Klaus Dinger, La Düsseldorf - Néondian (1985)

La Düsseldorf is Klaus Dinger's side project after the scission of Neu! in 1975. In this musical adventure, Dinger is accompanied by Thomas Dinger and Hans Lampe who also participated to the recording of the third and last Neu! The self titled album "La Dusseldorf" was released in 1976, venturing from avant-garde for concrete noises, manipulated sounds, pre-punk atmospheres. This album has a total disregard for musical convention, the musicians don't hesitate to mix without restriction a bunch of sounds taken from a great variety of musical styles (with pop accents, motoric "electronic" pulses, krautrock weird instrumentals and punk's eccentricity). After this original and diverse collection of experiments, the band recorded their second "Viva" in 1978. A political musical act against capitalism which comes directly during the classic years of punk music. However this album remains progressive with achieved synth instrumentations and insitent electronic beat in the genre of Kraftwerk. Only the voice and the distorted "dirty" guitars remind us the anger and "primitive" sound of Punk music. In their last "Individuellos" (1980) the atmosphere is more relaxing than in the two first and delivers a few "sensitive" ambient soundscapes next to abstract & rhythmical "electronic" rock. After this creative musical experience, Thomas Dinger has made an excursion in solo with Für mich.. Klaus Dinger and his Dingerland (the name given to his personal label) carry on the way written by La Düsseldorf for the publication of several projects, among others the album "Neondian" or the recent La! Neu? recordings (a musical hybrid between Neu! and La Düsseldorf for long synth / post rock sessions).

1. Mon amour [8:56]
2. Pipi AA [4:10]
3. Neondian [7:58]
4. America [5:40]
5. Cha Cha 2000/85 [7:17]
6. Jag Älskar Dig [6:25]

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