MTK043 – Francis Xavier & Phil Smart - Rhythm Effect / Heyou

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Nick Wales & Rrawun Maymuru – Yolngu

A retrospective mix celebrating 2 wonderful years of Motorik....

"Motorik is the most important and exciting thing to happen in Australian dance music since the bang gang. There is a really awesome and inspired thing that’s going on, amplified by the fact that it’s a movement based in comraderie instead of competition. From releases to parties to the fact that ‘vibe chancellor’ is actually on Vi’s business card (if I’m not mistaken?), Motorik is doing it right. Happy second birthday!!!"

- Louisa Pillot (Louisahhh!!!)

"MOTORIK nights have been by far my best shows in australia, these guys own techno there, and I can’t wait to come back - I also have to admit there’s always a motorik release in my sets. guys, please, do me favour a release more stuff, or I"ll play angle of Incidence forever"

- Joan Mael Péneau (Maelstrom)

Motorik is legit. I just wanna wish all ya’ll who make it happen a appy 2nd birthday! y’all are the main reason techno music stays alive down under. I been lucky enough to be around before the birth of motorik and to this day all you guys been legit to your sound and passionate about being innovative and not being afraid to push the boundaries. I recently happened to play a very appropriate date (Cinco De Mayo) with the motorik crew. the vibe was amazing! The party  gave me a huge reminder that the underground is alive and well and that the underground also comes with fine ass women too. so keep on keeping that shit extra sexy and hopefully i get to be a part of another legendary Motorik Party! Happy Birthday Playboys!

stay up! 

- Victor (Harvard Bass)

Far and away my favourite nights to play at in Sydney are the Motorik parties. For me it feels like being part of something underground, kind of like the old Bang Gang but a newer version. The warehouses and clubs are always raw, the music isn’t compromising to mass appeal and all the crew are my buds. What else could i ask for? I wish the crew a happy 2nd birthday and i’ll be doing my best to ensure there are many more too!! Catch me throwing high 5’s on the Saturday night lawds!!! 

- Jordan Feller (Light Year)

Motorik are setting the standard for Australian underground dance music with the combination of an extremely well curated, packaged record label [needless to say we here at wordlife are stoked that they release our music] and killer roving parties every month anointing hundreds of ravers in the sacred flames of techno. We’re proud to be part of the fam!

- Barnabas Hodgson & Adam Bozzetto (Wordlife)

The MVC - 2 Years of Motorik (Retrospective Mix)

Motorik! is pleased to announce the first contribution to the label from long-time friend and underground workhorse Luen.

Title track Strange Purpose's low-slung rubbery electro kicks things off. Squelches are paired with choral ringing pads and panning vocals ringing through your brain. Why So Soft? offers dreamy ambience and crispy percussion punctuated by tranced-out euphoric bleeps that swell and swell; late-night rhythmic bliss that soothes and elevates.

The flip comes in hot with remixes of both tracks. Nicola Cruz squeezes all the juice from the title track and pours out a watery electro journey that glitches and trickles its way through your auditory cortex. Philou Louzolo's take on Why So Soft? synergises ambience, acid harmonies and the EPs only 4x4 kick to provide dancefloor air, sway and groove.

Strange Purpose

For Life - Sing (Captain Mustache Remix)

Wordlife - Club Strobe (CSMNT61 & Jensen Interceptor Remix) (Preview)

Francis Xavier & Phils Smart - Heyou

Francis Xavier & Phils Smart - Rhythm Effect

Producer, DJ and Sydney young pup End In Tears conjures up a straight-shooting debut EP on Motorik! High-tempo dance floor bombs only on the A-side while low-slung electro heater Paris opens the B-side. Title track Tell Me closes it out with set-closing, telling-your-mates-you-love-them euphoria. You'll be hearing that one all summer.

Tell Me

End In Tears - Paris

End In Tears - Dreams

MTK - Celebrating 3 years on the dancefloor. 

The mix currently gracing your ears is a brief overview that just scratches at the surface of the Motorik! Recordings catalogue. This ever-expanding canon is a definitive collection of the Sydney techno scene's brightest stars - a family of artists that includes Jensen Interceptor, Wordlife, The Finger Prince, CSMNT61, Light Year, Craig Williams, KIM and Francis Xavier. 

Consider this mix your aural accompaniment to ART OF RAVE - a 3 year visual retrospective of the label, celebrating 3 years on the frontline of the Australian dance scene. Feel it. 

Motorik Presents
ART OF RAVE.
supported by #JDFutureLegends

FREE ENTRY : 29.08.14 - 03.09.14
Salerno Gallery : 70 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. 


TRACKLIST:
Australia - Techno Music 2013 (KIM Remix)
The Finger Prince - Your Face (Rework Remix)
Wordlife - Vision (The Finger Prince Remix)
The Finger Prince - Mao (Jensen Interceptor Remix)
Jensen Interceptor - Highway
Jensen Interceptor & CSMNT61 - Parallax Error
Light Year - Moderation (Jensen Interceptor & CSMNT61 Remix)
CSMNT61 - The Truth
??? - ???
Wordlife - Club Strobe (Harvard Bass Remix)
Craig Williams feat. Louisahhh!!! - Rawhide (CSMNT61 Remix)
Jensen Interceptor feat. Francis Xavier - System Addict
Francis Xavier - We Got It
Light Year & Jensen Interceptor - A.D.S.R.
??? - ???
KIM - Kloser

MOTORIK - Art Of Rave 3rd Anniversary Mix

Rrawun Maymuru & Nick Wales – Yolngu (alterboy Dub)

Rrawun Maymuru & Nick Wales – Yolngu (Deepchild's Beat Reconstruction)

Rrawun Maymuru & Nick Wales – Yolngu (Deepchild's Vocal Reconstruction)

Rrawun Maymuru & Nick Wales – Yolngu (Club Mix)

Rrawun Maymuru & Nick Wales – Yolngu

CHECK. YEEEEEAUH! JACK YOUR BODY! The unstoppable NRG juggernaut that is Wordlife and the titan of booty that is DJ FUNK come together to jack into the neural network of your club and get electrically pneumatic. We got wall-to-wall remixes for every requirement. Pop, lock and drop it with Mak and Pasteman, rising Argentine weirdo-funk-house machine Carisma (from Matias Aguayo's Comeme) and, like a fine glacé cherry on top of the best ice-cream sundae you've ever had, the one and only dance commander, topping out undefeated at 128bpm, Mr. Graeme Sinden.

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Dat Groove (Club Version)

Reenie & Tunnel Signs - Zero Sum

Reenie & Tunnel Signs - Amirite

Motorik! crew: Redman, Francis Xavier & The Santamaria Brothers back to back in various combinations... live, closing a Motorik warehouse party. 


Marco Carola - Avalanche [zenit]
Deetron Presents Soulmate - Filter Dub [Ilian Tape]
DJ ADHD, Thys, Nikki Nair - Sun [vision recordings]
Ø [Phase] - Metra [Modwerks]
Heller & Farley - The Rising Sun (Bedrock Remix) [junior london]
Floorplan - What You Need [Classic music company]
Cléon - Rite Here [acid cuts]
Olga Korol & Per Hammar - Бешкет [Dirty Hands]
Queer On Acid - Sportlotto [Step Recordings]
Piatto - Integration [Italo Business]
?? - ??
Basement Jaxx - Flylife Xtra [Multiply Records]
Reece Walker & Qnete - The Tribute [QC Records]
Paurro - They're Here! [Comeme]
DJ Deeon, Bitchin' Camaro, Gettoblaster - Freak Bitch (Housemeister Remix) [Traxmen Records]
Yaleesa Hall - Second Cullen [Will & Ink]
515 Connection - Positive & Negative [Maslow Unknown]
Dawn Razor - Typhoon [Scuffed Recordings]
Underworld - Cowgirl [Junior Boy's Own]
KiNK - Vacation (Perc Remix) [hypercolour records]
Inner City - Good Life (Inner City Edit Of Carl Craig Remix) [Armada Music]
Agustin Giri - Siete [vokabularium]
George Adi - finest [SCI+TEC]
The Knife - Silent Shout [Rabid]
?? - ??
M.A.N.D.Y. vs Booka Shade - Body Language (Patrice Bäumel Remix) [Get Physical]
?? - ??
Bryan Kessler - Punx Eat Little Kids [Me Me Me]
?? - ??
Peyote Dreams - State Of Mind (Slack Mix) Alex Kassian’s Dream State [Love on the Rocks]
Neil Landstrumm - Down on the A [Tresor]
Sven Väth - The Worm (Robag Wruhme Remix) [cocoon]
Shiffer - Laminated Dreams [Siamese Records]
Eden Burns - Free Your Mind [Public Possession]
Passarani - Exit Velocity [Unrelatable]
Cher - Believe

MTKMIX001: 24 July 2024

MTK presents DREEMS AKA Gus Da Hoodrat. 8 Hour set (plus 2 hour encore). 
Saturday Feb 01, 2025. 

Here lies part 1. well, about an hour in to part 1. The recorder wasn't on when Gus opened up with some ambient records. Lessons were learned. We'll post part 2 at some point, so keep it locked.

xx MTK

MTKMIX002: DREEMS

Santamaria Brothers & Francis Xavier at Neomenia '25

MTKMIX003 - Neomenia '25

Old friends. New Music. 

You would be very hard pressed to find two more universally venerated individuals within the Australian dance music community. In an attempt to spare you the enthusiastic fanboy eulogies, we will say that Xavier & Smart have for a LONG time been 2 important ingredients in the glue that holds the Sydney underground together and keeps it honest. From ecstasy drenched stadiums headlined by Infusion, to the legendary hedonism of Tweekin, these boys have been working on the drum sounds with much patience since the beginning. In case you didn't know already, Motorik! is honoured to present: Francis Xavier & Phil Smart - Way Down (Underground). 

The music: 
Way Down (Underground): The sorcerers are at their mind-warping best on this 10 minute journey. Perpetual motion has finally been achieved, thanks to some of the most delicious drum programming we've heard in while. This is a deep, percussive journey that is as soulful as it is driving. Pure 3am magic! 

Out Jan 15 on Motorik

MTK020 - Francis Xavier & Phil Smart - Way Down (Underground)

Old friends. New Music. 

You would be very hard pressed to find two more universally venerated individuals within the Australian dance music community. In an attempt to spare you the enthusiastic fanboy eulogies, we will say that Xavier & Smart have for a LONG time been 2 important ingredients in the glue that holds the Sydney underground together and keeps it honest. From ecstasy drenched stadiums headlined by Infusion, to the legendary hedonism of Tweekin, these boys have been working on the drum sounds with much patience since the beginning. In case you didn't know already, Motorik! is honoured to present: Francis Xavier & Phil Smart - Way Down (Underground). 

The music: 
Pictures: That soon-to-be trademarked 808 tom programming is back on the flip, but this time it sounds like someone gave Neu! a sequencer and hit 'record'. Serving suggestion: Eyes closed, head down.

Out Jan 15 on Motorik

MTK020 - Francis Xavier & Phil Smart - Pictures

MTK022 - Francis Xavier - Slipped Up (Acid On the Radio Mix) - Preview

MTK027 - Itch-E & Scratch-E - Sweetness and Light (For Life Remix)

MTK028 - Pantheon & Horowitz - Body Action (Fairchild Remix)

MTK032 - Astrophysical Maser - Bird and Planet

Francis Xavier - 75% Chance Of Acid

Jensen Interceptor - Highway

Jensen Interceptor - Interception

Luke Alessi is bringing his moody sound to Motorik for the very first time. I Led You whispers and stomps to lock you down in the depth. The foundations are so strong we had to bring remixes to life. McLean & Mai give the outrageous punch and William Kiss give the measured touch.

Luke Alessi - I Led You (William Kiss Remix)

Luke Alessi - I Led You

A new adventure into elastic anomalistic techno funk with The Finger Prince on the reins. Set for release deep into the Southern Hemisphere summer and supported with remixes from kindred spirits Rework, Hiem (Bozzwell) and Chux. 


THE FINGER PRINCE - YOUR FACE  (RADIO EDIT)

Brothers With Soul - Music Is So Special (Precious Material), 1995
DJ Sports - For Real For You (Firecracker Recordings), 2017
Fade - Thinking Of You (Of Paradise), 2020
Ray Kandinski - 9ths and 7ths (Cactus Traxx), 2019
Phondupe - Abyssal -4400 (Air Con Records), 2019
Steve Reich - Drumming Pt 1 (John Gibson), 1971
Laurence Guy - Are You Fine? (Studio Barnhus), 2019
ARK X & FFF - Diamond Life 06 (Myor), 2019
Matrix - Slow Drift (New Identity Recordings), 1996
A Guy Called Gerald - Finley’s Rainbow (Slow Motion Mix), (Juice Box) 1995
Coco Bryce - Blue Tile Lounge (Lobster Theremin), 2020
Hugh B - Soul Running (Repeat Concrete), 2020
Boxcutter - Retina Grains (Kinnego Records), 2014
Sanderson Dear - Homeward Bound (Aural Imbalance Remix), 2015

FBi Mix 16 - Phondupe

1. KAS:ST - Breath
2. Anetha, ABSL - Elles 
3. Anetha, Sugar - Candy From Strangers
4. Alignment - Interference
5. Joyhauser - Galaxy Phase
6. Varg - Thirst (Dressed in Nothing but UV Paint and Biodegradable Glitter)
7. Airod - Acid Effect
8. Schwefelgelb - Es Zieht Mich
9. Varg - feat. G19 - Parasites (Honest Music for Dishonest People)
10. Rephate - Portugese Baguette
11. Anetha, Niki Istrefi - One More Cartoon, Please 
12. I Hate Models - Daydream 
13. KAS:ST - Insomnia
14. Bjarki - Oli Gumm
15. Giant Swan - Pandaemonium
16. Clouds - Opera 2001
17. Clouds - Türok

FBi Mix 15 - Trad

CSMNT61. A group of many names, faces and talents. After seeking protection in the Indie Band Protection Program when one too many stalker girls found their home addresses (the result of years spent as, respectively, the guitarist, bassist and vocalist of former NME darlings and sharply dressed angst-funk titans Lost Valentinos), we've managed to coax them out of their year-long recording hiatus in order to collaborate with our golden boy, Jensen Interceptor. 

This EP is all about stripped back, raw, powerful vibes. It's not a lush deep house slab. It's not a meandering epic with guitars and a choir. It's got acid, it's got analogue snarl and it's got bass. Lots of it. We even put forward the theory that there's some serious west-coast hip-hop influence in there, somewhere

Jensen Interceptor + CSMNT61 - Irrational number (preview)

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