Michael Rother

Neu! (trademarked NEU! in block capitals, , ) was a German band formed by Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother after their split from Kraftwerk in the early 1970s. Though the band had minimal commercial success during its existence, Neu! are...

In this article: Neu!, Klaus Dinger, Kraftwerk, Conny Plank, Super 16, Florian Schneider, Thom Yorke, Julian Cope, and Ralf Hutter

...playing-and-touring Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. He'd certainly had sufficient preparation with his past collaborations with Michael Rother (NEU! & Harmonia) and Wolfgang Flur (Kraftwerk), who went on to form the group Spirits of Sound...

In this article: Europe, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, NEU, Wolfgang Flur, Asmus Tietchens, and Klaus Schulze

...of self-generative euphoria more readily associated with fellow Dusseldorf band Neu! (whose founding members Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother were once members of Kraftwerk). A bridge between electronic experimentalism and the powerful,...

In this article: Kraftwerk, Radio-Activity, Autobahn, Conny Plank, Ideology, Vienna, Neu!, and Klaus Dinger

...its contemporaries. Its early work is unremarkable. Then from unpromising beginnings emerged two seminal bands, when Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger split away to form Neu! - creators of the motorik beat - and original Kraftwerk members...

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...out of print) book Krautrocksamper, the phrase is now a badge of honor. Harmonia were something of a Krautrock super-group. Michael Rother of Neu! joined with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius of Cluster in 1973 to create the...

In this article: Harmonia, Brian Eno, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Cluster, Oxygene, Neu!, Julian Cope, Jean Michel Jarre, and Rykodisc

...from the fertile period of Krautrock without which we'd have no Electro, Techno, or Post-Rock, as we know them. Comprised of Michael Rother (from Neu!), and Moebius & Roedelius (better known as Cluster), the trio were re-united by Eno...

In this article: Harmonia, Tracks and Traces, Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon Picasso, Neu!, Cluster, Man-Machine, Transformer, and Kraftwerk

...reissued 1976 album was the third by the "supergroup" Harmonia, a collaboration between the duo Moebius and Roedelius and Michael Rother of Neu!, with Brian Eno guesting. The rabid fan enthusiasm of Julian Cope's book Krautrocksampler has...

In this article: Tracks and Traces, Harmonia, Brian Eno, Krautrocksampler, Neu, Julian Cope, Tangerine Dream, Can, and Kraftwerk

From 1965 he played in the band Spirits of Sound, from which other members would later go on to join Kraftwerk and Wunderbar . Michael Rother (left) & Dieter Moebius (right) live in 2007. Rother is a multi-instrumentalist (primarily guitar...

In this article: Harmonia, Dieter Moebius, Kraftwerk, Klaus Dinger, Hamburg, Beat Club, DVD, Florian Schneider, and Neu!

...Music will reissue Tracks and Traces, an LP cut by prog-pop genius/ambient-music pioneer Brian Eno and krautrock legends Harmonia (Michael Rother, Dieter Mobius, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) in 1976. While not nearly as essential as Musik Von...

In this article: Brian Eno, Tracks and Traces, Harmonia, Deluxe, Hamburg, and Great Britain

...isn't the whole story. "Sometimes, I have the impression that people misunderstand how Neu! worked," says their guitarist, Michael Rother, 59 this year. "It's not only the drums that are easy to identify; it's the combination of all the...

In this article: Neu!, Klaus Dinger, Julian Cope, Conny Plank, Fujiya & Miyagi, Harmonia, Oasis, Primal Scream, and Foals