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Interviewer: "What is Apparatjik about?"
Magne: "Errrr...we're not sure"

Norwegian music programme Lydverket will tonight air the exclusive interview and backstage footage filmed at last week's Berlin gig. A clip is already available on their website with this article - Free from Coldplay and A-ha. 

Lydverket is on channel NRK1 at 23.15 tonight. edit: Watch the whole programme here.
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Berlin roundup 02/06/2010
 
This post will be an attempt to round-up some of the photos, reviews and videos from Apparatjik's first performance at the CTM.10 festival in Berlin earlier this week.
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From Lizzie: "as far as the actual gig... it was spectacular... lets just say guy has some crazy ass dance moves and his antlers almost fell off hahahahha they completely rocked snow crystals and got crazy at the end of it. lots of new songs, the only songs we already knew were snow crstals and frozen fingers. the rest was all new and sounding great!!!"

"...once the cube started lighting up we knew the show was about to start. we were all right there about 2 feet from the cube and the sound was seriously amazing in that small room. They came on in the 2nd song and the shadows were crazy here I made out Guy's shadow first, he was on drums most of the time and dancing like a crazy ass mofo hahaha didn't know the boy could move like that LOL. The best dancing came during the end of Snow Crystals when they had some crazy antlers and hats and horns on. Then suddenly they had gotten a hold of a hair dryer or something that looked like that and they were just dancing like lunatic....  And Snow Crystals was by far the best song, they changed up the ending to it though and it ended in a blast! the audience went crazy when it ended with clapping and whistling."

Photo by LittleMissMessy. Read more of this review and see more photos on the forum from here onwards. Thanks to Liz & Kirsten.
Some behind-the-scenes footage from the Lydverket feature can be seen here. Videos on youtube of the performance include Deadbeat, Supersonic Sound and Josie and you can see the cube in all it's beauty in the following video... (click the read more link -->)
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Berlin CTM gig 02/02/2010
 
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Apparatjik's first live performance took place last night at Berlin's CTM.10 festival. According to Jonas the show was "as much an art performance as it was a concert". The band played inside a 'specially constructed' glass cube, the walls of which also served as projection screens for some of their visual effects.

The roughly 40 minute long performance included the tracks Frozen Fingers, Snow Crystals and from the new album, Deadbeat, Josie and Arrow & Bow. Magne's other-band-mate, Morten Harket was present in the crowd and word has it that Coldplay collaborator, Davide Rossi was also there to add strings to the Apparatjik sound.

The ever-helpful Alan from Aspire shared a few real-time photos via twitter; here's a selection: 1 - 2 - 3
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The show was filmed for an as-yet-unspecified purpose, but it's possible this footage will be a part of the album's cd/dvd bundle.

Norwegian media Lydverket were also present, following and interviewing the band and took some interesting band shots, like this one -->

More details of this interview should be available next week. In the meantime, a few fan made vids of the show have already made it to youtube, see below:
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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.)
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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.
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