The group members met in 1992 in Berlin with group member Szary performing live acid house music at illegal underground parties. Both soon joined forces and began creating music under the moniker Fundamental Knowledge. In 1996 the group renamed to Modeselektor, a name taken from a function on the Roland RE-201 Space Echo analog delay effects unit.
In 1999 Modeselektor signed its first remix contract and began working with Pfadfinderei, a Berlin based VJ and design collective. In 2000 Modeselektor met Ellen Allien, making BPitch Control their home label. Modeselektor has also been involved in collaborative efforts; Moderat - a musical collaboration between Modeselektor and Apparat, Pfadselektor - a music/visual collaboration between Modeselektor and Pfadfinderei, and with Rhythm & Sound's Paul St. Hillaire. They have produced sound installations at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and lectured at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart.
Modeselektor is a favourite group of Thom Yorke (Radiohead frontman), who has recommended their albums in interviews and included the song Silikon (from their 2005 LP Hello Mom! and featuring vocalist Sasha Perera) in a publicly available iTunes playlist.
The follow-up to Hello Mom! was Happy Birthday! which saw Paul St. Hilaire, TTC, Puppetmastaz, Thom Yorke and Maxïmo Park as guest vocalists. Other collaborators included Otto von Schirach, Siriusmo, and Apparat.
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Dancingbox
Modeselektor Lyrics
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I'm always sleeping naked cause you wake up and you're creeping
Want to lick it so much that it's almost like I taste it on the tip of my tongue
I want to touch it so bad that it's almost like I can feel it on my fingertips
I want yours inside of me, but don't forget where I like licking baby
I want to make your fantasies realities I want to be yours baby
I want you to bang my box
There ain't nothing I'm scared to try
I can be on top or if you like it I just lie here
Take my picture position my body
Wherever you like just know I like it naughty
Teach me a lesson pretend we never met
But we can keep just kissing cause you're getting me so wet
The only downside to this morning is you getting up and you leaving
When I'm dreaming and you're in 'em I wake myself up cause I'm screaming
What are you doing to me
It's like you're a zookeeper setting animals free
You release me like a tiger that's been locked in a cage
Here I am, here you are
I want it so hard
You finger my heart
I know just what I need, what I came here to do
I've been thinking baby, been mostly about you
I want you to bang my box
I want you to bang my box
You say it tastes like cake with my lips against your face I want you to eat it baby
The lyrics for Modeselektor's song Dancing Box are sexual in nature and are about the desire for intimacy with a partner. The lines "I sleep with the door open if you want to come in while I'm sleeping" and "I'm always sleeping naked cause you wake up and you're creeping" suggest a level of trust and comfort with the partner. The next few lines focus on the desire to taste and touch the partner's genitals, indicating a strong physical attraction. The singer wants the partner to take control and "bang" her box, and she is willing to try anything. She even suggests role-playing, with the lines "Teach me a lesson pretend we never met."
The chorus repeats the desire to be penetrated ("I want you to bang my box"), and the final lines of the song suggest that the partner enjoys performing oral sex ("You say it tastes like cake with my lips against your face I want you to eat it baby"). Overall, the song presents a frank and explicit description of sexual desire and pleasure.
Line by Line Meaning
I sleep with the door open if you want to come in while I'm sleeping
I am inviting you to come into my room while I am sleeping. I don't mind leaving the door open for you.
I'm always sleeping naked cause you wake up and you're creeping
I prefer to sleep without clothes because I know you like to watch me while I sleep.
Want to lick it so much that it's almost like I taste it on the tip of my tongue
I desire you so much that it feels like I can taste you even when you are not with me.
I want to touch it so bad that it's almost like I can feel it on my fingertips
I crave your touch to the point where it feels like I can physically feel it, even if we are not together.
I want yours inside of me, but don't forget where I like licking baby
I desire your presence inside of me, but don't forget about what I like and how I enjoy our intimacy.
I want to make your fantasies realities I want to be yours baby
I want to fulfill your deepest desires and make them a reality. I want to belong to you.
I want you to bang my box
I want you to have sex with me and give me ultimate pleasure.
There ain't nothing I'm scared to try
I am not afraid to try anything new, especially when it comes to experiencing intimacy with you.
I can be on top or if you like it I just lie here
I am willing to take control during sex or let you take the lead if you prefer it that way.
Take my picture position my body
I want you to take control of my body and take pleasure in every part of me.
Wherever you like just know I like it naughty
I am open to exploring any desire you may have, as long as it is naughty and pleasurable for both of us.
Teach me a lesson pretend we never met
I want to engage in role-playing with you and explore different scenarios, even if it means pretending we are strangers.
But we can keep just kissing cause you're getting me so wet
The intensity of our kissing is already enough to turn me on and make me wet.
The only downside to this morning is you getting up and you leaving
The only thing that upsets me about waking up in the morning is that you have to leave.
When I'm dreaming and you're in 'em I wake myself up cause I'm screaming
When I dream about you and our intimacy, I wake myself up with excitement and screams of pleasure.
What are you doing to me
You have such an effect on me that I am both puzzled and amazed at the things I feel when I am with you.
It's like you're a zookeeper setting animals free
You have a way of freeing me and my desires, just like a zookeeper freeing wild animals.
You release me like a tiger that's been locked in a cage
You unlock and unleash my innermost desires, just like a tiger that has been freed from a cage.
Here I am, here you are
We are both here, present and ready to experience pleasure and intimacy together.
I want it so hard
I want our intimacy and pleasure to be intense and passionate.
You finger my heart
You touch my heart and soul with the way you make me feel during our intimate moments together.
I know just what I need, what I came here to do
I am clear about what I want and need from this relationship and these moments of intimacy.
I've been thinking baby, been mostly about you
Most of my thoughts and desires have been revolving around you and our intimate relationship.
You say it tastes like cake with my lips against your face I want you to eat it baby
You have complimented the taste of my body and I want you to take pleasure in it, just like eating a sweet cake.
Contributed by Lucy V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@TheApeMachine
I ran this through ChatGPT with the following prompt: "Translate the following text into English, replacing any slang or metaphor with the correct English phrasing, commonly understood by any English speaker" It came up with the result below. I doubt it's perfect, my suspicion had always been that the "cat/tong/cannibalism" line referred to oral sex somehow. Also I removed the duplicated lines about keeping your girl in a total state of pleasure (which could also be "bliss" I think).
Titi berman, you know well that he is impressive, but also cultivates.
You should tell yourself that he is amazing.
He has a strong, powerful organ that performs well in an orgy.
My lotion is bucolic, acidic, and crouched.
Powerful, powerful, power.
A drug addict gets their fix in the bathroom and I think about this text before on the German highway in the van.
Plato says it is vital for us to educate ourselves.
Sorry if I kept your girl in a total state of pleasure.
You know well that he is impressive but cultivates.
You know that he
You know well that he is impressive but cultivates.
You should say that he is amazing
A drug addict gets their fix in the bathroom and I think about this text before on the German highway in the van
Plato says it is vital for us to educate ourselves
Sorry if I kept your girl in a total state of pleasure.
My gold teeth are clicking, I am the faceted ball on the dance floor
Cocaine comes out of my zen, blood vessels
And my life depends on a life of one hundred, one hundred, one hundred orgasms
Watch out for the convertible Z4, long live materialism
Your cat-like tongue is adorable, long live cannibalism
My gold teeth are clicking, I am the ball to play, dance floor
Cocaine comes out of my, blood vessels
And my life depends on a life of one hundred, one hundred, one hundred, one hundred, one hundred, ga ga ga ga
Watch out the Z4 will take off po po po po, le ma le ma le ma
Your cat-like tongue is adorable, long live cannibalism.
@chuckmomo
a tentative to catch lyrics in french ... (only for the first singer)
(Cuiziner)
Yo tell me one two, ..., ok
Yo one two
Mais
Yo tell me one two
Yo one two
Mais
(x3)
Yo tell me one, two
Yo one, two
(Tido Berman)
Titi berman tu sais bien qu'il trise mais cultive
Faut bien que tu te dises qu'il déchire
Muscle l'organe assure dans l'orgie
Ma lotion bucolique acide accroupi
Puissé puissé puissance
Un tox se fait son fix dans les chiottes et je pense à ce texte avant sur l'autoroute allemande dans le van
Platonique a besoin pour qu'on s'éduque est vitale
Désolé si j'ai gardé ta meuf dans un kif total
Tu sais bien qu'il trise mais cultive
Tu sais qu'il
Tu sais bien qu'il trise mais cultive
Faut bien que tu dises qu'il déchire
Un tox se fait son fix dans les chiottes et je pense à ce texte avant sur l'autoroute allemande dans le van
Platonique a besoin pour qu'on s'éduque est vitale
Désolé si j'ai gardé ta meuf dans un kif total
Désolé si j'ai gardé ta meuf dans un kif total (Refrain x20?)
(Cuizinier)
@Leg7nd
Mes dents en or claquent, je suis la boule à facette sur la piste de danse
De la coke sort de mon zen en guise de sang
Et ma vie dépend une vie de cent (sans?) cent (sans?) orgasmes
Gare le z4 décapotable vive le materialisme
Ta langue (?) de chatte est adorable vive le cannibalisme
Mes dents en or claquent, je suis la boule à fa’, piste de danse
De la coke sort de mon, guise de sang
Et ma vie dépend d’une vie de cent cent cent gagaga
Gare le z4 décapotable mate mate mate
Ta langue de chatte est adorable vive le canibalisme
Désolé si j'ai gardé ta meuf dans un kif total (Refrain x20?)
(Téki)
@KFGrandt
I sleep with the door open if you want to come in while I'm sleeping
I'm always sleeping naked cause you wake up and you're creeping
Want to lick it so much that it's almost like I taste it on the tip of my tongue
I want to touch it so bad that it's almost like I can feel it on my fingertips
I want yours inside of me, but don't forget where I like licking baby
I want to make your fantasies realities I want to be yours baby
I want you to bang my box
I want you to bang my box
There ain't nothing I'm scared to try
I can be on top or if you like it I just lie here
Take my picture position my body
Wherever you like just know I like it naughty
Teach me a lesson pretend we never met
But we can keep just kissing cause you're getting me so wet
The only downside to this morning is you getting up and you leaving
When I'm dreaming and you're in 'em I wake myself up cause I'm screaming
What are you doing to me
It's like you're a zookeeper setting animals free
You release me like a tiger that's been locked in a cage
Here I am, here you are
I want it so hard
You finger my heart
I know just what I need, what I came here to do
I've been thinking baby, been mostly about you
I want you to bang my box
I want you to bang my box
You say it tastes like cake with my lips against your face I want you to eat it baby
@harrisonaard1
[Verse: Tido Berman]
I do not want to chat with your stuffed doll
She will adore me, m'aduler, assiduous, forced to satiate my desires as a pasha
Make rap! listen like that slap!
I go on stage with Modeselektor, the more we are crazy, the more we laugh
Never in doubt, but I feel like it
I like gang signs, move
** Lyrics cuttées **
[Refrain]
Yo, yo, han han, TTTC, Fashion yo selektor
Check yo, han han, TTTC, 2 0 0 0 0 0 7
[Verse: Cuizinier]
It's Modeselektor and TTC
You have to order it by VPC
Rappe! I know by heart
As soon as it comes out, you bought it in the hour
Rappe! We are all the same
I understand also I have impulses, no problem
And it hurts the wallet, rappe!
Do not be afraid of death!
If things go wrong in your life, light a candle
Stop acting like a virgin
Rappe! Make decisions
For a yes or a no sign petitions
[Refrain]
[Verse: Teki Latex]
Play the funeral march on your organ guy
Time stops, I go back to the discotheque
Girls wet, I open the sea like Moses
As if death itself was returning to the church
To judge whores' sons who want to stop my movement
People get angry but I answer them softly
All sweet as a kiss of the devil
They are guilty and I am right all the time
It's revenge, it's punishment, it's techno in the cathedral
It's the Gothic rave party, take out your glowsticks, it's the black metal
It's revenge, it's punishment, it's techno in the cathedral
The little Jesus is bleeding, and your tension continues to rise until the cerebral hemorrhage
@markwinston3119
5th October 2023 and this is still fire as fuck!
@randevnasty2990
used to get stoned and walk to school with this blaring through my earphones, those were the days
@randevnasty2990
!
@NullZer0
+randev nasty I'll carry the torch, bruv!
@alejandraglf.4091
we all (;; jjj
@MoustiluigiRandom
D'accord, nous sommes heureux de ton aliénation/
@vodkaboy
@@MoustiluigiRandom C'est pas ça l'aliénation. L'aliénation c'est quand t'as un Xénomorphe qui te traverse le sternum pour délirer. Enfin je crois.
@rrrbub
Deutsch-französische Freundschaft at its finest!
@Queenixx
I wanted to type "dancing boy" in google to draw my next picture, but i accedently typed "dancing box" and now I'm here.
And to be honest I'm kinda ... glad?
@1fatsss
Watched the missguided advert ages ago and been looking for this since