Mouse on Mars Live @ Club Transmediale 2008

Since emerging in the early 90s, Mouse on Mars has been on a perpetual course of reinvention, indulging in complex, heavily hybridized forms that include everything from ambient, techno, and dub to rock, and post-rock. They've taken electronica to new levels with fragmented melodies and an aversion to what's expected. Over more than ten years and a dozen albums, Mouse on Mars have set about creating new musical languages, only to tear them down again with each new distortion, proving that since getting together in 1993, the duo Jan St. Werner, from Düsseldorf, and Andi Toma, from Köln are one of the few electronic groups to stand the test of time; their albums are sent into the worlds of pop, rock and electronic music like missives from sound researchers, and the results are always surprising.

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