Modeselektor Live in NYC @ Studio B On March 21, 2008

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Bpitch Control) - We've been waiting a long time for Modeselektor to hit town, but now it seems we're too wrapped up in Miami madness to check them out. But by all means you should go and let us know what you think about their Live show. Their second studio album Happy Birthday, describes the main focus of Berliners Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary: hang out together all the time. Both dudes have recently become fathers, almost simultaneously - happy birthday to you!

But back to their labor-pains: After 111 slashings and burnings across dancefloors from Sydney to Iceland, and driven by the ungovernable spirit of gold-diggers, Gernot and Szary holed up in their mobile Airstream caravan recording studio in order to give birth to Happy Birthday!. The conditions of production were slightly adverse, but thanks to digital transfer technology and a mild winter in Berlin, it all came together nicely in the end. The repertoire of Happy Birthday! runs from hard rap with a French kick to dubstep in the broadest sense. New urban word scraps attempt to describe Modeselektor's style: Eurocrunk, continental grime, tech-rap... the list is long. Mr. Bronsert and Mr. Szary don't like to put a genre sticker on their music anyway, so they don't really care. They just do great music, no matter what style. And another good thing - their tendency to not take themselves seriously is unbowed, so this album is great fun for everybody - moms, dads, siblings, grandparents, etc. Also features astounding contributions from Thom Yorke, Puppetmastaz, Apparat, Paul St. Hilaire, Otto Von Schirach, Siriusmo and the French rap gang, TTC, as well as a CD-only bonus track from Maximo Park.

FRIDAY March 21st:
FUN & XLR8R present Modeselektor at Studio B
Modeselektor (LIVE) - BPitchControl
Jjak Hogan - Rekids
Resident DJs: Eamon Harkin & Rok One (The Bangers) Trouble & Bass DJs: Star Eyes & Mathhead
Studio B
259 Banker St. (between Meserole & Calyer) Brooklyn, NY
$12 w/ RSVP to [email protected] / $15 at door
www.modeselektor.com
www.myspace.com/jjakhogan