Name: Alexis - Burn by Alexis D'Souza in !
Duration: 3 min 21 s
Description: 'Back To The Start' is a four-track live EP recorded, mixed and mastered at AudioKraft Studios, Bangalore. This is Alexis' debut album.

ARTIST: Moderat
TITLE: Bad Kingdom
LABEL: Monkeytown
R/D: OUT NOW

Moderat are Modeselektor and Apparat...

Hardly anybody has brought electronic music from Berlin to the farthest flung corners of the world with more passion and enthusiasm than these two heavyweights.

Modeselektor – Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary – are bass music heroes. Together with a veritable army of collaborators, guest artists and with their two labels Monkeytown and 50 Weapons, they have built a broad network. They assimilate and process the tiniest vibrations in the global bass continuum and at the same time, their wobbly salvos and their oblique sense of humour are unmistakable. They became known to a select audience through their records on BPitch Control with which they catapulted themselves out of the Berlin 4/4 cosmos, whilst simultaneously reflecting the raw and full-on spirit of the 1990s Berlin club scene.

Apparat (real name: Sascha Ring) could hardly be more opposite. He fuses tricky electronics with heartfelt and auspicious pop. Together with T.Raumschmiere, he founded Shitkatapult. From early on, Apparat realised that the LP was his preferred form of expression. With each album, he reinvented himself on a personal, stylistic and social level: gradually bringing ever more strata of his emotional persona to light, exploring previously unknown musical styles and involving guest musicians in the process.

In 2002, Sascha, Gernot and Sebastian met for the first time. At that point in time, Apparat and Modeselektor were well established in the Berlin music scene. Sascha had already released his debut album and Gernot and Sebastian, a series of 12”s. Their shared studio time wore them down to such an extent, that they were forced to shelve the project almost immediately. But the foundations were laid and the three of them were able to present the fruits of their labour: the “Auf Kosten der Gesundheit” EP. Eleven years later, one still can have a sense of the sparks that must have flown in the studio: complex beats wrestling with furious bass and reduced rap elements.

Six years went by before they got together again. In the mean time both acts had established sensationally successful careers. In 2005, Modeselektor’s debut album “Hello, Mom!” gained them international recognition at light speed. Pitchfork rejoiced and Thom Yorke constantly mentioned them. Their second album featured vocals from Otto von Schirach, Maximo Park and... Thom York. Modeselektor stormed the festival stages and were honoured by Beatport and Resident Advisor.

Apparat had not just one but two breakthrough albums: in 2006 and together with Ellen Allien, he founded the “Orchestra of Bubbles”, with which the two of them explored the language of song. In 2007 he released “Walls”, his first time working with a band. He developed a live show that fused together acoustic and electronic, and club and pop music. Just as with Modeselektor, Apparat is the epitome of the Berlin sound, but nonetheless lifts the sounds of the city to another level. Significantly, both acts toured with Radiohead.

In 2008, Gernot, Sebastian and Sascha came together once again. Their eponymous debut album was released on April 20, 2009. Busdriver, the Californian rapper, the German reggae heroes Seeed and the dup poet Paul St. Hilaire joined them on a several songs. Perhaps the secret of Modeselektor’s and Apparat’s collaboration lies in the fact that they never even tried to get close to one another. Modeselektor’s thundering bass rumbles in the cellar, Apparat’s sensitive and subtle melodies float high in the eaves. The fact that what one assumes to be incompatible actually communicates, is what makes Moderat so unique. Moderat is not just a studio project: with a set of visuals created for these concerts by Pfadfinderei, they toured all five continents.

With Monkeytown and 50 Weapons, Modeselektor created a highly potent label empire, which unites the music scene’s old heroes with crazy bass kids. The two of them have curated a whole stage at the Melt! Festival a number of times and have released their third album. Apparat travelled the world with the freshly re-formed Apparat Band. He relinquished his position as auteur for the first time by becoming part of a theatre performance and in the album that resulted, released the raw and mostly unedited sessions.

Now, twelve years after their first meeting, Modeselektor and Apparat have come together once again: more mature, but not worldly-wise, wiser but not unquestioning, more experienced but without having sacrificed any of their pioneer spirit. 

They release the 1st single "Bad Kingdom" today 1st July 2013 and drop longplayer " II "  in August 2013 through Monkeytown Records ... You can catch Moderat Live in the UK at Eastern Electriks Knebworth House on August 2nd 2013...

MODERAT " Bad Kingdom " ( Lauren Laverne BBC 6Music RIP ) MONKEYTOWN OUT NOW

Extended version of Paper Trails, Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington

Brought to you by http://musiquedabeille.tumblr.com/

Darkside - Paper Trails (RA Sessions)

Third single off of the new EP.

Buy - https://www.oklisten.com/album/dimensions

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Finally I, I've found a way to make it right. You & I, we'll find a way we'll re-unite.

Belief in ever afters never got me anywhere, but faith in what could be found me finding my way there.

Do you believe in love, do you believe in laughter, do you believe in us, we're bigger than all disasters.

Words - Rohan Mazumdar
Mixed & Mastered by Aditya Ashok.



Dimensions (feat. Rohan Mazumdar)

'Back To The Start' is a four-track live EP recorded, mixed and mastered at AudioKraft Studios, Bangalore. This is Alexis' debut album. 

Alexis - Burn

Alexis - You Wouldn't Like Me

Composed & Produced by: Gagan Baderiya
Vocals & Lyrics by: Alexis D'Souza

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Produced, Mixed & Mastered at Audiokraft Studios, Bangalore.
Website: www.audiokraft.com/
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My Love by Gagan Baderiya ft. Alexis D'Souza

I Am A disco Dancer is The Lightyears Explode's first single from their debut album "The Revenge of Kalicharan.

I Am a Disco Dancer

05 * bumblebee
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at home all day 
the radio plays 
songs from films of years gone by 
some sad, some sweet 
but he don't dig that beat 
he wants a pocket deep and wide 

he works in daddy's corner shop 
but all he thinks of is hip-hop 

chorus:
ka ka kalakala vandu 
nee eppidi appam shuduvai 
kota nellai kumuki 
kumma kumma kuthi

* o, crow, 
o, sociable bumblebee, 
how do you make your pancakes? 
we harvest, winnow and pound the grain *

he's not into 
the bhangra tunes 
that his neighbours play so loud 
it's not the groove that makes him move 
he's never been one of the crowd 

he works in daddy's corner shop 
but all he thinks of is hip-hop 

chorus:
ka ka kalakala vandu 
nee eppidi appam shuduvai 
kota nellai kumuki 
kumma kumma kuthi 
cheeni shakarai pottu, adilay naiyum vittu 
shuttu thadi shuri 
na pittu pittu thingarenay

* o, crow, 
o, sociable bumblebee, 
how do you make your pancakes? 
we harvest, winnow and pound the grain 
then add sugar and butter 
please make me one 
i'll break it off piece by piece and eat it *
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PINKNOISE * The dance of the diaspora

Jayashree * Voice, Stories
Amyt * Guitar, Synth
Gyan * Bass
Jiver * Drums, Design

bumblebee

"Husbands" is now available via Microphone Recordings:

https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/husbands-ep/id643217230

http://wearehusbands.bandcamp.com

Run Along, Son

New EP: You're Nobody, You're Perfect coming soon.

Alexis - Burn

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