- Audio CD (Mar 5 2012)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Thrill Jockey
- ASIN: B00005AWNH
- Other Editions: Audio CD | LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#6,565 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #9 in Music > Dance & DJ > IDM
- #15 in Music > Dance & DJ > Techno
- #18 in Music > Dance & DJ > Ambient
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Track Listings
| 1. Actionist Respoke |
| 2. Subsequence |
| 3. Presence |
| 4. The Illking |
| 5. Catching Butterflies With Hands |
| 6. Doit |
| 7. First : Break |
| 8. Introduce |
| 9. Unity Concepts |
| 10. Paradical |
| 11. Fantastic Analysis |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
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 Cooke
Chronique amazon.fr
Pour paraphraser le titre d'un de leurs disques précédents, les albums de Mouse On Mars sont, tous sans exception, beaux comme des "caches coeurs naïfs". Cultivant la subtilité des mélodies, sans faire l'impasse sur l'expérimentation, revendiquant une culture qui irait de la pop raffinée au nec plus ultra des musiques électroniques avant-gardistes, le duo allemand formé de Jan St Werner et Andi Toma, qui n'est pas sans s évoquer un croisement entre Stereolab et Microstoria, signe avec Idiology son cinquième opus depuis le séminal Vulvaland. Entre les abstractions angulaires contemporaines et autres rondeurs aux courbes douces et alanguies, F.X. Randomitz et Matthew Herbert viennent prêter main forte en déposant des accords de piano ou en programmant quelques grésillements, tandis qu'un batteur, qui par ailleurs chante, apporte le soubassement rythmique pulsatile et quasi organique qui ramène l'ensemble vers le kraut hypnotique typique des années 70 des pionniers Can. --Hervé Comte
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5.0 out of 5 stars
5 Stars...for this fantasic 'Mouse on Mars' release,
By fetish_2000 (U.K.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Idiology (Audio CD)
Mouse on Mars have a track record, most Electronica / Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) artists would die for. Consistently producing albums extremely worthy of investigation, and steering clear of creative 'Dry Spots' that other electronic artists can be prone to. Moving happy from the feel good Bouncy-Dub of "Doit" which sounds like Skewered 'Ska' music feed through an energetic Drum machine, or the beautiful downbeat melodies of "Fantastic Analysis", reminiscent of a distinguished ambient album. Admittedly delivered with the same playful exuberance as someone like 'Luke Vibert' (aka 'Wagon Christ'), with loads of peculiar sound & effects cut & Pasted to form some beautifully abstract music (track 7 'First: Break' fits this description perfectly), so...all in all another justifiable deserved feather in the cap for Mouse on Mars. and yet another superb release to add to the pile if you're a Mouse On Mars fan.
4.0 out of 5 stars
genius at work,
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This review is from: Idiology (Audio CD)
The thing I'm most impressed w/ Mouse on Mars about is their ability to push the envelope of their sound on each album. Idiology is no exception, in fact it pushes things farther than I expected. This album shifts between bizzare, chaotic "super mario" music and instrumental, jazzlike excursions of mice and mars. While at points I find the "super mario" music to be somewhat difficult to listen to (its pretty loud and in your face), I have to admit that one can recognize the genius and innovation at work in it--these guys aren't scared to break new ground in a way that has to be respected and admired, but I have to admit that some of the groundbreaking is at the sacrifice of pop charm and easy listen-ability that was more apparent on albums such as Niun Niggung--I will listen to the album, and probably like it more with each listen, but i cannot foresee this being one of my routine listens--even though I cannot deny there is genius at work here
2.0 out of 5 stars
TOOOOOO much filler!!!,
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This review is from: Idiology (Audio CD)
Just to get it out of the way, yes there are some strikingly beautiful tracks on this CD (i.e. tracks 1, 2, 5, and 11). But then there are other tracks (I call 'em fillers) on this CD that DEMAND trash can attention (i.e. tracks 3, 4, 7, and 9). Tracks like "Presence" force me to skip around on the CD to avoid all the mediocre and often torturously bland fillers. Only about half this CD is worth your time. Get a winner like Niun Niggung! "Destroia" is about a trillion times better than Ideology's "First: Break" (the token hard song)! It shoulda' be named "Uninspired:...!" ha ha ha. I'm awesome. ;) So get Kazaa Lite or something and DOWNLOAD the good tracks because there aren't very many of them! This CD is for die hard fans of MoM only!! ..btw, I've owned this CD for about a year and it hasn't grown on me one bit (dispite the NUMEROUS attempts I've made to listen to it).
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