Mouse in Mars, the way-old German mutant IDM duo, has been quiet for almost six years now, finally showing up again this summer with a new record announcement (fittingly due on Modeselektor’s Monkeytown label) and a video for lead single “They Know Your Name.” And it’s not just any video, it’s a science music video. Which there really should be a lot more of, given that science comes with the coolest ready-made imagery in the entire universe, while learning you a thing or two about that universe at the same time. Anyhow, the band explains;A few weeks ago, our friend Charles Baroud (Laboratoire d’ Hydrodynamique (LadHyX) / Ecole Polytechnique) told us about his newest experiments: He is now able to color drops and stretch surfaces in a way that the colors don’t leak and the drop keeps its form, even if mixed with other fluids. Those experiments are used for cell biology research, but also create – as a side effect – really esthetic and crazy patterns. When Charles sent us a few clips of his experiments, we immediately thought that those images would match our track “They Know Your Name” perfectly. Charles then bought a high res camera (he, as the boss of his lab, is allowed to do so) and recorded some really cool video clips of the red drop, which we lovingly babtized “Steve Verlaine”. We then asked Berlin based visual artists Pfadfinderei to get this material to swing.
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