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- Date Released: September 10, 2007
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Techno
- Label: BPitch Control / Finetunes
Berlin techno pranksters come correct — with Thom Yorke in tow.
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We Say...
More than just an album on which Thom Yorke appears (though the presence of the guy who’s supposed to be fronting Radiohead is not exactly insignificant), Happy Birthday! is a pleasingly messy and chaotic collection of songs by a duo from the goofier outer reaches of Berlin’s techno scene. Modeselektor make sounds suited for dance clubs — check the dark, refracted beats of “B.M.I.” and the pre-peak primer slathered over “Godspeed” — but more often they wander a less charted middle ground between club tracks and would-be radio songs. “2000007” features guest verses from the French rap group TTC in what sounds like an old-school hip-hop interlude from a Transylvanian children’s TV show, while “Let Your Love Grow” enlists singer Paul St. Hillaire in a spell of mournful space-reggae dubstep. Then there’s “The White Flash,” the one with Yorke: Over a bleepy banger of a track run at mid-tempo, a disembodied voice passes by mostly in wisps and layers that build to reveal Yorke murmuring “you have all the time in the world.” He doesn’t sound certain of what he’s saying, but the eerie beauty with which he says it makes time immaterial anyway.
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| 01. |  |
Happy Birthday! |
4:03 |
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| 02. | |
Godspeed |
5:46 |
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| 03. | |
2000007 feat. TTC
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4:11 |
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| 04. | |
Let Your Love Grow feat. Apparat and Paul St. Hilaire
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5:25 |
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| 05. | |
Em Ocean |
1:54 |
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| 06. | |
Suckerpin |
6:10 |
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| 07. | |
Edgar |
3:53 |
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| 08. | |
Hyper Hyper feat. Otto Von Schirach
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5:17 |
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| 09. | |
B.M.I. |
4:29 |
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| 10. | |
The Dark Side of the Frog feat. Puppetmastaz
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0:52 |
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| 11. | |
The Dark Side of the Sun feat. Puppetmastaz
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3:34 |
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| 12. | |
Déboutonner feat. Siriusmo
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4:23 |
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| 13. | |
The Black Block |
5:41 |
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| 14. | |
The First Rebirth |
4:39 |
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| 15. | |
The White Flash feat. Thom Yorke
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4:49 |
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| 16. |
Late Check-Out |
0:38 |
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| 17. | |
The Wedding Toccata Theme |
3:53 |
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| 18. | |
(I Can't Sleep) Without Music feat. Maximo Park
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3:32 |
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18 Total Tracks, 73:09 Total Length
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