Hard. Physical. Uncompromising. Berlin duo Modeselektor will open the 14th edition of Spectaculare Festival at ROXY on 3 March. Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary are bringing a live show built on massive bass, fractured beats and the radical blending of genres that has defined them from the very beginning. The sound will be matched by an uncompromising visual show, where projections and lighting are not merely a backdrop but amplify the intensity of the entire experience. They arrive in Prague just weeks after the release of their new album MDSLKTR – a record on which they strip away excess layers, return to their foundations and once again search for the raw core of the Modeselektor sound.

The path to MDSLKTR began while working on Classics Vol. 01, when Modeselektor took apart material from their landmark albums Hello Mom! and Happy Birthday! and started digging through nearly three decades of studio sessions, fragments and unfinished ideas. But they do not treat the past as a safe space for nostalgia – they see it as material for further destruction. The result is twelve new tracks built on reduction, pressure and clear structure: fewer layers, fewer ornaments, more direct impact. MDSLKTR returns to the era when their sound was emerging from Berlin rave, techno, electro, hip-hop, IDM and bass music, while refusing to respect the boundaries of any of them.

It was precisely this refusal to submit to a single sound that took Modeselektor from the illegal parties of post-Wall Berlin to some of the world's biggest festival stages (Sónar, Melt, Primavera). Their journey has been marked by collaborations with Thom Yorke, Tommy Cash and Apparat, with whom Bronsert and Szary formed Moderat, as well as their own label, Monkeytown Records. Their live acts are known for genre-defying chaos and massive energy. Even after nearly thirty years, MDSLKTR does not feel like a look back. They are not returning to their roots out of nostalgia. They are returning to dismantle them once again. At ROXY, this principle will become pure physical force – sound, visuals, light and three decades of restlessness compressed into a single live show.

The evening will be opened by Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Philipp Johann Thimm, a long-time collaborator of Apparat and a distinctive voice in contemporary experimental electronic music. Their work together on LP5 earned a Grammy nomination, while Thimm has also developed a solo practice spanning electronic, acoustic and audiovisual forms.

This concert is supported by Liveurope – the first pan-European initiative to support concert clubs in their efforts to host concerts by emerging European artists. Liveurope is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.