Duplex

2011 repress. From Schallstrom and Mexican beer, Berlin based Apparat emerges with a full-length that has hit the jackpot (minus the bling), partakes in the recent fornication between acoustics and electronics and reaches deep into conveying new and evocative sound scapes. This new long player's screw-music will penetrate deep into your ears and hunt out the pain. Duplex is a collection of new material, poetically absorbing you in every way, steering a symphonic cakewalk blitz through your emotions, and successfully/intentionally bypasses the mundane and empty laptop sounds of the giant electronic music sweat-shop. It's full of shock-and-awe, not unlike when you first took that hit of acid and listened to trance-techno. Listen to the songs on headphones after a long day. Listen intently and you'll hear the recipe a la Duplex: Mexican digi-mosquitoes, droning Catholic organs, heart-wrenching distorted horns, and finally Apparat's renown, shuffled thump beats.