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Iaora Tahiti
(CD, 1997)

Primary Artist: Mouse On Mars


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$24.79
Format: CD
Nov 1997
Record Label: Toopu
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 4988008383539
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Track Listing
1. Stereomission
2. Kompod
3. Saturday Night Worldcup F
4. Schunkel
5. Gocard
6. Kanu
7. Bib
8. Schlecktron
9. Preprise
10. Papa, Antoine
11. Omnibuzz
12. Hallo
13. De Innere Orange
14. Bib (Lomo Mix)

Details
Contributing artists:Wolfgang Flur
Distributor:MSI Music Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Mouse On Mars: Andi Toma, Jan St. Werner.
Additional personnel: Nobuko Sagai (vocals); Wolfgang Flur, Dodo Nkishi (drums).
Japanese import has two bonus tracks
IAORA TAHITI, the follow-up to Mouse On Mars's 1994 debut VULVALAND, finds the band's multi-textured techno-pop refined to a high art. The German-based duo takes its cue from its Krautrock forebears, using spacey, insistent beats and grooves as an anchor for its smooth analogue language and digital chittering. The first two tracks, "Stereomission" and "Kompod," are expansive, loping compositions founded on fluid, burbling basslines. "Achunkel" sounds like ghosts playing drums in a cybernetic junkyard. "Bib" plows a swirling ambient vortex with pulse-quickening techno rhythms. The morphing bubble-scape of "Papa, Antoine" suggests a breeding ground alive with emergent microorganisms. These are dense, abstract sound collages of the first order, cerebral, intriguing, and challenging, without sacrificing rhythmic accessibility or the occasional melodic fragment. It might be said that IAORA TAHITI is one of the finest releases of its kind, were it not so strikingly unique.

Industry Reviews
Ranked #46 on Melody Maker's list of 1995's `Albums Of The Year.'


Recommended - ...a superb selection of tracks fused throughout with the ghosts of La Dusseldorf, Neu, DAF and, of course, Can....Mouse On Mars are what Kraftwerk would have sounded like had they harboured ambitions of becoming stand-up comedians rather than robots....IAORA TAHITI is as playfully ironic as electronica gets...
Melody Maker (08/05/1995)

8 (out of 10) - ...writing off IAORA TAHITI's soundclash as some kind of joke that only arty wankers understand would be missing the point entirely. The Mouse are equally avant-garde and 'ave a laugh, and it's time to dig the new cross-breed...
NME (08/19/1995)

...IAORA TAHITI is a slippery beast to define, throwing hints of reggae, hi-fi demonstration records, Japanese narration, calypso, and basically anything that isn't bolted down into the mix....ranks among the most unusual and rewarding electronic releases currently available...
Alternative Press (01/01/1996)

8 (out of 10) - ...writing off IAORA TAHITI's soundclash as some kind of joke that only arty wankers understand would be missing the point entirely. The Mouse are equally avant-garde and 'ave a laugh, and it's time to dig the new cross-breed...
NME (08/19/1995)


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