"Whether it could become influential didn't even cross my mind," he says. By Robert Levine “If you had asked me 50 years ago what I would be doing in a year, I wouldn’t have had an answer,” says ...

Krautrock icons NEU! (Michael Rother and the late Klaus Dinger) are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their self-titled debut album this year with a NEU! 50! box set that will be out September 23 ...

In West Germany in the early 1970s, a collection of experimental rock bands revolutionised music. Born out of a radical time in the history of post-war Germany, this loosely connected group of artists ...

It first crept into Britain in the early Seventies, a little baffled at its reception. When Faust named a 1974 track Krautrock, they were throwing shade at how idiotic the Brits must be to have given ...

This humble musical revolutionary would rather you not use the term "krautrock," but he's not offended by it. Credit: GRÖNLAND RECORDS The first three LPs by the former established the motorik ...

Rother and Dinger, along with their contemporaries – including Kraftwerk, Faust, Amon Duul II and Tangerine Dream – were post-war children of West Germany, whose ‘economic miracle’ went hand-in-hand ...

While a term littered throughout the post-punk and psychedelic worlds, what exactly is the motorik beat? Read more about it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “If you had asked me 50 years ago what I would be doing in a year, I wouldn’t have had an answer,” says Michael Rother over Zoom ...