Apparat Live @ Dissonanze 2007
Apparat's smart wiring of emotions produces a virtual musical reality based upon different genres, depending on the surrounding of the "apparatus". In his studio, he produces unique, dense atmospheres made of dark electronica and elegiac pop: glitches, clicks, and accidental "sound mistakes" are mixed with voices, celestial sounds and melodies produced by classical instruments (violin and cello, saxophone and clarinet) which are then masterly orchestrated by Apparat as the Maestro of his computer. Live, he fills the dance floor with his favourite dancefloor styles of techno, IDM and electro. Both in his records or during his sets, the intensity in Apparat's tracks seems to grow with his own pleasure in experimenting. After loads of solo works, albums, remixes and productions, which have been underground successes, in 2006 his collaboration with Ellen Allien, the Orchestra of Bubbles album, has been worldwide critically acclaimed for having forged new connections between techno, electro and pop music. Together they also developed the material into an electrifying live show that wowed clubs and festival audiences the world over. In the meantime he managed to record Walls, his first solo studio album since 2003's Duplex. "Walls is not a concept album, it's more a 'last-two-years of Apparat compilation'. That's why there's so much different stuff on it, a lot of different influences" he says. Last but not least, together with T.Raumschmiere, Sascha Ring, aka Apparat, runs the innovative and diverse Berlin based record label Shitkatapult.
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