MONKEYTOWN

Welcome to Monkeytown. Berlin duo Modeselektor returns full force with a new album whose immense energy and club-boiling beats will inject the global dance community with inspiration that reverberates across the entire musical spectrum. Flowing freely between styles and tempos, Monkeytown experiments with the edges and extremes, exploring fresh sonic territory from a solid base of beats located deep within the groove. With massive drums, minced vocals and a mastery of mounting tension, Modeselektor creates a new animal out of dance music, a mutating chimera with body parts of left-field hip hop, soulful R&B, punk rap and playful surprises. Contributing to the album is an exciting palette of guest vocalists and musicians, including Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Busdriver, PVT, Anti Pop Consortium, Miss Platnum, Sascha Ring (aka Apparat), Pillow Talk, Gordon Boerger, Siriusmo and Otto von Schirach. Monkeytown immediately sets the stage on a higher level with intro track šBlue Clouds,› which loosens limbs from the start with a deep and sparkling hook. šPretentious Friends› is a full-throttle experience whose beats bump like elephants between Busdriver™s scratched-up, screwed-down vocals. Thom Yorke collaborates on two tracks, contributing his production finesse and haunting falsetto to the dark tension of šShipwreck› and to the psychedelic caverns of šThis,› where pixelated vocals echo from the shadows with ominous overtones. Trashy dance floor rocker šEvil Twin› is drenched in metal and concrete, like the demented industrial offspring šKill Bill Vol. 4› and šThe Black Book.› Modeselektor pulls out hidden drawers of bass in the funky šGerman Clap,› a steaming monster that grabs with gasping urgency. Miss Platnum rides low and slow into šBerlin,› smoothly spreading vocals over the chunk-ridden rhythm, a luscious R&B offering to lap up like cream. The album breaks open entirely and monkeys run wild in šGrillwalker,› a slamming club behemoth fashioned from mutilated 8-bits and a delirious bassline. PVT shines on šGreen Light Go,› a poignant, off-kilter track that shuffles forward between loose drums before lifting off into the ether. Beneath Monkeytown™s exquisite orchestration and eclectic sound, pure energy is at the core of the release, vibrating with an emotional vivacity that dares to escape its sonic cage and fling itself upon the world. Joining the heavy ranks of Hello Mom! and Happy Birthday!, Monkeytown will light up the club and the cerebrum with Modeselektor™s incredible abilities to move the body, melt the mind and gather disparate genres and their listeners together in one monkey-filled, musical metropolis. P.S.: Dear Madam or Sir, Monkeytown is our third album. It is the first album that almost drove us crazy. Well, when we really think about it, every album almost drove us crazy„ It is the first Modeselektor album that we produced 100% together in the studio and in one session over the course of ten weeks. We thank all of the participating artists, our families and our friends. Gernot & Szary P.S.2: The tracks on the promo CD/link are partly unmixed and unfinished  beta versions (time was running out). The reduced audio quality, nasty beeps and voice-overs are a sad byproduct of our digital era, but you all know that. We are very sorry about it! *** Sebastian Szary and Gernot Bronsert aka Modeselektor *** Tracklisting 1. Blue Clouds 2. Modeselektor feat. Busdriver - Pretentious Friends (call by Pillow Talk) 3. Modeselektor & Thom Yorke - Shipwreck 4. Evil Twin (vocals by Otto von Schirach) 5. German Clap 6. Modeselektor feat. Miss Platnum - Berlin 7. Grillwalker 8. Modeselektor & PVT - Green Light Go (add. synth by Siriusmo) 9. Modeselektor feat. Anti Pop Consortium - Humanized 10. Modeselektor & Thom Yorke - This 11. War Cry (guitar by Sascha Ring (Apparat))