In advance of his appearance at Italy's Club to Club, we catch up with Sascha Ring to talk about the struggle that went into his new album, and using depression as motivation.

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He's apparently so tired, he can't even be bothered to add the final s to the song title "Song of Los.

More likely he's referring to William Blake, no?

I think the writer might have been joking..

"I'm really hard on myself, sure, and it kind of sucks. It keeps me away from being happy a lot of times. But, on the other hand, it's an important push to continue to try and improve."

THIS.

perfection is a curse in a way, but a blessing as well . if he wasn't so hard on himself he wouldn't have made such great music. it's a personal struggle, but i feel it's one that's totally worth it.

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he needs to learn that the more time you spend trying to make something perfect, the more imperfect it'll be - it will never be perfect with your effort. make it imperfect and it becomes perfect.

Mathew Dear, Nicolas Jaar, Apparat: now they all wanna be in a band. But the band format is often so boring. And these musicians now too...

Ironically, given what he says about Djing, he delivered one of the greatest club sets that I've heard in quite a while at Bloc. this year. Really awesome stuff.

The Moderat / 50 Weapons / Apparat / Modeselektor camp are right at the forefront of electronic music right now. There isn't really anyone close to doing what they are.

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Unfortunately, I agree. Apparat band shows sound to me like discarded forgotten b-sides from Radiohead. Apparat DJ is quite good, and the Apparat producer is just great.

i was dissanpointed by hearing new album same much as i was impressed first time hearing "Walls" tracks..

i'm also asking myself how so many people still saying "omg its so amazing".. when it's 200% different thing than we all used to hear by Apparat..

don't like it.. lyrics,vocals... so unnecessary :/

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Ooh, so "depressing",,,,fucking lame

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Still pissed at myself for never giving myself a chance to catch Moderat before they stopped touring.

I agree that sometimes the live band thing doesn't work with these guys - I think it depends how the venue treats it, what time the acts are on, that kind of thing. With the new Apparat album I can imagine it working really well live, though, as it's melodic enough - going to see them/him this month and cannot wait just to hear the new tracks.

yeah , trentemoller couldnt evolve through its ghosty baltic sounds after the last resort... and formed a band... all too boring

back2Sasha

NO! Sometimes an electronic producer knows how to addapt their sounds to a live band, an Trentemoller is one of the most gifted ones in this.

yeah.. have we seen him evolve in solo productions? NO.. hes lost

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