[3] In early 1996 Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother met in Düsseldorf to review their ongoing legal battle with Metronome Records for the rights to the three original Neu!

Metronome had offered to compromise with Dinger and Rother by giving the two musicians a sizable proportion of the profits made from a reissue of the albums and by financing promotional activities, possibly including a world tour.

Whilst Dinger was willing to accept this offer, Rother was more hesitant, still hoping to secure full ownership of the recordings.

and particularly with Michael Rother) had visited both venues as part of a world tour and produced the album Japan 1996 Live from the result.

Rather than back out of the conversations he was having with Tokyo and Osaka, Dinger decided to offer the services of a new group he had been building around Andreas Reihse of Kreidler and Victoria Wehrmeister of Superbilk.

In Germany he finalised the group's debut album Düsseldorf and prepared to take an extended 8-man line-up with him to Japan.

Kerry Aberhard – the curator of the art gallery and a fan of Dinger's work – offered to fly to Japan in advance of La!

The stage had a rope stretched at shoulder-height across it, from which hung Japanese drums and bells which Dinger played during the concert along with his guitar.

He was joined by drummers Thomas Klein and Markus Hofmann (both of Kreidler) as well as bassist and contrabassist Konstantin Wienstroer, guitarist Dirk Flader, vocalist Victoria Wehrmeister and keyboardists Andreas Reihse and Rembrandt Lensink.

Dinger incorporated samples of a conversation with his mother and several new lyrics to the song, the band playing for roughly an hour, at one point inviting audience members on stage to participate.

At the hour mark the music was brought down and the song's middle section begun, in this version featuring contrabass and piano solos from Wienstroer and Lensink.

A tribal drum beat provided by Hofmann and Klein gradually merged into the signature riff, before the concert concluded with layers of guitar feedback and Dinger's farewell to the audience.

Some time before that, Dinger's home had been burgled and the video tapes of the concert stolen (along with memorabilia such as Yuri Shibata's banner).

He also pieced together an extensive booklet featuring photographs of the band in Japan and onstage and commentaries from Ken Matsutani and Kerry Aberhard.