That Motorik Beat

most of their first two records tend towards neu!/la duesseldorf type beats.

Another Velvets one would be "Foggy Notion".

Lots of Glitter Band/ Gary Glitter
Lots of Stooges
Lots of Velvets

Bowie - Red Sails (et al, ad infinitum etc)
Iggy - Funtime
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag (et al)

(my examples do not all bear this out)

Also several Unrest songs, like the Hyrdofoil/Hydroplane ones.

Like, for instance, "Silver Machine" Hawkwind?

whitey - two face.

spencer otm about jagz kooner.

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).

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!

yes this is a great one.

wow, this thread has given me much food for thought!

Yeah, the Lesson #2 sounds like shit.

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

fucking elegant

heigh-ho!

The Fall - "Before the Moon Falls", prhaps?

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.

Day 7 by The Notwist.

Angel by My Bloody Valentine.

Big Ideas by LCD Soundsystem.

Great Release, too. Albeit very quietly.

Mexican Grand Prix by Mogwai (not 100% but again the right feel)

This is my playlist as it stands:

Like Foxes Through Fences The American Analog Set Know by Heart 2001
Month Of May Arcade Fire The Suburbs 2010
Stammtisch Barbara Manning 1212 1997
Sleep The Clock Around Belle & Sebastian The Boy With The Arab Strap 1998
7～ (EW∃ Remix) Boredoms Super Roots 7 1998
(Heart) Boredoms Vision Creation Newsun 2000
Red Sails Bowie, David Lodger 1979
Station To Station Bowie, David Station To Station 1976
Pike In My Life Campag Velocet Bon Chic Bon Genre 1999
Mother Sky (Edit) CAN Anthology 2007
A Final Warning Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness 2005
Bees Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness 2005
Heiße Lippen Cluster Zuckerzeit 1974
Doors Unlocked and Open Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys 2011
Sons of Rother Death In Vegas Satan's Circus 2004
I Feel Love (12" Version) Donna Summer I Feel Love 1977
Bells Electrelane Axes 2005
Tram 21 Electrelane No Shouts, No Calls 2007
The First Cut Embrace I Wouldn't Wanna Happen To You 2000
Shoulder Pads 1 The Fall Bend Sinister 1986
Touch Sensitive The Fall 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats [Disc 2] 1999
Just Like Everyone Else Field Music Plumb 2012
Knickerbocker Fujiya & Miyagi Lightbulbs 2008
Monza (Rauf Und Runter) Harmonia Deluxe 1975
Veterano Harmonia Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1974
Jump Into the Fire Harry Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson 1971
Sea Within a Sea The Horrors Primary Colours 2009
Trans-Europe Express Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express 1977
Rheinita La Düsseldorf Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1979
Great Release LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem 2005
Big Ideas LCD Soundsystem 21 OST 2007
Off Your Face My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 1] 2012
Honey Power My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 2] 2012
Angel My Bloody Valentine EPs 1988 - 1991 [Disc 2] 2012
Hallo Gallo Neu! Deutsche Elektronische Musik: Experimental German Rock And Electronic Musik 1972-83 pt.1 1972
Negativland Neu! Neu 1 1971
Isi Neu! Neu! 75 1975
Hero Neu! Neu! 75 1975
After Eight Neu! Neu! 75 1975
Destination Tokyo Nisennenmondai Destination Tokyo 2009
Day 7 The Notwist Shrink 1995
The Rip Portishead Third 2008
Autobahn 66 Primal Scream Dirty Hits 2003
Shoot Speed/Kill Light Primal Scream Xtrmntr 2000
Regular John Queens Of The Stone Age Queens Of The Stone Age 1998
Wasted Six.By Seven Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel 2004
Wallflower Six.By Seven Left Luggage At The Peveril Hotel 2004
"Untitled" Six.By Seven Six.byseven:04 2004
I.O.U. Love Six.By Seven The Way I Feel Today 2002
Got Nuffin Spoon Transference 2010
Les Yper-Sound Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup 1996
Hard To Explain The Strokes Is This It? 2001
Pric Super Furry Animals Dark Days/Light Years 2009
Burning Down The House Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues 1983
What Goes On The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground 1969
A Warm Front, Coming From The North Warm Digits Keep Warm... With The Warm Digits 2011
Spiders (Kidsmoke) Wilco A Ghost is Born 2004
Forever Working For A Nuclear Free City Working for a Nuclear Free City 2006

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

Lali Puna - Grin and Bear
Flowchart - Do Oscillators Have Wings
The Emperor Machine - Emperor Machine

Ultravox (and Jonathan Richman) are on the list of stuff to investigate next.

Magazine - The Light Pours Out At Me (militaristic motorik)

Magazine - The Light Pours Out At oF Me, i mean

bit disappointed "reason is treason" got disqualified..

Anyways, what now for the playlist?

There are Strokes songs, or parts of them, that fit the bill here but titles are escaping me.

wow, amazing how much that Supremes song sounds like Stereolab!

There are a bunch of songs off of Sugar's Copper Blue album that seem like heavy versions of the motorik beat

I can't have Kasabian in the house.

Spotify playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/nathanwoolls/playlist/4MRKHpOR6zsjHTJiKKwvdI

xpost really? not even just that one track?

Where's Point That Thing Somewhere Else?

As mentioned above, "LA Woman"

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.

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!"

Xp Too much cymbal action, drums not loud enough in the mix

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.

I mean that's what the motorik sounds like

maybe
Built 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

Avon maybe?

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.

I have to re-listen to this to make sure it counts but:

Blue Oyster Cult - Hungry Boys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqaMEMIBPIw

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_SAMrDnXOE

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.

The Clean thirded.

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/

tempted to mention abacab/illegal alien by genesis. plenty of motorik action for phil at that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrK05cNYfdg

http://sickmouthy.com/2012/06/19/top-ten-songs-with-the-motorik-beat/

Cheers all for input.

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.

Shit yeah, I'm counting half beats. Serves me right for composing that bit in bed.

Also just not having a clue what I'm talking about.

Think he got confused but that discussion we once had about how to count reggae, Jordan.

haha

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.

yeah i think it is about the interaction of instruments more than it is the drums.

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'.

Any "motorik top 10" that doesn't include Stereolab is already false motorik to me, TBH

Julian Cope - Necropolis

I just never really got Stereolab.

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)

Needs the Glitter Band/ Gary Glitter

... doesn't need Stereolab

Fuckin amazing willem.

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.)

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...

I do agree that Stereolab deserves a place on any motorik list though

If you'd made these suggestions a week ago, Cheesecake, they'd have probably got in!

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.

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.

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.

Keep 'em coming.

Anyone mention Quick Canal by Atlas Sound?

Love this track. I also find it touching that Cox was able to persuade one of his idols (Laetitia Sadier) to sing on it.

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?

The loud version of Big Day Coming by YLT might qualify, can't think what else off the top of my head.

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.

+1

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 movements
not that it matters, but there you go

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.

No, that song is locomotorik

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'.

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.

yeah, too much stomping in that one.

locomotorik

irl lol.

Yeah that shd be excelisor'd (by someone other than me)

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.

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.

The last 45 seconds or so of Turtle Turtle Up by Four Tet.

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.

Orchestral Manoeuvers in the dark - Electricity

was listening to B-52's "Aint it a Shame" and that almost makes the cut, surprisingly...

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.

Yeah it's not Motorik, but I can see a case for it being proto-Motorik. The insistent evenness I think is the key.

^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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI2o-BuQ8eE

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LsPyuUHeNU

Beak! Bought >> and it is pretty awesome. It is just krauty grooves for the sake of it, seemingly, but oh wow.

^^ it is awesome

Kraftwerk, "Ohm Sweet Ohm"

... could this be deliberate on their part?

!

Portishead - Chase the Tear

http://thequietus.com/articles/01702-motorikpop-a-secret-history-spotified

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr7mo4AdqBE

Röyskopp, Alpha Male

(close enough)

Espanto - Rock'n Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhIJ1if08VM

"I Feel Love" with a motorik beat + fuzz guitars? this is glorious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c77zfF3u98Q

yessss

The vid's rip doesn't really do it justice. On my copy the drums are so big. Caveman style.

more more more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15-60-75 - Animal Speaks (????? might only be motorik in my memory)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q4aM61Lcnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDHUtZ4WoE4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUkLnsRWBc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4PGlThRRMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgcSWqlWoD8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlSvVxLYjw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOiqWLyGgnI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJBQlesGPXk

so good

oh ok wow

songs with a "motorik" beat that aren't by either Neu! or Stereolab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8JTVNXNCQ
Not entirely Stereolab-free tbh.

That is a really excellent band and this song is amazing!

Tried it (on) here:

https://constantlight.bandcamp.com/track/nothings-left

That Motorik Beat

Glad this image is still up here. I think about it a lot.

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 ;_;

k-x-p with the muscular biz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=291&v=0kEI21-Yy3E&feature=emb_logo

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu7xWwMZBFM

https://youtu.be/vK31yVrXz84

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.

replacing a dead link from a few years ago:

blizzard, "keep a knockin'/get back/etc."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRUkLnsRWBc

Great call on that David Kilgour album, my absolute favorite from him precisely because of that motorik groove!

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

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

excellent, extremely my kind of thing

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

Heh, mebbe that yin is a wee bit reminiscent of “The Gift.”

Corrs - thanks for that Weils heads-up. Extremely my thing!

Metabolist 'Alien on Sunday' - beautifully minimalist take on the beat, no fills, no flourishes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOwm-HYfVwA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm1JGNsAQ0I