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MODERAT & PFADFINDEREI

MODERAT is the lovechild of producers Modeselektor and Apparat, who first combined their talents back in 2003. The single, 'Bad Kingdom' follows their second album, 'II' and is a rare but all the more accessible outing for it's vocal, which turns the track into a full blown song that wouldn't be a miss on mainstream radio..........if mainstream radio played good music that is. 

The stunning video perfectly complements the sound and lyrical hook, telling a topical tale of greed and corruption. It was put together by the design collective Pfadfinderei who seem to be responsible for much of the visual aspect of Moderat, also staging their much hyped live shows.

'Bad Kingdom' reminds me somewhat of 'Bodi Bill'...and that's definitely not a bad thing.

- Oli

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Moderat

Moderat if you don't know is an electronic music collaboration project that originated in Berlin, Germany. It started as a collaboration between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, also known as Modeselektor.

Their first full length album was released seven years after their first EP, due to some creative disagreements and different opinions on how they should work.

The album 'Moderat' went down pretty well when it was released. NOW magazine gave the album 4 out of 5 points describing it as "quite creative and surprisingly catchy", and Urb 5 out of 5, praising it for being "extremely beautiful and catchy".

Impressively in 2009, the readers of the online electronic music magazine, Resident Advisor, voted Moderat "The #1 Live Act Of The Year". Moderat toured Europe throughout the summer and autumn of 2010 and played pretty much every festival you can think of.

Here's the crescendo...

Moderat's second album, Moderat II was released in August both digitally and physically through Monkeytown Records and Mute in the United States. The first video from Moderat II was "Bad Kingdom" was an illustrated piece directed and produced by Pfadfinderei, about a young British man in 1966 London traversing a greedy underworld. Watch it here

Pfadfinderei are also responsible for the Moderat visuals which can be bought as lovely merchandise - here

- Paul