Neu!

imagine you had a band that had been cited as an influence on artists such as joy division, david bowie, brian eno and even radiohead. imagine the music you made had a direct influence on many of today's musical styles and genres. that would be pretty cool huh?

neu!, formed in 1971, was comprised of guitarist michael rother and drummer klaus dinger, both of whom had performed with electronic music pioneers kraftwerk. anyway you look at it these guys come from good pedigree and were destined to be influencial in the music world. the funny thing to me is that experimental music from germany (also known as krautrock) never really made it big anywhere else except for maybe britain. thus probably the artists listed above as being influenced by neu! are mainly english

jam music, post psychedelic, and progressive rock is making a comeback these days with bands such as tame impala, the mars volta, and the horrors selling plenty of records. if you listen to neu! you will here the DNA of this music being passed on. i cant help but hear their influence on a tonne of other music too, bands like tortoise, autechre, and even coldplay in some aspects

check out the track negativland of the album neu! and tell me you dont hear a peter hook baseline here. as a matter of fact i hear this groove a lot and i like it