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Track Listing
1. Download Sofist
2. Yippie
3. Mykologics
4. Gogonal
5. Diskdusk
6. Pinwheel Herman
7. Dispothek
8. Albion Rose
9. Tensual
10. Distroia
11. Booosc
12. Mompou
13. Wald F.X.
| Details | | Producer: | Andi Toma, Jan St. Werner | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Scott White (violin, cello); Matty Arouse (fiddle, bass); Perry White (flute, bass clarinet); Topo (saxophone); Markus Dirk (bass trumpet); Harald "Sack" Ziegler (French horn); Dodo Nkishi (drums); F.X. Randomiz (samples).
Recorded in 1998 and 1999.
And then there were three. In 1999, Mouse on Mars assimilated a third member in the person of live drummer Dodo Nkishi. So why does NIUN NIGGUNG sound even more like the output of an over-cranked digital one-man band than usual? It's as though Mars-men Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma packed their processors with candied pop hooks and sugarcoated beat offal until the computers were violently sick to their circuit-board stomachs. Perfectly strange way to make music, perhaps, but also a perfect way to make such strange music.
The well-gnawed and half-digested remains of enough brass solos, train whistles, strings, duck calls, and doorbells to stock several-dozen Bacharach scores come gushing out of NIUN NIGGUNG--along with disfigured breakbeats, voices, and parasitic piggyback computer viruses. Somehow all this sonic refuse jells as the sticky, supremely scrumptious e-pop forms of "Yippie," "Albion Rose," and "Mykologics." Six albums in, there should be no more surprises. Mouse on Mars was always e-music's Dr. Seuss, working in an invented vernacular of sprungoid squiggles and positively fluppy rhythms. Nonetheless, the hard-discoid calliope corruptions of "Diskdusk," "Booosc," and "Dispothek" and the ravaged yet ravishing "Distroia" still leave one speechless, searching futilely for words that don't exist.
Industry Reviews
Included in Wire Magazine's 50 Records Of The Year ['99]
The Wire (01/01/2000)
...an avant-garde social statement...compelled to cut loose to the sound of all that digital bubbling and analog popping...
CMJ (02/14/2000)
...[They] jump around Computer World's many townships....This prickly pastiche of textures and harmonic layers gives the group humanity, a ghostly, machine-like breathiness matched only by its sense of bawdy humor and relentless melodicism....Warm and delicious.
Magnet (04/01/2000)
4 out of 5 - ...[their] synthetic-beat/sound collages have consistently come on as wild frondescences of the elemental and the composite....this may be their most realized work...
Alternative Press (03/01/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...when they give their enthusiasm for tunes and grooves free rein...you begin to see what it is that makes them so attractive to some.
Q (11/01/1999)
...the most human-sounding of the new German electronica....their best set yet, with a dramatic range...that belies their transistorized heart. - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (02/18/2000)
8 out of 10 - ...Dripping with mellifluous analog filigree, rear-end-guiding grooves, and a panoply of percolating flatulence [NIUN NIGGUNG] continues to argue that armchair techno needn't be such a solemn, over-intellectualized affair...
Spin (03/01/2000)
Ranked #16 in Spin's Top 20 Albums of the Year [2000].
Spin (01/01/2001)
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