Released 1988 Producer Mark Mothersbaugh Artist Mark Mothersbaugh Genre New-age music | Recorded 1985 –1988 Muzik for Insomniaks, Volume I and Volume II
(1988) Joyeux Mutato
(1999) Release date 1988 Labels Enigma Records, Rykodisc | |
Studio Devo Studios, Marina del Rey, California Similar Cloudy With a Chance o, The LEGO Movie, Joyeux Mutato, 22 Jump Street / 21 Jump Str | ||
Muzik for Insomniaks, Volume 1 and Volume 2 is a two-studio album series by Devo's co-founder and lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh. They were originally released in 1988, the same year as Devo's seventh studio album Total Devo, on the labels Enigma and Rykodisc. The albums consisted entirely of instrumentals that were performed in the style of easy listening muzak or new-age music similar to Devo's compilation album E-Z Listening Disc, released the previous year. Both of the albums were produced, written, arranged, programmed and performed by Mothersbaugh himself and engineered and mixed by former Devo keyboardist and guitarist Bob Casale. Mothersbaugh once described the albums as "M. C. Escher meets wallpaper."
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Gábor Csupó co-creator of the animated television series Rugrats, had called Mothersbaugh and asked if he could use the music from "Muzik for Insomniaks" for Rugrats, however, Mothersbaugh proposed that he could compose new songs instead, and, after one meeting, Csupó agreed.
Track listing
All tracks written by Mark Mothersbaugh.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from both of the album's liner notes which are identical.