Mouse On Mars

   
Artist: Mouse On Mars

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   Indie
   Industrial
   Electronic
   Rock
   Experimental
   

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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

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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 demo of material found its way to London-based guitar-ambient mathematical group 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.