Gernot Bronsert, Sebastian Szary (aka Modeselektor) and Sascha Ring (aka Apparat) have been working together as a trio almost as long as their two separate projects have existed. We’ve seen their collaboration grow from »laptop boy-band,« (as Ring playfully puts it) in 2003—with computers synched using software Ring himself had written, because at the time, »there was just no live performance software around.«

Ring confesses that Moderat wasn’t »really meant to be a recording act,« with Bronsert agreeing that,» it was really just about fun. «This maybe explains the six-year break that followed Moderat’s first EP before they finally returned in 2009 with their self- titled debut album. Intent on creating something that contrasted with their own projects, the group started the cycle which blossoms on their second album, aptly titled II, culminating now in the trilogy’s completion, III. Whereas I was the combination of two separate entities, II brought the members closer together, and in III, the final chapter in the trilogy, Moderat sounds like one band. Both Szary and Ring will tell you that Moderat moved progressively from making tracks towards a more traditional writing approach of making songs – a process more fully realized on III.

Tracklist:
A1 Eating Hooks 4:32
A2 Running 3:51
B1 Finder 5:20
B2 Ghostmother 5:57
C1 Reminder 3:54
C2 The Fool 4:12
C3 Intruder 4:38
D1 Animal Trails 4:38
D2 Ethereal 5:28