Apparat (musician)

German musician (born 1978)

Apparat

Apparat performing in 2009

Background information
Birth name| Sascha Ring
Born|  (1978-06-27) 27 June 1978 (age 47)
Quedlinburg, East Germany
Genres|

* Electronic
* ambient
* IDM
* progressive house
* avant-pop
* synth-pop
* techno

Occupation| Musician
Instrument(s)| Synthesizer, keyboards, guitar, drums, personal computer, vocals
Years active| 1996–present
Labels| Shitkatapult, BPitch Control, P-Vine Records, Mute Records, inFiné
Website| apparat.net

Musical artist

Sascha Ring (born 27 June 1978), better known by the stage name Apparat, is a German electronic musician.[1] He was previously co-owner of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dancefloor-oriented techno, he shifted focus towards ambient music, becoming "more interested in designing sounds than beats".

He collaborates with Modeselektor under the name Moderat.[2]

## Career

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Ring collaborated with Ellen Allien in 2003 on the album Berlinette and again in 2006 on the album Orchestra of Bubbles.[3]

In 2004, he recorded a John Peel session. The tracks from this session were rerecorded and reworked in the studio and released as Silizium EP in 2005, as a tribute to Peel.

In 2007, he formed his own band to play the album Walls live. Raz Ohara joined him playing the stage piano and Jörg Waehner on drums. Next to playing these live shows, he continued to play his solo live sets, touring with Transforma Visuals.[4]

In May 2009, he released the self-titled album with Modeselektor under the name Moderat on BPitch Control. They had previously collaborated on the EP Auf Kosten Der Gesundheit which was released as a limited 12" in 2002.

In April 2009, he won in the Dance Floor category of the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards with the track "Fractales (Apparat Ibiza Version)".[citation needed]

In 2011, he signed with Mute Records, through which he released his new record The Devil's Walk, named after a political poem by romantic English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in September.

Apparat's music has been used in film and television. His track "Holdon" was used in the trailer for the 2010 Teton Gravity Research ski film Light The Wick.

"Goodbye" featuring Soap&Skin was used in a climactic scene in the Season 4 finale of Breaking Bad, the intro for the 2017 Netflix series Dark,[5] the episode "Broken Home" in Nikita, the 2014 Tatort episode "Kaltstart," and in the 2014 Italian biopic Leopardi. It also appeared in the French trailer of Rust and Bone, the trailer of Prisoners (2013), a 2014 theatrical trailer for The Drop, the first released trailer for Taken 3 and the official series 1-3 recap of BBC One show Luther,[6] and was occasionally used by Bonobo as an opening for his live shows.

"Black Water" was used in episode 2 in series 6 of Skins and in the trailer for the 2012 Candide Thovex ski film A Few Words. "Ash/Black Veil" was used in the 2011 snowboard documentary The Art of Flight. Tracks from his Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre) and The Devil's Walk albums were used with end title credits to Sasha Ring in the Italian movie Leopardi (Il giovane favoloso) (2014) by Mario Martone.[citation needed]

The Moderat song "The Mark (Interlude)" from the album II was featured in the 2018 film Annihilation.

On 7 September 2013, Ring was injured in a motorcycle accident in Berlin, suffering a multiple leg fracture and postponing his tour with Moderat.[7]

On 22 January 2019, Mute Records announced Apparat's fifth album, LP5, to be released on 22 March 2019, as well as releasing the records' tracklist and its first single "DAWAN" with corresponding music video.[8]

The album LP5 was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album in the 2020 Grammy Awards.[9][10] It also has been nominated for IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award (2019).[11] Apparat won IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award 2019.[12]

## Discography

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### Studio albums as Apparat

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* Multifunktionsebene (Shitkatapult, 2001)
* Duplex (Shitkatapult, 2003)
* Walls (Shitkatapult, 2007)
* The Devil's Walk (Mute, 2011)
* Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre) (Mute, 2013)
* LP5 (Mute, 2019)[13][14]
* Soundtracks: Capri-Revolution (Mute, 2020)[15]
* Soundtracks: Stay Still (Mute, 2020)
* Soundtracks: Dämonen (Mute, 2020)
* Soundtracks: Equals Sessions (It's Complicated Records, 2020)

### Other albums as Apparat

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* Things To Be Frickled (Shitkatapult, 2008) – 2 CD compilation, 1 CD of Apparat remixes of others' music, 1 CD of others remixing Apparat's music
* DJ-Kicks: Apparat (Studio !K7, 2010)

### Collaborations

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* Orchestra of Bubbles (BPitch Control, 2006) with Ellen Allien

### Albums with Modeselektor as Moderat

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* Moderat (BPitch Control, 2009)
* II (Monkeytown Records, 2013)
* III (Monkeytown Records, 2016)
* More D4ta (Monkeytown Records 2022)

### Singles and EPs

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* Algorythm (2001)
* Tttrial and Eror (Shitkatapult, 2002)
* Auf Kosten Der Gesundheit (BPitch Control, 2003) with Modeselektor (as Moderat)
* Koax (2003)
* Can't Computerize It (2004)
* Duplex.Remixes (Shitkatapult, 2004)
* Shapemodes (2004)
* Silizium (Shitkatapult, 2005)
* Berlin, Montreal, Tel Aviv (Shitkatapult, 2006)
* Holdon (Shitkatapult, 2007)
* Sayulita (DJ-Kicks) (!K7, 2010)
* "Ash/Black Veil" (2011)
* "Black Water" (2011) UK:#68
* "Song of Los" (2011)
* "Candil de la Calle" (2012)
* "Dawan" (2019)

## References

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1. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (22 September 2011). "Apparat: The Devil's Walk – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
2. ^ APPARAT TAKES BITS OF MODERAT TO FORM ELECTRONIC BLISS VIA 'LP5', Glide Magazine
3. ^ "The Latest Edition Of Our German-Language Podcast Features Apparat". Telekom Electronic Beats. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
4. ^ "Apparat: "I never understood the IDM name". MusicRadar. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
5. ^ Renfro, Kim (11 December 2017). "Netflix's new series Dark has a terrific and unique soundtrack – here are all the best songs featured". Insider. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
6. ^ The journey so far - Luther: Series 1-3 Recap - BBC One, 15 December 2015, archived from the original on 19 December 2021, retrieved 15 September 2021
7. ^ "Moderat 2013 Tour postponed!". 11 September 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
8. ^ "Apparat Announces New Album, Shares New Song: Listen". Pitchfork. 22 January 2019.
9. ^ Horton, Adrian (27 January 2020). "Grammy awards 2020: full list of winners". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
10. ^ "2020 GRAMMY Awards: Complete Nominees List". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
11. ^ "22 nominees shortlisted for IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award | Impala". Impalamusic.org. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
12. ^ IMPALA (24 February 2019). "APPARAT WINS IMPALA'S EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT ALBUM OF THE YEAR AWARD".
13. ^ "Review: Apparat - LP5". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
14. ^ "Album Review: Apparat - LP5". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
15. ^ "Apparat releases new version of his soundtrack for the 2018 film Capri-Revolution". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 27 July 2020.

## External links

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* Official website
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Apparat

Solo albums|

* Multifunktionsebene
* Duplex
* Walls
* Things to Be Frickled: Parts & Remixes
* DJ-Kicks: Apparat
* The Devil's Walk
* Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
* LP5

With Ellen Allien|

* Orchestra of Bubbles

With Modeselektor (as Moderat)|

* Moderat
* II
* III
* More D4ta

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* Shitkatapult

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* Gernot Bronsert
* Sascha Ring
* Sebastian Szary

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* Moderat
* II
* III
* More D4ta

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* Apparat
* Modeselektor

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