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APPARAT

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!

About Me

apparat:
- uses computers and various devices to generate sounds.
- is never satisfied with anything.
- likes the woods, the sea and the mountains.
- comes out of the woods close to the sea just by the mountains.
- fears getting erased from myspace again.
- enjoys good single malt whiskey. maybe a little bit too much.
- hasn..t got time to listen to "a new song on myspace".
- sometimes gets along with women slightly better than with men.
- would really like to have a greyhound but berlin isn..t the place for that.
- dosen..t play any instrument very well.
- forgets to tell some people how important they are from time to time.
- tends to waste nice summers.
- has no secret weapon to make certain tones and noises.
- gets mad about things quite easily.
- probably needs a haircut a bit more often.
- works on an album with his buddies modeselektor and its gonna be huge once its done.
Booking woldwide:
Daniel @ Flow.er
Booking Italy:
Susanna @ Flow.er
Booking France:
Malick @ Divine booking
If you want to use an Apparat song for a movie, video, showreel etc. please get in touch with Daniel @ Shitkatapult . I get lots of requests like that and all i can do for you is forwarding you to my label cause they own the rights to the songs.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/23/2007
Band Website: apparat.net
Band Members: sascha ring
Influences: the cure, the velvet underground, joy division, muse, m83, my bloody valentine, radiohead, fennesz, modeselektor, bloc party, arovane, sigur ros, godspeed- you black emperor, mogwai, telefon tel aviv, bjoerk, steve reich, autechre, aphex twin, blur, kashmir, eric satie, js bach, monolake, and you will know us by the trail of dead, jim o rourke, can, jeff buckley, arcade fire, sonic youth, timbaland, musik aus strom, 90s reference and bunker
Sounds Like: cherry colored funk
Record Label: Shitkatapult, Bpitchcontrol, inFiné, P-Vine
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

life is live is live is

hey!a message for the nerds among you and for those who get involved in nerdy conversations from time to time...occasionally i see comments or messages about my livesets and some people say i am just ...
Posted by APPARAT on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:13:00 PST

thank you seattle!

before i came to seattle i was ready to stay away from this country for the next 5 years. touring america can be realllly tough. but seattle showed me there is hope for me over here! a really good clu...
Posted by APPARAT on Sat, 24 May 2008 09:38:00 PST

i love this job! some tour impressions...

last nights gig in guadalajara was awesome. such nice people here in mexico. i..m happy to be on tour with my band. finally we are a good team! we became a band during the last year and if you come to...
Posted by APPARAT on Thu, 15 May 2008 10:28:00 PST

FIRST WORDS 2008 / NEW RELEASES

Hey everyody,some new Apparat stuff in 2008:1: Walls - Japanese edition: P-Vine Records will re-release Walls in February. The Japanese edition contains a bonus track called "HoldOn - A-Minor Version"...
Posted by APPARAT on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:05:00 PST

LAST WORDS 2007

i have no idea how this year passed by that fast. whos stealing all this time? there were these gray, cigar smoking old men in this movie "momo" i saw when i was a child. they were stealing other peop...
Posted by APPARAT on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:25:00 PST

Istanbul / Moscow

just a quick thank you to all the people in istanbul and moscow. i really think that both cities are pretty "underrated". maybe everybody should get a little less crazy about berlin and check out some...
Posted by APPARAT on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:49:00 PST

italy

sorry boys and girls in modena last night. maybe you didnt notice but i was (am) supersick and couldnt play more or talk to all of you. its allways really cool to play in italy and you are just crazy....
Posted by APPARAT on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:35:00 PST

Walls vinyl!!!

The very nice, heavy and limited double vinyl version of Walls is finally avaliable:Shitkatapult has an even nicer version with cd inside as well. You can get it there right now or next week in your ...
Posted by APPARAT on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:12:00 PST

APPARAT BAND

hey folks!there has been always a difference between my "rave" liveshows and my mellow records. i am into the "rave" thing and thats why i play more dancy on dancefloors.nevertheless, i think this alb...
Posted by APPARAT on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:22:00 PST

walls - vinyl version

hey,just a quick note to say that walls will be released as a super nice vinyl version and a full color fold-cover after the summer. salve,sascha.btw - myspace feels like using a 1998 modem connection...
Posted by APPARAT on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:12:00 PST