The press covered the death of Neu! drummer Klaus Dinger this past week. There are plenty of great obituaries for Dinger as well as articles about the influence of Neu! on today's music. Inspired by the news, I spent a couple of hours with Google and my iPod digging up artists inspired by Dinger's original style of drumming.
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FYI, critics labelled Dinger's styles as 'motorik'. However, Dinger never liked that label. “That sounds more like a machine, and it was very much a human beat,” he said. “It is essentially about life, how you have to keep moving, get on and stay in motion.”
How is motorik not a band name? I think we need to start up a prog rock band pronto!
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