Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:38:14 GMT From: Gordon McEwen Subject: Mouse on Mars double bill Mouse On Mars "Autoditaker" (CD/LP Too Pure 70)/"Instrumentals" (LP sonig 1) Mouse on Mars *have* been busy recently. Autoditaker came out in August (I think) on Too Pure in the UK. Schnick Schnack (track 2) from the Cache Coeur Naif EP is the only one to find its way on to the album. Reappearing as Schnick Schnack Meltmade it retains Laetitia's vocals but is more abstract and less poppy than its counterpart on the EP - no worse off for it though. This is the only track on the album with "proper" vocals. All the tracks are just *bursting* with beats, squeaks, whirrs and electronic grooves. Lots of digital interference. The overall feel is buoyant with only a few incursions into darker territory. "Instrumentals" came out a few weeks ago and is the first release on their own "sonig" label. (I think it is only available on vinyl.) Definitely more experimental/ambient than Autoditaker, but still unmistakably MoM. Lots of empty space (with little squelshes and whirring sounds) - though not uniformly so - some of the tracks still wouldn't have been out of place on Autoditaker. Both are highly recommended...but perhaps Autoditaker more so. Gordon Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:02:42 +0100 From: Patrick Ziegelmueller Subject: Re: Mouse on Mars - "Instrumentals" On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Charly Rhoades wrote: > I've been wondering about where pure-impure has > gone over the past week or so... Let me start up > (hopefully) a new thread by asking for more info > about the Mouse on Mars vinyl (12") I saw recently, > titled "Instrumentals." > > A vinyl-only release? Remixes? Other details...? > > vinyl only, released on their own label, no remixes, new stuff but different from the autoditacker album. more ambient and abstract sounds. but worth checking out and in my eyes better than the official 2nd album!!! cheers pat Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:05:06 +0000 From: Andrew Norman Subject: Re: Mouse on Mars - "Instrumentals" "Instrumentals" is on the Mice's own Sonig label, and it's vinyl-only, SONIG 01. Seven tracks, three of them from the Sub Rosa and Mille Plateaux tribute compilations dedicated to Gilles Deleuze. The Sub Rosa ones are superb - "Folds and Rhizomes" has four 10-12 minute tracks from MonM, Main, Scanner and Oval, plus a little one by David Shea and Tobias Hazan, and "Double Articulation" is a remix of the first album by all six groups/people. "Pegel Gesetzt" is from the second (MonM's version of the whole album) and "Subnubus" is from the first. "1001" is from the Mille Plateaux comp, and the other four tracks are in similar vein. If you haven't heard any of the compilation tracks, they are very different from the sort of thing which appears on the Too Pure albums and singles, much closer to Microstoria's abstract ambience. The album comes with a guide to MonM activities past, present and future - the second album on the label, Lithops's "Uni Umit" came out a week or two ago, and has half a dozen unnamed tracks in similar style, understandable as it is Jan Werner's solo project. The third release will apparently be the soundtrack by MonM for the movie "Glam". Recommended if you are into the Oval/Microstoria side of things (Oval's "Dok" has been one of my favourite releases so far this year), don't expect "Bib" or "Frosch". --