"	4:52
8.	"Paradise Walk"	new track	5:11
9.	"Euphoria"	"Quick Wave Machinelle"	3:57
10.	"Vier 1/2"	"Fly Dutch II" and "Dänzing"	1:01
11.	"Good Life"	"Good Life"	3:41
12.	"November"	"Wave Naturelle"	1:42
13.	"KD"	"La Bomba (Stop Apartheid World-Wide!)"	1:55

Personnel

Neu! 4

Neu!

Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother – producer, recording, mixing, performer, programming
Klaus Dinger – voice, guitar, OB8, mix, drums, percussion, programs, other stuff
Michael Rother – Fairlight, synthesizer, guitar, bass, voice, programs, other stuff

Additional personnel

Gigi – drums (6, 13)
Konrad – bass (5, 6, 13)
Jochen and Brigit – voices (12)

Technical credits

Michael Grund – engineer
Klaus Dinger – artwork, editing
Klaus Dinger and Ken Matsutani – front cover
Thomas Dinger, Klaus Dinger – original photography
The Editor (Klaus Dinger) – liner notes

Neu! '86

Neu!

Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother - producer, recording, mixing, performer, programming
Klaus Dinger – vocals, drums, guitar, keyboards
Michael Rother – guitar, bass, keyboards, Fairlight Music Computer, remix

Additional personnel

Georg Sessenhausen - drums (3, 4, 8, 11)
Michael Grund – bass, percussive sounds (8)
Jochen and Brigit – voices (5)

Technical credits

Michael Grund – engineer (basic recordings of tracks 3-5, 7, 8)
Michael Rother – rework of original master and multi-track tapes (July–December 2009)
Tom Meyer – mastering (Master and Servant, Hamburg, January 2010)
Klaus Dinger – original artwork front cover
Walter Schönauer, Miki Yui, Michael Rother – adaptation album artwork 2010
Michael Rother – Polaroid and Grundfunk studio view
Klaus Dinger – drawing
la.dusseldorf.de – portraits from video stills

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
Japan	17 October 1995 (1995-10-17)	Captain Trip Records	CD (Neu! 4)	CT CD 020
UK & Europe	16 August 2010 (2010-08-16)	Grönland Records	LP (Neu! '86)	LPGRONIV
UK & Europe	16 August 2010 (2010-08-16)	Grönland Records	CD (Neu! '86)	CDGRONIV

References

^ Ankeny, Jason. "Neu! 4". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
^ Burland, Chris. "NEU! - NEU! '86". Chart Attack. Archived from the original on 7 August 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
^ "Album: Neu!, Neu! '86 (Gronland)". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
^ "michaelrother.de - Neu! vinyl box set released on 10 May 2010". michaelrother.de. Retrieved 2010-03-22.
^ Neu! 4 record cover

External links

Rother, Michael. Michael Rother forum. Retrieved August 16, 2007.
Prog Archive Neu! 4. Retrieved August 17, 2007.

[1] Ankeny, Jason. "Neu! 4". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[2] Burland, Chris. "NEU! - NEU! '86". Chart Attack. Archived from the original on 7 August 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[3] "Album: Neu!, Neu! '86 (Gronland)". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[michaelrother-4] "michaelrother.de - Neu! vinyl box set released on 10 May 2010". michaelrother.de. Retrieved 2010-03-22.

[5] Neu! 4 record cover

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v t e Neu!
Klaus Dinger Michael Rother Eberhard Kranemann Uli Trepte Thomas Dinger Hans Lampe Konrad Mathieu Georg Sessenhausen
Studio albums	Neu! Neu! 2 Neu! '75 Neu! 4 / Neu! '86
Other albums	Neu! '72 Live in Düsseldorf 1972 Live Vinyl Box
Singles	"Super"/"Neuschnee" "Isi"/"After Eight" "Crazy"/"Euphoria"
See also	Cluster La Düsseldorf Harmonia Kraftwerk La! Neu? Conny Plank Negativland Motorik