Mouse on Mars

onate, usually when I like to listen to autechre (haven't been listening in a while) the sense of tracks unfolding machinically seems to be what does it for me.

but can yr computer speakers do justice to the sound if you download them. I'm not a fan or anything (nevah got anything by them) but i'm just wondering abt that.

Don't sleep on Lithops, either. Jan's (I think) solo proj--less beat-oriented, it's all about making machines sing. Very nice.

i haven't heard much m.o.m, i tried to get into idiology at the cd store listening post but it wasn't happenin'

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hahahahahahaha. Personally, I haven't heard any electronic music that's come as close to being as rhythmically advanced/interesting/bad-ass as Autechre (see: the second track on Peel Sessions 2, much of Confield & Chiastic Slide, Gantz Graf).

I also think they have some very nice melodies, though often not at the same time as the hardcore rhythmic stuff.

To be honest it's also what's driven me away, I'm with the above poster on buying practically everything over the last decade or so, but in my case I'm ready for a change. All I ask is one handraiser, one well-arranged piece of mayhem that can hold my attention for more than half a minute or so, and since we're talking about an album, no more of the filler that made idiology such a disappointment by the third or fourth listen.

Who are the vocalists?

I loved the first two tracks on 'Idiology'... it came out so quickly after 'Niun', and so many of the tracks were so crazy / sloppy that I just took that album as a fun transitional blowing-off-of-steam from (which they obviously slaved over) and I didn't hold it against them.

This new one though, it's a statement...

blowing-off-of-stream from the previous record (which they obviously slaved over)

Got the new one today. reactions from those who have it already? "Instrumentals" bores me a bit tbh, but "Rost Pocks" & "Idiology" are fab. One of those acts where I'm actually wary of hearing more of their records in case they don't match up to the same standard.

Mmmm "Send Me Shivers" is doing it for me at the moment :)

Subtly processed female vocals = big weakness of mine, I don't really enjoy Sophie Rimheden though, but adore Ellen Allien. Should I really be buying disco records?

MoM are as bad as Autechre for zero-critical-agreement on what is their best work. I'll probably try 'Glam' next I think.

This one is such a dissapointment. I think I'm going to sell it.

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Rost Pocks
Idiology
Instrumentals
Vulvaland
Niun Niggung

find/download - 'Untitled States Of'

Destroy

Radical Connector

(Yet to hear 'Autoditacker'& not too bothered tbh, want to hear 'Glam' eventually. Probably sleeping on Iaora Tahiti unfairly).

Radical Connector is one of the best records of the last 10 years. Thank fuck it doesn't sound like you think it should.

i hope this doesn't ruin it for anyone but the chord progression in "state of emergency" reminds me of a slowed-down "hell" by squirrel nut zippers lol, like there's some hot jazz in it. in the album overall there is a lot of richness in the percussion and arrangements, a lot of really psychedelic magic going on, but there are also some fundamental hooks in all of the tracks and some pretty basic if elegant emotional coloring. the one element that turned can into the sound of primivitve madness was karoli's extremely gnarly guitar playing imo. mom don't go for that kind of chromatic blues anywhere. the chords maintain a basic tonality. lsp has a kind of truly gnarly and out there presence. i find it moving to hear him in this kind of context where everything is really rich but the appeal of melody and harmony is there too.

This is really growing on me, it's rich.

curious what your thoughts are about the horns and jazz influence, jordan.

like a lot of others here, I loved early MoM (Autoditacker is all-time for me) and jumped off the train with Idiology. Still processing this album. Before it came out I listened to the three songs that were released and they got me so excited for the full album. Went through the full album the day it came out and was pretty into it. Played it for someone with no knowledge of Lee "Scratch" Perry and had to turn it off because the vocals were so abrasive and annoying to them. Listening to it afterward, I understand their reaction.

curious what your thoughts are about the horns and jazz influence, jordan.

I like them as a texture, but of course the press release invoking 'New Orleans second line' rubs me the wrong way, it doesn't have anything to do with that. Mostly they're just playing parts, but the horns on State of Emergency remind me more of a Balkan brass band than anything.

And I just looked and Zach Condon (aka Beirut) plays on it, so there you go.

cool thanks.

if you like this album and don't know 21st Century Mouse you might dig this track, which I think comes from a similar place as this album. except it's got Swamp Dogg on it instead. Ratt On!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShL1zD1YRY8

holy cow thank you I had no
idea

I think this is another MoM all-timer for me, I love the simmer and bubble of the tracks, and all the wildcard instrumentation. Keep thinking I hear Tuvan/Mongolian throat singing.
Also I can't fathom somebody not liking the Scratch vocals, they are bedded in and woven into the texture. Like Von Südenfed I can only guess at the amount of work needed to make this cohere, but it's a brilliant result.

yeah it’s a winner

I drank a beer at lunch, because it's hot and been kind of a rough day at work, and I'm just loving this. I take it all back. The call & response flute and sax in Economic Train get me in the mood for Fela Kuti or Quincy Jones orchestra or something. The backing music in Spatialee sounds like it could be on an Ethiopiques comp. But, as others have said, I think about Can a lot while listening to this, too. This might be a summer BBQ kind of album for me.

I listened to Instrumentals for the first time in many years earlier today, and MoM have always been so good at coming up with catchy little phrases that make you wonder how nobody else had thought of them first.

this got my partner's seal of approval and he's not usually into weirder music. the more i listen to it the more i like it.

"Yayaya" seems to be clearly patterned after one of my favorite Can songs, "One More Night"

i took a photo of a blue penstemon wildflower and shared it with my guy on whatsapp. i saw he responded with a butterfly emoji so i opened up the photo and was like 'omg they do look like little blue butterflies' and 'yayaya' was playing and right when i had this thought lsp sang "turn into a butterfly and fly in the sky".

xp isn't it gorgeous? I could listen to it for an hour (as I could One More Night).