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Krautrock vs Motorik - What's the difference?

krautrock | motorik |

As a noun krautrock

is a genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.

As an adjective motorik is

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

krautrock

English

Noun

(-) (sometimes capitalized )
  • (music) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s

    • motorik

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (music, informal) Having a rigid, repetitive, driving beat, as in krautrock.
  • * 1996 , Jim DeRogatis, Kaleidoscope eyes: psychedelic rock from the '60s to the '90s
    • ...explores the anti-auto tirades of Peggy Suicide while (ironically) paying tribute to the motorik beat and highway sounds of Neu! and krautrock.
  • * 2006 , Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music
    • Kraftwerk and Can both used the motorik style as did later electronic oriented bands like Ultravox...
  • * 2007 , Phil Freeman, Marooned: the next generation of desert island discs
    • ...with occasional C-sharp and B chords thrown in there to relieve the tension, and a motorik beat.