• Genre: Electronica
• Active: '90s, 2000s
• Major Members: Markus Popp, Jan St. Werner

Biography

Microstoria is a side project of Oval's Markus Popp and Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars. Combining Oval's fetish for CD scarification with MoM's odd instrumentation and breezy, subtlely inchoate arrangements, the pair's combined efforts come off much as one might expect. The group debuted with a pair of albums on the German Mille Plateaux label falling somewhere between the more engaging techno-exotica of St. Werner's main focus and the sometimes gruelling abstraction of Popp's. Both releases were reissued by Stateside post-rock imprint Thrill Jockey (Tortoise, Rome, Trans Am), which also released the remix effort Reprovisers in 1997. Model 3 Step 2 was issued three years later. ~ Sean Cooper, All Music Guide

Representative Albums:

Model 3, Step 2, Reprovisers, _snd

Similar Artists:

SND, Lithops, F.X. Randomiz, Turn On, General Magic, Fridge, Matmos, Farmers Manual, To Rococo Rot, Pita, Fennesz, Cristian Vogel, Richard Devine, Pan Sonic, Terre Thaemlitz, Autechre, Stereolab

Performed Songs By:

Jan St. Werner

Invisible Architecture 3 Buy this CD

Model 3, Step 2 Buy this CD

Reprovisers Buy this CD

_snd Buy this CD

Init Ding Buy this CD