Modeselektor's Happy Birthday! is a fun amalgam of the most fun elements of electronica's past, present, and future, from four-on-the-floor rave (albeit not nearly as mindless as that genre can be) to textural IDM of the Plaid/Black Dog school to bouncy hip-hop and electro jams that wouldn't sound out of place while cruisin' in your pimped-out Escalade. The stiff echno of the duo's native Germany is nowhere to be found -- every one of these tracks is loose and groovy, hip-shakin' and head-bobbin' fun, with a serious injection of piss-taking, fun-lovin' humor. After all, this kind of music should be fun. Did we mention they're fun? As diverse as this album is they never forget to bring the party. "Godspeed," "Edgar," and "The White Flash" (featuring Thom Yorke!) bring the glitch. "The Dark Side of the Sun" and "2000007" (featuring French rappers TTC) bring the crunk. "Let Your Love Grow" and the title track bring the ragamuffin riddims. And "Déboutonner" and "Hyper Hyper" (featuring Otto von Schirach and a refrain of "we need a bass drum!") bring the acid and the glow sticks. As the title implies and the music confirms, Modeselektor know how to have a Happy Birthday!
Mixing up everything from IDM to dub, electro and hip-hop, Modeselektor puts out a truly fun album that keeps me bopping up and down. There is evident humor in some of the tracks and that's exactly that attitude that forces me to spin Happy Birthday! on for a fun ride. Not to mention an excellent array of featured artists. We've got French hip-hop from Paris, TTC; some Dominican style fun vocal...
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Modeselektor dropped the new video for "Black Block" today. The song is from their latest album Happy Birthday! and the video was directed by Christian Feldhusen. It's kind of Mad Hatter with apes... I LOVE the little RV Van - I want one! "Black Block" is such a bumpin song, good for cranking up the soundsystem...Links:http://modeselektor.comhttp://www.myspace.com/mdslktrhttp://www.bpitchco...
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Berlin electronic duo Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary AKA Modeselektor have a track on their upcoming album, Happy Birthday!, that features Thom Yorke. You can hear "The White Flash" right now over at The Hype Machine:http://hypem.com/search/modeselektor+yorke/1/The track is very cool. If you're a Radiohead fan you'll probably dig it.Maxïmo Park also guest on the album, which is due out in ..
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German electronic duo Modeselektor will release their sophomore album via Bpitch Control on September 11. The album will feature Thom York, Maximo Park, and Otto von Schirach among others according to Pitchfork. ??Happy Birthday!?? is the follow up to 2006's ??Hello Mom!??. The title apparently came from the duo, Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary both being expected fathers.One of the more no...
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I saw this German electro act at the Sziget festival in Hungary earlier this year. Praised as 'Thom Yorke's favourite band' in the program, I thought I'd check them out.Their mix of minimalist electro and hip hop beats is exhillarating. The track below is called Sucker Pin and is a good example of what the rest of the album sounds like.
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Mixing up everything from IDM to dub, electro and hip-hop, Modeselektor puts out a truly fun album that keeps me bopping up and down. There is evident humor in some of the tracks and that's exactly that attitude that forces me to spin Happy Birthday! on for a fun ride. Not to mention an excellent array of featured artists. We've got French hip-hop from Paris, TTC; some Dominican style fun vocal...
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--- - |- While 2007 saw the release of both their Happy Birthday full-length and Boogy Bytes Vol.3 mix, Berlin duo Modeselektor has been relatively quiet in 2008. Well, that's about to change, as the pair is planning to take their distinct brand of noisy, chopped-up techno on the road as part of the Jetlag Tour 2008 with Ellen Allien. With multiple stops scheduled on b...
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--- - |- Last week I posted their latest "Jetlag mix" and since then I've been obsessed with this wacked duo (Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary). I went ahead and bought their Happy Birthday! record and it's shocking good! Here's a tune for your hearing pleasure. "(i can't sleep) Without music" | download Cool fact: Both grew up in Germany...
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| 1 2000007 |
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| 2 Happy Birthday |
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| 3 Suckerpin |
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| 4 Let Your Love Grow |
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| 5 B.M.I. |
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| 6 The Dark Side of the Sun |
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| 7 Déboutonner |
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| 8 Hyper Hyper |
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| 9 The First Rebirth |
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| 10 The White Flash |
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| 11 Edgar |
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| 12 The Black Block |
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