Modeselektor
is an electronic music band formed in Berlin, featuring Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. The group draws heavily from IDM, glitch, electro and hip hop. In an interview the group said regarding their sound: "Happy metal, hard rap, country-ambient, Russian crunk. We don’t like it if people tag us as being a certain style or school or scene or whatever. We don’t really care about all that." [1]
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History
The group members met in 1992 in
Berlin with group member Szary performing live
acid house music at illegal underground parties. The group says, "After the Wall came down, everywhere in Germany and especially East Germany there was a lot of chaos, anarchy."
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Both soon joined forces and began creating music under the moniker Fundamental Knowledge. In 1996 the group renamed to Modeselektor, a name taken from a function on the
Roland RE-201 Space Echo
analog delay effects unit.
In 1999 Modeselektor signed its first remix contract and began working with
Pfadfinderei, a Berlin based
VJ and design collective. In 2000 Modeselektor met
Ellen Allien, making
BPitch Control their home label. Modeselektor has also been involved in collaborative efforts; Moderat - a musical collaboration between Modeselektor and
Apparat, Pfadselektor - a music/visual collaboration between Modeselektor and Pfadfinderei, and with
Rhythm & Sound's Paul St. Hillaire. They have produced sound installations at the
Centre Pompidou in
Paris and lectured at the
Merz Akademie in
Stuttgart.
Modeselektor is a favourite group of
Thom Yorke (
Radiohead frontman)
[3], who has recommended their albums in interviews and included the song
Silikon
(from their 2005 LP
Hello Mom!
and featuring vocalist Sasha Perera) in a publicly available
iTunes playlist. Moderat (the collaboration between Modeselektor and Apparat) will also support Radiohead on the band's concerts in
Poznan,
Poland and
Prague,
Czech Republic, in August 2009.
The follow-up to
Hello Mom!
was
Happy Birthday!
which saw
Paul St. Hilaire,
TTC,
Puppetmastaz,
Thom Yorke and
Maxïmo Park as guest vocalists. Other collaborators included
Otto von Schirach, Siriusmo, and
Apparat.
In March 2009 they released an album with
Apparat under the name
Moderat
. They have collaborated previously on an EP named
Auf Kosten Der Gesundheit
which was released as a limited 12" on
BPitch Control in 2002.
Modeselektor also appeared as main characters in
Amy Grill's 2009 electronic music documentary,
Speaking In Code.
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Discography
since January 2008 }}
Albums
- Hello Mom!
(BPitch Control, 2005)
- Happy Birthday!
(BPitch Control, 2007)
- Moderat
(BPitch Control, 2009) with Apparat (as Moderat)
DJ Mixes
- Boogybytes Vol. 3 - Mixed by Modeselektor
(BPitch Control, 2007)
Singles
- Death Medley
(BPitch Control, 2002)
- In Loving Memory
(BPitch Control, 2002)
- Ganes De Frau Vol. 1
(BPitch Control, 2003)
- Auf Kosten Der Gesundheit
(BPitch Control, 2003) with Apparat (as Moderat)
- Turn Deaf!
(BPitch Control, 2004)
- Hello Mom! The Remixes
(BPitch Control, 2006)
- Weed Wid Da Macka
(Shockout, 2006)
- The Dark Side Of The Sun
(BPitch Control, 2007) with Puppetmastaz
- Happy Birthday! Remixes #1
(BPitch Control, 2008), includes The White Flash (Trentemøller Remix)
as the B-side.
- Happy Birthday! Remixes #2
(BPitch Control, 2008), includes various remixes of The Black Block
.
Multimedia
- Labland
(Dalbin, 2005) with Pfadfinderei, DVD
- Mdslktr
(BPitch Control, 2005), DVD + CD Box Set
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References
- http://www.northernights.co.uk/listings.php?id=662
- http://www.theredalert.com/features/modeselektor.php
- “Modeselektor Celebrate"
- “Q & A: Speaking In Code"