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STRIKE 089CD
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Presenting a double CD release compiling a fine collection of Sascha Ring aka Apparat's remix work. Things To Be Frickled is a mega-showcase of current electronic music pioneers merging and redefining ways of making music. Killer club tracks as well as silent epics each find their home in Apparat's musical cosmos. This CD is not meant as a follow-up to the successful Walls album, rather, it is a way to understand Apparat's background, friends, influences, works and ideas. Things To Be Frickled presents a new motion in electronic music that takes both steps: loops/tracks/club music vs. songwriting, soundscapes, and new ways of experimenting and understanding what is possible with bits and bytes, instrument(al)s and vocals. CD1 showcases 11 giant mixes Apparat did for artists such as Paul Kalkbrenner (with Ellen Allien), Francesco Tristano, Swayzak, Boys Noize, Lusine, Nathan Fake, Meteo/Thiel, Nitrada and Raz Ohara plus an unreleased live Apparat re-version of "Let Your Love Grow" by Moderat (a cooperation between Modeselektor and Apparat) featuring the great Tikiman (aka Paul St. Hilaire). CD2 assembles 11 remixes done for Apparat plus several Apparat remix 12"s, all of them appearing on CD for the first time: Telefon Tel Aviv, Modeselektor, Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o, Thomas Fehlmann, Monolake, Boys Noize, Lusine, Anders Ilar and Raz Ohara. Also featuring a previously-unreleased mix of Shrubbn!! remixing "Hailin From The Edge."
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STRIKE 084CD
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2011 repress. Walls is the fifth full-length album for Apparat, aka Berlin's Sascha Ring, who had one hell of a year 2006. His collaboration with Ellen Allien, the critically-acclaimed album Orchestra of Bubbles, forged electrifying new connections between techno, electro and pop music. Somewhere in between all the laud and acclaim and touring, he managed to record his first solo studio album since 2003's Duplex. Despite its title, Walls isn't about dividing lines. Instead, it describes a circle that pulls many elements together into a protected, enclosed space where they jostle and roam free: strings and mallet instruments; rock guitar and gravelly sawtooth synths; stuttering digital percussion and muscular studio drumming. What might be most striking about Walls is the way it creates a kind of single, sustained mood -- this is an album for listening to all in one go, front to back. This is one of those road-trip records, one of those coming-down records, one of those bedding-down records. The record veers from the chamber minimalism of "Not A Number," with its cello and vibraphones, to the bluesy rock of "Hailin' From The Edge." "Fractales Pt. 1" offers a sound that longtime Apparat listeners might recognize as most typical, while "Bassis" is, in its purest sense, a pop song, as ephemeral as clouds and as solid as the ground you're standing on -- a fitting contradiction for a record that draws equally from software and acoustic instrumentation. Important guests and collaborators on this record include Telefon Tel Aviv's Josh Eustis, who did the album's final mixdown in Chicago, as well as the talented Raz Ohara, who contributes his smoky vocals. Walls houses a magic box: a compact hour of music that promises to give back many times as much in pleasure. Apparat has melded his genius as a sound designer with his growing songwriting talents to craft 14 songs brimming with ideas, energy, texture, light, color. They are hummable, embraceable, swimmable, possibly edible.
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STRIKE 069EP
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After Sascha Ring aka Apparat paid tribute to the beauty of melancholy and loneliness on his last album Silizium, now he connects melancholy with the necessary push to the dance floor on Berlin, Montreal, Tel Aviv. These tracks were recorded live over the course of the last year in the most prolific clubs in each of the named cities. The warm melodic parts are carried by abstract beats. It grows into powerful, freeing eruptions after the lengthy build-up of suspense. "Berlin" is thus the deepest track on this EP and is great fodder for DJs who have the courage to get emotional. "Montreal" contains parts from the opera Pia and is an electro track that also utilizes some synth pop elements. "Tel Aviv" is the most pulsating track on the EP and gives us a more unknown look into the darker sides of Apparat's soul. All this is counteracted with some absurd happy melodies.
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STRIKE 053LP
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STRIKE 053CD
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2011 repress. Originally recorded for a Peel Session at the BBC in 2004, Silizium EP is a full-length release from Berlin-based Apparat. "A balance between things that you know people will like and things that you think people will like" is what John Peel had to say on his homepage about Apparat's music programming concept. John Peel passed away a few months later from a heart attack while vacationing in Peru. Apparat (Sascha Ring) could only find a more fitting farewell mood with the rerecording of his session: a sonic dedication to a huge mentor from Shitkatapult and their people. Apparat is known as a fluctuating mood-maker by way of his computer companion, swinging the composer's stick with emotion and conducting pieces of lonely melancholic beauty with godly discretion. New strings are thanks to the violin and cello of Kathrin Pfänder and Lisa Stepf aka Complexácord, whose soul-drenched expression lets your mind sway, as they harmonize with dreamlike perfection. It reminds one once again of the experimental modus operandi combining classical instruments with electronic music. Singer Raz Ohara and clarinet/sax player Hormel Eastwood find their chosen virtuous and emotional space on this promising cloud. What remains are warm dark drops of elegiac pop that pour down the back of your heart. Also includes remixes from Bus, Telefon Tel Aviv, and Rechenzentrum.
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BPC 097EP
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"At long last an Apparat record that gets on your nerves. However, this is not intended in a negative light, no -- but instead conveys the sense of deciphering a puzzling riddle on a treasure hunt. How, in fact are Noise and Techno combined in a special art all (his) own? On 'Can't Computerize it', Apparat presents the intelligent techno platform, which advances from the 'shuffle' to the 'Schaffel' With the latest use of showy-similar sounds, other IDM Heroen (aside from Modeselektor) would have ceased to believe. Apparat however has apparently no desire to serve up the fans with the traditional fare, but would rather leisurely lure them to the floor -- and once there commence to 'rocken' The love for the concrete beat here is somehow admittedly a lacking of love for the concrete beat. However (take a deep breath), it is rather a love for the merciless rave, of which the consciousness is shut down save the awareness. Of which can also be ambitiously undernourished -- so long as 'Can't Computerize it' can be danced to. The notebook computer seldom has a great deal of autonomy and liberty; basically it just does what it wants frizzling and so forth until the power supply explodes. But Apparat shows up here as the Wizard, who plays the technology according to his rules. Then through the sometimes noisy, chaotic beginnings of the pieces, the lovely harmonies and surfaces gently approach, and turn the entire LP into a manifesto of the dance. However, sanctified, open arms embrace the cathedral like surface nevertheless. While the rest twitches, with closed eyes one manages to smile."
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STRIKE 045EP
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$8.50
NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER
"Accompanying vinyl-only EP of remixes by some of today's most adventurous and respected electronic producers. Whereas the original work reveled in the enviable austerity of moodiness required for an optimal home-listening headphone experience, these remixes are perfect for solitary dancers who prefer dark rooms and corrosive beats to the strobe-controlled world of club culture. The a-side features manipulators from both sides of the Atlantic. Kompakt artist and The Orb collaborator Thomas Fehlmann takes 'Schallstrom' and all but strips it of the delicate piano refrain that centered the original, in the process transforming it into a lean and dirty track befitting Berlin's long and twisted dub wise techno backing. Seattle-based L'usine Icl, who has recorded previously for such labels as Ghostly International and Hymen, distorts and buries the vocal-heavy 'Contradiction', trading in its stridently syncopated beats for a crunchy blip-hop anthem of melancholic proportions. The B-side veers into more constructive and thoughtful territory. Monolake (aka Robert Henke) captures the cinematic tendencies of 'Steinholz', but opts to make a completely different movie along the way. As illustrious and otherworldly as its inspiration, this version holds true to the intricate and organic textures that make Apparat's music so enigmatic. To finish things off, the operatic and soaring 'Wooden' is deconstructed by Shitkatapult's own Anders Ilar, who underscores the track's core emotional thrust with a broken rhythmic bed that sounds as wooden as its namesake."
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NEO 023CD
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$13.00
NOT IN STOCK, SPECIAL ORDER
"Sascha Ring, aka Apparat, has been quite the busy man these last few years. Manning the controls as producer and knob twiddler for renowned female operator Ellen Allien, Sascha has also continued to run his highly acclaimed Shitkatapult label, together with compadre T. Raumschmiere, as well as collaborating with Radiohead's favourite electronic men of the moment Modeselektor under the 'Moderat' moniker for Ellen's Bpitch Control imprint. Shape Modes is Sascha's debut for the Neo Ouija imprint. Shape Modes is all about these malfunctioning machines. Now that the scores of copyists and programmers have been safely returned to their bedrooms, what's left is artists willing to progress the format, advance with sounds, showstopping music. Just check 'Get out of your krib', for its delicious tempo and even more tempting low end theories, a feisty and palpable thump offsetting the melodic fireworks, testing the boundaries and evidently a move forward. Encapsulating digital and analogue processes, involving abstract forms within familiar song structures."
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STRIKE 041CD
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2011 repress. "From Schallstrom and Mexican beer, Berlin based Apparat emerges with a full-length that has hit the jackpot (minus the bling), partakes in the recent fornication between acoustics and electronics and reaches deep into conveying new and evocative sound scapes. This new long player's screw-music will penetrate deep into your ears and hunt out the pain. Duplex is a collection of new material, poetically absorbing you in every way, steering a symphonic cakewalk blitz through your emotions, and successfully/intentionally bypasses the mundane and empty laptop sounds of the giant electronic music sweat-shop. It's full of shock-and-awe, not unlike when you first took that hit of acid and listened to trance-techno (ok, maybe we're going a little too far but hell, we're excited about this album). Listen to the songs on headphones after a long day. Listen intently and you'll hear the recipe a la Duplex: Mexican digi-mosquitoes, droning Catholic organs, heart-wrenching distorted horns, and finally Apparat's renown, shuffled thump beats."
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