Search - Artist/Band: La Düsseldorf

• Band Name: La Düsseldorf
• Formed: 1974
• Originated From: Germany
• Decades Active: 1970,1980
• Genre: Electronica
• Styles: Art Rock, Experimental Electronic, Kraut Rock, Prog-Rock

Title	Release
Individuellos	1981
Viva WA	1978
La Düsseldorf WA	1976

Together with guitarist/keyboards player Michael Rother, with whom he had previously worked with in Kraftwerk and Neu!, German percussionist Klaus Dinger formed La Dusseldorf following the breakup of cyber-rock band, Neu!, in 1974. Applying a punk-inspired "less is more" drive to Neu!'s minimalist pop-meets-German experimentalism, La Dusseldorf rose to the heights of Europe's progressive rock scene of the late 1970s. Sales of their three albums -- La Dusseldorf in 1976, Viva in 1978, and Individuellos in 1981 -- totalled more than a million copies. They released a European hit single, "Silver Cloud," in 1976.

In the aftermath of La Dusseldorf's disbanding in 1981, Rother has sporadically surfaced, releasing solo albums -- Neondian in 1985, and Die Engel Des Herm in 1993. ~ Craig Harris, All Music Guide