Mouse on Mars 'Spezmodia' (MTR038) Out January 10 - Teaser

English original version
Keynote, Nov 13, 2022

Illustration: © Benedikt Rugar Design: NODE Berlin Oslo

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Iaora Tahiti album by Mouse On Mars was released Mar 10, 1998 on the Too Pure label. Iaora Tahiti, the follow-up to Mouse On Mars’s 1994 debut Vulvaland, finds the band’s multi-textured techno-pop refined to a high art. Iaora Tahiti music CDs The German-based duo takes its cue from its Krautrock forebears, using spacey, insistent beats and grooves as an anchor for its smooth analogue language and digital chittering. Iaora Tahiti songs The first two tracks, “Stereomission” and “Kompod,” are expansive, loping compositions founded on fluid, burbling basslines. “Achunkel” sounds like ghosts playing drums in a cybernetic junkyard Iaora Tahiti album. “Bib” plows a swirling ambient vortex with pulse-quickening techno rhythms. The morphing bubble-scape of “Papa, Antoine” suggests a breeding ground alive with emergent microorganisms. These are dense, abstract sound collages of the first order, cerebral, intriguing, and challenging, without sacrificing rhythmic accessibility or the occasional melodic fragment. It might be said that Iaora Tahiti is one of the finest releases of its kind, were it not so strikingly unique.

Mouse On Mars - Bib /// Too Pure 1995

from the album Fanal (Kai Althoff) - Fanal III, sonig 81LP, 2010

Fanal - Voll Du!

from the Mini-Album DJ Elephant Power ‎– Atlas Anthem (sonig 63), 2008

Dj Elephant Power - Switch Balanced

from the tape Uske Orchestra - Homeotape (sonig 88), 2012
Limited edition of 58 copies. Covers and labels are individually designed by the artist. Only a few copies left.

Uske Orchestra - Gsu-2-Sp-K4

from the album The Allophons - Saddle Bomb (sonig 87CD), 2012
Featuring Natascha Nikeprelevic on vocals & Andi Toma from Mouse on Mars. Video bei Zuckerzeit.

The Allophons - NaNaNaau

HI!
this is a mix of some of my favourite abstract records from people like chas smith, c.m. von hausswolff, sun ra, birdshow, this heat, brian eno, gavin bryars, robin hayward, head of wantastiquet, Elmar Lällabebbl Ensemble, Ralf&Florian, Ken Kamden, The eightfold Model, Bruce Gilbert and others. 

this mix might have disturbing effects when listened to as background music. But I prepared a real good japanese dinner while listening to it last week.

recorded after midnight in a cold berlin january night at home 2011
hope you like it. 

I will record more of these mixes in the near future. 
Best, 
Phillip

Phillip sollmann-UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Over the course of eleven albums - not to mention an avalanche of side projects, remixes and collaborations - Jan St Werner and Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars established themselves as two of the most inventive and unpredictable artists in electronic music.