Both tracks were recorded quickly at
Conny Plank's studio in
Cologne during the summer of 1972, six months after the release of Neu!'s
debut album.
Brain were pessimistic about the single's chances, and had to be convinced to release it by
Dinger and
Rother. When it was released, it was backed by only minimal promotion, and predictably failed to make any impact on the German music charts (though some
Krautrock acts – such as
Can – did have successful singles in the early
'70s). When Dinger and Rother returned to the studio in early 1973 to record
Neu! 2, they decided to fill the second side of the new album with tape manipulated remixes of the "Super/Neuschnee" single. There have been several conflicting explanations as to why this was done, the most quoted being Dinger's assertion that: However, this has been refuted by Michael Rother, who claims that the second side was made to aggravate their record label, who they felt had insufficiently promoted the original release of the "Super/Neuschnee" single, and not as a result of financial problems. Either way, the second side of the album was ill-met by fans who thought, according to Rother, that "we were making fun of them." This issue contributed to the widening gap between Dinger and Rother, both creatively and personally. Dinger later said of the issue: The single was also released in the UK on the
United Artists label with a different cover. ==Track listing==