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 ...

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, ...

Although Neu! multi-intrumentalist and onetime Kraftwerk drummer Klaus Dinger passed away in 2008, some of his unreleased late-career work may at last see the light of day. On March 25, Berlin-based ...

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, 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. Dinger was part ...

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 ...

Michael Rother's forthcoming Solo box set (out February 22 on Grönland Records) makes a strong case for his greatness outside of his most worshiped musical projects: Neu! and Harmonia. (It also ...

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 ...