motorik

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The band's name, meanwhile, is also an unusual choice, given that "motorik" is synonymous in music circles with the mechanical rhythms preferred by electronically inclined German bands.

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  • The Outsiders blends an insistent motorik pulse with a fathomless, dubby echo and fashionably kitsch-disco synth arpeggios. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • "Jodelei", there's "At the Seaside", a stretched-out tonescape propelled by an Ulrich Schnauss-esque motorik. —  PopMatters
  • Petrol-fed and in full-flight Primary Colours is an illicit thrill, the staccato goth shocks of auld flattened into ecstatic motorik jams like 'Three Decades' and new single 'Sea Within A Sea'. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • Another is the six minute epic Cardiff In The Sun, with is vocoder vocals, whirling guitar and motorik beats it's a truly beautiful track. —  Contactmusic Ltd | Latest music streams
  • Where screaming excess and over the top clobber once held sway, the single's video reveals a group of sombre aesthetes brooding over their instruments as they coolly erect an epic, eight minute wall of sound that slaps a motorik pulse onto the early 4AD catalogue, before slowly immersing it into a bubbling pool of kosmiche noise. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
 

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