motorik

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1. informalentertainmentHaving a rigid, repetitive, driving 4/4 beat, as in krautrock.

   ...with occasional C-sharp and B chords thrown in there to relieve the tension, and a motorik beat.

   2007, Phil Freeman, Marooned: the next generation of desert island discs

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   ...explores the anti-auto tirades of Peggy Suicide while (ironically) paying tribute to the motorik beat and highway sounds of Neu! and krautrock.

   1996, Jim DeRogatis, Kaleidoscope eyes: psychedelic rock from the '60s to the '90s

   Kraftwerk and Can both used the motorik style as did later electronic oriented bands like Ultravox...

   2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music