APPARAT, aka Sascha Ring, today releases the video for
“HEROIST.” The video, directed and edited by filmmaker Matilda Finn (Best New Director and Best Newcomer Dance at 2017 UKMVA), shows a dystopian vision of our search for enlightenment. Beautifully shot with dizzying editing from Finn, the film perfectly captures what The 405 described as the album’s
“…cinematic soundscapes and psychedelic ruminations”. Watch
here.
Reflecting on the film, Finn explains,
“Narratively it is basically about how humans need to find enlightenment or meaning, and the irony is this is found usually in the darkest points, and you can’t emulate and force that. We are often trying to run and hide from hardship and challenges, but if you face it and accept it you can own it, and grow from it - which is essentially the backbone of enlightenment. It’s the odd duality of life: ‘from darkness comes light’ etc.”Also announced today is
LP5_RMXS, a new release collating remixes from Apparat’s latest album,
LP5. LP5_RMXS is out
November 29 on vinyl 12” and digital platforms via Mute
. The release will feature Berlin-based DJ Radio Slave, DJ and producer Solomun, Hamburg’s Stimming, and Substance, aka Berlin’s DJ Pete. Full tracklisting below.
Stream and purchase Apparat’s latest studio album,
LP5,
here.
“HEROIST” is taken from
LP5, 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.
MORE ABOUT LP5Sublime and delicate, Apparat’s
LP5 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, the album doesn’t rely on dramatic gestures and theatrical amplification, instead it lives off delicately sculpted sounds crackling alongside filigree beeping and twitching.
From elegiac techno to deep orchestral pop ballads, Apparat‘s work has always had a common denominator: an elegance that embraces and gives nuanced layers of detail and a near universal beauty.
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