Niun Niggung

Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung

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Artist: Mouse on Mars
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-02-08
Music Label: Thrill Jockey
Soundtracks:

Download Sofist
Yippie
Mykologics
Gogonal
Diskdusk
Pinwheel Herman
Dispothek
Albion Rose
Tensual
Distroia
Booosc
Mompou
Wald F.X.

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Music Review: BY FAR THEIR BEST!!
Rating: 4 Stars

This is absolutely mOUSE oN mAR'S best and most wonderfully playful release to date.

Whereas iaora tahiti was dark and dreamy ambient and autoditacker was cold computer precision, niun nugging is bubbly and poppy, warm and fun. niun nugging does sound like a child's playroom fun of toys gone berserk. Check out the frenetic clambering of steel drums and the fat warped `bouncing ball' snare of diskdusk. I feel like I'm in a weird MoM style Jamaican paradise.

The ska-reggae influence, although present in almost all of MoM's releases, is heavily evident on niun nugging and is used to good effect. This due in part to the brass section that shows up on many tracks. yippie and mykologics are two such tracks mixing the accessible with the experimental. You may find yourself doing that weird two step ska dance move as you listen to these tracks.

dispothek starts with a childishly simple melody that blips and blops its way into a drifty downtempo groove. It takes you along on a wonderful journey that you don't want to end. Press repeat!

pinwheel herman has a wonderfully familar meldoy that pops up a minute into the track, threading its way about for a couple of minutes and then disappearing.

wald fx is a perfect close, crisp, cool and absolutely precise. A laidback oh-so-cool beat and of the course the melody. MoM are the masters of creating the perfect melody. Even the harsh, punk synths of distroia come together in a wonderfully melodic way.

I'm constantly amazed by some of the sounds that pop up throughout this disc. Some sounds are like bubbly puddles of water thickened by mud, others are like squeezing out the last drops of ketchup from a squeeze bottle. Their music seems so familiar that it instantly feels as if you've heard it before.

By far their best. Not necessarily a good starting point for the uninitiated but a wonderfully playful and charming release from MoM. Not quite sure what to make of the cover art though, it that a comb and hairbrush with stray hairs stuck in it???? See what I mean by playful.

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Description of Niun Niggung

Domestic release of German electronica act's 1999 album with 3 tracks not on the import 'Mykologics', 'Dispthek' and 'Tensual'. 1999 release. Standard jewel case.

It's all too easy to assume that bands wielding multiple laptops can suffer from too much book learnin'. Not so with Mouse on Mars. The German band's sixth full-length, Niun Niggung, is like a child's playroom with electronic toys run amuck. Percolating beats ascend to the surface only to pop like soap bubbles, while tacked-together melodies are as likely to disintegrate midsong as they are to wobble to the conclusion. Intelligent? Yes. Dance music? Maybe. --S. Duda

The opening track, "Download Sofist," starts with pretty, meandering acoustic guitars and adds oddly beautiful brass melodies that are gradually overwhelmed by dissonant electronic sounds. The result is so fascinating that it's tempting to listen to it several times in a row. The rest of the CD is not quite that revelatory, but it sustains a consistently high level of interest. Although live instruments are used throughout, the overall sound is very electronic--often, the effect is of machines talking to each other in a highly rhythmic but esoteric language. In this way, Mouse on Mars are reminiscent of Autechre, but the music is sunnier in tone with a lot of herky-jerky upbeat rhythms that, combined with the horns, sometimes sound like synthetic ska. However, the use of slightly humorous elements and unexpected juxtapositions never approaches the level of wackiness for its own sake. Part of the CD's appeal is that you never know when an Indian-film soundtrack string-section sample will pop up or when another surprisingly wistful melody will appear atop a gurgling drainpipe percussion track. --Bob Bannister

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