Dare Devil

For a young Ring growing up in East Germany in the ’80s,it wasn’t easy being in a band,or for that matter,being a musician. The Berlin Wall had not been torn down and the civil unrest was at its pinnacle. But since Ring’s father owned a turntable,he got some exposure to Pink Floyd and Roxy music records. “Officially,you had to have politically correct songs in your playlist. Whenever you played something else,you had to just hope that there was no one in the audience who would tell the wrong person,” says Ring,adding that his father’s generation was not even allowed to play certain western songs. “If it was too much,you were in trouble,” says Ring,who became Apparat after the electronic dance music wave swept the world.

When Ring started making music,electronic instruments were the easiest way of archiving. “During the years,I just discovered other ways of expressing myself. I grew up with techno — real instruments were not an option — and I just slowly discovered my love for acoustic sounds during the last 10 years,” he says.

Ring,who is on his first trip to India,has already played in Mumbai and Kolkata and is amazed by the people’s interest and knowledge about his music and electronic dance music in general. “I am actually surprised. India is not known that much for its electronic music scene,but so far,I have been blown away by the momentum that my trip has gathered and the response that I have witnessed here. I am sure Delhi will give me an equally mind-blowing response,” says Ring,who also plans a motorbike ride through the country.

“I don’t know much about the music culture in India and feel that this is a good opportunity to talk to people in the clubs and learn a bit,” says Ring,who also composed a piece for the theatrical adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. “It will be a record soon,” he concludes.

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