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 (thirteen 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
er, *produced* by Conny Plank
― Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Sunday, 20 May 2012 18:18 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
dr feelgood - she does it right
― cock chirea, Monday, 11 June 2012 07:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Monday, 11 June 2012 07:44 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6o2ZpHZWos
― cock chirea, Monday, 11 June 2012 18:25 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
Plenty of Electrelane.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 07:46 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TampUTqjfG0
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 08:54 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb_UmdKaE1g
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 08:56 (twelve 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 (twelve years ago) link
I know really, but I like to think it isn't.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
On The Run - Eddie & The Hot RodsKnickerbocker - Fujiya & Miyagi
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 14:32 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (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