A look back at the cerebral electronic form known as IDM. The post 10 Essential IDM Albums appeared first on Treble: Music news, reviews, interviews and more .

Jan St. Werner of Mouse On Mars BY JORDAN MAINZER While the two French robots in Daft Punk are getting plenty of hype for their comeback album, an older Euro pair has quietly been making noise for the past twenty years. Although "German electronic duo Mouse On Mars" may sound like a premise for an SNL skit , Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma are into some serious shit. This isn't to say that St. Werner takes himself seriously-in our conversation on May 18, St. Werner waxed [...]
One half of Mouse On Mars, Jan St. Werner steps out on his own with new song, "Feed Opener". Jan St. Werner, half of the groundbreaking electronic music duo Mouse On Mars, will...
I'm always up for a weird tune and this !K7 Records single skews toward just that. Berlin-based Brandt Brauer Frick pairs up with Jamie Lidell, only to get remixed by fellow Germanic duo Mouse on Mars. Get a listen to "Broken Pieces" above and check out Brandt's full Miami release over on the !K7 site. - Follow Brandt Brauer Frick: Facebook | SoundCloud

Not so long back I told you about the new release from Braille as part of Record Store Day. Well, now we have news of a combined effort between Monkeytown and its sister label 50Weapons who will be releasing a compilation EP as part of the celebration of independent music shops. The EP will feature five tracks of unreleased and unheard tracks by Mouse On Mars , Phon.o , Otto Von Schirach , eLan , and Benjamin Damage . And just to get [...]
German electronica duo MODESELEKTOR are about to become movie stars - well, at least in their upcoming documentary We Are Modeselektor, out May the 3rd via their own label Monkeytown Records. Directed by Romi Agel & Holger Wick the film is - according to the press release - "the story of two men, possessed by The post Win tickets for exclusive Modeselektor documentary screening in Berlin appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

>> Birmingham, England-based indie demigods Johnny Foreigner let loose a torrent of good news Tuesday at its webtumblrthingo , where it reported working on no fewer than three (!!!) new releases. According to this blog post , the quartet is prepared to self-release imminently via its BigCartel what it is calling a "mini album + photo set thing." Proceeds from the sale of the collection will apparently go to paying increased rent on the band's rehearsal space, which we think is an admirable goal. In June the band plans to release a new EP [...]
Mouse on Mars are an electronica duo who have been around since that musical niche was the next big thing. In the mid-nineties, they released a couple of albums, Iaora Tahiti and Autoditacker, that made electronica a hip name to ... Continued

After wrapping up a month-long tour with Man Man this past Saturday at Union Transfer, Christopher Sean Powell, a.k.a. Pow Pow, will be taking you on an intergalactic tropical vacation tonight at Johnny Brenda's with his solo electronic project Spaceship Aloha . Whether it's providing the backbone to one of Philly's most exciting and respected bands, to organizing some of the finest local musicians to perform in his groovy improvisational outfit Adventuredrum , to helping produce the album of rising acts like Grandchildren , to being part of an orchestra and providing music for experimental [...]
German IDM duo Mouse on Mars play Johnny Brenda's tonight. Coming out of the heyday of their genre in the nineties, Mouse on Mars have continued to make surprising and enthralling electronic music all the way up to today. Parastrophics, their most recent record, was released in 2012 on Monkeytown. Where a lot of current ... Continue reading

Photo credit: Sebastian Szary German electro-quirk outfit Mouse on Mars came out of a six year silence in 2012 with the release of Parastrophics , the tenth studio album from the group. Now they have set out on tour and hit Minneapolis this Monday with Dreapweapon! For your chance to win a pair of tickets email laura@minneapolisfuckingrocks. com with the title of a film you wish Mouse on Mars would have scored. The winner will be selected on Thursday afternoon. Good luck! [...]

Eels return to Showbox at the Market on Tuesday / photo by Jim Bennett The great shows continue this week. On Tuesday night, we enjoy the first of two nights with Aaron Neville at Benaroya Hall. At Showbox at the Market, the Eels are playing with Nicole Atkins , and there's also Habib Koite and Eric Bibb at Triple Door. Don't forget Linda's 19th Anniversary Party with Grave Babies Listening Party and Hardly Art DJ Sets at Linda's Tavern. On Wednesday, The Deer [...]

Un tempo ogni nuova manifestazione della premiata ditta Toma & St.Werner veniva salutata come un evento ma va ammesso, malgrado non tutti saranno d’accordo, che dopo i fasti del sempre splendido Idiology , il duo non sia mai davvero riuscito ad appagare le aspettative ed anche in studio, abbia preferito adagiarsi su quella schizo-techno di loro stretta invenzione, contributo fondamentale alla musica elettronica offerto dai due, che ha cominciato a mostrare la corda già dal successivo Radical Connector . Saliti sull’alto scranno degli inventori di suono, hanno preferito la via della formula a scanso di rischi, [...]
Saturday — the fun starts early and runs late: ► Eastern Conference Champions head up a big lineup on the Local Music Stage at Chinatown's Lunar New Year Festival . The free day of music starts at noon and also features Troup , Mind the Gap , Spirit Vine , Western Scene and Daniel Ahearn & the Jones . See set times at the end of this post . ► Pink and the Hives team up for a big show at [...]
Following a postponement of last year's original date, German electronic duo Mouse On Mars are coming back to Los Angeles! Originally scheduled to perform in October, Mouse On Mars are now scheduled to play at the El Rey Theatre on...
Next Tuesday, February 19, two renowned electronic music duos whose names begin with M are taking over the Doug Fir basement with beats, buzzes, clicks, whirrs, gizmos, wingdings, bleeps, bloops, and florps. It's Mouse on Mars (from Düsseldorf, AKA the Baltimore of Europe), and Matmos (from Baltimore, AKA the Düsseldorf of the US). And we've got two pairs of tickets to give away to two lucky winners! It's easy: All you've got to do is send an email to this address with "Mouse on Mars and Matmos" in the subject line. In [...]

Incoming: Emeli Sandé, Hunter Hunted, Beak, the Ruby Suns, Michael Bolton, Dear Boy, Ra Ra Riot, Ellie Goulding, Leagues, the Vaccines, Eels, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the Wedding Present, Nous Non Plus, Ne-Yo, Dead Meadow, Soundgarden, Wallpaper, Pink, the Hives, Eastern Conference Champions, Mouse on Mars, Icona Pop, Ed Sheeran, Every Time I Die Above: V is for the Vaccines , on Valentine's Day. The U.K. quartet plays the Fonda Theatre on Thursday — that's the video for " I Always Knew," above. Our staff picks of [...]

Last year Mouse On Mars released 'Parastrophics' to widespread critical acclaim. Since then they've finished another album called 'WOW', using the same WretchUp iPhone app they used on 'Parastrophics', and made the decision to embark upon their first US tour in six years. Almost as a conversational retort to 'Parastrophics' (which took an inconceivably large amount of time to produce), 'WOW' took a matter of weeks to complete from beginning to end. Similarly, the latter is a much more club-friendly release, countering the technical show-boating of the former. [...]
Mouse On Mars release new bonus track. Mouse on Mars , the German electronic duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, have released a new single, "bonuß cut" , from the WOW sessions. Download the new song below and check out dates where you can catch the duo [...]