"When some things are harder to hear and others very clearly, it gives you an idea of depth." - MOUSE ON MARS TECH TALK feature, taken from Slices Issue 4-11. Subscribe to our channel: bit.ly/1BwzEZM www.electronicb...
It's great to know that they use so much improvisation and happy accidents when recording their albums. This surprised me, considering the precision of the final recordings. And I thank them for confessing about the musical "Tourette Syndrome." This is probably the secret ingredient that makes their music always move away from techno, becoming closer to Jazz and contemporary classical music in terms of phrasing. Mouse on Mars in the German musical tradition is for me the second most phenomenal thing after J.S. Bach. :D
I know that feeling when dance heads hear a loop and they're like "that's a dope loop" but by the time I've worked it into a song it's a stuttering limping wreck or it goes off on a mad tangent after one minute and they're like "what are you doing?!". Sometimes I think we just like to make music that annoys the dance heads. But the funny thing is, I prefer to dance to disjointed music like this :)
Thanks for posting this video. I love these guys. They seem to have a hard time doing anything wrong. There are a couple of records of theirs (Varcharz and Parastrophics) that have yet to hit me, but I'm sure I'll eventually get them. I didn't get WOW at first, but eventually it became oone of my favorite albums by MOM. On some of their earlier stuff they do something that sounds like they are sending big chunks of the mix through a resonant filter that is being opened and closed by an envelope follower. It has an extremely organic character. For some reason, I'm fairly certain they are using a guitar pedal of some sort to get the sound. Does anyone know for sure? I think I read an article a long time ago (around Niun Niggung) in which they expressed their love for pedals. Thanks again.
with such a dream-like studio like that, would anybody feel sure about having get to the final step on editing a loop? Each instrument, each plug-in, and each's possibilities...a real forest of sounds to go through and find the reward. I went to see them recently. I really had fun, never had any of their albums though. The guy selling the tees and cd's looked like M.Manson, really funny thing.
i just looked for mouse on mars florian grote iphone and found these:fluXpad, MoMinstruments GbR, WretchUp, MoMinstruments GbR .. and am guessing if you look for mominstruments, you'll find a few more.
