Neue Deutsche Welle

Neue Deutsche Welle ( 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.Nancy Kilpatrick, The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004, chapter 5, "Music of the Macabre," p. 84. 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 SeilerNeue Deutsche Welle - Blog summary includes an image of the original advertisement published in Sounds 08/ 79. 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  ("New German Wave — From Grey Cities' Walls") in Sounds in October 1979.Neue Deutsche Welle - Aus grauer Städte Mauern (Sounds 10/ 79).

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