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Motor

Shitkatapult

“A good MOTOR track kills the dance-floor and works equally well in the live context . . .” As its title suggests, Motor’s new album ‘Metal Machine’ is abrasive and metallic, combining tough techno beats with raw rock riffs, underscored by ‘relentless mechanical grooves that spit blood’ (as Bryan Black puts it.)All ten tracks retain Motor’s trademark industrial/ rock elements previously showcased on albums Klunk and Unhuman and comes out on T Raumschmiere’s punk-techno independent Berlin label ShitKatapult Records in May and Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak in the USA early summer.————-“Whenever possible, we perform live. We love the thrill. And it allows us to be true to the whole MOTOR concept . . .”Motor’s natural environment is on stage, where both generally mild mannered protagonists morph into strutting, snarling raucous rock gods, spewing forth take-no-prisoners techno as they prowl and pace around.Relentlessly touring the world since they started, Motor have played superclubs and giant festival stages even fitting in a pan-Europe/ Stateside road trip with proto industrial heroes Nitzer Ebb, last year. Having dodged rabid skinheads who tried to attack them in Germany the duo plan to be well prepared when they walk out on stage with Depeche Mode on their upcoming tour.“We just smash beer cans over our head and do a few push ups before each show,” Bryan explains, “Nothing too crazy.” ————-“We used to fight about anything from looks, music, personality, videos, and ideas . . . it was a total nightmare.”First teaming up in 2005, New Yorker Bryan Black and then London based Frenchman Mr No forged an immediately fruitful, if intense, friendship with misunderstandings a frequent issue. With Mr No eventually controlling his creative rages by banning himself from checking emails the duo eventually found creative harmony, lubricated by the presence of (now departed) Spanish lothario Hugo Menendez.

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