It was a couple days into the four-day session in December 1971 that would produce the first self-titled album by Neu!, Rother’s newly formed duo with drummer Klaus Dinger.

Klaus Dinger, a figurehead of Germany's Krautrock movement of the 1970s, who was associated with bands Neu! and Kraftwerk, died in late March of heart failure in Dusseldorf. He was 61.

In the 2000s, Dinger convened a rotating cast of expat Japanese visual artists and non-musicians. Christened Klaus Dinger & Japandorf, the project was operational in Düsseldorf and The ...

German musician Klaus Dinger, who played drums in the early days of Kraftwerk and went on to co-found Neu!, died March 21 of heart failure. He was 61.

Klaus Dinger never called the drum beat/rhythm he created “motorik,” as musicians and music critics have referred to it ever since. He found the term, a neologism which translates roughly as ...

Klaus Dinger was the co-founder of seminal krautrock outfit NEU!, and although he passed away in 2008, we’re still getting to hear some new music from him almost a decade later. Berlin label ...

In part 2 of our interview with German guitar god Michael Rother, he discusses working with Klaus Dinger and Jaki Liebezeit, the Neu! classic "Hallogallo," Harmonia, and other topics.

Having educated and influenced three generations of musicians, the Krautrocking duo of Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother finally receive their due with a trio of classic reissues ...