That Motorik Beat

Death Cab For Cutie - "Doors Unlocked and Open"

The end of "Turn to You" by The Go-Go's: http://youtu.be/L7pI1AY5Ux8?t=3m44s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdyEiZG9fdQ

Ultravox - I Can't Stay Long from Systems of Romance, made in 1978 in Cologne by Conny Plank.

er, *produced* by Conny Plank

Not strictly motoroik, I guess, but Chrome's You've Been Duplicated?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNC2rXWyAhQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfogw1M-f4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NZfjbht79M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uudV8FVJYPI

People might disagree with these two but I'm posting them anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdiVSQj3ZFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7vvhV8SVjg

there are other, more appropriate American Analog Set songs but I can't think of them right now.

did you post "Taiso" by YMO bc that super counts

Death Cab For Cutie - "Doors Unlocked and Open"
haw, heard this on the radio recently. the biggest motorik hit ever!

A locked-groove record on which a motorik jam (or any jam, really, though motorik might be ideal) plays on forever and ever ... does such a thing exist? Can such a thing exist? I'm no vinyl expert.

dr feelgood - she does it right

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b b . b b b . b

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, July 8, 2006 2:42 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

One of NEU! explained the history of the invention of the motorik beat as him having thought about football at the time. I'm not completely remembering the quote but it's from a Wire interview about 10 years ago.
If it was about passing a ball across the grid of the football field I could see how it might fit with the above matrix I think. But I could be reading that wrong.

i see tomorrow never knows as one of the early examples of the motorik groove. pretty sure klaus dinger got some clues from that beat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6o2ZpHZWos

If the pattern listed above, or on Wikipedia, is the Motorik beat, I think a lot of us are foggy on the definition (myself included) and are including songs that are just tonic or repetitive.

did you post "Taiso" by YMO bc that super counts

ha, never thought of this, but yes

Ippu-Do did an entire album full of motorik beats, called Normal; the whole thing was a tribute to Neu!

Working For a Nuclear Free City - lots of tracks, particularly "Forever" which also sounds like a tribute

The end of "Bad Vibrations" by the Black Angels shifts into this really nice motorik (ish?) beat that sends the song screaming away on some driving-sequence-from-Solaris trip.

I think I'm going to have to make a playlist of Motorik beat stuff. So add more suggestions!

Wasted by Six.By Seven.

Plenty of Electrelane.

"Left myself behind" by Toy (I love how everything you read about Toy reminds you they were Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, and how hopeless they were) wants to be motorik, and tries hard during its final two minutes but ends up sounding more like "Hope against hope" by Band of Susans. Who were also kind of motorik sometimes anyway.

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

I can't believe there is still any debate anywhere ever about the worst band name of all-time.

this probably more foggy notion of motorik than real-motorik, but has a bit of motorik propulsion to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ2_959CH8U&feature=related

Just Like Everyone Else on the new Field Music album.

Mother Sky isn't a pure motorik beat - Jacki's doing something different with the kick drum pattern, and, of course, goes fucking lunatic drum solo godhead on us (whilst sustaining the main snare beat) as well.

dirty boots by sonic youth feels like a truncated motorik beat. the moment shelley starts to play those ghost notes mid-track his drumming gets too funky to be *real* motorik.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TampUTqjfG0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb_UmdKaE1g

goes fucking lunatic drum solo godhead on us (whilst sustaining the main snare beat) as well.

... that's 'cos the solo is overdubbed

I know really, but I like to think it isn't.

On The Run - Eddie & The Hot Rods
Knickerbocker - Fujiya & Miyagi

Daily bump. I might have a spare hour to actually put together as many of these as I've got into a playlist tonight, so gimme some more. Especially keen on examples from bands who don't normally venture into motorik, and also uber faithful integrations of the beat, as opposed to "a bit like motorik".

there are other, more appropriate American Analog Set songs but I can't think of them right now.

This is pretty delicious, and includes regulation spectral fade-in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKtCPnTp4NA

The Supremes (sans Ross) recorded a Joni Mitchell song in the 70s. with a motorik beat.
the first 30 seconds especially sound like a Stereolab record with added soul horns!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmgFBSmoLmc

Load of suggestions 9and some crossover) here - http://thequietus.com/articles/01702-motorikpop-a-secret-history-spotified

Neu! – 'Hallogallo (1972)
The Modern Lovers - 'Roadrunner (1976)*
Iggy Pop - 'Funtime' (1977)
David Bowie - 'Red Sails' (1978)
Joy Division/Warsaw - 'Novelty (1978)*
PiL - 'Chant' (1979)
Human League - 'Seconds' (1981)
Ultravox - 'Dancing With Tears In My Eyes' (1984)
The Jesus And Mary Chain - 'Never Understand' (1985)
My Bloody Valentine – 'Honey Power' (1991)*
Spectrum - 'How You Satisfy Me' (1991)*
Stereolab - 'Crest' (1993)
The Fall - 'Touch Sensitive' (1999)
Boredoms - '♥' (1999)*
OOIOO - 'Be Sure To Loop' (2001)*
Broadcast - 'Pendulum' (2003)*
Secret Machines - 'Nowhere Again' (2004)
LCD Soundsystem - 'Jump Into The Fire' (2005)
Fujiya & Miyagi - 'Ankle Injuries' (2006)
Mercury Rev - 'Senses On Fire' (2008)
Manic Street Preachers - 'Marlon J.D.' (2009)
The Horrors - 'Sea Within A Sea' (2009)
Neu! - 'E-Musik' (1975)

I.O.U Love by Six.By Seven.

The Rip by Portishead isn't pure, but totally has the right feel.

Day 7 by The Notwist.

Angel by My Bloody Valentine.

Big Ideas by LCD Soundsystem.

Great Release, too. Albeit very quietly.

Mexican Grand Prix by Mogwai (not 100% but again the right feel)

This is my playlist as it stands:

Like Foxes Through Fences The American Analog Set Know by Heart 2001
Month Of May Arcade Fire The Suburbs 2010
Stammtisch Barbara Manning 1212 1997
Sleep The Clock Around Belle & Sebastian The Boy With The Arab Strap 1998
7～ (EW∃ Remix) Boredoms Super Roots 7 1998
(Heart) Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun 2000
Red Sails Bowie, David Lodger 1979
Station To Station Bowie, David Station To Station 1976
Pike In My Life Campag Velocet Bon Chic Bon Genre 1999
Mother Sky (Edit) CAN Anthology 2007
A Final Warning Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness 2005
Bees Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness 2005
Heiße Lippen Cluster Zuckerzeit 1974
Doors Unlocked and Open Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys 2011
Sons of Rother Death In Vegas Satan's Circus 2004
I Feel Love (12" Version) Donna Summer I Feel Love 1977
Bells Electrelane Axes 2005
Tram 21 Electrelane No Shouts, No Calls 2007
The First Cut Embrace I Wouldn't Wanna Happen To You 2000
Shoulder Pads 1 The Fall Bend Sinister 1986
Touch Sensitive The Fall 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats [Disc 2] 1999
Just Like Everyone Else Field Music Plumb 2012
Knickerbocker Fujiya & Miyagi Lightbulbs 2008
Monza (Rauf Und Runter) Harmonia Deluxe 1975
Veterano Harmonia Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1974
Jump Into the Fire Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson 1971
Sea Within a Sea The Horrors Primary Colours 2009
Trans-Europe Express Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express 1977
Rheinita La Düsseldorf Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1979
Great Release LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem 2005
Big Ideas LCD Soundsystem 21 OST 2007
Off Your Face My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 1] 2012
Honey Power My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 2] 2012
Angel My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 2] 2012
Hallo Gallo Neu! Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1972
Negativland Neu! Neu 1 1971
Isi Neu! Neu! 75 1975
Hero Neu! Neu! 75 1975
After Eight Neu! Neu! 75 1975
Destination Tokyo Nisennenmondai Destination Tokyo 2009
Day 7 The Notwist Shrink 1995
The Rip Portishead Third 2008
Autobahn 66 Primal Scream Dirty Hits 2003
Shoot Speed/Kill Light Primal Scream Xtrmntr 2000
Regular John Queens Of The Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age 1998
Wasted Six.By Seven Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel 2004
Wallflower Six.By Seven Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel 2004
"Untitled" Six.By Seven Six.byseven:04 2004
I.O.U. Love Six.By Seven The Way I Feel Today 2002
Got Nuffin Spoon Transference 2010
Les Yper-Sound Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup 1996
Hard To Explain The Strokes Is This It? 2001
Pric Super Furry Animals Dark Days/Light Years 2009
Burning Down The House Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues 1983
What Goes On The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground 1969
A Warm Front, Coming From The North Warm Digits Keep Warm... With The Warm Digits 2011
Spiders (Kidsmoke) Wilco A Ghost is Born 2004
Forever Working For A Nuclear Free City Working for a Nuclear Free City 2006

You should check out Ultravox - I Can't Stay Long, even if you think you hate Ultravox. Make sure it's the og version though, not the Midge Ure nonsense

Lali Puna - Grin and Bear
Flowchart - Do Oscillators Have Wings
The Emperor Machine - Emperor Machine

Ultravox (and Jonathan Richman) are on the list of stuff to investigate next.

Magazine - The Light Pours Out At Me (militaristic motorik)

Magazine - The Light Pours Out At oF Me, i mean

bit disappointed "reason is treason" got disqualified..

Anyways, what now for the playlist?

There are Strokes songs, or parts of them, that fit the bill here but titles are escaping me.

wow, amazing how much that Supremes song sounds like Stereolab!

There are a bunch of songs off of Sugar's Copper Blue album that seem like heavy versions of the motorik beat