Mouse on Mars spins symphonies of wet blips, bleeps, buzzes, and beats into disjointed ditties of electronic joy. Since the early '90s, the D'sseldorf duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma has been composing a world within an electronic soundscape...
[more]Mouse on Mars spins symphonies of wet blips, bleeps, buzzes, and beats into disjointed ditties of electronic joy. Since the early '90s, the D'sseldorf duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma has been composing a world within an electronic soundscape that is anything but cold. It's as if these two only find inspiration within the warmth afforded by the friction that relentless, alternating electricity allows. Some call their sound "organic," and, as music goes, it is certainly round.
But don't get the wrong impression: it is not sappy. It clangs here and there, whizzes and spins almost out of control, flips around, and surrounds you in a kinetic frenzy of electronic differentiation. It's undanceable techno, somehow hilarious (the name Mouse on Mars seems to say it all), always smarty, and often quite yummy.
Outside of their esoteric yet accessible electronica, the Mouse duo is perhaps best known for its work with Stereolab: 1997's "Cache Coeur Naif," is a collaboration with Stereolab chanteuse Laetitia Sadier, and Stereolab's own "Dots and Loops" was Mouse produced. The duo has also digested and regurgitated the likes of the High Llamas and The Pastels.
Mouse on Mars has worked with a variety of labels: first signed with Too Pure, they've also shown up on Domino, as well as on their own label, Sonig.
With an impeccable mix of ambient electronica, techno know-how, pop sensibility, and arty composition, Mouse on Mars will blip and bleep their way into the future.
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