Date:    Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:43:19 PDT
From:    Gordon McEwen <gmce@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Mouse on Mars and other stuff
 
Andrew Norman wrote:
> Neokrautrock section: Mouse on Mars "Glam" (soundtrack music, vinyl
> LP on their own Sonig label) is possibly the best thing they have
> released in the last couple of years,
 
I read somewhere that it was specially composed for Glam a couple of
years ago but that it was eventually rejected as the soundtrack.
Of course, true to sonig releases, there's virtually no information on
the sleeve or LP - although scratched on the run-out groove is -
"scored by Mouse on Mars, FX Randomiz, Kurt Vieten, Mark Sikora (?) &
Frank Dommert".  The final track "Glim" also appears on the Cache Cour
Naif EP from last year.  It should be said that it isn't typical of the
rest of the album which definitely leans towards their experimental
side.
 
Related - Too Pure say that the Mouse on Mars singles compilation is
"on hold" because the band are busy on their own label.  Does anyone
know of any further sonig releases?  And on another tangent - is
Lithops "Didot" worth getting?
 
Date:    Fri, 24 Jul 1998 04:53:29 -0400
From:    GuerillaG2-G4 <gg2g4ink@JAVANET.COM>
Subject: Re: Mouse on Mars and other stuff
 
At 12:43 AM 7/24/98 PDT, Gordon McEwen wrote:
>I read somewhere that it was specially composed for Glam a couple of
>years ago but that it was eventually rejected as the soundtrack.
 
i think the entire movie - starring Tony Danza! - was trashed, not just
MoM's soundtrack.
and ... good news for the American P\I contingent ... Thrilljockey IS
releasing _Glam_ next week.

Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:30:21 EDT
From: Riouxs <Riouxs@aol.com>
Subject: Rioux's Records ... Section Two ... Update 15 ...

MOUSE ON MARS - Glam LP (Thrill Jockey/Sonig) $8.50
        Co-released with Mouse On Mars own
        label, Sonig and a vinyl-only release except for in Japan. "Glam was
        originally recorded and scored as the music for an American movie that
        was supposed to be a Generation X love and drug musical. The music was
        carefully built around the director's cut that the band had been sent,
        but after six weeks of working on the score the music was rejected as
        being too uncommercial. Glam, clocking in at over 44 minutes and
        offering 12 moody and colorful songs, is the re-edited tracks of the
        original explorative score. Pleasing both audiophidelics and
        listenschaftlers, this could be seen as a filmscore or a compilation of
        movie soundtracks for films you always wanted to see, but did not yet
        exist. It's the sound that makes the Marlboro man take off his head." 
 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:43:17 EDT
From: Riouxs@aol.com
Subject: Rioux's Records update #21. Pt. 2/2
 
MOUSE ON MARS - Glam CD (Tokuma {japan}) $25.00
        This features  three bonus tracks only found on this Japanese
        version: "Snap Bar," "Pool Smooth and Hidden," & "Hetzchase Railway".
        Japanese-only CD version of the next MoM Sonig release (vinyl-only
        release in Germany and the US). "12 moody and colourful songs that were
        originally produced for an American generation-x love & drug movie that
        Jan Werner and Andi Thoma had been asked to do the soundtrack for. In
        the end, the film was never made. Recommended for headphone use."