Best known as one half of the innovative German electronic duo Mouse on Mars, Jan St. Werner (born Jan Stephan Werner in Nuremberg, Germany in 1969) also pursued a solo career as Lithops and under his own name. His solo work actually predates Mouse on Mars, with the 1992 album Slow (in collaboration with F.X. Randomiz) and two limited self-released cassettes appearing prior to MoM's 1994 debut. He began releasing music as Lithops in the mid-'90s (around the time of his collaboration with Markus Popp, Microstoria), issuing several singles and two full-lengths, Umi Unit and Dido...