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artist · mouse on mars
release · live in munich
year · 2004
genre · electronic
website · www.mouseonmars.de
date · 09-may-2005
quality · alt-preset standard
source · digital video broadcast
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01 live in munich 66:39
playtime · 01h 06m 39s
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german post-techno duo mouse on mars are among a growing number of
electronic music groups dabbling in complex, heavily hybridized
forms that include everything from ambient, techno, and dub to
rock, jazz, and jungle. the combined efforts of andi toma and jan
st. werner (of koln and dusseldorf, respectively), mouse on mars
formed in 1993, reportedly when werner and toma met either at a
death-metal 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 group seefeel, who passed it on to the
offices of their label, too pure. mom's first single, "frosch,"
was released by the label soon after, and was also included on the
debut album, vulvaland. immediately hailed for its beguiling,
inventive edge that seemed to resist 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 label, who also released their
follow-up, iaora tahiti, soon after. more upbeat and varied than
their debut, the album made some inroads into the american
marketplace, but the group's somewhat challenging complexity and
steadfast refusal to pander make widespread popularity unlikely.
they returned in 1997 with three different releases -- the ep
cache coeur naif, the lp autoditacker, and the vinyl-only
instrumentals. another vinyl-only release (glam) appeared in 1998,
and was followed a year later by the "official" follow-up to
autoditacker, niun niggung. although remixes are rare, the group
began appearing with increasing frequency on compilations of
experimental electronic music, including volume's popular trance
europe express series. they were also prominently featured on a
pair of tribute albums -- folds and rhizomes and in memoriam --
dedicated to french poststructuralist philosopher gilles deleuze.
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