Recording
Hallogallo
Neu!
Independently chosen for4 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1972
- Label
- Brain
- On
- Krautrock, Roots, The Waxonia Desk — Krautrock, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Analysis
12 sections, no single moment the energy jumps to, 28% of it spent climbing.
- Tempo
- 152 BPM
- holds throughout
- Dynamic range
- 4.9 dB
- compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- Length
- 10:08
- measured from the YouTube master
The record, end to end
Click the track to jump · ← → move between sections
- 0:00Aintrobar -10
- 1:56Abuildbar 63
- 2:14Aliftbar 75
- 2:46Aliftbar 95
- 5:33Abuildbar 201
- 6:10Apeakbar 224
- 6:36Bbreakdownbar 241
- 6:50Cbuildbar 249
- 8:19Cliftbar 306
- 9:07Abuildbar 336
- 9:32Bpeakbar 352
- 9:51Boutrobar 364
0:00 · A · intro
opens the record below its own average energy · instrumental · one of 7 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 1:56
- Energy
- 34
- Brightness
- 22
- Density
- 72
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 7 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:18
- Energy
- 63
- Brightness
- 22
- Density
- 76
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build · instrumental · one of 7 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:32
- Energy
- 75
- Brightness
- 16
- Density
- 96
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build · instrumental · one of 7 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 2:47
- Energy
- 69
- Brightness
- 42
- Density
- 67
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 7 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:37
- Energy
- 69
- Brightness
- 19
- Density
- 67
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 7 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:26
- Energy
- 93
- Brightness
- 27
- Density
- 81
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:14
- Energy
- 70
- Brightness
- 74
- Density
- 31
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 1:29
- Energy
- 72
- Brightness
- 41
- Density
- 46
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build · instrumental · one of 2 stretches of the same music (C)
- Lasts
- 0:48
- Energy
- 86
- Brightness
- 46
- Density
- 57
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
energy and brightness climbing without a break · instrumental · one of 7 stretches of the same music (A)
- Lasts
- 0:25
- Energy
- 83
- Brightness
- 0
- Density
- 100
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
sits at the top of this record's range · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:19
- Energy
- 100
- Brightness
- 95
- Density
- 38
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
the closing fall · instrumental · one of 3 stretches of the same music (B)
- Lasts
- 0:18
- Energy
- 0
- Brightness
- 100
- Density
- 0
- drums
- bass
- vocals
- other
Brightness and density are scored against this record's own sections, not against music in general — they say how its parts differ from each other, and nothing about how it compares to anything else.
- drums
- the drum kit, separated from the mix
- bass
- the bass part, separated from the mix
- vocals
- the voice, separated from the mix
- other
- everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings
Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.
- intro
- opens the record below its own average energy
- build
- energy and brightness climbing without a break
- lift
- a short rise that does not resolve — a fill or a transition, not a build
- peak
- sits at the top of this record's range
- breakdown
- energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning
- outro
- the closing fall
Measured from the YouTube master on . Section labels describe how the energy of the recording moves, not its musical form — a machine can see loudness climb and jump, it cannot hear a chorus arrive. Anything we were not confident enough to state is left out rather than shown with a caveat.
Ranked No. 1 in Krautrock
Ten minutes of Klaus Dinger playing one beat perfectly. The motorik pulse is the single most exportable idea German rock produced, and every record that drives forward without swinging owes it something.
Picked by Roots
Ten minutes of a beat that never accents anything. The idea that a rhythm can drive without swinging is the one European contribution the Americans genuinely had to import.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Krautrock
The one Britain heard. Every post-punk band that drives forward without swinging is playing Klaus Dinger's beat, usually without having been told whose it was.
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
Ten minutes of one beat played perfectly. The idea that rhythm can drive without swinging is Europe's single largest export to this list.