Modeselektor & Apparat Reunite As Moderat

February 17th, 2009

Moderat Photo By Melissa Hostetler

As you may know, I have massive amounts of love for Berlin, Germany’s Modeselektor (sometimes cheekily referred to as MDSLKTR). The duo’s first two punctuation-infused albums, Hello Mom! and Happy Birthday were phenomenal and are in regular rotation on my stereo. Plus the guys are loved by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke (who appears on the excellent track The White Flash). I had the pleasure of seeing Modeselektor at last year’s MUTEK festival in Montreal and caught a few moments of their set on camera – take a look at the epic blowup at the 1:12 mark.

What you probably didn’t know was that I’m also a big fan of another Berliner, Apparat – his 2006 album Orchestra Of Bubbles (with Ellen Allien) was incredible and didn’t get the praise it deserved, IMO.

I got a very exciting press release earlier this afternoon announcing that both artists – Modeselektor and Apparat – are joining forces as Moderat, with a debut album to be released by BPitch Control on April 21 of this year. Add that to your list of highly anticipated releases for 2009.

Working backwards, it’s interesting to note that Moderat actually existed before both Modeselektor and Apparat (which are actually spinoff bands created after the so-called failure of Moderat). In 2002, Gernot Bronsert, Sebastian Szary (Modeselektor) and Sascha Ring (Apparat) recorded and released an EP called Auf Kosten der Gesundheit (“At The Cost of Health”) but broke up shortly afterward to work on their own debut albums.

And now, two Moderat tour stops in Canada!
May 28 @ Mutek, Montreal
May 29 @ Circa, Toronto

Moderat Tracklisting:
1. A New Error
2. Rusty Nails
3. Seamonkey
4. Slow Match (f. Paul St. Hilaire)
5. 3 Minutes Of
6. Nasty Silence
7. Sick With It (f. Delle aka Eased from Seeed)
8. Porc # 1
9. Porc # 2
10. No. 22
11. Out Of Sight

Links:
MySpace: Moderat
MySpace:Modeselektor
MySpace:Apparat

Posted on Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 at 3:25 pm by Casey and is filed under Music & Videos, The NewMusic.