One could imagine that Sascha Ring, better known as Apparat, had in mind the organic and electronic when he named his album _Duplex_, because he certainly shares in both. Even though the opening track, "Granular Bastard," is all studio trickery and hissing, skittering percussion, "Contradiction" brings in a simple guitar around which the song builds, with the plaintive vocals coming in later. The winding and rewinding of "Wooden" add a certain melancholy to the track (the airy vocals help as well, of course). "Schallstrom" mixes harpsichord with some crispy rhythms, while "Cerro Largo" reprocesses guitars, sounding similar to Telefon Tel Aviv. The wild jazz saxophone of "Negro Modelo" adds a completely unexpected twist right at the end of the album. Once you move into the _Duplex_, you'll find it hard to leave.

Shitkatapult co-chief Sascha Ring emerges with his third full-length that really does hit the jackpot, reaching into new soundscapes, and partakes in the recent sex between acoustics and electronics. "Duplex" is poetic and so absorbing, steering a symphonic cakewalk blitz through your emotions, bypassing the mundane and empty laptop sounds of a majority of recent electronic music. Organs droning away, wailing distorted horns and shuffled thump beats over twelve beautiful tracks.