Definitions for "Apparat"
Apparat is a German electronic musician (Sascha Ring) living in Berlin and one of the owners of Shitkatapult records. Starting out with dance floor-oriented techno, he later started to create ambient music and more recently became "more interested in designing sounds than beats". Recent music is closer to glitch or IDM, accompanied with classical string instruments and other sounds.
the name denoting the entire civil service during the Soviet era (The elite membership of the apparat was known as the nomenklatura--see below.)