Isi (song)

1975 single by Neu!

"Isi"

Single by Neu!
from the album  Neu! '75
B-side| "After Eight"
Released| 20 June 1975[1]
Recorded| 1974–1975
Genre| Krautrock, protopunk, art rock
Length| 3:55 (edit)
Label| United Artists
Songwriter(s)|

* Klaus Dinger
* Michael Rother

Producer(s)| Conny Plank
Klaus Dinger singles chronology
| "Super"
(1972)  | "Isi"
(1975)  | "Silver Cloud"
(1976)

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"Isi" was a 1975 single by the German band Neu!, released in the United Kingdom to promote their album Neu! '75. Like its predecessor "Super", it failed to chart and is now a collectors' item due to its rarity. It was sold in an unmarked paper sleeve by United Artists, who marketed Neu! in the UK.

## Background & Recording

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The recording of Neu! '75, the last of Neu!'s original studio albums, was begun in December 1974 at Conny Plank's studio in Cologne. Like Neu! 2, the album has a definite binary nature, with the first side recorded by the original duo of Dinger and Rother, the second by the expanded four-part Neu!-La Düsseldorf supergroup. "Isi" is taken from the album's A or 'Michael Rother' side, whilst "After Eight" is from the Klaus Dinger-La Düsseldorf dominated side of the album. Dinger recognised this duality, admitting that "me and Michael drift[ed] apart," but Rother maintains that "it was the combination of our two strengths which made the magic." Either way, Dinger's apparent contribution to "Rother's" side of the single is limited to the drums on Isi, whilst Rother's contribution to the "La Düsseldorf" side is the guitar solo, on "After Eight". Neu! '75 was also the first album for which Dinger wrote lyrics, and the subject matter was largely his now ended romance with Anita. The lyrics of "After Eight" feature the repeated refrain, "Help me through the night."

## Track listing

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All tracks composed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother.

1. "Isi" – 3:55
2. "After Eight" – 4:42

## Personnel

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* Michael Rother – guitar, keyboards, production
* Klaus Dinger – drums

## References

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1. ^ "45cat - NEU - Isi / After Eight - United Artists - UK - UP 35874". 45cat. Retrieved 2016-10-11.

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* Klaus Dinger
* Michael Rother

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* Georg Sessenhausen

Studio albums|

* Neu!
* Neu! 2
* Neu! '75
* Neu! 4 / Neu! '86

Other albums|

* Neu! '72 Live in Düsseldorf
* 1972 Live
* Vinyl Box

Singles|

* "Super"/"Neuschnee"
* "Isi"/"After Eight"
* "Crazy"/"Euphoria"

See also|

* Cluster
* La Düsseldorf
* Harmonia
* Kraftwerk
* La! Neu?
* Conny Plank
* Negativland
* Motorik

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Solo|

| Studio albums|

* Néondian
* Blue

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Singles|

* "Mon amour"

Die Engel des Herrn|

* Die Engel des Herrn
* Live as Hippie-Punks

Klaus Dinger + Japandorf|

* Japandorf

Productions|

* Rembrandt: God Strikes Back

Related articles|

* Kraftwerk
* Neu!
* La Düsseldorf
* La! Neu?
* Ralf Hütter
* Florian Schneider
* Michael Rother
* Conny Plank
* Thomas Dinger

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