AOTW [8] : Moderat
I’m never a fan of anything that sounds too much like House/Techno/Trance, basically I call them as “Diu Diu Diu music” (like the background beats ? Haha) Honestly, it still gives me a headache each time I listen to these genres. No offense to fans out there but I personally would prefer music with lyrics or pure instrumental like piano etc.
I came across Moderat during my internship and they will be coming for the Heineken Green Room Event later on ! Am really excited over the event itself and getting to watch them live should be a new and interesting experience. Basically Moderat is made up of Modeselektor and Apparat who both have equally great separate career but decided to do another collaboration after the first one in 2002.
If you were to ask me, I’ll probably not listen to their tracks since I’m not a big fan but the cool visuals changed my mind, supported by eclectic visual arts collective Pfadfinderei! Along with the visuals, I see them as more of a multimedia performance rather than just electro icons. I guess their music is club-ready to the party animals, whereas I really don’t understand how people dance to it except bobbing their heads with a drink in their hand. I will find out later !
Speaking of which, Nick Catchdubs, also in Singapore for the very first time will be at the Heineken Green Room as well ! See you there if you have the cool invites =)
Here’s a track that I thought was pretty cool with the awesome video (the video looks crappy but I thought the editing was great),
Tags: apparat, beats, collaboration, diu diu diu, electric visual arts collective, genres, headache, heineken green room, house, moderat, modeselektor, multimedia, nick catchdubs, party animals, pfadfinderei, singapore, techno, trance 
