That Motorik Beat

The "motorik" tag on last.fm is o_O

also The Clean's "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" is an excellent example (sort of a bastard son of Hallogallo and Oh Yeah)

"Bruises and Change" by Lorrie Matheson (avail on eMu)
"Pric" by Super Furry Animals

I would like to point out that the original reason I posted this question was that I was making a mix CDR700MBGO!...

― Douglas (Douglas)

This is kinda my intention, too. Douglas, if you're still around, do you have the tracklisting for that CDR?

Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck

Cave - Hot Bricks

Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady gets pretty motoriky at points

I had a revelation with Green Eyed Lady while listening to it pumped over speakers at a gas station- take away the singing and it's really avant for the time.

wow, had now idea that blount was deaf. poor guy.

think blount just misunderstood what the motorik beat is. the opening guitars of "cherub rock" sound kinda like neu! guitar chuggin

I would really kill to hear a motorik version of "Cherub Rock" actually

well not really or actually.

"Helen of Troy" by Telefon Tel Aviv is chuggin' motorik city, totally.

thread reminds me that i meant to ask about this sfj squib from last month where he describes the motorik beat as having "constant sixteenth notes on the kick drum." i hate to quibble with a music writer who's also a musician, but surely he means 8th notes?

My motorik bathroom:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/5055240888_da4a5cd411.jpg

haha

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

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