Mouse On Mars Announce Release Of First Studio Album In Six Years, Parastrophics, Out Feb. 28 On Monkeytown Records

MOUSE ON MARS ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF FIRST STUDIO ALBUM IN SIX YEARS, PARASTROPHICS, SET FOR FEBRUARY 28, 2012 RELEASE ON MONKEYTOWN RECORDS

Mouse On Mars might have emerged as part of the great 1990s new wave of electronic music, but their restless, irreverent and wildly inventive work has always set them apart from their contemporaries. For Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, there is no division between the cerebral and the physical - they combine a connoisseur’s love of sonic texture with a hedonistic urge to dance. Even at its most complex, their music never feels too intellectual, and even at its most experimental, it’s never forbidding.

After nine studio albums released on well established labels such as Domino, Thrill Jockey, Ipecac and Rough Trade, Mouse on Mars have now found a home on one of today's most prolific electronic music labels: Monkeytown. After Siriusmo’s Mosaik, Modeselektor’s Monkeytown, and eLan’s Next 2 Last, Mouse on Mars will release their 10th album, Parastrophics on February 28, 2012.

An album with singing bass drums, screwed up beats, tinnitus synths and some of the deepest bass the universe has to offer, Parastrophics is a thriving vision of the other side of experimental music. Discordance turns into pop as Alice in Wonderland bounces her booty to laser bass sounds, the likes of which would make Walt Disney jealously ponder the question, “Why didn’t I think of that?!” Parastrophics is glamorous, funky and deep. No speakers exist that could display all the details of such grand production.

Mouse on Mars’ Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner have been more than busy in the intervening years since the release of their last studio album as a duo, Varcharz (2006). They collaborated with The Fall’s Mark E. Smith as Von Südenfed and released Tromatic Reflexxions on Domino. Both Toma and St. Werner produce independently for their Sonig label. St. Werner has worked on solo records under several monikers, written pieces for classical instrumentation and electronics, did music for installations, and acted as the artistic director of the Amsterdam Institute for Electronic Music, steim. Toma has produced Moondog, Stereolab, Junior Boys and The Fall, amongst others.

One of their most recent projects, Paeanumnion, has been as unique as the rest of their career – an orchestral piece which didn’t play by any of the rules. As Jan Werner said, “it was a way for us to carry on being an electronic band, only without electronics.” As always, he’s not being entirely serious. Both Jan and Andi were on stage throughout this hour-long voyage, playing their own digitally-crafted sounds and processing the orchestra at the same time.

Mouse on Mars have also developed their own musical software which they used in the production of Parastrophics as well as in the their live performances of Paeanumnion.

Two years ago the band relocated their studio to Monkeytown’s homebase of Berlin where Parastrophics was recorded and mixed.

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