― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 14 February 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 14 February 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― f, Monday, 14 February 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link
most of their first two records tend towards neu!/la duesseldorf type beats.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tito JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 14 February 2005 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 February 2005 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 14 February 2005 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Another Velvets one would be "Foggy Notion".
― haitch (haitch), Monday, 14 February 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 February 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap0))), Monday, 14 February 2005 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Monday, 14 February 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 14 February 2005 11:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Lots of Glitter Band/ Gary GlitterLots of StoogesLots of Velvets
Bowie - Red Sails (et al, ad infinitum etc)Iggy - FuntimeCabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag (et al)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 14 February 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hungry Horace, Monday, 14 February 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 14 February 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― cb, Monday, 14 February 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 14 February 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
(my examples do not all bear this out)
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Also several Unrest songs, like the Hyrdofoil/Hydroplane ones.
― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― kaiser motorik, Monday, 14 February 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
-- 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 14 February 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Monday, 14 February 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
whitey - two face.
spencer otm about jagz kooner.
― stirmonster, Monday, 14 February 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― don, Monday, 14 February 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Aaron A., Monday, 14 February 2005 21:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 14 February 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― losingsoul, Monday, 14 February 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Helltime Product Oh, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
yes this is a great one.
― hella somethin' Gwen Stefani pantwork (haitch), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 7 July 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
wow, this thread has given me much food for thought!
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― ¡Vamos a matar, Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― hella somethin' Gwen Stefani pantwork (haitch), Friday, 7 July 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, the Lesson #2 sounds like shit.
― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― willem -- (willem), Friday, 7 July 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Saturday, 8 July 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 8 July 2006 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― JMMMusic (Jimmy M), Saturday, 8 July 2006 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― naturemorte (naturemorte), Saturday, 8 July 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― oh, wrinklepaws! (Wrinklepaws), Sunday, 9 July 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
fucking elegant
― Adam S S (Zephery), Sunday, 9 July 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hunter (Hunter), Sunday, 9 July 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
heigh-ho!
The Fall - "Before the Moon Falls", prhaps?
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 10 October 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
The "motorik" tag on last.fm is o_O
― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 10 October 2008 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
also The Clean's "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" is an excellent example (sort of a bastard son of Hallogallo and Oh Yeah)
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 10 October 2008 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
"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?
― I've got some funny ideas about what sounds good (staggerlee), Friday, 4 December 2009 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck
― Leu! (crüt), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Cave - Hot Bricks
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Sugarloaf - Green Eyed Lady gets pretty motoriky at points
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Monday, 6 September 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― bendy, Monday, 6 September 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, had now idea that blount was deaf. poor guy.
― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Monday, 6 September 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
think blount just misunderstood what the motorik beat is. the opening guitars of "cherub rock" sound kinda like neu! guitar chuggin
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Monday, 6 September 2010 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I would really kill to hear a motorik version of "Cherub Rock" actually
― dy (max) ia (crüt), Monday, 6 September 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
well not really or actually.
"Helen of Troy" by Telefon Tel Aviv is chuggin' motorik city, totally.
― Trayce, Monday, 6 September 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Monday, 6 September 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
My motorik bathroom:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/5055240888_da4a5cd411.jpg
― ledge, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Death Cab For Cutie - "Doors Unlocked and Open"
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 June 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
The end of "Turn to You" by The Go-Go's: http://youtu.be/L7pI1AY5Ux8?t=3m44s
― ernestp, Sunday, 20 May 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Sunday, 20 May 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
er, *produced* by Conny Plank
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Sunday, 20 May 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
Not strictly motoroik, I guess, but Chrome's You've Been Duplicated?
― Jean-Luc Poncey (lpz), Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 3×5, Thursday, 7 June 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
there are other, more appropriate American Analog Set songs but I can't think of them right now.
― 3×5, Thursday, 7 June 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
did you post "Taiso" by YMO bc that super counts
― he bit me (it felt like a diss) (m bison), Thursday, 7 June 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Death Cab For Cutie - "Doors Unlocked and Open"haw, heard this on the radio recently. the biggest motorik hit ever!
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 June 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Monday, 11 June 2012 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
dr feelgood - she does it right
― cock chirea, Monday, 11 June 2012 07:43 (eleven years ago) link
― 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.
― Stevolende, Monday, 11 June 2012 07:44 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― cock chirea, Monday, 11 June 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6o2ZpHZWos
― cock chirea, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― 3×5, Monday, 11 June 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Monday, 11 June 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Peaceniks, Homos, and Potheads Who Wear Ties (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link
I think I'm going to have to make a playlist of Motorik beat stuff. So add more suggestions!
Wasted by Six.By Seven.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 07:44 (eleven years ago) link
Plenty of Electrelane.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― Rob M Revisited, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― brio, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 06:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TampUTqjfG0
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 08:54 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb_UmdKaE1g
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
goes fucking lunatic drum solo godhead on us (whilst sustaining the main snare beat) as well.
... that's 'cos the solo is overdubbed
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
I know really, but I like to think it isn't.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
On The Run - Eddie & The Hot RodsKnickerbocker - Fujiya & Miyagi
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
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".
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 14 June 2012 08:11 (eleven years ago) link
This is pretty delicious, and includes regulation spectral fade-in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKtCPnTp4NA
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 14 June 2012 08:28 (eleven years ago) link
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
― zappi, Thursday, 14 June 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
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)
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 15 June 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
I.O.U Love by Six.By Seven.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
The Rip by Portishead isn't pure, but totally has the right feel.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
Day 7 by The Notwist.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 08:43 (eleven years ago) link
Angel by My Bloody Valentine.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
Big Ideas by LCD Soundsystem.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
Great Release, too. Albeit very quietly.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:03 (eleven years ago) link
Mexican Grand Prix by Mogwai (not 100% but again the right feel)
― Jesu swept (ledge), Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:03 (eleven years ago) link
This is my playlist as it stands:
Like Foxes Through Fences The American Analog Set Know by Heart 2001Month Of May Arcade Fire The Suburbs 2010Stammtisch Barbara Manning 1212 1997Sleep The Clock Around Belle & Sebastian The Boy With The Arab Strap 19987~ (EW∃ Remix) Boredoms Super Roots 7 1998(Heart) Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun 2000Red Sails Bowie, David Lodger 1979Station To Station Bowie, David Station To Station 1976Pike In My Life Campag Velocet Bon Chic Bon Genre 1999Mother Sky (Edit) CAN Anthology 2007A Final Warning Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness 2005Bees Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness 2005Heiße Lippen Cluster Zuckerzeit 1974Doors Unlocked and Open Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys 2011Sons of Rother Death In Vegas Satan's Circus 2004I Feel Love (12" Version) Donna Summer I Feel Love 1977Bells Electrelane Axes 2005Tram 21 Electrelane No Shouts, No Calls 2007The First Cut Embrace I Wouldn't Wanna Happen To You 2000Shoulder Pads 1 The Fall Bend Sinister 1986Touch Sensitive The Fall 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats [Disc 2] 1999Just Like Everyone Else Field Music Plumb 2012Knickerbocker Fujiya & Miyagi Lightbulbs 2008Monza (Rauf Und Runter) Harmonia Deluxe 1975Veterano Harmonia Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1974Jump Into the Fire Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson 1971Sea Within a Sea The Horrors Primary Colours 2009Trans-Europe Express Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express 1977Rheinita La Düsseldorf Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1979Great Release LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem 2005Big Ideas LCD Soundsystem 21 OST 2007Off Your Face My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 1] 2012Honey Power My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 2] 2012Angel My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 2] 2012Hallo Gallo Neu! Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1972Negativland Neu! Neu 1 1971Isi Neu! Neu! 75 1975Hero Neu! Neu! 75 1975After Eight Neu! Neu! 75 1975Destination Tokyo Nisennenmondai Destination Tokyo 2009Day 7 The Notwist Shrink 1995The Rip Portishead Third 2008Autobahn 66 Primal Scream Dirty Hits 2003Shoot Speed/Kill Light Primal Scream Xtrmntr 2000Regular John Queens Of The Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age 1998Wasted Six.By Seven Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel 2004Wallflower Six.By Seven Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel 2004"Untitled" Six.By Seven Six.byseven:04 2004I.O.U. Love Six.By Seven The Way I Feel Today 2002Got Nuffin Spoon Transference 2010Les Yper-Sound Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup 1996Hard To Explain The Strokes Is This It? 2001Pric Super Furry Animals Dark Days/Light Years 2009Burning Down The House Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues 1983What Goes On The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground 1969A Warm Front, Coming From The North Warm Digits Keep Warm... With The Warm Digits 2011Spiders (Kidsmoke) Wilco A Ghost is Born 2004Forever Working For A Nuclear Free City Working for a Nuclear Free City 2006
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:32 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
Lali Puna - Grin and BearFlowchart - Do Oscillators Have WingsThe Emperor Machine - Emperor Machine
― cock chirea, Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
Ultravox (and Jonathan Richman) are on the list of stuff to investigate next.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:07 (eleven years ago) link
Magazine - The Light Pours Out At Me (militaristic motorik)
― cock chirea, Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
Magazine - The Light Pours Out At oF Me, i mean
― cock chirea, Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
bit disappointed "reason is treason" got disqualified..
Anyways, what now for the playlist?
― Mark G, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
There are Strokes songs, or parts of them, that fit the bill here but titles are escaping me.
― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
wow, amazing how much that Supremes song sounds like Stereolab!
― Moodles, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
There are a bunch of songs off of Sugar's Copper Blue album that seem like heavy versions of the motorik beat
― Moodles, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
I can't have Kasabian in the house.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
Spotify playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/nathanwoolls/playlist/4MRKHpOR6zsjHTJiKKwvdI
― nate woolls, Saturday, 16 June 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
xpost really? not even just that one track?
― Mark G, Saturday, 16 June 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
Where's Point That Thing Somewhere Else?
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 17 June 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
As mentioned above, "LA Woman"
― windjammer voyage (blank), Sunday, 17 June 2012 01:37 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't read or thought about this thread in while but seems like it might be an interesting thought experiment to ponder why, say, The beat on Ramones songs is not quite motorik.
― If There's a POLL Below, We're All Going to Vote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
Right on. That's not a bad point, but atm all I have to offer are a couple more examples:
ST37, "Hallohero" (obv)Dead Skeletons, "Lifou!/Live!"
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
Xp Too much cymbal action, drums not loud enough in the mix
― windjammer voyage (blank), Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
That's a good start. Also seems to me that there is an extra big wait for the two and four, so I hear it as "and one and *big gap* TWO and three and *big gap* FOUR." I guess after the two and four as well. Maybe it feels like the eight note "ands" of the beat are all gravitating a hair closer to the one and three.
― If There's a POLL Below, We're All Going to Vote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 June 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link
I mean that's what the motorik sounds like
― If There's a POLL Below, We're All Going to Vote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 June 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
maybeBuilt To Spill - Goin' Against Your Mind Holy Fuck - The Pulse
think there's another queens of the stone age track too but I can't remember it off the top of my head
― owenf, Sunday, 17 June 2012 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
Avon maybe?
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe I'm misremembering, but it seems to me Tommy Ramone's beats were pretty much just 1-2-3-4 on the kick drum, the 8th notes mostly came from Johnny's guitar. Where motorik beats are very precise with the 8th-note kicks. Also, motorik stuff deliberately pushes the beat forward, not quite getting ahead of it but almost. Which is why it feels so different from soul/R&B grooves, which tend to lay back and even drag the beat.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 17 June 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
I have to re-listen to this to make sure it counts but:
Blue Oyster Cult - Hungry Boys
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqaMEMIBPIw
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
Kit and Holly by Echoboy! How did I only just remember that. The hi-hat occasionally moves out of motorik, but the essence is there pretty strongly.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_SAMrDnXOE
― 3×5, Monday, 18 June 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link
i love this thread! but i gotta ask, will someone attempt a mega-mix of 3 or 4 hours with all these songs once the submissions slow down or will i have to do my best to do it with a dj software that takes care of the beat matching for me.
― Sébastien, Monday, 18 June 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
The Clean thirded.
― If There's a POLL Below, We're All Going to Vote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 June 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know if this qualifies in full but Hospitality mix some motorik into their cover of Rikki Don't Lose That Number. It's worth wading through the Starbucks ad and intro 'cos the cover is excellent.
http://www.avclub.com/articles/hospitality-covers-steely-dan,70705/
― that's not my post, Monday, 18 June 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
tempted to mention abacab/illegal alien by genesis. plenty of motorik action for phil at that time.
― cock chirea, Monday, 18 June 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrK05cNYfdg
― cock chirea, Monday, 18 June 2012 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://sickmouthy.com/2012/06/19/top-ten-songs-with-the-motorik-beat/
Cheers all for input.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
the snare hit falling on the third beat in the bar, and then being followed by three consecutive kick-drum hits, gives the illusion that the snare is falling on the end of the bar when it’s actually running ahead of the beat,
no offense dude, but i have no idea what this means. the snare is on 2 & 4, just like in...everything.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Shit yeah, I'm counting half beats. Serves me right for composing that bit in bed.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
Also just not having a clue what I'm talking about.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
Think he got confused but that discussion we once had about how to count reggae, Jordan.
― Stumpy Joe's Cafe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
I think the "motorik beat" is a red herring. A motorik feeling is just as much about what the bass is doing, the actual sound of the drums (dry and tight), limited harmonic movement, and how the guitar, synths, or vocals are floating on top, as it is about the basic drum pattern. You can play that same drum pattern in a way that doesn't sound motorik at all, or you could make a song with a different drum beat that still sounds very motorik.
― wk, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i think it is about the interaction of instruments more than it is the drums.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't say it's a red herring, but the beat is certainly only part of the motorik 'feel', and it's flexible; I was v. close to including stuff like There There or These Are My Twisted Words by Radiohead, which 'feel' like motorik to me but which use much jazzier (to my non-musician ears) drum patterns.
A "fake krautrock" playlist would include much more stuff that strays well away from the pattern outlined above, but feel just as 'of a piece'.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
Any "motorik top 10" that doesn't include Stereolab is already false motorik to me, TBH
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:27 (eleven years ago) link
Julian Cope - Necropolis
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
I just never really got Stereolab.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:00 (eleven years ago) link
Did this in '04 in one of the (terrific) Rough Guide to... threads
The Rough Guide to Motorik
1. [10:07] Neu! - Hallogallo (1972)2. [04:37] Velvet Underground - I’m waiting for the man (1967)3. [03:33] The Stooges - Loose (1970)4. [03:36] The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains (1967)5. [06:30] Kraftwerk - Autobahn (single edit) (1974)6. [02:07] La Düsseldorf - White Overalls (1978)7. [07:07] Harmonia - Monza (1975)8. [03:50] Chrome - Chromosome Damage (1977)9. [03:20] The Normal - Warm Leatherette (1978)10. [07:27] Tall Dwarfs - Neusyland (1994)11. [05:25] The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else (1981)12. [04:45] Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless (1980)13. [04:27] Mense Reents - It Didn’t Matter (2003)14. [03:02] Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow (2002)15. [04:16] Zoot Woman - Grey Day (2003)16. [06:23] Tied & Tickled Trio - Motorik (2003)
― willem, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:31 (eleven years ago) link
Needs the Glitter Band/ Gary Glitter
― Too Busy Thinking About Mr. Abie (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
... doesn't need Stereolab
Fuckin amazing willem.
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
Omitting Stereolab from a motorik best-of just seems like entry level challops TBH.
But maybe that's the point, trying to construct a playlist w/o the obvious names? But seems like when someone has done that, it ends up with a bunch of lumpen, dude-ish rock which makes me doubt and think "hey maybe I don't really like motorik after all, maybe it was just Stereolab I liked all along."
Which is crazy talk! Because when I listen to Jenny Ondioline and Be Sure To Loop and Opa Loka and even bands like Quickspace or Secret Machines/SVIIB doing a motorik, man, motorik is my favourite thing in the world! It is light and streamlined and joyful and propulsive! The moral of the story is, it's just lumpen dude-ishness I dislike in any genre. (this is not even a gender complaint before people take it as one - I always found Electralane to be lumpen and dude-ish, too which is in itself a minor motorik challop.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
W/e obv Stereolab is sorely missed but to look at that playlist and act like all the obv motorik bands were challoply left out is just daft (tho I just realized Boredoms is missing too)
That being said, I love Feather Float and want to listen to it now, bcz I never registered 'Loop' as motorik before, so that's cool...
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
I do agree that Stereolab deserves a place on any motorik list though
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
If you'd made these suggestions a week ago, Cheesecake, they'd have probably got in!
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
What about my favourite songs by Can and Yo La Tengo: Halleluhwah and Blue Line Swinger? Not sure if they have the motorik beat but they both have an extremely hypnotic beat for sure.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
I should totally have gone through more YLT.
Halleluwah is great and hypnotic and I love it, but it's a very different ind of thing. it's a groove, a swing, rather than a bio-mechanical thing.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone mention Quick Canal by Atlas Sound?
Been on holiday for a few week otherwise I'd have suggested a few. One of my favourite sounds.
― AnotherDeadHero, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
Keep 'em coming.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
Love this track. I also find it touching that Cox was able to persuade one of his idols (Laetitia Sadier) to sing on it.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Blue line Swinger is not motorik, at least until like minute 5.
The Fall's 'Before the Moon Falls' is p motorik: would 'Reformation' count too?
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
The loud version of Big Day Coming by YLT might qualify, can't think what else off the top of my head.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
+1
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
i've always thought about it in terms of dancing and being able to play off of different instruments instead of being dependent on a changing beat or vocal changes for changing movementsnot that it matters, but there you go
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
Jumpin jack Flash & Street Fighting Man are kind of motorik. I read a Fall review in the Wire that said the Johnny Burnette Trio's version of "Train kept a Rollin" was motorik too, but I couldn't confirm that.
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
No, that song is locomotorik
― Stumpy Joe's Cafe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
I see that Death in Vegas are already represented but for my money 'Hands Around Your Throat' is more representative of the motorik beat than that track that namechecks Rother.
Also, I think there's a place for Radiohead here; in particular Amnesiac b-side 'Cuttooth'.
― AnotherDeadHero, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
A few people have mentioned the Gary Glitter beat, but that's a shuffle. Unless there was an actual motorik Gary Glitter song I don't know about, but I'm assuming people mean the R&Rpt2 beat.
― wk, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, too much stomping in that one.
― Stumpy Joe's Cafe (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
locomotorik
irl lol.
― Mafia-owned bar for transvestites (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah that shd be excelisor'd (by someone other than me)
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I don't understand people's obsession with this term. It's a nice way to describe a few Krautrock bands and bands who were influenced by them, but I don't see why it has to be applied to any song with a driving beat. And I really don't get the connection to songs that predate krautrock like Heroes and Villains.
― wk, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
One of the tracks on Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band has Ringo laying down a pretty motorik groove. I don't have the record to hand. Rhythm section on that album amazing across the board.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
The last 45 seconds or so of Turtle Turtle Up by Four Tet.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
It's kind of mental, you've got all these jazzy, glitchy drum rolls for about 90 seconds, and then it just falls into motorik loveliness.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
Orchestral Manoeuvers in the dark - Electricity
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
was listening to B-52's "Aint it a Shame" and that almost makes the cut, surprisingly...
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 9 July 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
2. [04:37] Velvet Underground - I’m waiting for the man (1967)
Totally disagree with this one. It doesn't have a backbeat at all, just a steady, even pulse on every beat.
― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Monday, 9 July 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it's not Motorik, but I can see a case for it being proto-Motorik. The insistent evenness I think is the key.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 9 July 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
^yeah I agree with this post. "Waiting for the Man" is too much of an important first step, even though it probably predicts "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" more than anything Neu! did
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 9 July 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
contemporary motorik beat: beak, the band of portishead's geoff barrow (btw they have a new album out). somehow i have the impression they bring something new to the table. they are obviously heavily influenced by neu etc, but they have their sound and lots of interesting ideas. the motorik beat is also played by the bass here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoKWLo_f-rA
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI2o-BuQ8eE
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Can I nominate this as the post-speeding-down-the-autobahn version of the motorik, very definitely in an unexpected place (the very underrated Francisco's 'Cosmic Beam Experience')?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IouesruWdVI
― Soundslike, Sunday, 15 July 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LsPyuUHeNU
― dsb, Sunday, 15 July 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
Beak! Bought >> and it is pretty awesome. It is just krauty grooves for the sake of it, seemingly, but oh wow.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
^^ it is awesome
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
Kraftwerk, "Ohm Sweet Ohm"
... could this be deliberate on their part?
― Tom D is secretly an important person (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
!
― willem, Thursday, 13 December 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Portishead - Chase the Tear
― anonanon, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://thequietus.com/articles/01702-motorikpop-a-secret-history-spotified
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 July 2013 02:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7mo4AdqBE
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 1 July 2013 10:08 (ten years ago) link
Röyskopp, Alpha Male
(close enough)
― ledge, Friday, 19 July 2013 13:57 (ten years ago) link
Espanto - Rock'n Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIJ1if08VM
"I Feel Love" with a motorik beat + fuzz guitars? this is glorious
― when skrillex just stood there (unregistered), Thursday, 9 January 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c77zfF3u98Q
― andrew m., Monday, 27 January 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
yessss
― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
The vid's rip doesn't really do it justice. On my copy the drums are so big. Caveman style.
― andrew m., Monday, 27 January 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
more more more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 15 April 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
15-60-75 - Animal Speaks (????? might only be motorik in my memory)
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 15 April 2016 02:54 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q4aM61Lcnk
― stirmonster, Friday, 15 April 2016 10:16 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDHUtZ4WoE4
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
thank you for posting that! it led me to read this, and the special note to drummer is so awesome, esp "anyway, you get the idea, you'll do great"http://www.rhyschatham.net/g3english/GuitarTrioScore.pdf
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 15 April 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUkLnsRWBc
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:02 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4PGlThRRMQ
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgcSWqlWoD8
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlSvVxLYjw
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Thursday, 18 August 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOiqWLyGgnI
― everything, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJBQlesGPXk
― MaresNest, Sunday, 30 September 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
so good
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
oh ok wow
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 October 2018 04:41 (five years ago) link
songs with a "motorik" beat that aren't by either Neu! or Stereolab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8JTVNXNCQNot entirely Stereolab-free tbh.
― oder doch?, Friday, 5 April 2019 10:56 (five years ago) link
That is a really excellent band and this song is amazing!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
Tried it (on) here:
https://constantlight.bandcamp.com/track/nothings-left
― S-, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
That Motorik Beat
Glad this image is still up here. I think about it a lot.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
Me too! Sadly I moved out of that flat and even though we've done up the bathroom in the new place I wasn't allowed to make it motorik ;_;
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
k-x-p with the muscular biz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=291&v=0kEI21-Yy3E&feature=emb_logo
― andrew m., Wednesday, 8 January 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
Chrisma, "C Rock". Not sure this has a motorik beat as such but is nonetheless a Neu! ripoff blatant enough to make Stereolab blush.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0detsfxKN3Q
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 January 2020 22:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7xWwMZBFM
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 June 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/vK31yVrXz84
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 14 June 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
clean-related, here's one of my absolute favorite david kilgour jams with the heavy eights, "waveboarder," a total surf motorik cruiser.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gov24YPRDYM
and to reiterate something i posted years ago, the clean's vehicle is, with the exception of the 2 side-ending acoustic tracks, straight motorik joy.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
replacing a dead link from a few years ago:
blizzard, "keep a knockin'/get back/etc."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUkLnsRWBc
― andrew m., Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Great call on that David Kilgour album, my absolute favorite from him precisely because of that motorik groove!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
excellent, extremely my kind of thing
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 9 February 2024 10:40 (three months ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
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 (three months ago) link
Corrs - thanks for that Weils heads-up. Extremely my thing!
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 09:54 (two months ago) link
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 months ago) link