Motorik vs. Krautrock

Motorikadjective

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

Motorik

Motorik is the 4/4 beat often used by, and heavily associated with, krautrock bands. Coined by music journalists, the term is German for .

Krautrocknoun

(music genre) A genre of German experimental rock music from the 1970s.

Krautrock

Krautrock (also called kosmische Musik, German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in West Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, electronic music, and avant-garde composition among other sources. These artists moved away from the blues influences and song structure found in traditional Anglo-American rock music, instead utilizing hypnotic rhythms, tape-music techniques, and early synthesizers.