Motor Bad-Mouth Mixmag

Dr No from industrial-techno-rock band Motor chatted to Skrufff this week about
their new album Unhuman and a particularly harsh review in Mixmag which labelled it
'less industrial techno more like 50 minutes of banging hard house' and insisted he
wasn't upset.

"I thought it was hilarious." Dr No laughed, "Obviously the guy who wrote that
hasn't had a shag for years, I mean why did he write that article in the first
place?"

Mixmag writer James Mowbray (the mag's managing editor and a fast-rising star in his
own right as a minimal-ish tech DJ) twisted the knife still further, suggesting 'if
this was on Tidy rather than Novamute most music snobs would turn their noses up at
it; I'm turning my nose up at it anyway', prompting a further amused response from a
definitely not annoyed at all Dr No.

"I'm not too sensitive with articles like this in general and I like a good critic
if it's fair, but that twat; ridiculous?," he said, "Who the f**k is he? Eddie
Halliwell?"

The London based French rocker was vaguer about Unhuman's new direction ('we knew
more or less where we were going but of course didn't know exactly how, it just
developed as it came') and agreed they deliberately aimed for a new direction from
last year's critically acclaimed debut album Klunk.

"What's the fun of re-creating?" he asked, "It's always more fun to create something
new, otherwise it's like being ruled by your own rules."

He was a lot more forthcoming, however, about Motor's increasingly infamous rock &
roll reputation, which they fine-tuned on the road with Nitzer Ebb last year.

"My most rock and roll moment was on the tour bus with Nitzer Ebb after three nights
of non sleeping, speeding and rocking," he recalled.

"At one point I had to go for a piss while the bus was driving and when the bus is
driving, rule number two is to sit down while you're pissing, and rule number one
was not to mini cooper EVER!

Well, after squeezing my last drop of wee and hoping for a relaxing fart, all the
three days of alcohol, drugs, food, rock and party just came out my bum like the
great falls of Niagara, the smell was so intense that I blocked my mouth from
puking and I nearly passed out . . . Wow man, I don't know how I manage to get the
clear-out on that one. I guess I'm a professional," he laughed.

Unhuman is out on Novamute shortly.

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Motor live dates:

13th April - Club 11, Amsterdam HOLLAND (Live)
14th April – Tivoli, Utrecht HOLLAND (Live)
28th April – Live, Florida 135 Fraga SPAIN (Live)
4th May – Petrol Club, Antwerp BELGIUM (DJ Set)
9th July – Monegros Festival, Fraga SPAIN (Live)