"He didn’t put on brakes," says Miki Yui, the widow of Klaus Dinger, temporary member of Kraftwerk, former drummer with Neu! and later founder of La Düsseldorf. "He wasn’t moderate. He didn’t care ...

You've heard the Motorik beat, one of the seminal rhythms of the late 20ths century. Created in the early 1970s by Dusseldorf, Germany percussionist Klaus Dinger, the Motorik beat over the past thirty ...

The German musician Klaus Dinger, who has died aged 61, was a key figure in early 1970s "Krautrock". An early member of Kraftwerk, and then half of the duo Neu! with guitarist Michael Rother, his ...

Krautrock pioneer Klaus Dinger sadly passed away in 2008, but we haven't heard the last of the former Kraftwerk member/Neu! co-founder/La Düsseldorf leader. In his later years, Dinger worked on a ...

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 Grönland ...

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 ...

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. By Jonathan Cohen German musician Klaus Dinger, ...

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Yesterday, Grönland released Japandorf (artwork above), the final record by Klaus Dinger, formerly of Neu! and La Düsseldorf. Dinger produced the album with a group of Japanese musicians and artists ...

I wonder if, when Klaus Dinger identified “Gigantic possibilities” in the middle of “Cha Cha 2000”, he had any idea of the gigantic possibilities his music would offer to thousands of artists in the ...

In the Seventies heyday of German experimental rock – a once-maligned genre dubbed "Krautrock" – the musician Klaus Dinger pioneered a hypnotic, robotic style of drumming which became known as the ...