1986: Neu! - Neu! 86

by Tobias Carroll on 10-06-2010

The album released this year as Neu! '86 had another life as Neu! 4, originally released in 1995, nearly a decade after its initial recording, itself a reunion of Neu!'s core of Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger. Neu! '86 is the result of Rother reassembling the album from the original master tapes following Dinger's death in 2008. All in all, then, it's an odd hybrid, a reconstruction of an album that had its own ephemeral existence, first in bootlegs and later in a Dinger-sanctioned release.

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