Aparde (born 1987 near Usedom in Wolgast as Paul Camillo Schroeder) is a German electronica and techno-producer as well as musician, Liveact and DJ. He grew up on the island of Usedom on the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and attended the Wolgast Music School for nine years, where he learned to play the drums.[3] As an autodidact, he also worked on the piano and the guitar.[4] First audio recordings were also created with own compositions under influences of, among others, Deftones or Radiohead.