Studio Masters

Apparat – Soundtracks: Capri-Revolution (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:12 minutes | 391 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © It’s Complicated Records

It’s the first in a series of records focusing on the soundtrack work by Sascha Ring, who has been making music for film and television since 2008. To launch Apparat Soundtracks, Ring and his collaborator Philipp Thimm re-edited and remixed the score they composed for Mario Martone’s 2018 film Capri-Revolution. (Ring also appeared in the movie, which focused on the poet Giacomo Leopardi.)
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Apparat – Soundtracks: Dämonen (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:05 minutes | 397 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © It’s Complicated Records

“In 2015 my bandmates & I went to Frankfurt to work on a new theatre play by Sebastian Hartmann. 5 years later we worked it into an LP and here it is: Soundtracks: Dämonen”.
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Apparat – LP5 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:26 minutes | 471 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mute

LP5 is Apparat’s first release since 2013’s Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre), and follows two studio albums, II and III (Mute / Monkeytown) by Moderat, the trio he founded with Modeselektor’s Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. Sublime and delicate, the album finds greatness in small things and in unexpected twists; it joins musical fragments together and glows from the cracks in between. For Ring, it is also a document of artistic insight and autonomy. “I was only able to make the record this way because Moderat exists,” he says. “Having a huge stage with Moderat gave me a setting for grand gestures and meant I could unburden Apparat from these aspirations. I don’t have to write big pop hymns here; I can just immerse myself in the details and the structures.” Still hymnic, LP5 doesn’t rely on dramatic gestures and theatrical amplification, instead it lives off delicately sculpted sounds crackling alongside filigree beeping and twitching. Like previous Apparat albums, the new release sees Sascha Ring collaborate with cellist Philipp Thimm and on the album you can also hear trombone, trumpet and saxophone, a harp, a double bass and other strings. Tracks were developed over endless group improvisations and lavish orchestral sessions – some of these sessions are only apparent in the final mix as fluttering echoes, just barely noticeable. The album was recorded in Berlin at AP4, JRS, Vox-Ton & Hansa Studios, mixed by Gareth Jones and Sascha Ring.
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