Mouse on Mars

Looking forward to the "mini-LP."

Yo wait... guys... the mini-LP isn't the "new album." That's Parastrophics. It's a full length and it's astoundingly brilliant. Their best album since Idiology, or Radical Connector for people who came to them through that.

As for me, I love absolutely everything they've done from Yamo to Noisemachinetapes to Von Sudenfed to Microstoria+Lithops. Not sure if I'm missing anything there. Maybe GOFLEX.

I don't know if it's that my taste is just on a higher level than most, or if the band is just well tuned to my individual sound-interests. Personally I think time will show, and in 20 or 30 years it will be a lot easier to tell that these guys were doing something completely unique. Kind of like how Radiohead fans find out about CAN and realize the truth. About as contemporary as it can get, on some of their prior releases and at times on Parastrophics. Completely different strata.

Lol, dojo, I love Mouse on Mars and it's great to see someone so passionate about them, but I don't know if it's that my taste is just on a higher level than most is a statement likely to get you crucified on ilx.

hahaha guess I should give parastrophics another listen since it didn't do much for me and now I'm a little worried about my taste levels!

I'm a pretty huge fan of their stuff up to idiology but that one never fully clicked despite my trying really REALLY hard to like it. kinda gave up after that.

^ same here. my taste level confirms that the pinnacles of Autoditacker and Glam have yet to be matched.

Autoditacker is their best, Glam is slightly overrated if you really understand why MoM are the BOMB.

Being crucified is my specialty. Haha. I've seen repeatedly people who supposedly love electronic music but always go completely silent when MoM is mentioned. I have a habit of letting people hate me. It's for their own good, right?

Idiology is I think their most "important" album. It's the one where they push their aesthetic to its furthest limit. Not in terms of noise, but in terms of concept. They manage to create hyper-futuristic pop music while also having a certain... Schoenbergian purity... unity of structure and sound. It's utterly new. Perhaps just as new to the "song" form as Schoenberg was to the classical form back in the day. They deconstruct every level of the sound object world... from the concept-sound to the sound-sound to the production-sound to the melody-sound. LOL. They reduce pop music to an avant-garde art form with just as much validity as any given Beethoven or Mozart. The possibilities become endless.

Not only this but their melodic sense is always really enjoyable, their live show is perhaps the ONLY one which manages to blend live instruments and experimental electronics properly, and their philosophical interest adds a further dimension to the sound.

MoM's new internet only label, 'Recommended Records' -- have they no shame?

I always knew that green sock on the cover of their 'Diskdusk' single was a Henry Cow reference

http://www.mouseonmars.com/rr/

so far it's germanic beat scene shit that sounds amazing but is a little stiff, IDM-y, and scattered for me...so, very MoM.

So far "deef" (release rr-001) is alternating Stock, Hausen and Walkman-isms with icily well-produced 2003-style IDM which can't quite decide whether to be melodic or glitchy, but it's possible this post says more about my lack of more recent/relevant reference points than deef

anyway, definitely hoping to keep track of this new netlabel project thing, thanks!

Ha, cheeky bastards. Loving Parastrophics now I've actually got around to hearing it, btw.

Has anyone seen them live this tour? I caught them last night and it was stellar.

I really wish I could replace all the album versions w/ recordings of what they did live last night

Saw them last week... Was low keyed and frentic, and surprisingly fun to watch despite being pared down to its "classic" set-up (ie. no Dodo the drummer), and selecting only 2012 tracks.

ugh i missed them

me too :(

Ya I really wish they'd played more old stuff (or any at all tbh) but on the flipside it makes me wanna relisten to WOW

this is adorable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGUVbkwWL_0

"give an artist 10 minutes in the studio and see what they come up with" sounds so much more appealing than the reality of "give an artist 10 minutes to just noodle and jam and fart out whatever they can for 10 long minutes"

It's all true!

http://www.iflscience.com/space/there-really-giant-mouse-mars-0

new album tomorrow guys

big fan of the first three but for me more mouse on meh at this point

what!!!

Ideology and audio tracker are their peaks

Fuck Varcharz was really good even tho the 20 glitch tracks at the end were a bit wtf

GLAM

Autoditacker just completely rules. Incredible sounds/melodies/configurations of textures.

^ absolutely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCo2oyVttWA

Autoditacker just completely rules. Incredible sounds/melodies/configurations of textures.

mmm hmm. funny how their sound became harsher & more rigid as they became more like a live band. their material from this period really sounds alive to me. like, I picture dense ecosystems & various organisms going about their day when I listen to it.

t'Quietus review:
http://thequietus.com/articles/24375-mouse-on-mars-dimensional-people-lead-album-review

This is rad

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=izSPpFNuBcs

The new one is pretty amazing, on first listen. Somehow, it's like a footwork version of Laughing Stock - https://mouseonmarstj.bandcamp.com/album/dimensional-people

yeah it's great! their best in years.

the new one's super southern fried, which is nice - i mean they've toyed with slide guitars before on Ideology and Iora Tahiti but this one is way more organic and "live" feeling, albeit still pushed through their sonic blender

One of the best records of the year easily. Each track bleeds into the next like a proper record which feels rare these days. Like the track after foul mouth uses the vocal samples from the former as an arrangement. It’s a southern jAZZ techno record, solid gold

did they ever do another electropop record like radical connector? i haven't listened to any of the ones from the past decade but that was always one of my favs

but yeah glam > audioditacker > everything else

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

Just a fantastic record. Sound shapes constantly shifting dissolving and being reborn in completely unexpected but perfect configurations.

Respect to this band for that new record - it is like one long track - similar to what they did on Varcharz with all those glitch tracks at the end making the album reach something like 40 tracks. also the behind the scenes videos on how they made this record are super inspiring, using mobile apps that can record absolutely anywhere

but yeah audiotracker remains their best, likely has the best melodies -iora tahiti is also great. Idiology feels like where the avant garde rot set in, starting to take themselves a tad seriously. Lithops is even worse

"Lithops is even worse"
nah.
Jan spat his ideas in perfect form early on (see "Didot", "Uni Umit", "Queries" comp - which are all FLIPIN AWESOME & pretty much testify that Jan did most of the heavy lifting in Microstoria) but diminishing returns up to "ye Viols", where I got off the bus. i'm old now so MoM/ Lithops now fall into "can't be bothered to keep up with" category

the new album is one of my favs of the year and their best in like, what, a decade? 15 yrs?

Does the new album have them singing? I'd be intrigued to come back to what used to be my favourite group after 15 years, but the vocals ruined Idiology and Radical Connector, and after that album with the rock singer I just gave up on them.

Yeah the new albums is very good, especially the brilliant opening suite.

it does feature singing but it's all guest vocals and (notwithstanding that) it's all very "vocals as another instrument" rather than focused around toplines.

Ok, I guess I should give it a try... Guest vocals don't sound as bad an idea as their own bland singing.

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.