The news of the album release date spread to online music blogs and magazines last night and today (Friday), starting with twentyfourbit.com;

Apparatjik to Perform in Glass Cube, Drop Debut Album - 28th Jan

then Consequence of Sound and the NME;

Apparatjik album due out February 1st - 29th Jan

Coldplay side-project Apparatjik announce debut album release date - 29th Jan

Hopefully more will follow....

edit:

An article on Australian site, undercover.com.au appeared on Saturday;

Coldplay Bass Player Forms Apparatjik 30th Jan

and several non-English articles; all 30th Jan.

muziek.nl (Netherlands)
muzikus.cz (Czech Rep)
cifraclub.com.br (Brazil)
loudvision.it (Italy)
rockol.it (Italy)

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Info and discussion in the forum from here onwards.

The Antlers video is now available on myspace and vimeo, featuring Martin and a mannequin, some escalators and a ski-lift :-)

Discussion in the forums here.

According to Martin A's own official site, the Apparatjik's as-yet-untitled debut album will be released on the same day as their first ever live performance, 1st February 2010. (Thanks to Carmen for finding this news.)

from martinterefe.com:

"Martin will be in Berlin next week for the international debut of his band Apparatjik. Apparatjik is a music and art project fusing scientific interest and artistic effort and consists of Guy Berryman, Jonas Bjerre, Magne F and Martin. Their debut album is released on the same day as their first show. 01022010. If you want to find out more about it check out: http://apparatjik.com

and for more about the first performance (which will take place inside a glass cube....) http://www.clubtransmediale.de"

I'm sure the Apparatjiks will be dropping all sorts of cryptic clues about the title or possible song titles, over the next couple of days, so keep an 'eye-on' twitter and facebook. Any confirmed information will be posted here as soon as we know. Discuss the album on the forum here and the Berlin gig here.

...quite possibly refers to this hidden gem (thanks Denise).  Discuss this new track on the forum here.

edit:

...and it's gone, in typical Apparatjik fashion it was online for less than 24 hours! But in typical apparatchick fashion, it's already on youtube... ;-)

edit 2: It's back - here

Apparatjik's Myspace page has had a little redesign today, complete with a typically modified version of this background image.

Tweets from today:

Apparatjik The Apparats MySpace has had a fresh coat of pixels: http://bit.ly/5PIzqA

Apparatjik Video will be unlocked soon as the Eyeon Committee has given clearance.

This second tweet refers to the Antlers video on myspace which is password protected at the moment, but hopefully will be viewable soon. Discussions on the forum from here onwards.


The forum has also been visited recently by a participant of the pupparatjiks workshop who has shared his experiences of the event here. Thanks Greger.

Magne and Apparatjik's artistic director, Ute Meta Bauer have been hosting a two-day puppet workshop this week at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art in Norway. The pupparatjik project has taken over apparatjik.com for the last few days, where you can see videos and photos of the results of the workshop's efforts.

You can let the pupparatjiks know what you think of their creations using the comment boxes on each entry or discuss this project in the forum.

Thanks to Catherine and a-ha-live.com for the info.

New tweet:

Apparatjik You won't just get live music on the 1st...

Speculations on the forum from here onwards.

In other news, you say A-para-teak..I say App-ara-chick... but who's correct? The Oracle on coldplay.com says it's the former, Magne says it's the latter. Have your say on the forum.