{"id":2562,"date":"2008-04-06T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2008-04-06T19:04:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T00:04:57","slug":"klaus-dinger-rip-1946-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/04\/klaus-dinger-rip-1946-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"KLAUS DINGER R.I.P. 1946-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KLAUS DINGER R.I.P. 1946-2008<br \/>\nKlaus Dinger, who played drums for Kraftwerk and went on to co-found Neu!, died March 21, although the news of his death was not made public until this week. A report from Neu! label Gr\u00f6nland cites the cause of death as heart failure. Dinger was 61, and would have turned 62 on March 24.<br \/>\nDinger trademarked the steady, propulsive drumming style that came to define the motorik sound associated with krautrock. He drummed on Kraftwerk&#8217;s 1970 self-titled debut before leaving the band, along with guitarist Michael Rother, to start Neu! Neu! released three seminal albums during the &#8217;70s, and had a noted influence on everyone from David Bowie to Sonic Youth to Stereolab.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/04\/arts\/music\/04dinger.html?ex=1365048000&amp;en=2138a9557e3c383d&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/71816482-3bd3-46b9-9478-6d7cbc967e59.jpg\" alt=\"71816482-3BD3-46B9-9478-6D7CBC967E59.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"275\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KLAUS DINGER R.I.P. 1946-2008 Klaus Dinger, who played drums for Kraftwerk and went on to co-found Neu!, died March 21, although the news of his death was not made public until this week. A report from Neu! label Gr\u00f6nland cites the cause of death as heart failure. Dinger was 61, and would have turned 62 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/04\/klaus-dinger-rip-1946-2008\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KLAUS DINGER R.I.P. 1946-2008<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-Fk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}