Motion is the debut studio album by the Cinematic Orchestra, released on 27 September 1999 on Ninja Tune.

The resulting draft tracks were then re-mixed on computer by Swinscoe to create the finished album.

[1] In 2012, it was awarded a double silver certification from the Independent Music Companies Association which indicated sales of at least 40,000 copies throughout Europe.

Stanton Swihart, writing for AllMusic, stated: ...the songs on Motion are by turns eerie, lush, edgy, expansive, gritty, intensely powerful, and gorgeous.

Sometimes an album comes along that forces you to reconfigure and re-evaluate all of the assumptions you had previously made about music in order to realize how vast and endless the possibilities are; this is one of those albums.Additionally, the album's success led to the band being asked to perform at the 1999 Director's Guild Awards ceremony for the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to film director Stanley Kubrick.