April 28th 2009:

Motorik is pleased to announce our self released debut Klang! Currently in rotation on Seattle’s KEXP.

www.kexp.org

Instrumentation:
Sio - bass and vox
Hoagie - drums
Adrian - gits, moog and sound effects

Discography:
motorik EP 2007
KLANG! LP 2008 recorded @ Calleye Studios with Gary Mula and Soundhouse with Jack Endino

Notes on names and influences:  It appears this is unavoidable. We’ll try not to spend too much time on it but it occurred to us that maybe we need to give a little more away.

To say that the term Motorik is only to be applied to the ‘apache beat’ employed by  Kraftwerk and Neu is to be so limited and literal as to seem Victorian in one’s outlook. We live in a po-pomo world. Everything is open to newer interpretation. We chose the name Motorik, knowing full well the previous application of the word and feeling that it had been underutilized. To us it screams futuristic garage rock and the word means ‘motor skill’ which is something all androids aspire to have. Mind you, even when there are only three it is tough to come to a consensus…you should see some of the other names that were on the table!  

As for influences…why ride the post punk pony into the ground? This may be where the three of us cross paths but it is certainly not the only music we revere. Sio is a rabid Beatles fan. Hoagie claims Cosmo’s Factory as the record that changed his life. Adrian smacks of Big Black. Use your ears and you will hear that there is many more things on our plate than the top 5 post punk bands in this aging universe. Here are a few we’ve been told by people who listen to us: Primus ( ‘Sio is Les Claypool with a vagina’ – someone actually said this), The Treepeople (so on the money…we love them!),  Superchunk (is it because they had a girl bass player too?), Sleater-Kinney (Grrrls rock!). We could go on but likesay …we just wanted to throw this out there as something else to know. Here are a few more influences to be heard or not heard in our Music: Talk Talk, Screaming Trees, Pulp, Blur, Elastica (allatonce or separately) The Velvet Underground, Throwing Muses, The Pixies (duh!!), Wire (okay post punk initially but there is so much more there!) Brian Eno (pop and ambient), Roxy Music, Birthday Party, Wedding Present, Can (not all krautrock is apache beat bliss!), LCD Soundsystem (who don’t they steal from?), New Order (here come the synths), The English Beat, The Flaming Lips, Charles Mingus, Husker Du, The Jam, Royal Trux, Pavement, The Clash (we do Clash covers too…balls to you big daddy!), Kissing the Pink(??), The Replacements, Luke Vibert, R.E.M (sio knows the words to practically every song on their first six records….at least the ones you can make out). This is the tiniest tip of the gigantic melting iceberg…the blues, the jazz, even the fucking folksingers. We love music and we love to make our own music. Its all in the blender.  

Note: at the risk of alienating some people, Sio wants you all to know that she never listened to Siouxsie much! She doesn’t know why…she admires Siouxsie but the music just never clicked in any big way…perhaps any similarity is due to the collective unconscious?   

Biography:
Motorik balances catchy hooks with driving dissonance and employs angular rhythms from all instruments.

A little background about the band...Adrian and Hoagie have been playing in bands together since 1990. First in the punk band D.C. Beggars who lived with and often shared a stage with Seattle band The Gits. Also touring Europe and the States several times. Sio’s earlier bands were the eclectic noise band Andover 7, whose hit “Bring in the Lions” was a ode to eating christians in the Coliseum, and Nod and Smile, a pop quartet with swoony layers, where Sio first switched to bass and found it suitable. Adrian and Sio were both members of the freakrock band Rank Strand. Here Adrian took up guitar after many years of playing bass and Sio started working out the vocal style that has become part of Motorik's trademark. When Rank Strand disintegrated the two formed Motorik and recruited Hoagie to join them. Hoagie had been steaming through many sets of Ramones covers with the tribute band 1234 and he was tired out!
Mostly we like to spend time in the practice space, the recording studio and on the road. Who wouldn’t!

On January 7th 2009 the Dutchman burned down.

Motorik recorded most of Klang! @ the Dutchman a.k.a. Calleye Studios with our good friend Gary Mula. Gary has run the Dutchman as a practice space and recording studio for Seattle bands for over 20 years. The Gits and Mudhoney practiced there and The Valley and Danielli recorded albums there recently...just to name a few. In short a viable Seattle music institution is gone and will be sorely missed.

If you know Gary or the Dutchman and would like to help get the train back on the tracks please visit: www.thedutchmanfund.com and make a contribution.

We love you Gary!!!

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