Niun niggung
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1999 |
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Domino Thrill Jockey thrill076 Sonig |
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13 (Europe) |
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running time |
53:03 (Europe) |
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Niun Niggung is the sixth music album by the German band Mouse on Mars and was released in 1999 by Sonig and Rough Trade . It was later re-released on the US label Thrill Jockey . The US version of the album has a different tracklist and contains three bonus tracks . The musician Markus Türk is one of the guest musicians on the album .
style
No rhythm remains unbroken over the entire length of the song and the electro beats constantly change their sound and tempo. With regard to the instrumentation, new paths are being broken. For the first time Mouse on Mars used electronic instruments as well as guitars , wind instruments and violins , which add a melody to the jumping rhythm lines for moments. This style was deepened on the following album Idiology (2001). On this album, the band experimented increasingly with deconstructions, sound dissolutions, power electronics and easy listening .
Chart positions
The album was # 76 in the German album charts for a week.
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reception
The album received mostly positive reviews. However, Lars Eickmeier from laut.de wrote:
“[I] can't explain to myself why they bury their sometimes interesting approaches under a gigantic mountain of sound trash. I can only label this record with the attribute super annoying and hope it remains a lonely slip. ... At most with 'Pinwheel Herman' and 'Super Sonic Fadeout' they can still build on the old class. "
The record with "such musical garbage" according to Eickmeier received one of five stars in the review of the Laut editorial team. In the reader rating on laut.de, however, the album received the full number of points.
Mark Richardsan of the internet magazine Pitchfork Media wrote in 2000:
“Niun Niggung is a sharp realization of Kraftwerk's emotional man-machine promise . But if you compare [the album] against the best work on 'Mouse on Mars', namely the LPs 'Instrumentals' and 'Glam', this is just an entertaining and technically good performance. Although they are capable of transcendental beauty, these Germans just want to have fun right now. "
Richardsan gave the plate 7.9 out of 10 points.
John Bush wrote on allmusic :
"The duo's view of techno on Niun Niggung is inimitably perfectionist, but structurally chaotic and surprisingly organic: it's electro dance music, produced by robotic miners."
Bush gave the record four stars out of five.
The album is record of the year 1999 for the British avant-garde magazine The Wire .
Tracklist
All songs are by Jan St. Werner and Andy Toma. The drummer Dodo NKishi was not active as a songwriter on this record.
- Download Sofist ( Andi Toma , Jan St. Werner ) - 2:28
- Yippie (Toma, Werner) - 3:51
- Mykologics (Toma, Werner) - 3:38
- Gogonal (Toma, Werner) - 5:09
- Diskdusk (Toma, Werner) - 3:50
- Pinwheel Herman (Toma, Werner) - 4:46
- Dispothek (Toma, Werner) - 5:22
- Albion Rose (Toma, Werner) - 3:32
- Tensual (Toma, Werner) - 3:35
- Distroia (Toma, Werner) - 5:16
- Booosc (Toma, Werner) - 3:15
- Mompou (Toma, Werner) - 1:55
- Wald FX (Toma, Werner) - 4:46
- Bonus tracks of the US version
- Super Sonig Fadeout (Toma, Werner) - 4:34
- Circloid Bricklett Sprungli (Toma, Werner) - 2:18
- Untitled (Toma, Werner) - 3:05
Web links
- Information about the album "Thrill Jockey" ( Memento from January 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mouse on Mars. Niun niggung . In: MusikWoche . The news magazine for the music industry. No. 34/1999 , 23 August 1999, news, p. 31 .
- ↑ Charts DE
- ^ Niun Niggung at laut.de.
- ^ Translation by the author. English original: Niun Niggung is a sharp realization of Kraftwerk's emotional man / machine promise. But when judged against the Mouse on Mars's finest work, namely the vinyl-only LPs, Instrumentals and Glam, this is merely an entertaining and technically accomplished diversion. Though they're capable of transcendent beauty, these Germans just want to have fun for the time being.
- ↑ pitchfork.com
- ^ Translation by the author. English Original: The duo's vision of techno on Niun Niggung is impeccably perfectionist but texturally messy and surprisingly organic: it's electronic dance as produced by robotic hill people. | Allmusic
- ↑ Niun Niggung at Allmusic (English)