Mouse On Mars - Parastrophics

man you guys are nuts, Radical Connector has so many good jams.

Saw them recently at Kammerspiele.

This just in on MOM's Facebook...

New Mouse On Mars Album, Feb 24 2012.

http://www.monkeytownrecords.com/artists/view/19

Haha Monkeytown - excellent!!

According to their website the new album is called Parastrophics (thread title update?)

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Mouse on Mars "Parastrophics" (MONKEYTOWN022)

CD, 2xLP, Download

www.mouseonmars.com

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Mouse on Mars will release their 11th album, Parastrophics on February 24, 2012 as Monkeytown's 5th artist album.

Mouse On Mars might have emerged as part of the great 1990s new wave of electronic music, but their restless, irreverent and wildly inventive work has always set them apart from their contemporaries. For Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma there is no division between the cerebral and the physical - they combine a connoisseur’s love of sonic texture with a hedonistic urge to dance. Even at its most complex, their music never feels too intellectual, and even at its most experimental it’s never forbidding.

An album with singing bass drums, screwed up beats, tinnitus synths and some of the deepest bass the universe has to offer, Parastrophics is a thriving vision of the other side of experimental music. Discordance turns into pop as Alice in Wonderland bounces her booty to laser bass sounds, the likes of which would make Walt Disney jealously ponder the question, “Why didn’t I think of that?!” Parastrophics is glamorous, funky and deep. No speakers exist that could display all the details of such grand production.

:sup:

very excited about their upcoming show in london and the record! surprised this isn't on sonig though..

fuck yes.

I expressed my excitement in the MoM thread but might as well say it here too...

MoM are possibly my fav band, only ae maybe in front. This is so exciting!

so will pre-release wanking occur here or in the other thread? I vote here

three new interviews:

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lol. Monkeytown? cool.

If your in Berghain, there's a 'pre listerning concert' for Parastrophics in Feb.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=195006043914913

Also, two interviews with Jan St Werner. Apparently their decision to go with Monkeytown was a 'belly decision'.

http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/music/mouse-on-mars

http://jonnyabrams.blogspot.com/2011/11/interview-mouse-on-mars.html

My review of Paeanumnion at the Barbican...

http://jonnyabrams.blogspot.com/2011/11/review-mouse-on-mars-with-musikfabrik.html

Nice review, the concert was amazing! Good to know that it will all be committed to record some day.

Album teaser:

http://soundcloud.com/modeselektor/mouse-on-mars-chordblocker

Sounds interesting musically, not sure what's up with the vocal samples though, lol.

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Could someone update the thread title with the album title and date?

Parastrophics

February 24, 2012

don't know how I feel about that teaser. it's not much to go on so I am suspending judgement.

holy shit. sounds fucking awesome. the vocal sample is strange but over that beat anything goes

another snippet

http://soundcloud.com/modeselektor/mouse-on-mars-metrotopy

I actually think this could (possibly) be a great album now. I realized while listening to that last sample that in spite of all the autotuned vocals/etc. on the surface level, very few artists have what it takes to take pop level to the next level like Jan and Andi. Sort of like with Radical Connector - that's not my favorite MoM album, but I think it has moments of sheer genius where you realize that instead of bland pop music they're re-doing pop music their way, with the sounds they want, and giving it an undeniable Mouse on Mars baptism. So since its clear this one is going to be a "Radical Connector" and not a "Varcharz", I am hoping it succeeds in the same respects as the former.

awwwwwww yeah, this sounds great!

  On 12/7/2011 at 6:29 PM, sidewinder said:

Could someone update the thread title with the album title and date?

 

Parastrophics

February 24, 2012

Absolutely

  On 12/14/2011 at 7:49 PM, Squee said:

  On 12/7/2011 at 6:29 PM, sidewinder said:

Could someone update the thread title with the album title and date?

 

Parastrophics

February 24, 2012

 

Absolutely

:sup:

Those samples are excellent. I've gotta listen to more Mouse on Mars now.

http://soundcloud.com/modeselektor/mouse-on-mars-wienuss

  On 12/15/2011 at 4:07 PM, xxx said:

MoMselektor :sup:

yeah thats what i'm worried about

honestly if it weren't for the vocals I wouldn't guess that any of these samples was MoM. they're way too trendy and nondistinctive

Anybody familiar with the first track in this live set? Considering the direction this album is headed I wouldn't be surprised if it was on the album. The squelchy climax gives me Frosch-like feelings :)

http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/1860/