Cod-Motorik

NEU! = Motorik. OK! Chug chug chug chug. Metronomic but human. Possibly trance inducing but pump up the volume and you're on your feet.

You can find it anywhere when you look hard enough. Obviously Stereolab have many Motorik moments and you can hear it sometimes in Wire even if the songs are too short. Even that grand old chestnut "What Goes On" by the Velvet Underground can rightly be claimed to fit quite nicely, thank you, into this category.

The latest fans to use it are some of the newish Japanese bands. Like Buffalo Daughter who seem to want to combine NEU! with Gong - and they do a very good job indeed:

mp3: Sky High

More, ummm, uncommonly, I also reckon you can find it in this JJ Cale song:

mp3: Anyway The Wind Blows

The 4/4 C&W shuffle is so damned strict that it's the antithesis of the loose and free doped-up style he's known for. And, yes, I know I'm pushing the limits of this made up genre here.

PS - go to Lickety Split for a slightly surreal, all-encompassing post entitled "Yarm, Blues, Dosh & Chicken Bottom". It's fab.