| La Düsseldorf | |
| Type: | Studio Album |
| Artist: | La Düsseldorf |
| Cover: | La-dusseldorf-album.jpg |
| Released: | June 1976 |
| Recorded: | September–December 1975 |
| Length: | 35:10 |
| Label: | Nova (Germany), Radar (UK) |
| Producer: | La Düsseldorf, Conny Plank |
| Chronology: | Klaus Dinger |
| Prev Title: | Neu! '75 |
| Prev Year: | 1975 |
| Next Title: | Viva |
| Next Year: | 1978 |
La Düsseldorf is the first album of the band La Düsseldorf.
Striking up a stylistic compromise with Michael Rother, the other half of Neu!, Klaus Dinger had recruited his brother Thomas and friend Hans Lampe to play on side two of Neu! '75, taking the band in a more rocking direction than the ambient-inclined Rother cared for. With the split up of Neu! after Neu! '75's release, the remaining members recorded this LP with Neu!/Kraftwerk producer Conny Plank. The result is an album reminiscent of Neu!'s characteristic motorik beat set under atmospheric swathes of keyboard and guitar, but with more emphasis on vocals than the mostly instrumental Neu! had made room for.[1]
"In La Düsseldorf’s eponymous debut, Dinger poked his head into disco and punk and opened himself in ways previously unheard in the more art-focused Neu!."[2]