Settled in Berlin since the last years of the 90's, Sascha Ring, better known as Apparat, started his career at the same time he funded the label Shitkatapult, the project he shares with T. Raumschmiere. Firstly, the German artist gave us his vision of ambient music, and then he traveled around the IDM galaxy carrying his melodies of intense sensations drawn from his love for techno and electro sounds.
During the mid 90's, Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary were already playing at Berlin's underground clubs. But they decided to name the duo Modeselektor when they first played with a Roland RE-201 from which they managed to take analogical sounds out. However, their electronic magnetism —among grim, IDM and English garage — only gained international recognition when Ellen Allien recruited them to join her label Bpitch Control.
Thanks to the good criticism received after their first album
Psyence Fiction, UNKLE is on everyone's lips. And even though the essential member DJ Shadow left the project after recording said album,
James Lavelle didn'
t care: He called Richard File to continue with the project and confirmed the identity of UNKLE: a band that counts with the collaborations of rock figures (such as Ian Brown and Josh Homme, among others) and that, during the past few years, presents a live show as the one people will enjoy at the next edition of
Creamfields Buenos Aires.
In 2005, when James Ellis Ford and James Anthony Shaw decided to leave Simian —the English indie rock band they had been members since the late 90's, — they left behind not only a couple of friends but also an aesthetic. When they named the duo Simian Mobile Disco, they were already a team of first-rate DJs, producers and remixers.