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Morreu Klaus Dinger

Agarramos uma frase célebre de Brian Eno - "There were three great beats in the '70s: Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, James Brown's funk and Klaus Dinger's NEU! beat" - e fica sintetizada a importância de Dinger.

O alemão Klaus Dinger morreu no passado dia 21 de Março, poucos dias antes de completar 62 anos. A notícia do seu desaparecimento só foi divulgada hoje.

Dinger esteve no arranque dos trabalhos do projecto Kraftwerk, com quem gravou o primeiro álbum ao lado de Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider. Em 1971, Dinger e Michael Rother, outro personagem que estagiou no Kraftwerk, formam o duo Neu!, projecto ímpar na cena Krautrock, onde Klaus Dinger impõe e afirma o seu estílo ímpar de baterista. Único.

Apanhámos um bootleg de 71 dos Kraftwerk com Klaus Dinger, gravado na rádio de Bremen num tempo em que o grupo estava muito mais próximo daquilo que que viria a ser o som dos Neu!, e longe da sonoridade com que hoje identificamos os Kraftwerk.


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