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Mouse on Mars formed in 1993 when Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner (of Köln and Düsseldorf, respectively) met at a health food store.

Mouse on Mars rock like hell.

Bring your dancing shoes.

Mouse On Mars' sound links them to the club-music scene, as do their many remixes and collaborations with members of the dance and experimental music world.

numerous remixes...worked on remixes for the High Llamas, Cibo Matto, Anne Clark, The Pastels, Towa Tei, Oval, Ratatat, Against Me, The Presets and many others.

Jan St. werner and Andi Toma collaborate with Mark E. Smith on Von Südenfed. 'it suggests some rough and ready sound systyem banging out electro, dancehall, soca and grime with smith as the surreal and belligerent master of ceremonies' the guardian

Never has Mouse On Mars written a more danceable track with such irresistible drive. Expect to see dance floors from Tokyo to Santiago de Chile full to overflowing. OR With Radical Connector Mouse On Mars is taking an important step forward – both in terms of musical vision and international standing.

that definition of Varcharz has nothing to do with the album title
that trivia section should be deleted. someone is just being a big nerd. check the Ipecac records site. they pretty much explain what the title 'Varcharz' is all about.
www.ipecac.com.
"The title, Varcharz, is intentionally mistaken to sound like “war charts”, but in fact, it is the phonetic mangling in English of the German word “wortschatz” which means “vocabulary”."

they made music for an ill-fated Tony Danza film

Their music is funny

sonig is an independent music label for experimental, electronic and non genre specific music. the artist roster is international and features bands, solo artists and art related music projects.

Toma produced records for Moondog, Stereolab, The Fall, Junior Boys amongst others. He runs the National Bank Of in Düsseldorf.

Werner is also a member of Lithops, Microstoria, Noisemashinetapes and worked as the artistic director for STEIM. His further activities are documented on the blog applied listening arts.

After a concert, I feel like I've been on a cure. It's a super-efficient, high-speed cure that is like a psychoanalysis session and a beauty farm and some adrenaline shock therapy.

mouse on mars sonig link

mouse on mars artist page on sonig

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Mouse on Mars formed in 1993 when Andi Toma (Dusseldorf) and Jan St. Werner (Cologne) met at a speed metal festival.

Mouse on Mars provides positive proof that it is possible to write and perform sophisticated music as part of a theoretical framework.

Bring your thinking cap.

their association with the formalized and utilitarian world of dance music is ironic, as the band’s raison d’etre is to place electronic flies in any aural ointment they choose to muck through.

remixes are rare...doku / fiction: Mouse On Mars reviewed and remixed as non-remix remixes

the group's somewhat challenging complexity and steadfast refusal to pander make widespread popularity unlikely.

Their sound seems to have taken a large veer away from the stylistics of their last two efforts on their newest album Varcharz which has a firmly experimental electronic foundation. The term Varchar is a technical term describing a data type in the database language, SQL. The abbreviation means "variable character (field)".

MOM regularly perform live, either just Toma and St Werner, or as a trio with drummer and vocalist Dodo Nkishi.

have recorded music for film soundtracks

Mouse on Mars started their own label, Sonig, on which they release their own work and that of other international artists.

Their music is challenging

Their studio is called St. Martin Tonstudio, Düsseldorf

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