{"product_id":"mouse-on-mars-aai-2lp","title":"Mouse on Mars AAI [2LP]","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: 2LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: THRILL537LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0790377537116  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 26th February 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Electronic, Experimental\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Mouse on Mars, the Berlin-based duo of Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, approach electronic music with an inexhaustible curiosity and unparalleled ingenuity. ‘AAI’ (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence) takes their fascination with technology and undogmatic exploration a quantum leap further.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Emerging from a primordial ooze of rolling bass and skittering electronics, hypnotic polyrhythms and pulsing synthesizers propel the listener across the record’s expanse. Hidden in the duo’s hyper-detailed productions is a kind of meta-narrative.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Working with AI tech collective Birds on Mars and former Soundcloud programmers Ranny Keddo and Derrek Kindle, the duo collaborated on the creation of bespoke software capable of modelling speech; text and voice from writer and scholar of African Studies Louis Chude-Sokei and DJ\/producer Yağmur Uçkunkaya were fed into the software as a model, allowing Toma and Werner to control parameters like speed or mood, thereby creating a kind of speech instrument they could control and play as they would a synthesizer.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e The album’s narrative is quite literally mirrored in the music - the sound of an artificial intelligence growing, learning and speaking. This exploration of artificial intelligence as both a narrative framework and compositional tool, allowing the duo to summon their most explicitly science-fiction work to date.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Original artwork by Casey Reas, inventor of the computer graphics language Processing.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Recently, Mouse on Mars received the 2020 Holger Czukay Prize for Pop Music.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Mouse on Mars have been regularly streaming performances throughout 2020, partnering with organizations like Goethe-Institut, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Conditions of a Necessity and others and will continue these in 2021.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e ‘AAI’ is available on grey or black double LP packaged in a single sleeve with full colour insert \/ lyrics. CD comes with 8-panel poster booklet.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner continue to create soundscapes that blur the line between programming and live musicianship, and sometimes between Earth and outer space.” - AV Club\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Enthralling and impossible to categorize.” - Pitchfork\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e “Sustained and ephemeral electronic sounds conjure unearthly open spaces… It’s not a song; it’s sound as a temporal phenomenon, a few minutes of sculpted attention.” - The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracklisting: \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEngineering Systems\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Latent Space\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpeech And Ambulation\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThousand To One\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWalking And Talking\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYoumachine\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDoublekeyrock\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMachine Rights\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGo Tick\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Fear Of Machines\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtificial Authentic\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMachine Perspective\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCut That Fishernet\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTools Use Tools\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLoose Tools\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeven Months\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaymig\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorrow Signs\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Definitions\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Life Always Announces Itself Through Sound\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thrill Jockey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37643091148956,"sku":"THRILL537LP","price":30.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/MouseonMars-AAI.jpg?v=1611996891","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/mouse-on-mars-aai-2lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}