La Düsseldorf

La Dusseldorf was a German rock band, in 1975 from the New group! has emerged.

Members were former Kraftwerk drummer Klaus Dinger (vocals, guitar, keyboards ), Thomas Dinger (vocals, percussion ) and Hans Lampe (percussion, electronics). Typical of the music of La Dusseldorf are long, long stretches of instrumental pieces that are sound with collagen and sparse vocals, which often contains only German, English or sometimes French language scraps, supplemented.

The music of New! and La Dusseldorf exerted a strong influence on the music of Brian Eno and David Bowie. Bowie called La Dusseldorf "the soundtrack of the eighties ".

Milestones in 1976 brought out songs Dusseldorf and Time apply. In 1978 she had the title Rheinita from the album Viva a great success, including the radio hit parades hit rally and disco in the WDR WDR 2 albums the band were after years of legal disputes between the band members and record companies in September 2005 in Germany again or first released on CD, but withdrawn from the market after a short time.

2006 saw the album Mon Amour, which was originally published in 1983 as La Dusseldorf 4. Responsible for the late release date were disputes here. Already in 1985, this work was published as LP / CD - then known as Néondian.

On September 23, 2006, the last contingent of La Dusseldorf found on the Königsallee to a relaxed photo session together. Klaus Dinger intended under the working title Japan village, all the works of La Dusseldorf with the Japanese musicians Masaki Nakao, Miki Yui, Kazuyuki Onouchi and Satoshi Okamoto re-record.

A solo album by Thomas Dinger with the title for me was published in 1982. However, this as well as the 1-A Dusseldorf albums of the brother of Klaus Dinger was destined to be a modest commercial success. In 1986, together with Damo Suzuki and Nils Kristiansen upscale from the baptism Studio Project 1 -A Dusseldorf suffered for many years at a lack of usable output. Damo Suzuki blocked the publication of all rehearsed with him recordings. The first publicly visible sign of life from 1-A Dusseldorf were the bonus samples on the CD re-released in 1998 as an LP for me. Thomas Dinger died on 9 April 2002, his brother Klaus on March 21, 2008.

Discography

• La Dusseldorf (1976 )
• Viva (1978)
• Individuellos (1980)
• Blue (1989/1999)
• Neondian ( Mon Amour ) (2006 )