Artist: Mouse On Mars: mp3 download Genre(s): Blues Indie Industrial Electronic Rock Experimental Discography: Live04 Year: 2005 Tracks: 9 Radical Connecter Year: 2004 Tracks: 9 Rost Pocks Year: 2003 Tracks: 15 Glam Year: 2003 Tracks: 15 Agit Itter It It Year: 2002 Tracks: 7 Idiology Year: 2001 Tracks: 11 Actionist Respoke [ep] Year: 2001 Tracks: 3 Pickly Dred Rhizzoms Year: 1999 Tracks: 6 Niun Niggung Year: 1999 Tracks: 12 Niun Niggun Year: 1999 Tracks: 13 Distroia Year: 1999 Tracks: 4 Diskdusk Year: 1999 Tracks: 4 Instrumentals Year: 1997 Tracks: 7 Autoditaker Year: 1997 Tracks: 14 Autoditacker Year: 1997 Tracks: 12 Iaora Tahiti Year: 1995 Tracks: 13 Vulvaland Year: 1994 Tracks: 7 German post-techno duo Mouse on Mars is among a growing number of electronic music groups dabbling in complex, heavily hybridized forms that include everything from ambient, techno, and knight to rock, jazz, and jungle. The combined efforts of Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner (of Köln and Düsseldorf, severally), Mouse on Mars formed in 1993, reportedly when Werner and Toma met either at a decease alloy concert or a health food store. Working from Werner's studio, the pair fused an admiration for the early experiments of Krautrock outfits like Can, Neu!, Kluster, and Kraftwerk into an offbeat update including influences from the burgeoning German techno and ambient scenes. A demonstration of material found its way to London-based guitar-ambient mathematical grouping Seefeel, wHO passed it on to the offices of their label, Too Pure. MOM's first single, "Frosch," was released by the label presently after and was also included on the debut album, Vulvaland. Immediately hailed for its beguiling, imaginative edge that seemed to baulk all efforts at easy "schublade" (an even less flattering approximation of the English "pigeonhole"), Vulvaland was reissued in 1995 by (oddly) Rick Rubin's American Recordings judge, which too released their follow-up, Iaora Tahiti, shortly after. More offbeat and varied than their debut, the album made some inroads into the American market place, simply the group's middling challenging complexity and steady refusal to pander make widespread popularity unbelievable. They returned in 1997 with three dissimilar releases -- the EP Memory cache Coeur Naif, the LP Autoditacker, and the vinyl-only Instrumentals. Another vinyl-only going (Glam) appeared in 1998, and was followed a twelvemonth after by the "official" follow-up to Autoditacker, Niun Niggung. Although remixes ar rare, Mouse on Mars began coming into court with increasing frequence on compilations of experimental electronic music, including Volume's popular Spell Europe Express series. They were likewise prominently featured on a pair of tribute albums -- Folds and Rhizomes and In Memoriam -- dedicated to French poststructuralist philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Idiology, which introduced Dodo Nkishi into the plica, followed in 2000 on Thrill Jockey. In 2004, the duo far-famed a decade's worth of work with the discharge of Chemical group Connector and a spheric tour, which was captured by 2005's concert album Live04. The next year's hard-hitting Varcharz was released by Ipecac. St. Werner likewise has recorded as half of the duet Microstoria (with Oval's Markus Popp) and solo as Lithops. |