That Motorik Beat

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Tortoise - Djed (Don't know why that one didn't occur to me sooner!)

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

That motorik beat is always accompanied by a spectral gauzey fade-in. YES.
(my examples do not all bear this out)
-- Alex in Doncaster (alex_fac...) (webmail), February 14th, 2005 2:21 PM. (link)

Like, for instance, "Silver Machine" Hawkwind?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

most things Hamish Kilgour drums on. The Clean's 'Vehicle' is the same beat at varying speeds for the whole record. pretty much, anyway.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Jagz Kooner productions and remixes.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

mark otm about hawkwind - their studio stuff esp has some crisp clean motorik, while the space ritual stuff is some hairier/messier kraut-esque drumming. god i fucking love hawkwind.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a track near the end of Dusk at Cubist Castle (I think it's the title track) that fits the bill.

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 14 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

hawkwind - opa loka. the most motorik non kraut record ever.

whitey - two face.

spencer otm about jagz kooner.

― stirmonster, Monday, 14 February 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait! This is getting too scattered! Related but scattered! Definition time!

― don, Monday, 14 February 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a pretty rigid idea of motorik, so here goes:

4/4 time, basic rock bet, with snare on 2 & 4, HOWEVER, bass drum is playing exactly what the hi-hat does (ie, on each eighth note), except on the beats where the snare hits. It looks like this

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
h h h h h h h h
. . s . . . s .
b b . b b b . b

This is the beat of many Neu songs, including "Hallogallo". I think the bass drum playing on all those eigth notes is what separates motorik from a lot of other regular old 4/4 rock beats (fast, driving or otherwise).

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa, that looked a lot better pre-post.

basically, the b's are supposed to line up w/the h's, and the s's are on 2 and 4. I hate the internet!

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Pumpkins "1979" does not fit, right?

― Aaron A., Monday, 14 February 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

not according to the definition I'm using above. It almost does, but in the drum figure of "1979", there's a syncopation pattern that de-motorikizes it (and also makes two bars have to pass before completing the figure). One of the things about motorik that makes it "motorik" (or robotic) is that each measure is identical, it doesn't take more than one measure to complete the whole pattern.

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thebigcity.co.nz/images/motorik.gif

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hows that dleone

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

nice. i wasn't sure at first, but that fits my mental definition.

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

from what i can hear the kick falls on every 8th note, including the 2 and 4. just straight ahead pounding. with various snare fills and a crash or two every 4 or 8 measures off that.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Drums On Fire" - Broadcast

― losingsoul, Monday, 14 February 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Jefferson Starship, "Find Your Way Back" (the end of the song)

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"For Kate I Wait" - Ariel Pink (done with mouth)

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Telstar Ponies - Lugengeschichte or whatever the heck it was called has this beat but with added flourishes. Basically any non-Deutsche indie song circa 1994-95 with a German title.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

'Sleep The Clock Around' - Belle & Sebastian

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

"Mongoloid" by DEVO. ?

― Helltime Product Oh, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

post more!

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Glitter Band is the closest I've ever heard, so much so that I'm pretty sure La Dusseldorf ripped them off

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Quite a lot of bubblegum too, e.g., "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" by Crazy Elephant

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

whitey - two face

yes this is a great one.

― hella somethin' Gwen Stefani pantwork (haitch), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

OOIOO - BE SURE TO LOOP
OOIOO - OIZUMIO

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Omoide Hatoba - White Hour

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Boredoms - Super Roots 7 (Boriginal)

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember which song it is, but one of the tracks offa Glenn Branca's Ascension certainly counts. It might be "Lesson #2."

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Lesson #1 counts

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Lesson #2 sounds like shit Sonic Youth

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

that fantastic instrumental track on die sterne's 'posen' album, the name of which i've forgotten right now.

wow, this thread has given me much food for thought!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Holger Hiller, Das Feuer

― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

more motorik/'apache' (heh) talk: motorik

― hella somethin' Gwen Stefani pantwork (haitch), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh here it is, it's Glenn Branca's "Light Field (In Consonance)" off of Ascension.

Yeah, the Lesson #2 sounds like shit.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Schneider TM opens his new album with a motorik diddy called "More Time" (also released as a single last year).

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

also, "Now We Know" and esp. "Ridin'" from Pharoah Overlord's IV must be heard.

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to point out that the original reason I posted this question was that I was making a mix CDR700MBGO! for my wife to listen to as she gave birth. (Apparently the kid liked it; he came right out to hear better.)

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

motorik cd to pop the baby out faster = genius

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Joy Division "Isolation"

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how Burundi drums would've affected the whole process

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

here's Dominique's explanation of motorik re-formatted:

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
h h h h h h h h
. . s . . . s .
b b . b b b . b

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

Bardo Pond - Inside

― JMMMusic (Jimmy M), Saturday, 8 July 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

snapper - everything (at least on the e.p. and "shotgun blossom")

― naturemorte (naturemorte), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

just Justin - SexyBack

― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Sunday, 9 July 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
h h h h h h h h
. . s . . . s .
b b . b b b . b

fucking elegant

― Adam S S (Zephery), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

Essex Green - Cardinal Points

― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 9 July 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

heigh-ho!

The Fall - "Before the Moon Falls", prhaps?

― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 10 October 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

The "motorik" tag on last.fm is o_O

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 10 October 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

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Pulls on to the autobahn nearly three minutes in but then you get those Rother wakka wakkas so you know it's proper, and when the alternating Battlestar Galactica riffs hit you must salute.

https://howlinbananarecords.bandcamp.com/track/trapezohedron

― Basil Ker-ching (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 21:25 (five years ago)

three years pass...

help me find a thread for this but debut album Fugue State (2022) by Swedish "ambient blues" outfit Weils is simply fantastic, album opener "To Apeiron" 23 minutes of slow-motorik bliss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8x7m9D80To

― corrs unplugged, Friday, 9 February 2024 10:28 (two years ago)

excellent, extremely my kind of thing

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 9 February 2024 10:40 (two years ago)

Lewsberg are a band from Rotterdam whose sound alternates between early VU and spaced-out motorik jams and somehow never sound like "What Goes On":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9j4AxEhe8

― henry s, Friday, 9 February 2024 13:16 (two years ago)

Heh, mebbe that yin is a wee bit reminiscent of “The Gift.”

― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 February 2024 14:30 (two years ago)

Corrs - thanks for that Weils heads-up. Extremely my thing!

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 09:54 (two years ago)

Metabolist 'Alien on Sunday' - beautifully minimalist take on the beat, no fills, no flourishes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOwm-HYfVwA

― atonar, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 13:25 (two years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1JGNsAQ0I

― oder doch?, Tuesday, 27 January 2026 20:57 (four months ago)

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