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morefootnotes|date=April 2009Infobox musical artist|name = Mouse on Mars|image = Mouse On Mars 2001.jpg|caption = Mouse on Mars live (2001)|image_size = 250|background = group_or_band|alias =|origin = Düsseldorf , Germany |instrument =|genre = intelligent dance music|IDM , Ambient music|ambient , Experimental music|experimental |occupation =|years_active = 1993 to present|label = Too Pure Records|Too Pure Ipecac Recordings|Ipecac Thrill Jockey Sonig Domino Records|Domino Monkeytown Records|Monkeytown |associated_acts = Lithops Microstoria Oval (band)|Oval Noisemashinetapes Von Südenfed |website = http://www.mouseonmars.de/ www.mouseonmars.de|current_members = Jan St. Werner Andi Toma|past_members = 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 in music|1993 . Their music is a sometimes quirky blend of intelligent dance music|IDM , krautrock , disco , and Ambient music|ambient with a heavy dollop of analog synth sounds and cross-frequency modulation. http://www.higher-frequency.com/e_interview/mouse_on_mars/ Higher Frequency interview (August 2004) Their music also utilizes live conventional instruments such as string instrument|strings , brass , Drum kit|drums , bass guitar|bass and guitar .
History
St. Werner and Toma are childhood friends who were born on the same day, in the same hospital. http://www.amoshapp.com/film.html Mouse On Mars Biographical Short: "Mouths On Lamaze" (February 2009) 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 United Kingdom|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 (UK)|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 . http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php/photos/cud/junkmail.html? i=1322 Junkmedia interview (November 2004) 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 . http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/mouse-on-mars-051206.shtml PopMatters interview (December 2005)
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. http://www.amoshapp.com/chmo.mp3 Radio interview with Mouse on Mars and Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab
St. Werner has released solo work under the names Lithops (music)|Lithops and Noisemashinetapes. http://www.chickenhed.us/noisemashinetapes/ The Noisemashinestapes Archive St. Werner also partners with Markus Popp of Oval (band)|Oval for Microstoria . St. Werner has also collaborated with the renowned visual artist Rosa Barba . While releasing albums on British indie labels, Mouse on Mars started their own label, Sonig Recordings|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 remix|remixing the work of other musicians.
Mouse on Mars have collaborated with Mark E. Smith of The Fall (band)|The Fall in a band called Von Südenfed in 2007. Their album is called Tromatic Reflexxions . Their new album, Parastrophics was released in February 24, 2012.
Discography
Studio Albums
1994 Vulvaland
1995 Iaora Tahiti
1997 Autoditacker
1997 Instrumentals (Mouse on Mars album)|Instrumentals
1998 Glam (album)|Glam
2000 Niun Niggung
2001 Idiology
2004 Radical Connector
2006 Varcharz
2012 Parastrophics
Live Albums
2005 Live 04
Collaborations
2007 Tromatic Reflexxions (with Mark E. Smith as Von Südenfed)
Compilations
1994 Trance Europe Express - Volume 3 cd02 track 01:-Mouse On Mars Maus Mobil (6:30) http://www.discogs.com/release/17824
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) http://www.playloud.org/silvermonktime.html label play loud& #33; 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
External links
http://www.mouseonmars.com/ Official Site
http://www.sonig.com/ic/page/20/44id/48/artists.html Mouse on Mars at Sonig record label
http://www.paradical.de/ Paradical.de unofficial site with extensive discography
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mouse+On+Mars Exhaustive discography of Mouse on Mars
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http://www.amoshapp.com/chmo.mp3 Radio interview with Mouse on Mars and Laetitia of Stereolab
http://www.chickenhed.us/noisemashinetapes/ The Noisemashinetapes Archive
Category:German electronic music groups Category:Intelligent dance music musicians Category:Thrill Jockey artists Category:Musical groups from Düsseldorf
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