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Apparatjik: Square Peg in a Round Hole [Meta Merge Un]
Possibly the world’s least-known supergroup, Apparatjik makes eccentric industrial dance-rock music to soundtrack tales of futuristic robot love stories. So, who are these mysterious sonic architects? Get this: Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, A-ha keyboardist Magne Furuholmen, Mew vocalist Jonas Bjerre, and Jason Mraz/KT Tunstall producer-songwriter Martin Terefe. Quite a supergroup, indeed! Back in November, Apparatjik announced through a series of cryptic posts that their upcoming second album would be a unique crowdsourcing experiment. They released an initial set of tracks for free and asked fans to “produce” the album through polls and Facebook posts. Based on fans’ votes and suggestions, a new version is created and posted online every week. This will continue until the final edition is released on February 21st, at which point nobody seems to know exactly what will happen. (Seriously, anyone who deciphers their posts with any degree of certainty deserves a huge high-five.) —Bill Ross