Mouse on Mars

There's very little precedent in music -- pop or otherwise -- for the bizarre and amazing electronic spasms created by this German duo at the forefront of the so-called blip-hop movement. In their superfast gushes of micro-musical sounds, they recall Carl Stalling's hyperactive soundtracks for the classic Warner Bros. cartoons, or, more recently, John Zorn's postmodern jazz-metal bands like Naked ...