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, 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.

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 ...

(He also briefly played in Kraftwerk in 1971, but couldn't fully express himself in that context, so he and drummer Klaus Dinger left Florian Schneider and formed Neu!.) ...

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 ...

Kraftwerk and Neu! founding member Klaus Dinger has died of heart failure at the age of 61. The drummer passed away on March 20 and was later buried in a ceremony which saw only his family and ...

In 1970, an early iteration of the group — then comprised of Schneider, Hutter, and drummer Klaus Dinger — made their television debut on the German music TV show Rockpalast.

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 ...