motorik

English

Etymology

German

Adjective

motorik (comparative more motorik, superlative most motorik)

  1. (music, informal) Having a rigid, repetitive, driving 4/4 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.

Swedish

Noun

motorik c

  1. motor skills
    Han har dålig motorik
    He has poor motor skills

Declension
Declension of motorik 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative motorik motoriken — —
Genitive motoriks motorikens — —

References
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