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Pit Shultz for 'Herbstradio 99.1 FM Berlin' Apparatjik Interview: http://bit.ly/abNi1g
In this fascinating Apparatjik interview  the guys discuss the Berlin performance and the technicalities of playing inside the cube, their collective musical direction and influences and about how they are not-quite-a-prog-rock band. Excitingly, they also discuss possible future uses for the cube that may or may not involve music or even the Apparatjiks themselves.
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Photo by Matias Schuttenberg
A sneak peek inside the cube filmed during the performance last month can be seen in this video. (source - thequietus)

Another interesting interview can be found here courtesy of Danish online music mag, Gaffa. A (rough) translation into English can be found on our forum (thanks Denise)

In other news, Sandbag has confirmed recently that orders of the t-shirt and the tee/vinyl bundle bought from theoutland should start being shipped this week. If you haven't ordered yours yet, well... get on with it before they all go. Don't forget, all orders made before June give you the chance of winning an exclusive art print, so what are you waiting for.
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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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Recent rumours of an Apparatjik performance in Berlin has been confirmed. The band will appear as part of CTM.10, Berlin’s festival for Adventurous Music and Related Visual Arts. More information and discussion for this gig on the forum here.

Apparatjik perform on:   Monday 1 February 2010 - WMF, Berlin, Germany

A recent Apparatjik tweet helped fuel the rumour after the event appeared on Apparatjik's last.fm page.
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Apparatjik Keep it cryptic in Berlin

But then a more helpful tweet from aspire confirmed it.....

aspirelondon We can confirm Berlin will be happening, for any Apparatjik fans wondering :-)


and then one from Apparatjik themselves today...

Apparatjik Apparatjik's first live performance - Monday 1st February 2010 - at Transmediale, Berlin.
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Also posted today was a blog from CTM giving more information about the performance...

"On Monday February 1st, 2010, CTM.10 will host the world debut of the mysterious Apparatjik project with a very special performance.

Inspired by the Bauhaus movement, the ‘Bauhaus Bühne’, and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy’s work ‘Light-Space-Modulator’ from 1930 in particular, this first ever performance of Apparatjik will take place inside a specially constructed cube at the newly reopened WMF.

Apparatjik is a project fusing scientific interest and artistic effort. Apparatjik consists of Guy A, Jonas A, Magne A and Martin A." - http://structures.clubtransmediale.de/?p=481
Other helpful tweets from aspire recently have hinted at the release of some limited edition 'something' from Apparatjik over the Christmas break (not necessarily Christmas Day); a Christmas present of sorts although it'll be a present we have to pay money for! The 'something' will have it's own area on their website, so look out for it in the coming days. More information on the forum here.
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