Mouse on Mars

Well, how about more time than just with Stereolab? I thought the stuff they did with them on D&L was best sounding stuff on the record, plus Cache is cool. I get the feeling they could make a lot of people sound good by just showing up.

Something in those furry statically-charged surfaces... maybe the reverie some folks seem to find in Boards of Canada is what I have with MoM. I have Glam on vinyl and I think it might be my favourite LP in the world.

No. When I went to AMG to see it, I was greeted with a familiar reviewer though. From what I gather, it's more them than Flur.

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...

Check it out Tuomas, it is very good

tuomas what do you think

man Dimensional People is a weird fuckin' record

another one in five weeks

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/mouse_on_mars_are_diving_deep_into_ai_with_their_new_album_aai

the preview track is pretty wild. not only that but apparently you can get a "slightly damaged" vinyl copy of Dimensional People for $10 on their Bandcamp - the damage is just a crunched up corner on the jacket

Rompatroullie just came up on shuffle. Man, what a brilliant track.
Favorite MOM moment.

You can vote for The Latent Space from the new album in the 2020 EOY poll. Just saying.

new album is uh...rather interesting. a lot of it sounds like a cursed version of the Von Sudenfed album. kinda meanders a bit and idk how I feel about the spoken word bits but a lot of this is pretty fun given the rather dry subject matter. may be one of those "five years ahead of its time" kinda albums

y'all are sleeping on this. super uncanny valley feeling to it, with a lot of sounds and voices that try to be 2 or 3 things at once. very much like the "this person does not exist" stuff where it seems legit until one odd sound or break makes you think "wait a minute here". doesn't sound like it's just imitating AI, I think a lot of it actually is. outside of PROTO I don't think I've heard an album like this before. when the dance grooves start about halfway in it gets really fun.

I loved the last album, I still need to check this one out

Ditto. Once I’ve got through all my Bandcamp Friday acquisitions (and am done with Todd), this is definitely next on the list.

maybe this will motivate some of you: half of this sounds like "Telephasic Workshop" to me

I've listened to this a few times now and I think it might be very, very good.

absolutely loving AAI

Total agreement from me.

it's very good. it has in common with Dimensional People that it feels long-form and ambitious, which makes me less likely to go back to it then the breezier late 90s stuff that made me fall in love with them. But once I make the commitment it definitely comes through

honestly after many spins I think their Top 5 are the three most recent + Ioara Tahiti and Autoditacker, idk in what order though

I would need Glam and Von Südenfed (unless that doesn’t count)

the track "Resume" on Dimensional People is so cool. the spoken word bit is from Swamp Dogg, the guy who is the patron saint of every bad album cover group on Facebook. a fucking virtuoso of the genre and he damn well knows it too. he references the hit "Baby, You're My Everything" from 1965 which got me to look that up. I really think this record (the MoM one) is on another level. each track is wildly different but they all keep sampling & referencing each other. you could probably write a long essay about how all the stuff on here connects. that post upthread..."it's a proper record"...very otm. lots of fun too.

btw yes I do think Von Sudenfed counts as a MoM album. did MES have a hand in the music or arrangements? probably to some degree but it's like...Radical Connector pt. 2.

Would anybody be interested in a new Mouse on Mars Album even if it was recorded 29 years ago?

— Mouse on Mars (@MoM_official) June 15, 2023

Especially if

following

its streaming in 20 minutes:

https://mouseonmars.bandcamp.com/live/bilk-listening-party

really enjoying thise

yeah its really nice. second half so far even better than the first