"This is electro" was yesterday – moderntronic is already the future today. After two albums and seven singles for his successful Datapunk label, Anthony Rother is looking for a new challenge. Musically, textually and conceptually, “moderntronic” realises the first step in a direction, which is not seen as a break from the former aesthetics of Datapunk and yet constantly expands the horizon. “The electro concept in recent months has simply been related in an inflationary manner beyond all frontiers of style. Within the whole range of electronic dance music, there was simply nothing more that could not be electro. As much as this saturation of electro in all musical areas realizes the artistic attempt to which I broke into in 2003 with the “Back Home” EP and a year later with the “Popkiller” album, its own dynamic has developed almost sometimes alarmingly. Therefore, for me, now was exactly the right time for a stylistic new start, and for this I also wanted to build a new conceptual platform. The moderntronic concept is here both comprehensively understandable as a synonym for future-oriented electronic music and yet allows enough room for interpretation. Not least, it gave me the opportunity to find a way out of the stylistic reduction of such overpowering labels like house, techno or even electro." (Anthony Rother, February 2007)

And so the tracks of the "Moderntronic" EP take to a high-contrast journey between binary beeps resolved in subsonic bass pulse or epic harmony baroque with electronic spinet on the A-side, while the B-side most likely still holds sound affinity to the “Popkiller” or “Super Space Model” times. Of course everything remains strictly formatted to the dance floor despite textual new sound geometry and so it is no wonder that DJs such as Sven Väth, Karotte and Tiefschwarz have already in recent weeks brought the moderntronic message to the dance nation. The dawn of a new era or the logical next step - it simply depends on the personal perspective