Mouse on Mars Interview (from Salon Magazine)

[emtave2008]

Too bad they haven't made a porno together - I would pay good money to watch Jan and Andi going at it like knives... they are very cute :)

[Setherian]

The guy on the right is totally right, what we are already seeing is more of everything and not one thing overcoming other, today u have a bigger pop scene wich is actually worse in quality, but that does not mean u have a smaller underground artsy scene, nothing will stop artists to make art and since the population is till growing and the means are becoming more and more available to everyone, what we wil see very soon is a world full of artists, to a point it might even become tiresome to us.

[Setherian]

making us uninterested in the others because we can already make the best music we wish to listen to because of technology ... I predict we will get tired of live shows way faster then most think .. the future will be very boring for the "analog people" .. pitty.

[emtave2008]

I thought he made perfect sense - they both did. I didn't find them to be terribly rambling.

[iwannabeyourdog90]

my father was a friend of jan , but he doesn't like their music! he can fuck off!

[drdrBAR]

"this could change a little bit more in the future.."

not sure what year this interview is, around 2000, maybe. i didn't catch it.

but i think that the structures in mainstream music are changing, over the past half-decade, faster than ever before. possibly the technology has been moving fast enough, that it has caught up, and provided an open forum, finally allowing for a faster rate of change.

maybe it's just the question of exposure. pop being a stream that i hardly have to follow anymore.

[defaultxr]

The interview might just be slow because they're not expert-level English speakers. I saw an interview with Markus Popp (of Oval) who is also from Germany and he wasn't very quick to get his point across either. But then again, maybe they are just rambling.

[robertleebishop]

I love this group but this conversation could have ended in the first minute. This is za most rambling interview I'fe ever hert.

[gwargk]

it's an important issue, lot's of artists deal with this stuff. You have to think about it if you want to evolve as an artist.

[chree2008]

thank you

[utubeDiode]

I don't understand their opinion about this.. All their music is really high tech and they're using equipment that is pretty complicated! They're using lots of computersoftware and they don't like computers?

[mclunar]

exactly. nobody forces you to use technology. These guys LOVE to turn knobs and they buy the latest gadgets. Little boy scheme. Add a little kinky excuse for the philosphical incoherence and there you are...

[aeschhere]

They have a point - how much of the software change is useful (to proles) and how much is just profit maximisation .

[veustysteve]

what they wanna mean is that compared to the 90's period where we had a explosion of new sounds thanks to technology,nowadays seems a bit boring because even if the new technology brings us more power and technique,the sound itself didn't evolve at all...what they have to know is that in the 90's we defined the music for the next 20-30 years - nothing really new will come out...let's wait for the next sound revolution

[Pimdeflans]

blablabla ,,, Man come on, DOn t Blame , MAke Music

[koklepik]

fat boys complaining with their mouths full...complaining about technology, with the million dollar studio...actually more like 10 million...

[exactspace]

holy crap i get the point. they keep saying the same thing over and over.

[oogenesis]

i empathize with andi and jan re: the update cycle, the idea that you spend as much or more time maintaining your computers than actually creating; but this is essentially just care and feeding of the instruments they have chosen to use: computers and the software they run can be finicky, buggy creatures. if keeping them usable bothers you, don't use computers to make music.

[elefou]

they say germans don't have a sense of humour - the worst bullshit ever..all my german friends are mad !

[junemyer]

oh my god-this guys talks like a pair of cake snails.

[hiphophobbyklub]

We Have No Control AnyMore!!!

I Feel You!!!

[160newcrossroad]

this interview is absolutely BANG on... anyone who has to work with computers creatively, be it design, websites, or music can identify with that full on. It is so frikkin frustrating. Learn to play an instrument or paint a picture done and sorted, get on with it for the rest of your life... computers, one spends more time keeping up to date than creating.

[oogenesis]

you're not using a mac, are you?

[shiin69]

lol

[160newcrossroad]

You're only using the stuff the mac was shipped with it would seem to me. I have mac windows and linux,

[michmakker]

I agree completely. Anyone who is in this area will notice it. New technology is nearly more a creativity killer instead of an enhancer because of this overload of options. Countless premade solutions don't spark the imagination.

A white sheet and a pencil does.

[rofea]

sob i wish it was longer

[paulchauncy]

...on the misery of technology addiction

[wstunder]

jan and andy kick some knowledge

[elektrobi]

teknology