Great news for all our friends in the U.S. and Canada!
We've heard you asking for this for quite a while, and we've now found what we think is the ideal partner for taking care of our merchandise "over there", and that representative is The Electric Fox. So, save your pocket money this week kids, because the candy store opens on the 14th. April 2018!
We will start small with a few classic tee's, some vinyl, CD's and other merchandise, and focus on growing slowly but surely! If something's missing, don't blame them, blame us, as we've made the choices of items for now. Creative feedback and input is highly valued though, so is requests for different kinds of shirts etc, but we cannot promise to print everything you ask for even if we wanted. Still, if your size is missing or there are other issues, contact them directly, and they'll do their best to help you out!
We know that all APOP fans are loving and patient, so when the new shop opens, we know that you will open your arms to them, share their links, and order their stuff, all with that happy smile on your face! ;)
The shop will be run by Kelly Rayburn, and we are very happy to include her into the APOP-family! She's an absolutely fantastic lady that we are 100% certain will steer this ship securely forward from here! So happy to have you on board with us Kelly!
So, please help us spread the happy news to your friends, family, enemies, neighbours, bandmates etc, so that we can offer even more goodies to you in the future via The Electric Fox!
You can also "like" their Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/theelectricfox/
And if you've read this far down, don't despair, news about new releases coming soon! BOMBS AWAY!
<3 APOP LOVES YOU <3
Wanna do your Christmas shopping in Gothenburg, Sweden? Then the first weekend of December is a great choice!
APOP plays Brewhouse on 1st. December together with MESH (UK) in a double-headliner show presented by DepecheModePartyGothenburg, the guys behind the Electronic Summer/Winter festivals and tons of other great happenings.
It's a long way there, and in the meantime, APOP will be working on the new forthcoming album!
See you in Sweden on 1st. December!
Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/159937144667026/
APOP OUT!
Our European merchandise liaison, Lo-Fi-Merchandise in Germany have just added new t-shirts, caps and a gym-bag to our ever growing collection of clothing and fan items! There are also more new shirts, buttons and CD's that will be put up on the Lo-Fi-Merchandise page in the coming weeks, so keep watching that web-shop!
The fans have voted, the promoter heard it, and APOP said YES PLEASE!
We are totally excited to announce that Apoptygma Berzerk will perform at the Castle Party Festival 2018 in Bolkow, Poland on Friday the 13th. July.
We haven't visited Poland for a while, and we've never played Castle Party Festival before, so there are many things to be joyous about here, and the fact that our Norwegian brothers Mortiis and Gothminister also will be playing there this year, makes it a chance for a great party that you shouldn't miss!
We hope to see you there, and to show the Castle Party attendees what APOP is really about!
Do zobaczenia tam!!!
We can confirm that there will be two gigs in Germany in February 2018.
So far we have booked shows in Oberhausen (Kulttempel) 16/02/18 and in Leipzig (E-Only Festival) 17/02/18.
Homepages & tickets:
Oberhausen: https://kulttempel-tickets.de/
Leipzig: http://www.e-only-festival.de/
Links Facebook events:
Oberhausen: https://www.facebook.com/events/125542961428830/
Leipzig: https://www.facebook.com/events/351569381903370/
We haven`t played live in the southern parts of Sweden since 1994, but December 9th, we'll be back, performing at electriXmas 2017. Our friend Daniel Myer will be there with his project Architect, and we're looking forward to entertaining Malmø together with him, as well as ME THE TIGER, Seeming and Electronic Frequency!
Link to Facebook event :
https://www.facebook.com/events/112298852778730/
"It's Apoptygma Berzerk, Jim - but not as we know it."
APOP reinvents itself - again - with an exciting new sound; different from, but complimentary to, the electro rock future pop stylings of previous releases.
On Exit Popularity Contest (a fix-up of the 12" EPs Stop Feeding The Beast, Videodrome and Xenogenesis), APOP founder Stephan Groth distils the essence of carefully selected pioneers to construct a classic yet refreshingly contemporary sound. Varied and vital, it brings instrumental music back into the spotlight, and after the wildly enthusiastic audience reaction to the sold-out performance in Norway last year, it appears he has tapped into a rich seam of electronic pleasure for a new generation as well as older aficionados.
Always a musical chameleon, Groth pays homage to his roots through emulating the analogue soundscapes of innovators like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis and Klaus Schulze, and the driving motorik Krautrock rhythms of Neu!, Cluster and La Duesseldorf, all filtered through his own unique Scandinavian sensibility. In doing so he has created a vibrant, colourful 21st century palette on which to blend these classic influences from the Golden Age of electronic music.
Exit Popularity Contest demonstrates an admirable musical purity and sincerity, channeling the best of the past to forge a path into the future.
