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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.

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Neu! 4
Studio album by Neu!
Released	17 October 1995 (1995-10-17)
Recorded	October 1985 – April 1986
Length	58:01
Label	Captain Trip Records
Producer	Neu!
Neu! chronology
Neu! '75 (1975) Neu! 4 (1995) Neu! '72 Live in Dusseldorf (1996)
Klaus Dinger chronology
Live As Hippie-Punks (1995) Neu! 4 (1995) Neu! '72 Live in Dusseldorf (1996)

Neu! 4

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Neu! '86
Studio album by Neu!
Released	10 May 2010 (2010-05-10) (Boxset) 16 August 2010 (2010-08-16) (CD)
Recorded	October 1985 - April 1986
Length	44:14
Label	Grönland Records
Producer	Neu!
Neu! chronology
Neu! Vinyl Box (2010) Neu! '86 (2010)
Klaus Dinger chronology
Neu! Vinyl Box (2010) Neu! '86 (2010) Japandorf (2013)
Singles from Neu! '86
"Crazy" Released: 17 April 2010

Neu! '86

Review scores
Source	Rating
Chart Attack	[2]
The Independent	Positive [3]

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 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)

Tracks 4, 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)

Personnel

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

External links

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

На других языках

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[de] Neu! 4

Neu! 4 ist das letzte Studioalbum der Krautrock-Gruppe Neu!. Nach einer umstrittenen Veröffentlichung als Neu! 4 im Jahr 1995 über Captain Trip Records wurde eine überarbeitete Fassung im Jahr 2010 offiziell als Neu! ’86 über Grönland Records herausgebracht.

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- [en] Neu! 4

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[es] Neu! 4

Neu! 4 (o NEU! 4) un álbum de estudio de la banda alemana de krautrock Neu!. Este álbum es el resultado de una reunión del dúo (compuesto por Klaus Dinger y Michael Rother), y fue grabado entre octubre de 1985 y abril de 1986. Sin embargo, la reunión fracasó y el álbum nunca fue completado, pero fue lanzado en 1995 por el sello japonés Captain Trip, luego de que Dinger le entregara el producto de las grabaciones al mismo sin el permiso de Rother. Debido a esto, Dinger lo considera un lanzamiento "semi-oficial", y también admite no estar satisfecho con el material. El álbum no fue muy bien recibido por la crítica y los fanes del grupo (quienes en muchos casos no lo ven como un álbum "oficial"), y actualmente se encuentra fuera de impresión.

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