Moderat is an electronic music project that originated in Berlin, Germany. It started as a collaboration between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, also known as Modeselektor. Their first full length album was released seven years after their first EP, due to some creative disagreements and different opinions on how they should work.
The album Moderat has received mostly favorable reviews.
In March 2012, Modeselektor announced on their Facebook fanpage that they would start work on a second album later that year.
In February 2013 band announced their second album titled II. It is set to release through Modeselektor’s Monkeytown Records on August 2.
As the band says:
“We have known each other for 12 years now, and during that time we haven’t really changed that much: We are still three guys mostly talking about hihats and tape machines while hanging out in the studio… [II] is, again and again, an experiment of exploring our similarities and differences and to interlace them to something new and exciting.”