I burned out on Modeselktor a long time ago. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't that the music got old. It was my own fault: if I like a song -- like Silikon and almost every other song from their record Hello Mom! -- I play it about 100 times over the course of a few weeks and then have to go cold turkey and detox for a while as I repeat the process over and over with new music.

I introduced Hello Mom! to a friend this past weekend and now I'm back off the wagon. It's truly a-mazing. If you haven't listened to it, you really need to check it out.

Given I've never seen Modeselektor live, I'm getting tickets to see them at Webster Hall on 05.30.09 under the name Moderat, a side project created in 2002 when they teamed up with fellow musician Apparat to make music. Their latest collaboration -- a self-titled record -- will drop on 04.21.09 and Moderat is going on tour to promote it.

Check out the homepage for Moderat here. Read more about how Moderat came about here and get a full list of tour dates here. Watch the trailer for the video component of the record, available if you get the set that includes the CD and DVD.

Don't forget to check out Moderat's MySpace, where you can test drive the single A New Error and get more info on the record and the band. And while you're at it, check out Modeselktor's MySpace, where you can listen to a few of their songs like 2000007 feat. TTC- Siriusmo RMX which is hot. None of the original, non-remixed tracks from Hello Mom! are there, though, so you'll have to buy them or get them by other nefarious means.