Mouse on Mars operates from a hidden Berlin studio and stays busy, with Jan St Werner also serving as a professor in pop music. Conversations with Andi Toma, St Werner, and longtime collaborator Dodo NKishi can veer from practical studio details to speculative ideas about forensic resynthesising of the past using archival audio. The duo are influential in experimental German music over three decades, yet have not been absorbed or widely recognized by the country’s music industry. Childhood friends from Dusseldorf and Cologne, they began experimenting in the early to mid-1990s and released Vulvaland in 1994 with Too Pure. They later issued many albums, live recordings, compilations, archival releases, and collaborations, while their sound continually transformed from dubby dance to surreal pop.
"In the early to mid-1990s, they began to experiment with electronic music, releasing their first album, Vulvaland, in 1994 with the British label Too Pure. Numerous other releases followed: studio albums, live albums, compilations, archival releases, and collaborations such as 2007's Tromatic Reflexxions with Mark E Smith. Just as eclectic is their sound, which has morphed throughout the 30-plus years of their career: from weird, dubby dance music on Vulvaland; to something akin to surreal pop"
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