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 admin and is filed under News.
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5 Responses to “Modeselektor & Apparat Reunite As Moderat”
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(That NOT before 2002 should be deleted, that’s a typo, 2002 is correct)
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Hey Hans! I took the info & dates directly from a mailing list press release that was sent my way by the label. I guess more accurately they united as Moderat, released an album and then splintered off once again (technically just a hiatus) before reforming to release the new album. Have you heard it yet, btw??
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Ok that sounds right.
I have heard portions of it in very low quality, but I’ll wait for the actual release. No 128kbps can do justice to these heroes.
If you listen to some Apparat live sets late from last of this year, you’ll find some samples from the Moderat album, some parts actually sounded familiar!
The dvd with Pfadfinderei and their live shows are things to really look forward to. -
I can’t wait to hear the album - should be great! I saw Modeselektor twice last year, have you seen them before? Absolutely outstanding live!
“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. ”
Can you source that?
I mean, by the time Auf Kosten der Gesundheit was released (not 2002), Apparat himself already released 2 EP’s (Algorhythm 2001, Tttrial and Error EP 2002) and his debut album followed in the same year (Multifunktionsebene 2002). You really can’t just assume they started as Moderat and then split up because it failed. They didn’t fail.