Like a robotic samurai riding a flaming tiger, Barbariön are a metal force to be reckoned with.

Barbariön - Metalman

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NOTES FROM Michael Rother (For Australian Tour 2012) 

Recorded 1971 in Hamburg. Original release 1972 on the first NEU! album

Klaus Dinger and I recorded Hallogallo and the other tracks of the first NEU! album with Conny Plank, the legendary producer, in late 1971. We did not ask a record company to pay the studio rent because we wished to remain completely independent but we had little money and therefore we were forced to finish the recordings in only 4 nights. We didn´t rehearse at home or even discussed our ideas before we entered the studio. Klaus and I started out from scratch and each of us only had visions of the music that we wanted to produce. In the first step we recorded basic tracks together, with Klaus playing drums and myself on guitar or bass. We worked like action painters when in the next step we individually added overdubs. It was thrilling and also frightening because there was absolutely no certainty that we would end up with an album and, if so, would find a record company for it. I guess we were very fortunate. Recording overdubs for Hallogallo I suddenly had a wonderful feedback on my guitar with which I could play thoses long drifting notes that hover like clouds over our basic tracks. Conny Plank contributed a lot of creativity to the recording process, he picked up our intentions with great sensitivity and was a wizzard at the mixing desk. Hallogallo is one of my favourite tracks of all time. The minimalistic drone and the optimistic fast-forward movement of Hallogallo is still close to my heart. In my view it is one of the best examples of my collaboration with Klaus Dinger.




Neu! - Hallogallo

NOTES FROM Michael Rother (For Australian Tour 2012) 

4. Rückstossgondoliero / Kraftwerk (Schneider/Dinger/Rother)
Performed live on German tv (Beat Club) in 1971. Released legally only on DVD (Beat Club 1971).

In early 1971 I met Kraftwerk by pure chance and jammed with Ralph Hütter in their studio. We enjoyed playing together because we obviously shared the idea of a music that was not based on Blues but instead had its melodic roots in central Europe. It combined new sounds with a hypnotic drone of the kind I remember from my childhood days in Pakistan when I heard local street bands playing wonderful music that seemed to go on forever. A few weeks after my jam with Ralph Hütter Florian Schneider invited me to join Kraftwerk because Ralph left the band to concentrate on his university studies. In spring and summer ´71 I performed live with Florian and Klaus Dinger who was an amazing and the most powerful drummer I ever met. It was an exciting experience for me. The music we created live was radical, minimalistic and orgiastic. Surprisingly we were invited to perform on a German tv show called Beat Club and I remember that it was very hard for us to create excitement in an empty studio hall with only a few technicians listening instead of a frenzied crowd that shared our joy and pushed us on. The sterile tv studio made me feel like playing in outer space but Rückstossgondoliero is one of the rare documents of the music Florian, Klaus and I played as Kraftwerk.


Kraftwerk - Rueckstoss Gondoliere

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Melbourne’s The Murlocs are back with their unique garage-blues sound with new single, ‘Rattle The Chain.’ It’s the first single taken from their forthcoming debut album, due late 2013. In the last 6 months they've played Meredith, Harvest and Dig It Up festivals and supported Steve Malkmus + the Jicks, Earthless, Gary Clarke Jr and Thee Oh Sees.
 
Recorded with Paul Maybury at the Christmas street warehouse in Fairfield with Vocals and Overdubs recorded in bedrooms, the song is a realisation of tropical third world poverty blues. Rattle the chain to scare away the birds and protect the crops.
 
“If there were more bands like The Murlocs, the world would be a better place” – Inpress
 
The Murlocs play The Northcote Social Club on Saturday 25 May


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