Neue Deutsche Welle
genre of German music originally derived from punk rock and new wave music / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the music style. For the Fler album, see Neue Deutsche Welle (album).
Neue Deutsche Welle (lit. New German Wave), shortened to NDW, is a style of West German rock music starting from post-punk and new wave music with elements taken from electronic music.[1] The term was made by Dutch radio DJ Frits Spits on the popular nationwide ratio station Hilversum 3, which was popular among German listeners. Soon after that, the term was used in a record-shop advertisement by Burkhardt Seiler[2] in an August 1979 issue of the West German magazine Sounds. It was then used by journalist Alfred Hilsberg in an article about the movement titled Neue Deutsche Welle — Aus grauer Städte Mauern ("New German Wave — From Grey Cities' Walls") in Sounds in October 1979.[3][4]
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Stylistic origins | |
Cultural origins | Late 1970s, West Germany |
Typical instruments | Electric guitar, drum kit, electric bass, keyboard |
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German rock, music of Germany, Neue Deutsche Härte |
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