Moderat - II Artist_岩村竜太 Iwamura Ryuta Xiu Xiu has made music

Xiu Xiu has made music for the moments when life’s harsh realities meet its existential mysteries

Yacht World

touring Europe for Jeff and Will Smith’s reunion shows

and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Police’s Toshi Ishizuka—who appears on Tomokawa’s first three records and remains his collaborator to this day

Moderat - II Artist_岩村竜太 Iwamura Ryuta Xiu Xiu has made musicThe second album from this collaboration between. Electronic musicians Apparat and Modeselektor. The secret of Modeselektor's and Apparat's collaboration lies in the fact that they never even tried to get close to one another. Modeselektor's thundering bass rumbles in the cellar, Apparat's sensitive and subtle melodies float high in the eaves. The fact that what one assumes to be incompatible actually communicates, is what makes Moderat so unique.