Mouse on Mars

Mouse on Mars
Mouse on Mars

Mouse on Mars live (2001)
Background information
Origin Düsseldorf, Germany
Genres IDM, ambient, experimental
Years active 1993 to present
Labels Too Pure
Ipecac
Thrill Jockey
Sonig
Domino
Associated acts Lithops
Microstoria
Oval
Noisemashinetapes
Von Südenfed
Website www.mouseonmars.de
Members
Andi Toma
Jan St. Werner

Mouse on Mars is a duo from Germany (Jan St. Werner, from Köln, and Andi Toma, from Düsseldorf) who have been making electronic music since 1993. Their music is a sometimes quirky blend of IDM, krautrock, disco, and ambient with a heavy dollop of analog synth sounds and cross-frequency modulation.[1] Their music also utilizes live conventional instruments such as strings, brass, drums, bass and guitar.

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History

St. Werner and Toma are childhood friends who were born on the same day, in the same hospital.[2] Dating back to the mid‐1990s, their productions do not shy away from fractures and deconstructions of conventional patterns in electronic music; at the same time, they also play with these patterns. Their approach is characterized by a blend of intuition and reflection that spotlights a special sensitivity to structurally and harmonically interesting inventions. For the most part, their pieces do without vocal elements.

Their first album, Vulvaland, was released in 1994 on the British record label Too Pure. This is considered their "straightest" and most focused album, mixing ambient and dance forms. Their second album, Iaora Tahiti, has a much more playful feel and encompasses a wider variety of electronic dance genres. Over the years, their sound has increased in warmth, playfulness and what the duo term "fantastic analysis". On their fourth album Niun Niggung (released on Domino Records in 2000), the live instruments start to become more prominent. Idiology, their fifth album, continued this trend, while their sixth album, Radical Connector, has a more "pop" feeling. Both of these albums also increasingly include vocals, primarily by touring drummer Dodo NKishi.[3] Their sound seems to have taken a large veer away from the stylistics of their last two efforts on their newest album Varcharz which follows an eclectic, off-kilter electronic path.

Mouse on Mars regularly perform live as a three-piece, with Toma & St. Werner augmented by drummer Dodo NKishi. In 2005, they released their first live album, titled Live 04.[4]

Mouse on Mars collaborated in the studio and toured with Stereolab in the mid 1990s - the results can be heard on Stereolab's Dots and Loops album and the associated Miss Modular single, and Mouse on Mars' Cache Cœur Naïf EP. St. Werner and Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab have also performed karaoke duets.[5]

St. Werner has released solo work under the names Lithops and Noisemashinetapes.[6] St. Werner also partners with Markus Popp of Oval for Microstoria.

While releasing albums on British indie labels, Mouse on Mars started their own label, Sonig, on which they release their own work and that of other German artists. They have also produced a number of EPs and have recorded music for film soundtracks as well as remixing the work of other musicians.

Mouse on Mars have collaborated with Mark E. Smith of The Fall in a band called Von Südenfed in 2007. Their album is called "Tromatic Reflexxions".

Discography

Studio Albums

Live Albums

  • 2005 Live 04

Collaborations

Compilations

  • 1994 Trance Europe Express - Volume 3 cd02 track 01:-Mouse On Mars Maus Mobil (6:30) [1]
  • 1998 "1001" on In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze on the label Mille Plateaux
  • 2003 Rost Pocks: The EP Collection
  • 2006 silver monk time - a tribute to the monks (29 bands cover the MONKS) label play loud! productions

Singles / EPs

  • 1994 Frosch
  • 1995 Bib
  • 1995 Saturday Night Worldcup Fieber
  • 1997 Cache Coeur Naif
  • 1997 Twift
  • 1999 Pickly Dred Rhizzoms
  • 1999 Distroia
  • 1999 Diskdusk
  • 2001 Actionist Respoke
  • 2002 Agit Itter It
  • 2005 Wipe That Sound

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.higher-frequency.com/e_interview/mouse_on_mars/ Higher Frequency interview (August 2004)
  2. ^ http://www.amoshapp.com/film.html Mouse On Mars Biographical Short: "Mouths On Lamaze" (February 2009)
  3. ^ http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php/photos/cud/junkmail.html?i=1322 Junkmedia interview (November 2004)
  4. ^ http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/mouse-on-mars-051206.shtml PopMatters interview (December 2005)
  5. ^ http://www.amoshapp.com/chmo.mp3 Radio interview with Mouse on Mars and Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab
  6. ^ http://www.chickenhed.us/noisemashinetapes/ The Noisemashinestapes Archive

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