Following on from a much earlier collaborative single, the first full-length effort pulling together Modeselektor and Apparat -- despite a name that suggests a Depeche-loving rodent -- has plenty to offer without entirely being a full-on slam dunk. Then again, this wasn't entirely surprising given the high quality both acts had been showing in the past, simply because it might almost have been too much to expect for a next-level release; instead at points it feels more like a logical continuation of their immediately preceding efforts than a new hyperfusion. Still, at a time when the vast majority of critical attention got focused on LindstrГёm & Prins Thomas' admittedly excellent second album, it was refreshing to hear something happily dedicated to dance and electronic influences on separate if sometimes parallel lines, ranging from stern EBM sonics to filter disco and schaffel and more besides -- and this all within the first song "A New Error" alone. (Though it should be admitted that the late-'70s Pink Floyd synth lines on "Sick with It" could have easily appeared on the Norwegian duo's album as well.) At the album's absolute strongest everything assembles together just so, with the surging, crisply anthemic "Seamonkey" being the first totally deathless track -- the echoing whine/siren making a killer hook -- while "Porc #2" rides a clean, serene flow into a shuddering squelch-heavy conclusion. Apparat unsurprisingly takes some vocal bows, and hearing his familiar, processed croon first on "Rusty Nails" shapes the starker edges of the album into something else again. Guest performances also include Paul St. Hilaire, with a murky series of toasts on "Slow Match" adding seductive threat, and Frank "Eased" DellГ© on "Sick with It." [Bpitch Control issued a companion DVD in 2009.] ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

Moderat = Modeselektor + Apparat

[b]Tracklist:
01. Les Grandes Marches
02. Rusty Nails
03. Woltersdorf Interlude
04. BeatsWaySick Feat. Busdriver
05. RГјdersdorf Interlude
06. Out Of Sight
07. Berlin Interlude
08. A New Error
09. Quedlinburg Interlude
10. No. 22
11. Seamonkey









There is a bonus video, to see it you must enter in "Select by Track" then you must push left arrow if you are over Les Grandes Marches or right arrow if you are over the Back button, then the song Seamonkey appears under the Back button



HQ Videos as single files:

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Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 207 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 002 Moderat - Rusty_Nails_(HD_Video).mpg
File Size: 173.47 MB (181900963 bytes) Duration: 00:04:35.086 Format: MPEG-4
Video: AVC, 1024x512 (2.000), 25.000 fps, 5 084 Kbps, Progressive
Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 196 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 003 Moderat - Woltersdorf_Interlude_(HD_Video).mpg
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Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 216 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 004 Moderat__feat__Busdriver - BeatsWaySick_(HD_Video).mpg
File Size: 158 MB (165676289 bytes) Duration: 00:03:59.769 Format: MPEG-4
Video: AVC, 1024x512 (2.000), 25.000 fps, 5 403 Kbps, Progressive
Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 114 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 005 Moderat - Ruedersdorf_Interlude_(HD_Video).mpg
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Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 206 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 006 Moderat - Out_Of_Sight_(HD_Video).mpg
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Video: AVC, 1024x512 (2.000), 25.000 fps, 5 022 Kbps, Progressive
Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 185 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 007 Moderat - Berlin_Interlude_(HD_Video).mpg
File Size: 55.35 MB (58039321 bytes) Duration: 00:01:22.709 Format: MPEG-4
Video: AVC, 1024x512 (2.000), 30.000 fps, 5 403 Kbps, Progressive
Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 199 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 008 Moderat - A_New_Error_(HD_Video).mpg
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Video: AVC, 1024x512 (2.000), 25.000 fps, 2 402 Kbps, Progressive
Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 192 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 009 Moderat - Quedlinburg_Interlude_(HD_Video).mpg
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Video: AVC, 1024x512 (2.000), 25.000 fps, 4 889 Kbps, Progressive
Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 214 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 010 Moderat - Nr__22_(HD_Video).mpg
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Audio: AAC LC, 2 channels, 204 Kbps, VBR, 44.1 KHz

File Name: 011 Moderat - Seamonkey_(HD_Video).mpg
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Audio: AC3, 2 channels, 384 Kbps, CBR, 48.0 KHz