| Happy Birthday! | ||||
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| Released | 10 September 2007 | |||
| Genre | IDM | |||
| Length | 69:40 | |||
| Label | BPitch Control | |||
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Happy Birthday! is the second studio album by German electronic music duo Modeselektor. It was released on BPitch Control on 10 September 2007.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Pitchfork | 7.4/10 [2] |
Mark Pytlik of Pitchfork gave the album a 7.4 out of 10, saying, "what's interesting about Happy Birthday! isn't just that it fuses together the most unfashionable or discarded elements of electronic music's recent history, but that it manages to sound so fresh in doing so." [2]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Happy Birthday" | 4:03 |
| 2. | "Godspeed" | 5:46 |
| 3. | "2000007" (featuring TTC) | 4:11 |
| 4. | "Let Your Love Grow" (featuring Apparat and Paul St. Hilaire) | 5:25 |
| 5. | "Em Ocean" | 1:54 |
| 6. | "Sucker Pin" | 6:10 |
| 7. | "Edgar" | 3:53 |
| 8. | "Hyper Hyper" (featuring Otto Von Schirach) | 5:17 |
| 9. | "BMI" | 4:29 |
| 10. | "The Dark Side of the Frog" | 0:52 |
| 11. | "The Dark Side of the Sun" (featuring Puppetmastaz) | 3:34 |
| 12. | "Déboutonnet" (featuring Siriusmo) | 4:23 |
| 13. | "The Black Block" | 5:41 |
| 14. | "The First Rebirth" | 4:39 |
| 15. | "The White Flash" (featuring Thom Yorke) | 4:49 |
| 16. | "Late Check-Out" | 0:38 |
| 17. | "The Wedding Toccata Theme" | 3:53 |
| 18. | "(I Can't Sleep) Without Music" (featuring Maxïmo Park) | 3:32 |
| Total length: | 73:28 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 19. | "Get Wasted in Silence" | 2:58 |
| Total length: | 76:26 | |
| Chart | Peak position |
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| French Albums (SNEP) [3] | 104 |
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