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RELEASES

Varcharz
LP | sonig 61LP
Wipe that sound feat. Mark E. Smith
12" | sonig 44
Radical Connector
CD | sonig 41CD
Radical Connector
LP | sonig 41LP
Live 04
CD | sonig 47CD
Live 04
LP | sonig 47LP
Idiology
CD | sonig 18CD
Glam
CD | sonig 03CD
Glam
LP | sonig 03
Instrumentals
CD | sonig 01CD
Instrumentals
LP | sonig 01
Live 7"
7" | sonig 21
Agit Itter It It
12"EP | sonig 20
Pickly Dred Rhizzoms
12" | sonig 05
Send Me Shivers / Wipe That Sound / Single Versions
CD-EP | sonig 43CD

LIVE

2008-08-01
DE - Scheer Klangbad Festival
2008-08-02
DE - Dortmund Juicy Beats Festival
2008-09-11
E - Zaragoza Balcon de Musicas
2008-09-12
IT - Turin Cinema Augusto
2008-09-13
DE - Berlin Maria am Ufer

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Mouse On Mars

Mouse on Mars is one of the few electronic bands to stand the test of time. Constantly reinventing themselves, they have taken electronica to new heights with a unique blend of sound annihilation, fragmented melodies and an impassioned hatred of conformity. For over a decade, Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner have sweated over burning consoles to create a new musical language, only to twist it again into thousands of myriad distortions.
Mouse On Mars' sound links them to the club-music scene, as do their many remixes and collaborations with members of the dance-music world. Yet their association with the formalized and utilitarian world of dance music is ironic, as the band’s raison d’etre is to place electronic flies in any aural ointment they choose to muck through. A series of 11 albums and numerous remixes has come off as primarily intent on dashing expectations, from the ambient-house ectoplasms of 1994’s Vulvaland and 1995’s slightly more structured Iaora Tahiti; to the flighty and funny electronics, spluttering horns and acoustic-guitar samples of 2000’s more “organic” Niun Niggung; to the forest of sonic porcupine quills that is Idiology. Radical Connector (2004) further granulated the MoM aesthetic into nine vaguely pop-oriented songs, ever heavier on the beats and increasingly hinging the tunes on the vocals and drumming of longtime collaborator Dodo Nkishi.
After recording five albums for Thrill Jockey Records, they teamed up with Ipecac Recordings for the release of Varcharz (2006). Entirely recorded at Mouse on Mars’ St. Martin Ton Studios in Duesseldorf, Varcharz is their most live sounding and diverse studio album to date. Varcharz is nine tracks (don’t get confused by its stuttering track ID’s) of energetic impulses, heavy riffing from grained sounds and canned percussion, and slamming bottom end insanity provided by notorious sequenced bass and kick drum jolts. Varcharz is also spiked with catchy pop references, anarchic rock interpretations and manga-style pathos.

Mouse on Mars’ Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner have been more than busy in the intervening years between albums. As well as the release of their live record, Live 04, on their own label Sonig, and a constant barrage of touring, they are collaborating with Mark E. Smith of The Fall as Von Südenfed. Both Toma and St. Werner produce independently for the Sonig label. St. Werner has also worked on two new solo records under the Lithops moniker and acted as the artistic director of the Amsterdam Institute for Electronic Music, steim.

For booking request please contact the booking agency KKT.