I love driving on a quiet summer evening listening to this song.

You can help but think of Lennon and Jagger in those vocals....sounds so natural.....Awesome !!

Chill

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

Run Run Run

Run Run Run (Radio Edit)

This song comes from the Chadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche, out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

Get more info about Chadwick Stokes and this new album at:
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Lyrics:
I like crumbs and chrome headlights
Carnivals and canines, boardwalk girls who play nice
Cars and their engines, a bridge in its suspension
The sun shadowing the east

And I like how your dress looks with that lamp shade
How people always tell me, you’re the best friend they ever made
Take me to the commune, we can live with Cat Stevens
He can play the tambourine

Oh, I’d like to live up in a house that lives up in a tree
Only you and me, maybe a kid, maybe three
Maybe from the top, you can see that 

I want you across my hips, fastened low and tight
In the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night
We can let the world fall away, one kiss at a time

I like my Mustangs unshod, the coy-wolves of Cape Cod
The tillerman and big maud gone but not forgotten
The wind catching the caution, so let it all be free
Let’s take another unplanned road trip, leave behind New England
Maybe we can find our Lefty’s sister Ingrid
Leave the frozen rivers, to some place we’ve never seen

Oh, I’d like to live up in a house that lives up in a tree
Only you and me, maybe a kid, maybe three
Maybe from the top, you can see that

I want you across my hips, fastened low and tight
In the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night
We can let the world fall away, one kiss at a time

Let the world fall away, one kiss at a time


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I Want You Like A Seatbelt

This song comes from the Chadwick Stokes album, The Horse Comanche, out now on Ruff Shod / Thirty Tigers.

Get more info about Chadwick Stokes and this new album at:
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Lyrics:

Long before I knew you I was tumbling back home
I was just pushing down the pavement
I was turning into stone
And you run, and you run, and you run, and you run got to pick up your knees

As long as she don’t kill us we’ll be stronger in the end
And every boy out there on Bogle Street is dying to get in
And you run, and you run, and you run, and you run got  to pick up your knees
And you run, and you run, and you run, and you run got to pick up your knees

She gave me room to amble, with brier and bramble
And the old  red door was always open to the angels and the devils
And nobody was young when they heard her mouth when she told us everything we never knew
It was the song of the grande madame

Mother Maple I drink from your syrup
And I am thankful for the blood that you bleed
We’re in the sugar shack making our porridge
And you have given us more than we need
And I see more and more how you suffer, and not for nothing
But you can’t often get the air that you need
When your roots leave the earth I will stay and get my honey from the trees

Laughter in the cottage house, could last for hours long
When we heard the last gasp we all gave up our mother’s song
And you run, and you run, and you run, and you run, and you run

Mother Maple I drink from your syrup
And I am thankful for the blood that you bleed
We’re in the sugar shack making our porridge
And you have given us more than we need
And I see more and more how you suffer, and not for nothing
But you can’t often get the air that you need
When your roots leave the earth I will stay and get my honey from the trees

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Mother Maple

Escape/Waste My Life

Escape/

Written by Josh Blashki
Produced by Arik Blum
Mixed by Matt Voigt
Mastered by Steve Smart

Four Leaf Clover

6. Sparrow Hand

Standing in the Doorway

03 Roll the Bones

Metric - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

Cold War Kids 'Dear Miss Lonelyhearts' - Out April 2nd on Downtown Records
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Tuxedos EP

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Tuxedos

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Alive Remix EP available now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/AliveEP?IQid=soundcloud.alive

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Dance Anthems (Summer Edition 2013)

Alive

Download 'Alive' now

The Time & Space Machine Dub Sessions EP is now available on 12” vinyl and digital download bundle, which was previously Rough Trade CD-only bonus disc . This EP sees Richard Norris give five tracks from Howlin’ his krautrock-tinged remix treatment.

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The Throw - (The Time and Space Machine Dub) by Richard Norris

12" Vinyl Out July 8. Exclusive Preorder: http://bit.ly/17Fka5F
Original mix plus unreleased 14:49 extended mix on B-Side
Digital single available July 8

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