Browse by Artist: MOUSE ON MARS

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Distroia
Label:	DOMINO (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	RUG 100CD

UK version of the "Distroia" single, previously released by Our Choice in Germany. It's advertised as "featuring 2 previously unreleased tracks", but that's unreleased in England (many residents of the UK are very guilty of that center-of-the-universe nonsense). Those 2 tracks ("Presenter" & "Iconmix") can actually be found on the Diskdusk EP (not released in the center of the universe). This version does features a video of "Distroia" which is not found elsewhere and it's very cool. There's also a sixth track only listed by a handwritten dot-scrawl on the sleeve (according to label hype, it's named "Samsong" but you won't find that info written anywhere on the CD). As far as I can tell, it's an exclusIve track only found on this release. Let's hope so, because otherwise it would really spoil half the fun. You've already bought more MoM records this year than in any other, so why not complete the pile & get it over with. "Distrioa is taken from Mouse On Mars' recent album for Domino Niun Niggung, which is a terrifyingly progressive innovation and grows on you with every listen. . By now you could wallpaper a multiple dwelling with Mouse On Mars press, and yet nobody really knows what exactly it is they do. One thing is for certain, Mouse On Mars have paved the way for a continuously growing gang of Germans and international sound villains to weave digital, electronic, and non-electronic sounds into a totally new organic fabric." Limited stock.

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Wipe That Sound
Label:	SONIG (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SONIG 044EP

"They play their next trump card: The voice on the remix-12" of their smash single 'Wipe That Sound' belongs to none other than the mighty Mark E. Smith himself. With this release, Mouse on Mars surpass the wildest dreams of critics and fans alike. Smith, whose band The Fall have taken (and still take) the deepest of bows influencing generations of artists, is a legend and an institution. The collaboration Mouse On Mars + Mark E. Smith is a jumbo merger -- and nothing less. The deconstructivists from Cologne and Dusseldorf and the iron willed character from Manchester turn out to be an unrivalled dream team."

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Live04
Label:	SONIG (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SONIG 047CD

"Mouse on Mars avoided releasing live recordings for ten years. They left the documentation of their stage shows to bootleggers, secret archivists and fidelity resistant butterfly collectors. Apart from a limited seven-inch and some quietly tolerated bootleg CDRs, the band had never released anything that hadn't been painstakingly assembled and galvanized in the studio. But now Live04 -- highlights of extensive touring in 2004 culled from about 600 hours of live material -- makes clear as day why the band's gigs can be just as exciting and unpredictable as their records. The music of Mouse On Mars is constantly reinventing itself and this magical energy, benefiting from ten years of live performance, is especially evident when the band takes it to the stage."

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Actionist Respoke
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	THR 012.21CD

"The first tasty treat to be unleashed from Mouse on Mars' forthcoming 7th album, Idiology (due April 17th from Thrill Jockey), 'Actionist Respoke' marks yet another leap forward for Mouse on Mars. A head on collision of frenetic scratching, deconstructed house vocals and pulsating beats that represent MoM's darkest grooves yet. 'Actionist' is presented here in two forms. The first will also be found on Idiology and is a concise statement of purpose, letting all in earshot know that these sonic terrorists are for real; the second finds the Dusseldorf duo giving the song room to breathe, as the rhythm takes on a life of it's own. To bring it all together MoM find themselves in the studio with Herbert (aka Doctor Rockit) in a more relaxed, yet still devious mood, giving the EP a fine sense of closure. This single will be strictly limited to 2500 copies on CD only."

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Agit Itter It It
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	THR 012.24CD

Domestic CD version of what was once "a MP3 vinyl set, complete with impregnated live-section. The hard disk-to-record-transfer is the first artefact of its kind! Includes tracks for downloading and 2 tracks, genuinely alive: 'actionist respoke' and 'introduce' (from the album Idiology). An agenda of breakdown and absurdity. Total ambiguity prevails in exploding sounds often less than milliseconds in length. Nothing is decided in the music itself but its construction as a statement: even intervals and rigid power chords arrayed in dualistic structures, keyed in through blasting tirades of resistance, display a world of madness and diversity."

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Niun Niggung
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	THR 076CD

"Niun Niggung nonchalantly jumps over all sound construction sites in modern music history. Between the first lunar landing and the day after tomorrow's pop music, post-organics and new avant garde have rarely enjoyed such a good time together. Sounds without bounds. Battered evergreens to fall in love with. Details without regrets. As with its predecessor, Autoditacker, this terrifyingly progressive innovation centrifuge grown on you every time you hear it. 'Diskdusk', with its elegant futurism, the wuppingly superflupping 'Gogonal', and of course the special edition of 'Distroia', the wildest hit ever to emerge from the soundmines of the St. Martin studios are all the result of mercilessly erected findings of the past few years' sound research. An outrageously mature performance that always sounds different, yet always like Mouse On Mars. Forget about your pigeonholes. To think that all this is possible without glue or a false bottom. One thing is for certain: Mouse On Mars have paved the way for a continuously growing gang of German and international sound villains to weave analog and digital, electronic and non-electronic sounds into a totally new, organic fabric. Not without reason have great swarms of independent and other tinkerers, post-, kraut-, and general rockers, poppers, techno types, and avant garde scoundrels included this darned modern stuff in their daily menu. The Thrill Jockey version of Niun Niggung contains five tracks not available on the import version (Domino, Our Choice/Zomba)."

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Instrumentals
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	THR 095CD

"Shortly after the release of the dance/ pop/ electronic juggernaut Autoditacker, Mouse on Mars issued a sixty-minute album called Instrumentals. Composed between 1995 and 1997 and released exclusively on vinyl, the limited pressing of 1300 copies flew off the shelves and three years after the fact, Instrumentals remains out of print. Thrill Jockey is taking steps in the national relief effort with the re-release of the sought-after Instrumentals album on CD. Instrumentals is assorted sonic and psychic electronic particles bursting and inflating, overlapping and elevating. Each composition is deceptively complicated, consistently engaging and irrefutably danceable. The thralls and trills of Instrumentals are both a direct and indirect nod to the flavor of Peter Thomas compositions ('Rompatroullie'), and the album itself remains an important chapter in the quest to create an organic electronica. Sound without bounds, details without regrets! Mouse on Mars has been called the Parliament/Funkadelic of the new millennium, and who are we to argue?"

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Idiology
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 098CD

"From their beginnings in 1992, Cologne native Jan St Werner and Dusseldorfer Andi Toma have consistently challenged electronic music's paradigm in often surprising and always intriguing ways. Idiology is the duo's seventh album and is no exception to this rule, as MoM surround themselves with strings, woodwinds, brass and the band's own heavily modified fleet of machines in the St. Martin's Tonstudio. Fans should once again brace themselves for the inevitable shock of the new as Germany's most irreverent audio renegades have created the perfect soundtrack for a highly sinister dance party. Kicking off with 'Actionist Respoke', the album's first single, MoM officially declare their independence from glitchtronica's shoegazing legions. Longtime collaborator Dodo Nkishi lends a uniquely warped vocal sensibility to the track which already features MoM's darkest grooves to date. The rest of the album continues to thicken the group's sonic stew. Tracks such as 'Presence' and 'Catching Butterflies With Hands' have their populist intentions undermined by Werner and Toma's meddling hands, while the duo reprise their flirtation with the orchestral as heard on the opening tracks from 2000's Niun Niggung. At the other end of the spectrum, 'Introduce' is a truly evil slice of twisted lympho-zoid hip-hop. Idiology takes no prisoners in its dual-pronged assault on the conventions of modern music. Only with the loungy closing number, 'Fantastic Analysis' (a term Werner and Toma invented to describe their working process), do Mouse on Mars let the arrangements breathe a long sigh of relief, the calm after the storm. To enable these stylistic achievements MoM enlist the help of partners in crime such as: Nkishi, the multi-talented Harald 'Sack' Ziegler, house icon Matthew Herbert on piano, violinist Matty Arouse, in addition to fellow programming wizards Adam 'Vert' Butler and F.X. Randomiz."

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Glam
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	THR 127CD

"Glam features fifteen densely atmospheric tracks which were initially composed as a film score for a Hollywood love and drug movie of the same name starring Tony Danza and Ali MacGraw. The music was built around the director's cut and in a parallel chain of events the music was rejected by the director and the movie was rejected by the studio, sending it straight to video. However, Glam works as an album of its own, presenting the band's most intricate and subtle compositions. The CD version of Glam comes with three bonus tracks not on the vinyl version."

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Radical Connector
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 134CD

"Mouse On Mars' unique way of creating music demonstrates that intelligence and playfulness are not mutually exclusive terms. Their music is both challenging and funny -- complexly layered yet with a simple driving beat. Mouse On Mars has a unique vision and a unique way of expressing this vision, resulting in an unmistakable sound which functions on a universal level and makes people move their minds and their bodies. In a musical genre not noted for longevity, Mouse On Mars has not only found their own distinctive voice, but have remained a farce of imaginative innovations for a decade. The new album Radical Connector includes nine new tracks which took Jan and Andi three years to write and produce in their famous St. Martin studio In Düsseldorf. Long-time musical collaborator Dada Nkishi was part of the recording team once again, and the album features both his drumming and his strangely recorded vocals."

Artist:	MOUSE ON MARS
Title:	Glam
Label:	TOKUMA (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$31.00
Catalog #:	TKCB 71440

Japanese-only CD version of the next MoM Sonig release (vinyl-only release in Germany and the US); beautiful digi-pak sleeve. "12 moody and colorful songs that were originally produced for an American generation-x love & drug movie that Jan Werner and Andi Thoma had been asked to do the soundtrack for. In the end, the film was never made. Recommended for headphone use." Plus three bonus tracks only found on this Japanese version: "Snap Bar," "Pool Smooth and Hidden," & "Hetzchase Railway".

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