Two of the freshest and most talked about 'bots on the scene today are none other than Modeselektor. Berlin's Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary aka Modeselektor first teamed up in 1996 and have been putting out their own brand of glitched-up "dreck" electro since 2001 on Ellen Allien's Bpitch Control label.

You might know him from his work as Arpanet (on both Rephlex and Record Makers). Or perhaps as 1/2 or 1/4 of the equally mysterious data physicians, Dopplereffekt, Der Zyklus, Elecktroids, or Japanese Telecom. If you've really done your homework, you may be familiar with his even more obscure output as Flexitone, Dr. Finn & Dr. Otto Henke or Intellitronic. In any event, the man/machine behind all of this might be, at least according to Discogs.com, Gerald Donald aka Heinrich Mueller. He has been associated with the Patron Saint of Detroit Electro, Drexciya aka James Stinson, Shifted Phases, Transllusion, The Other People Place, Lab Rat XL, and LAM (Life After Mutation) as well as electro dystopians, Ultradyne. But no one knows who he REALLY is. There have been few public performances or press releases and possibly only one interview ever from the man; What little information that can been gleaned, from xeroxed record inserts to the grainy footage of Dopplereffekt's Scientist video, does not help solve this enduring enigma.