The period leading up to the release of Parastrophics was one of uncharacteristic silence for Mouse On Mars. Their 10th studio album was 5 years in the making - and the record, for all its deftness and dizzying unpredictability, was notable for the resulting sense of gravitas. WOW is the exact opposite, a spontaneous reaction to all those hours of studio labour, created from scratch in a matter of weeks, and released just 9 months after its predecessor.

You can almost feel the tension being released. WOW is an exuberant, immediate and club-orientated counterpoint to Parastrophics, with Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma aiming their considerable technical finesse firmly in the direction of the dancefloor. There are no prizes for guessing the 303 delights that a track called “ACD” might have to offer; others, like “DOG”, “HYM” and the closing “SUN” deliver serious bass punch and genuine hands-in-the-air euphoria alongside Mouse On Mars’s trademark twists and turns.

The vocal presence tying the whole mini-album together is Dao Anh Khanh, whom the band met during their tour of Asia 2010. Dao is a performer and sculptor from Vietnam, who invented a fantasy language which the band recorded together with him in an arcane Hanoi studio. Further contributions come from the Argentinian girl punk band Las Kellies and Eric D. Clarke. Thrown together, these disparate elements come together to make a whole which is epic, abstract, intense and ridiculous at the same time. WOW is Mouse on Mars' bass theatre.

The record also makes much use of the wretchup, an iphone app which was invented by Mouse on Mars during preparations for their orchestral work Paeanumnion. The band went on to use wretchup effects on Parastrophics and on stage during their 2012 album tour – now they plan to make it available, via itunes, around the time of the release of WOW.

Mouse On Mars - VAX /// Monkeytown Records 2012

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.

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▓▒░==== ...... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::: ...... :::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::: ...... chain d.l.k.------------------------- webzine, italy, september 2003----------------- ------------------------------- First of all,------- a great psychedelic layout featuring artwork by Mathieu Desjardins - ----------------------------- the front cover shows two wicked children -------------------------- on their way to amputate the leg of an oozing frog - and I suspect it's a Bufo Alvarius, judging from the content of this CD. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Sure Andréas Marchal/Peter Percept has some lysergic plug in stuck somewhere.----------------- --------------------- ---------------------- -------------------- "Pilgrimini" sounds, to desperately try a description, like Residents recorded by Stock, Hausen & Walkman or People Like Us - then Aphex Twin shows up with his tank and throws some goofy rhythm here and there. ---------------------- ------------------------- --------------------- This is some very out there, surrealistic collage of beats & bleeps, cheesy vintage key sounds and found voices scattered all over. ------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- Sometimes it's as subtle as a nursery rhyme, sometimes it's hangover-heavy. -------------------------- -------------------- ------------------------ This is the typical CD I end up liking though I don't really like it, mostly because I boast of good taste. ----------------------- ---------------------------- ---------------- But come on, how can you lose with titles like "I got the prolapsus", "Christ me baby" or, better still, "Mon amour de mierda" (best track, by the way)? ---------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------- ----------------------- ------------------------- -------------------- Be prepared for indigestion and foul breath after listening, though. ----------------------------------- ---------------------------------- ----------------------- -------------------------------- ---------------------------- [Eugenio Maggi, 2001] --------------------- ----------------------- ---------------------- --------------- ------------------- ----------- ::::::::::::::::: ...... :::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::: =========== ...... ==== ======= ...... ====== ========:::::::::::::: ...... :::::

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