Un Hiver à Stockholm

The first - untitled - album was released in 2006 on their own label, Asthmatic Whale, containing instrumental, atmospheric music. A musical documentary excluding all words, this debut album boasts everyday sounds recorded in Berlin, Brussels, Kinshasa. The core theme surfacing on this album is 'purity'. Critics wrote: ‘MOTEK, the Belgian answer to Mogwai’, but MOTEK didn't agree: they were ‘questioning rather than answering.’

A starting band supported by many Belgian art centres, MOTEK created a full-option live audiovisual performance, headlining Cimatics Live A/V festival in 2007 and Zendai Shanghai MoMA Festival, China in 2008 amongst others. While touring with this live A/V performance, Christoph Elskens (EMI Belgium) spotted MOTEK. Surprised by their intensity and unsigned status, Christoph and EMI Belgium decided to start Noisesome Recordings, a sublabel hosting the rather experimental edge of the Belgian music scene. 

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