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Mouse on Mars is an electronic music duo formed in Germany in 1993; consisting of Jan St. Werner, from Köln, and Andi Toma, from Düsseldorf. Their music is a blend of IDM, krautrock, disco, and ambient with heavy use of analog synth sounds and cross-frequency modulation. Their music also features instruments such as strings, brass, drums, bass and guitar.
History
St. Werner and Toma are childhood friends who were born on the same day, in the same hospital, they both experimented with Electronic music in the mid 1990s. For the most part, their pieces do not feature vocals.
Their first album, Vulvaland, was released in 1994 on the British record label Too Pure. This is considered their most 'straight-forward' 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 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.
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.
The band would then release their most recent full album, Parastrophics, almost six years later, in February 2012. It was their first album to be released under Modeselektor's Monkeytown record label.
St. Werner has released solo work under the names Lithops and Noisemashinetapes. St. Werner also partners with Markus Popp of 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, 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 remixing the work of other musicians. Collaborations
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 have also performed karaoke duets.
The duo collaborated with Mark E. Smith of The Fall in a band called Von Südenfed in 2007. Their album is called Tromatic Reflexxions.
A mini album was released November 2012, titled WOW. The album marked the duo's first recorded collaboration with the vocalist Dao Anh Khanh, producer Eric D. Clarke and the punk band, Las Kellies. Discography Studio albums
1994 Vulvaland 1995 Iaora Tahiti 1997 Autoditacker 1997 Instrumentals 1998 Glam 1999 Niun Niggung 2001 Idiology 2004 Radical Connector 2006 Varcharz 2012 Parastrophics 2018 Dimensional People
Live albums
2005 Live 04
Mini albums
2012 WOW
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) 1998 1001 – On In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze on the label Mille Plateaux 1998 Illuminati - a remix album of The Pastels 2003 Rost Pocks: The EP Collection 2006 Silver Monk Time – a tribute to the monks (29 bands cover the MONKS) 2014 21 Again (Collaborations)
Singles and 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 2012 They Know Your Name 2014 Spezmodia
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