....can't type. Can only manage to copy and paste this press release:
BRAND NEU!
- various artists
Neu!’s influence on today’s artists - out 11 May 2009
Track listing:
CICCONE YOUTH (SONIC YOUTH) Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening To Neu!
PRIMAL SCREAM Shoot Speed / Kill Light
PETS WITH PETS We Only Found This Place
OASIS I Can See It Now
FOALS Titan Arum
CORNELIUS Wataridori
HOLY FUCK Super Inuit
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Watch The Tapes
KASABIAN Stuntman
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Device fuer M
FUJIYA & MIYAGI Electro Karaoke
HOOK & THE TWIN They'll Get Your Head
LA DUESSELDORF Sketch 1_08
MICHAEL ROTHER Neutronics 98
“I hope that this album turns more people onto the music of NEU!”
BOBBY GILLESPIE (Primal Scream)
The amount of artists citing Krautrock godfathers, electronic AND rock music innovators NEU! as a major influence has been exponentially rising over the last 3 decades. In the late 70s it was artists like Brian Eno or David Bowie who were most vocal about NEU!’s impact on their own music and on listening to “Hero” of NEU! 75 its clear that also the Sex Pistols owe credit to the German act. - Today though its artists from Bono to Noel Gallagher, Radiohead to LCD Soundsystem, Foals to Holy Fucks, Damon Albarn to John Frusciante who aren’t just admirers but musicians who have clearly drawn from their influence from one of the most groundbreaking bands ever to appear out of the 70s. Yet NEU!’s music and their influence is still a secret to many of today’s music fans.
In 2001, for the first time ever on CD, the re-issues appeared on Gronland Records. Since then the flow of new music clearly inspired by the 3 seminal albums hasn’t stopped. – This compilation exemplifies to music fans what key influence this German duo had on some of today’s biggest bands. The album of original tracks will also contain a rare guitar track by NEU! guitarist Michael Rother as well as an unreleased track by La Duesseldorf, one of the latest pieces of music late drummer Klaus Dinger was involved in shortly before his untimely death in March 2008.
This is the first release on Feraltone, a new label founded by Gronland’s former MD.
“My current new favourite German band of all time. Proper tour bus music. Spiritual!!”
NOEL GALLAGHER (Oasis)
“Neu! influenced me long before i ever heard them. The sound of Neu! is all over Joy Division, check out "Unknown Pleasures" & "Closer" & hear it for yourself. Or listen to Kenny Morris's tribal glam tom-tom drumming of "The Scream" era Siouxsie & The Banshees. Or the searing, screaming one note guitar riffs of Public Image Ltd.'s Keith Levine & The Banshees' John McKay to hear the Neu! influence on some of the bands/musicians who have meant so much to me & have shaped/influenced the way Primal Scream sound. - Around the time of XTMNTR we listened to a lot of Neu! & I guess it shows.”
BOBBY GILLESPIE (Primal Scream)
“Neu! is, in my opinion, one of the more towering musical achievements in recent history, and we are all living in the individual shadows of these two men. Speed and stillness, simplicity and cacophony, gentleness and aggression, mania and focus, are all juxtapositions that have been given a voice, and have learned to coexist under the equally as contradictory guidance of Michael and Klaus.”
BENJAMIN CURTIS (School of Seven Bells)
Neu. Oasis. Gallagher: just f*ck off and die.
