Editing Mouse on Mars (section)

==History==
St. Werner, from [[Cologne]], and Toma, from [[Düsseldorf]], are childhood friends who were born on the same day and in the same hospital.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.amoshapp.com/film.html
| title=The films of a mishap
| publisher=Amoshapp.com
| access-date=2013-02-13}}</ref> They both experimented with electronic music in the mid 1990s. On earlier recordings, their music was primarily krautrock, dub, techno and ambient, and did not feature vocals, but more recent recordings increasingly include vocals from featured guest artists, many of whom have toured with the duo.

Their first album, ''[[Vulvaland]]'', was released in 1994 on the [[United Kingdom|British]] record label [[Too Pure]]. Sean Cooper of ''[[AllMusic]]'' stated that it is "a wibbly, barely digital match of ambient texturology with experimental strains of techno, dub, and Krautrock."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/vulvaland-mw0000644499|title=Vulvaland - Mouse on Mars {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits {{!}} AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=2018-03-07}}</ref> Their second album, ''[[Iaora Tahiti]]'', has a much more playful feel and encompasses a wider variety of electronic dance genres. Over the years, their sound has increased in warmth, playfulness and what the duo term "fantastic analysis". Their sixth album ''[[Niun Niggung]]'' (released on [[Domino Recording Company|Domino Records]] in 2000), showed live instruments becoming more prominent. ''[[Idiology]]'', their seventh album, continued this practice, and on their eighth album, ''[[Radical Connector]]'', they took more of an accessible "pop" approach; both also increasingly included vocals, primarily from touring drummer Dodo NKishi.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php/photos/cud/junkmail.html?i=1322
 |title       = An interview with Mouse on Mars
 |author      = Lee Henderson
 |publisher   = Junkmedia
 |date        = 2004-11-29
 |access-date  = 2013-02-13
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20121031040210/http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php/photos/cud/junkmail.html?i=1322
 |archive-date = 2012-10-31
}}</ref>

Mouse on Mars regularly perform live as a three-piece, with Toma & St. Werner augmented by drummer Dodo NKishi. In 2005, they released their first live album, titled ''[[Live 04]]''.<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/mouse-on-mars-051206.shtml
| title=Live from Cologne, It's Mouse on Mars
| last=Ohanesian
| first=Liz
| date=2005-12-06
| publisher=[[PopMatters]]
| access-date=2013-02-13}}</ref>

The band released their tenth full album, ''[[Parastrophics]]'', almost six years later, in February 2012. It was their first album to be released under [[Modeselektor]]'s Monkeytown record label. Following this another six years later, the band reunited with [[Thrill Jockey]] to release ''[[Dimensional People]]'' in April 2018.

St. Werner has released solo work under his own name, and as Lithops and Noisemashinetapes.
<ref>{{cite web
| url=http://www.chickenhed.us/noisemashinetapes
| title=The Noisemashinetapes Archive
| author=Noisemashinetapes by Jan St. Werner
| publisher=Chickenhed.us
| access-date=2013-02-13}}</ref> St. Werner also partners with Markus Popp of [[Oval (band)|Oval]] for [[Microstoria]]. St. Werner has also collaborated with the renowned visual artist [[Rosa Barba]].
While releasing albums on British indie labels, Mouse on Mars started their own label, Sonig, on which they release their own work and that of other German artists. They have also produced a number of EPs and have recorded music for film soundtracks as well as [[remix]]ing the work of other musicians.

In 2018 with the release of the Dimensional People release, the band perform under the name of Dimensional People Ensemble, an ensemble of drums, horns, strings, vocals, and electronic instruments, played by robotics and humanoids.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mouse on Mars: Dimensional People (in Kooperation mit Elbphilharmonie Sommer) |url=https://www.kampnagel.de/en/program/dimensional-people/ |website=Kampnagel |access-date=24 November 2018 |last1=Hamburg |first1=Theater Kampnagel }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Technosphärenklänge #6: Concert and Performance |url=https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_144051.php |website=Haus der Kulturen der Welt |date=13 November 2018 |access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref>