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 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI2o-BuQ8eE
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:03 (thirteen years ago)
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 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LsPyuUHeNU
― dsb, Sunday, 15 July 2012 02:45 (thirteen years ago)
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 (thirteen years ago)
^^ it is awesome
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:22 (thirteen years ago)
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 (thirteen years ago)
!
― willem, Thursday, 13 December 2012 21:37 (thirteen years ago)
Portishead - Chase the Tear
― anonanon, Thursday, 13 December 2012 22:10 (thirteen years ago)
http://thequietus.com/articles/01702-motorikpop-a-secret-history-spotified
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 July 2013 02:08 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7mo4AdqBE
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Monday, 1 July 2013 10:08 (twelve years ago)
Röyskopp, Alpha Male
(close enough)
― ledge, Friday, 19 July 2013 13:57 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c77zfF3u98Q
― andrew m., Monday, 27 January 2014 17:42 (twelve years ago)
yessss
― charitable remainder unitrust (crüt), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:43 (twelve years ago)
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 (twelve years ago)
more more more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 15 April 2016 01:45 (ten years ago)
15-60-75 - Animal Speaks (????? might only be motorik in my memory)
― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 15 April 2016 02:54 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q4aM61Lcnk
― stirmonster, Friday, 15 April 2016 10:16 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDHUtZ4WoE4
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2016 14:49 (ten years ago)
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 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUkLnsRWBc
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:02 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4PGlThRRMQ
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:04 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgcSWqlWoD8
― andrew m., Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:55 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlSvVxLYjw
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Thursday, 18 August 2016 16:53 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOiqWLyGgnI
― everything, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:27 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJBQlesGPXk
― MaresNest, Sunday, 30 September 2018 12:43 (seven years ago)
so good
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:43 (seven years ago)
oh ok wow
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 October 2018 04:41 (seven years ago)
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 (seven years ago)
That is a really excellent band and this song is amazing!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:08 (seven years ago)
Tried it (on) here:
https://constantlight.bandcamp.com/track/nothings-left
― S-, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 03:39 (six years ago)
That Motorik Beat
Glad this image is still up here. I think about it a lot.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:44 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
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 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7xWwMZBFM
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 5 June 2020 13:09 (six years ago)
https://youtu.be/vK31yVrXz84
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Sunday, 14 June 2020 20:45 (five years ago)
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 (five years ago)
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 (five years ago)
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 (five years ago)
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)
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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1JGNsAQ0I
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 27 January 2026 20:57 (four months ago)