Track Listing

1. Stereomission
2. Kompod
3. Saturday Night Worldcup Fieber
4. Schunkel
5. Gocard
6. Kanu
7. Bib
8. Schlecktron
9. Preprise
10. Papa, Antoine
11. Omnibuzz
12. Hallo
13. Die Innere Orange

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58277 in Music
• Released on: 1998-03-10
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

ARE THESE GUYS REALLY FROM MARS???
A beautiful album full of minimal beats, meandering melodies, tripped-out atmospherics and dreamy soundscapes...Some would consider this album weird and off-kilter, but it's really a work of pure, creative genius. The songs make you think and don't impose on your mindset..."Stereomission", "Kompod", "Kanu" and "Bib" are perhaps the most accessible tracks on "Iaora Tahiti(Reis)", while everything else takes a minute to grow on you...nevertheless, when Mouse on Mars throws it down, you're in for quite a few surprises. Makes you wonder if these guys really are from Mars!

last track
the last track has a short bit of dialog in german, otherwise it is as described below. if you know german it is quite interesting. one of the members of mouse on mars describes what he believes consciousness is, using "die innere orange" ("the inner orange") as a metaphor. using his definition of something through which we make "sense" of our senses and experience the world, the first several minutes of near-blank white noise contrasts wonderfully with the last few containing something like beautiful music so distorted and garbled that it is nearly unrecognizable as such.

Tiki Bar Electronica
As a rule, I'm not a huge fan of either Polynesian-derived exotica nor the bleepy electronica practiced by Mouse on Mars on other albums. More rhythmic than most electronica, and more varied than most exotica, "Iaora Tahiti" far exceeds the sum of its parts. I can't image better background music for the post-modern Tiki Bar.