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Mouse On Mars, Idiology
Audio CD
Disk ID: 187699
Disk length: 49m 27s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2001
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Actionist Respoke | 4:57 |
| 2. Subsequence | 5:18 |
| 3. Presence | 4:49 |
| 4. The Illking | 3:16 |
| 5. Catching Butterflies With Hands | 5:23 |
| 6. Doit | 5:16 |
| 7. First Break | 5:16 |
| 8. Introduce | 5:03 |
| 9. Unity Concepts | 1:41 |
| 10. Paradical | 2:28 |
| 11. Fantastic Analysis | 5:51 |
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Review
Snatching cohesion from the jaws of chaos can't be as easy as Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars make it sound. Their weirdly off-kilter brand of skittery, IDM song craft always depends on uncommonly interesting melodies, even while those melodies swim in digitized madness. It's a trait that also shows up with a vengeance in Werner's other band, Microstoria (with Oval's Markus Popp). Most shockingly, with their recent work, Werner's penchant for tuneful warmth and relentless experimentation have led the band to--get this--use actual instruments. Their last proper full-length, Niun Niggung (the late 2000 release Instrumentals was originally released on vinyl in 1997) included ever-so-slight leans toward more acoustic instrumentation, and the music here continues to bring in occasional bits of French horns, clarinets, even the odd guitar chord. "The Illking," for instance, contains only the barest electronic tidbits amid the lazy lull of a lush string section. Still, the flipped-out drill & bass of songs like "First: Break" go the opposite direction, dissolving and re-emerging in Squarepusher-esque bursts of computerized sonics. Along the way, there are avant-garde-ish oddities like "Unity Concepts" and the hyped-up beat salad of "Doit," which sounds like carnival music as performed by malfunctioning robots. When all the pieces come together for Mouse on Mars like they do on this release, it's a peculiar musical beast, but one that's still absolutely lovable. --Matthew CookeIdiology is the duo's seventh album. This time around MoM surround themselves with strings, woodwinds, brass and the band's own heavily modified fleet of machines. Kicking off with 'Actionist Respoke', the album's first single, MoM officially declare their independence from glitchtronica's shoegazing legions. Longtime collaborator Dodo Nkishi lends a uniquely warped vocal sensibility to the track which also features MoM's darkest grooves to date. 11 tracks. 2001 release.
Other Versions
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Tracks: 13 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 56m 47s (+7m 20s)
Tracks: 13 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 58m 27s (+9m)
Tracks: 13 (+2 tracks), Disk length: 58m 51s (+9m 24s)
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