Just last week I mentioned the 70th birthday of Can-man Holger Czukay. Today I read that Klaus Dinger, just as much a Krautrock legend, has died. Klaus Dinger was 61 years old. Dinger played drums on the first self-titled Kraftwerk album in 1970. In his Kraftwerk-period Dinger met guitarist Michael Rother with whome he formed Neu! in 1971.
I only discovered Neu! three or four years ago. I clearly remember hearing the hypnotizing 'Hallogallo' - Dinger's motorik drumstyle and Rother's spacey, mellow guitar sound - for the first time. It blew me away. Without a doubt one of my favourite pieces of music ever made.
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