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
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 14 June 2012 08:28 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
I.O.U Love by Six.By Seven.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 08:33 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Day 7 by The Notwist.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 08:43 (twelve years ago) link
Angel by My Bloody Valentine.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
Big Ideas by LCD Soundsystem.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:01 (twelve years ago) link
Great Release, too. Albeit very quietly.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
Mexican Grand Prix by Mogwai (not 100% but again the right feel)
― Jesu swept (ledge), Saturday, 16 June 2012 09:03 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Lali Puna - Grin and BearFlowchart - Do Oscillators Have WingsThe Emperor Machine - Emperor Machine
― cock chirea, Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:02 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Magazine - The Light Pours Out At Me (militaristic motorik)
― cock chirea, Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
Magazine - The Light Pours Out At oF Me, i mean
― cock chirea, Saturday, 16 June 2012 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
bit disappointed "reason is treason" got disqualified..
Anyways, what now for the playlist?
― Mark G, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:22 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
wow, amazing how much that Supremes song sounds like Stereolab!
― Moodles, Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:52 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
I can't have Kasabian in the house.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 16 June 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
Spotify playlist:
http://open.spotify.com/user/nathanwoolls/playlist/4MRKHpOR6zsjHTJiKKwvdI
― nate woolls, Saturday, 16 June 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
xpost really? not even just that one track?
― Mark G, Saturday, 16 June 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
Where's Point That Thing Somewhere Else?
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 17 June 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
As mentioned above, "LA Woman"
― windjammer voyage (blank), Sunday, 17 June 2012 01:37 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Xp Too much cymbal action, drums not loud enough in the mix
― windjammer voyage (blank), Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:50 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Avon maybe?
― robert mcnamara in reverse (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:04 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqaMEMIBPIw
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:43 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_SAMrDnXOE
― 3×5, Monday, 18 June 2012 01:46 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrK05cNYfdg
― cock chirea, Monday, 18 June 2012 06:27 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Also just not having a clue what I'm talking about.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:30 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 21:16 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link