Apparat Preps Monster DJ-Kicks Mix

Oval, Autechre, Thom Yorke, Tour Tet and numerous others....

By Blurt Staff

Apparat - aka Sasha Ring - takes a little time out from his busy schedule of late (which has included three albums on the Shitkatapult label and the collaborative full lengths with Ellen Allien and Modeselektor as Moderat on Bpitch Control) in order to program what just may be the mother of all DJ-Kicks titles from !K7. It includes tracks from Oval, Autechre, Thom Yorke, Tour Tet and others, as well as a pair of exclusive Apparat tunes and an unreleased Telfon Tel Aviv cut. The full tracklisting is below and it speaks for itself.

"I didn't want to make this kind of "smart" mix, that's eclectic and sounds like it's done "on purpose;" but I need to do different things to keep myself motivated," Ring explained, in a statement. "At first I wanted to make a collection of influences, all kinds of old songs, but then sometimes with those mixes it's hard to keep some kind of flow and they're just not very easy to listen to, so I ended up using good new music; music that almost gave me hope that there's more out there than boring minimal techno.

"The mix isn't that balanced when it comes to melody I guess. There's a lot of sweetness on there, but it is dark and mysterious at points. I guess the bittersweet-ness has long been kind of my thing and with this mix I was just trying to spice it up a bit."

It'll be in stores Oct. 26.

Tracklisting:

1.         Apparat - Circles
2.         69 - Rushed
3.         Telefon Tel Aviv - Lengthening Shadows
4.         Apparat - Interlude
5.         Luke Abbott - More Room
6.         Oval - Legendary
7.         Patrice Baumel - Sub
8.         Martyn - Miniluv
9.         Ripperton - Echocity
10.        Cosmin TRG - Tower Block
11.        Scorn - Falling (Autechre "FR 13" Remix)
12.        Born Ruffians - I Need A Life (Four Tet Remix)
13.        Pantha Du Prince - Welt Am Draht
14.        Phon.o - Intervall
15.        Burial + Four Tet - Moth
16.        Vincent Markowski - The Madness Of Moths
17.        Ramadanman - Tempest
18.        Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
19.        Spherix - Lesser People
20.        Oval - TV Power
21.        Joy Orbison - The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow
22.        Apparat - Sayulita (DJ-KiCKS)
23.        T++ - Worn Down
24.        Tim Hecker - Borderlands