With eleven albums and eleven e.p.s Mouse On Mars have gained a reputation as one of the most innovative and productive bands of today's popular music scene. "the true inheritors of kraftwerk's mantle" (MUZAK Magazine). The band itself never encouraged this comparison. They rather consider their efforts as fragmented and always reforming ideas which are not after the clean design of pop aesthetics but offer a broken and profound criticism on a "one world one sound" equalisation. "Nothing is decided in the music itself but its construction as a statement: even intervals and odd power chords arrayed in polistic structures, keyed in through micro-blasting tirades of resistance, display a world of madness and diversity" (the HUB, 12.01)
Their first release in 1994 was a single: "Frosch"- "lfo / krautrock toytown toonz" (NME). So fresh were the sounds that critics were at a loss for words "One Man's thingy is another man's wotsit." (melody maker). Their debut album "Vulvaland" went straight into the UK indie top 5.
Musically Mouse On Mars create densely layered tracks with the intended results being grounded between radical experimentalsism and timeless pop appeal. Designed to yield more with repeated listens, songs are minutely detailed. Drum tracks, for example, often contain over twenty different layers: live drums, programmed, digitally processed and various combinations and/or mutations of the aforementioned.
Fills and breaks are set, arranged, and placed individually as opposed to being looped. The results are rich, deep, wonderfully varied. "Mouse on Mars combine so many sounds from myriad genres, asking the listener to discard their preconceptions, wherever possible, and have what jazzbos in Tennessee call "big ears." Mike McGonigal
Or to quote Rob Young from the WIRE: "Mouse On Mars tracks are lush mini adventures or sound movies in multiple dimensions: densly layered vertically, constantly changing horizontally in time, it's a fully articulated body of music."
Since 1997 Mouse On Mars have run their own record label Sonig. Being fully independent from major record companies they have established their very own platform to spread their ideas. Over the last couple of years their concert tours have extended from Europe, Japan and the USA to South America, East Europe and Asia.
They have also produced records for Stereolab and members of Kraftwerk, they made music for an ill-fated Tony Danza film, and worked on remixes for the High Llamas, Cibo Matto, Pram, Anne Clark, the Pastels, Merz, Towa Tei, Oval and others. They recently worked together with house luminary Matthew Herbert and still find the time to let St.Werner work with Oval's Markus Popp on the digital off-shoot "Microstoria".
Mouse On Mars have paved the way for a continuously growing gang of German and international sound villains to weave analogue and digital, electronic and non-electronic sounds in a totally new, organic fabric. Not without reason have great swarms of independent and other tinkerers, post-, kraut- and general rockers, techno types and avant-garde scoundrels included this darned modern stuff in their daily menu.
Actionist Respoke
Mouse on Mars Lyrics
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I is just what you say you to
When I identify something, I do this in reference to
Something else
I is just what you say you to
I is just what you say you
I am convinced that the term "I", the self
It's nuts!
I is just what you say you to
I is just what you say you to
When I identify something, I do this in reference to
Something else
I is just what you say you to
I is just what you say you
I am convinced that the term "I", the self
Is ideological and can be dispensed with
The lyrics to Mouse on Mars's song Actionist Respoke seem to convey an existential and philosophical inquiry into the nature of identity and the self. The repeated phrase, "I is just what you say you to," suggests that the concept of 'self' is not something inherent, but rather something that is constructed or given by others. The lyrics play with the idea of identification and the ways in which we define ourselves in relation to something else. The line "When I identify something, I do this in reference to something else," further reinforces this idea, suggesting that the self is not a fixed entity but something that is constantly being defined and redefined.
The song continues with the assertion that the concept of 'I', the self, is ideological and can be dispensed with. This is a particularly radical notion that challenges the very foundations of our societal structures and beliefs about individuality. The lyrics suggest that perhaps the concept of the self is limiting and constraining, and that by breaking free from it, we may achieve a more profound understanding of our existence.
Overall, the lyrics to Actionist Respoke are thought-provoking and encourage the listener to question their own beliefs about identity and the self.
Line by Line Meaning
I is just what you say you to
The term 'I' is subjective and changes based on how others use it to refer to me.
When I identify something, I do this in reference to
Something else
When I label or categorize something, I always do it in relation to something else.
I am convinced that the term "I", the self
Is ideological and can be dispensed with
I believe that the concept of self is a social construct and not inherently necessary for communication.
It's nuts!
This idea may sound absurd or crazy to some people.
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: ANDREAS THOMA, JAN ST WERNER, JEAN DOMINIQUE NKISHI
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
PlanetBongoSan
MOUSE ON MARS I LOVE YOU absolutely kicking track, five stars forever
Flying Fox
This is totaly what happens inside my head when I eat with other people... Brilliant.
iluvmorrissey
I discovered this song a year ago, and instantly got obssessed with mouse on mars. This song is so cool!
Aku73
this is really brilliant, both: song and vid. i so much enjoyed the lady breaking the shrimps head..lover her, or the scene in which the tarte is getting filled up...hillarious mood in this vid. did'nt know mouse on mars, i am ashamed to tell..but now i do.. echt wunderbar! big time! thx for sharing, alexander, frg, europe
iluvmorrissey
I LOOOOVE Blood comes!!! This is kick ass too!
ARPAPRO magazine
Excelente saludos ARPAPRO de PERU cuando vuelven ok
n3m3z1z
excellent classic!
Dcastkid
The moral(s) of the story: everyone is weird, spoons reveal your inner sex demons, and Mouse on Mars throws the craziest dinner parties in the history of forever.
Dumitru Albu
"I, would die! for music, you would too!" from what i understood
Riskiamo
So so great!