Hybrids can be monsters, but collaborations can be masterful. Such is the case for Moderat, the collaboration between electroheavyweights Modeselektor and Apparat. Released seven years after Moderat’s first EP, the group’s self-titled album is essentially a dance club, each track a different room of some industrial East German warehouse: the trance room (“Seamonkey”); a chill-out Eurolounge (“Out of Sight”); electo-rock back alley (“Porc#1,” an intersecting point possibly forged from Modeselektor’s 2008 tour with Radiohead). Moderat tips a glow stick at smarty-tronic dance scenesters Aphex Twin and Leftfield, but never flows too far into the glitchy Tourettes-core stop and start of IDM. The sauntering swing of “A New Error” provides the perfect bass-heavy invocation for a head nod or a floor stomp. Recorded at Berlin’s Hansa Studios (where David Bowie recorded Heroes), Moderat is the marriage of two musical worlds fused together along with the precision of digital and the warmth of analog.
from Musica Universalis column in Flaunt Magazine, Issue 103 May 2009
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