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Track Listing
1. Frosch
2. Elli im Wunderland
3. Uah
4. Chagrin
5. Future Dub
6. Die Seele Von Brian Wilson - (French)
7. Katang
| Details | | Producer: | Andi Toma, Jan St. Werner | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Mouse On Mars: Andi Toma, Jan St. Werner.
Long before the crossover-electronica deluge and the buzzword status of Krautrock, Mouse on Mars' VULVALAND appeared on London's trendy Too Pure label. Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma's rubber-bonded beats, digital burps, and lilting twee-lectronic tunes earned the Koln-based duo hesitant comparisons to The Orb and FSOL but generally left the label's guitar-starved admirers scratching their heads. Time has shown the wiser, and Mouse On Mars has since become an ambassador for a new generation of German electronic music, particularly with their revelatory follow-up, 1995's IAORA TAHITI.
But there is plenty of brilliance to savor here. MoM works a singular line in pseudo-ambient digital decadence. Such tracks as "Uah" and "Elli Im Wunderland" are vivid "Future Dub" (to quote another VULVALAND title)--squelchy electronics, sampladelic debris, and Technicolor sine bubbles bobbing atop waves of bass and synth. "Frosch," "Chagrin," and the "Windchimes"-derived "Die Seele Von Brian Wilson" mold MoM's tidal streamings into attractive pop shapes, the last two folding vocal choruses into the fluctuating rhythms that underpin VULVALAND. Ever the good-natured pranksters, St. Werner and Toma pause halfway through the ticklish glitch-tronics of the closing "Katang" before resuming--ten minutes later--with a hidden burst of jolting, buzzsaw techno.
Industry Reviews
-squelchy electronics, sampladelic debris, and Technicolor sine bubbles bobbing atop waves of bass and synth. Frosch, Chagrin, and the Windchimes-derived Die Seele Von Brian Wilson mold MoM's tidal streamings into attractive pop shapes, the last two folding vocal choruses into the fluctuating rhythms that underpin VULVALAND. Ever the good-natured pranksters, St. Werner and Toma pause halfway through the ticklish glitch-tronics of the closing Katang before resuming--ten minutes later--with a hidden burst of jolting, buzzsaw techno.
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