Moderat

Moderat
Stereoleto Club Festival, Saint Petersburg, June 30, 2014
Background information
Origin	Berlin, Germany
Genres	Electronic Minimal techno IDM Microhouse Glitch House
Years active	2002-present
Labels	BPitch Control, Monkeytown Records, Mute Records
Associated acts	Apparat, Modeselektor
Website	moderat.fm
Members	Gernot Bronsert Sascha Ring Sebastian Szary

Moderat is a three-piece electronic music project originating in Berlin, Germany between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Modeselektor members Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary. The band has released three studio albums to date, their most recent being III, released on April 1, 2016, and had been voted "The #1 Live Act of the Year" in 2009 by the readers of the online electronic music magazine Resident Advisor.

Moderat's first release was an EP, Auf Kosten der Gesundheit, in 2002. Their first full length album, Moderat, received mostly favorable reviews. NOW magazine gave the album 4 out of 5 points describing it as "quite creative and surprisingly catchy", and Urb 5 out of 5, praising it for being "extremely beautiful and catchy".

In 2009, the readers of the online electronic music magazine, Resident Advisor, voted Moderat "The #1 Live Act Of The Year". In 2010, they were voted "The #7 Live Act" by the readers of the same website. Moderat toured Europe throughout the summer and autumn of 2010, playing mostly festivals.

Moderat's second album, II was released on August 2, 2013 digitally and August 6, 2013 physically through Monkeytown Records and Mute in the United States. The first video from II was "Bad Kingdom," an illustrated piece directed and produced by Pfadfinderei about a young British man in 1966 London traversing a greedy underworld.

On March 29, 2016 Moderat's third album III was released in Germany. A month before, a video to Reminder was released on YouTube.