Pronounced "noy" and written in uppercase, block lettering, NEU! is a prominent krautrock band known for balancing its music between the steady, motorik beat and ambient feedback. After splitting from another well known krautrock band, Kraftwerk, Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother formed NEU! in 1971 and released their self-titled debut quickly thereafter. Weak sales gave them little fame, though that album has come to represent many elements of krautrock that have since found their way into various genres, such as the post-punk driving rhythm section of Joy Division and the ambient works of Aphex Twin. They then went on to record two more albums, both of which garnered little besides a strong, but limited, fanbase and led to what could be considered a premature breakup.
Captivating is the only way I can describe the motorik tracks from NEU! As an example, the first song is their debut is 10 minutes, features no lyrics and never changes its rhythm and it manages to be breeze by on every listen. The ambient tracks are such a stark departure that it seems the ideological clash that would later split Dinger and Rother did wonders for producing a genuine sound that has since to be replicated anywhere near the mastery of the original.
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