AcCost-
   The intro of the album. It actually sounds a lot like a concert opener, ordered yet experimental. It's an Underground kind of track and it gets more and more glitchy and excited toward the end before a neat end and melt into...

Caught in buyer-
   This track could probably pass for a continuation of AcCost. It has a couple of neat drop aways, the last of which is actually the change to...

shine-
   Another perfectly blended track; it might sound like gunk, but if you are able to hear more than one layer at a time, you'll hear a fast-paced rave... Strangely, a bit like RADIOHEAD's Trans-atlantic Drawl, it breaks off into a minimalist piece. Kudos on the piano work.

very very sad hobble-
   Hey, if this is "very very sad", I'm scared of what manic would sound like. Very hip, but with a hint of ambience and isolation.

Exclusive Bonus?
Instant rave classic! An ode to the mysterious Catastrosphere? Maybe. Made for a horror movie? Maybe. Good? Better than good. Awesome.

Sewn
I get the feeling this album has a deep connection to Catastrosphere the Ultimate Lawn Simulator. This feeling is almost pervading, but so so welcome.

Exclusive Bonus!/sewn
I'm confused, and genuinely scared.. Sounds good, tho'!

Titled
I know for a fact that MARS has never heard it, but this track reminds me of Squarepusher's Hardcore Obelisk. Good drak ambient track

i think the 'idea' is perfect...
the 'audience' izz easily distracted...

your 'concepts' go beyond 'music'...
your 'symbols' and 'imagery' are *** killer...
you're an extreamily clever guy...
it's easy to mis-represent the music when the symbols are based on 'open questions'...
but that sort of 'music' is the ultimate kind...

Review of MARS 1st album Minds 1-14:

This, Minds 1-14, is an album to square off in your favorites list of CDs. Vaguely resembling IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), it's 14 tracks of Thrillsville, daddio!

Never, Mind is a long and completely effective opening song, unlike so many other openers. It goes through all the classic MARS mutations before ending satisfyingly on a high mutation of the original sound.

2 Down is a short, spastic track resembling a fall through Mario space.

Death wouldn't feel completely stupid if it lived on a Turok soundtrack, even with it's blinking light piano sound at the beginning.

Fun Sucks Parts 2&1 is a 6:40 romp. FS Part 2 (roughly 3:22) is a through an RPG terrorscape complete with a blinking BG light sound, possibly a throwback from MARS' RPG Maker days. The second part, Part 1 is a louder mix recalling those ole crystal caves of yore. (Everyone breathes a sigh)

And then you're shaken by the sudden Pole Position rhythm of SHOCKly. A great techno track with nothing to lose.

cORNERED Placement is a haunted house tune, supposedly a remix of cP from the Piemerican Disc. Brings back memories of Mario haunted houses, that it does.

Mind 7 is a solo piano track by MARS. After a shaky tremolo, it leaves you hanging on a faint swishing sound only to let you know a few seconds later...THE PIANO'S STILL THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ancient Sea....If you don't like this track, you don't like music. How many songs actually SOUND like what they're named? Not many, I tells yer. Sounds like an old Grecian ship docking on a war-ridden Mediterranean shore, ready for battle. Absolutely perfect track...er, Mind.

streg/Brain Staggeringly Intelligent. A (literally) windy track with a title acknowledging the "Staggeringly Intelligent" song writing skillz of MARS. Watch out for the modulated vocoder voice. A wonderful track that could have been a candidate for being the opener in a shorter cut.

Wáké Úp is a weird, minimalist Mind with carefully hit tribal drums and a Rugrats sound. Oddly one of my favorites.

Fynil CeE is an amazing long song strangely like Ancient Sea (but it's not) with the dominant sound changed to a high-pitched sparkling star type of sound. If you liked Ancient Sea (which you DID), then you've gotta hear it!

pik mix ix is another spastic tune with the vocodered Piemerica voice sample being continuously modulated in the background. A definite promo track.

Ok Now starts with a sound like the beginning of the studio version of Fog (Alligators in New York Sewers) and adds sounds like a xylophone and an organ to become a short ambient masterpiece.

Mind 14 should have a title, dagnabbit! It starts off reeking of bad ending song fears and then blows up into the biggest, longest airship closer heard on this side of Piemerica!! Trip hop becomes the main theme as the airship begins to lose altitude and becomes more tinny as it drops faster and faster........Then the airship explodes in a huge ball of flame, Krakatoa-style. It's in the running for best song on the album.

In short, a classic album. I'd pay 20 bucks for it if it sold in a retail store. (Don't get any big ideas, MARS.) If you don't have it, get it. GET IT! NOW! RUN!

An album rating Egg/Muzzz??

Review of MARS 1st Ep, dew:

dew. What can I say about dew? The dictionary definition of dew is......oh. I don't have a dictionary. Well, anyhow, reviewing.

not Today "As this song says, this is a song for not today, maybe tomorrow or the day before Wednesday," sez J'nan. But he's impotent......incompetent. With these running horses in the background, "one feels as though he is being pulled thru time by his face...." Shut up, J'nan. Like I was saying... With these running horses, it gets pretty eerie in these parts. But it's a great opener. "For a national anthem song thingy." ......Curse you! I've already told you! ....ANYWAY. It's good, long, effective. Note from the Surgeon General: Do not listen to this song with headphones. It will ruin your ears.

safecore "The jingling of bells is like the pitter pattering of rain on an Oriental window..." J'nan!......Oh. You're right. It is. Nice and peaceful..........zzzzzzzz...(In the best way possible.)

W1 Nice segueway from safecore, jah?

Melt Anyhow, we've got drips and sirens (very cool.). "Everybody duck and cover! The tornader's coming!" .......Go to sleep. "Zzzzzzzzzz..... What? In weather....songs like this, I can't go to sleep." ...Fine. Chew on this. ::Hand cookie:: So... The middle song on the album and we haven't even gone anywhere. This song's great, anyway. Ridiculously long, though. And is that mumbling actually saying something? I think the dripping's getting to me.

vast "Eh? Did I wake up in a factory? Oh, well, back to sleep so I don't have to work."

shoc hoc SHOCKly and Ancient Sea, what more could you want? Not much more, appaerently. It's worth listening to many many times.

dew Title track! Last song? EP? .....Okay. So it's vaguely mechanical and highly rhythmic. It's like a heartbeat or something. But, uh, it gets a little low, doesn't it? "Maybe it symbolizes the depth and meaning of the song.....Man, that slamming door was really loud on there." Slamming door? You mean the beeps? "Right... Zzzz." Bleh. It's a good song. Worthy of being a hidden track? Yes. Worthy of being a title track? Yes. Then the beeps turn into this great beat.. Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep......

All quotations by J'nan, who so rudely interrupted me, but I was stupid enough to type what he was saying. ::Shakes head sadly:: This EP overall's really good. It presents an atmosphere of relaxation (among other things) and leaves you with a small dab of appreciation (understanding? [no]) in your heart.