MOTOR'S distinct sound and dynamic live show have won over crowds internationally and in the techno-forward American cities of Detroit and New York. Black Magic is very pleased to present MOTOR on June 30th at AXIS for a prodigious Boston debut."People have this tame image of live electronic music and we go out there and smash things up and spit in your face," states Bryan Black. For the man who used to programme Prince's keyboards as an in house technician at Paisley Park Studios in the 90s knowingly confirms, "we make more noise than a guitar can make and that's what we enjoy doing." Whilst electronic live acts have merged further into the anonymity of the DJ booth over recent years, MOTOR guzzle petrol, bellow toxic fumes and roar from the stage as all three band members wrestle with vocal duties and (alter) egos over their instruments. Forging live gig energy into the sonic envelope of a club environment has enabled MOTOR to play live 'gig' tours with Nitzer Ebb across America and Europe as well as landmark club venues such as Frankfurt's Cocoon and Paris's Rex and festivals throughout Europe like Pukkelpop and Lowlands.
Now, not even a full year from their debut album, the engine has been tweaked and polished for a smoother, more refined ride. "We were first labelled as a techno band but I think we've gone beyond that," concludes Bryan Black. "We've crossed over that barrier and into our own."
Tickets to the show are now available on http://avalonboston.com.MOTOR's new LP Unhuman is now out on Mute Records.
'It's the stuff a sadomasochist's dreams are made of.' 4.5/5 featured album of the month.
-URB Magazine'(MOTOR) makes most electronic music sound like Kenny G. Dinner party music for the devil.' ***** 5 stars
-Buzz Magazine 'Turbo techno. Minneapolis/ Paris duo, MOTOR, bring us a seedily thrilling album fashioned from unforgiving Teutonic rhythms and ancient, overheating synthesizer. Tracks such as Black Powder are as much informed by the dead-eyed nihilism of the 80s industrial music as they are by house or techno, but there's an undercurrent of crackling-down-the-sleeve cheekiness that prevents Klunk from becoming a dull excercise in noisy machoism. Big, dirty fun.' **** 4.5/ 5 stars ("Klunk")
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