Thom Yorke Chills Out On Apparat's DJ-KiCKS Mix for !K7
In these shitty weeks before Daylight Savings Time ends and we set our clocks back one hour, the mornings are cold and dark: all the more perfect for the release of Berlin producer Apparat’s superb new entry in the DJ-KiCKS mix-CD series from !K7. Mix CDs are a penny a dozen these days, but Apparat’s work mandates so many repeat plays it’ll wear the lasers out of CD players with some of the best chill electronic beats the world has to offer in 2010. [Read more after the jump]
Producer Sascha Ring brings together a killer setlist featuring Thom Yorke’s solo track “Harrowdown Hill”, plus work by Oval, Born Ruffians, Pantha Du Prince, and Four Tet amid 24 total tracks, including new exclusives from Telefon Tel Aviv. Oval’s “Legendary” offers midtempo, highly processed beats and sweet looped melodies, an aesthetic that’s maintained throughout standout tracks like Born Ruffians’ “I Need A Life” (Four Tet remix), Pantha Du Prince’s “Welt Am Draht”, and Thom Yorke’s “Harrowdown Hill.”
Apparat’s own exclusive “Sayulita” showcases Ring’s incredibly infectious mix of pumping, syncopated beats, vocal washes and reverby, processed synth samples. A member of Moderat, and frequent Ellen Allien collaborator, Ring says he was surprised by how sweet and light the mix ended up being, given his proclivity for broodiness.
“I guess the bittersweetness has long been kind of my thing, and with this mix I was just trying to spice it up a bit.”
Sacrificing eclecticism for coherent theme, Apparat’s mix is one of those rare long-players listeners don’t have to touch once it’s on, except to hit play again when it finishes.
For a free Apparat track “Sayulita” go to Apparat-djkicks.com.
