Muzik for Insomniaks, Volume 1 and Volume 2

Muzik for Insomniaks, Volume 1 and Volume 2 is a two-studio album series by Devo's co-founder and lead vocalist Mark Mothersbaugh. They were both 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."^[1]

Muzik for Insomniaks, Volume 1 and Volume 2
Volume 1
Studio album by Mark Mothersbaugh
Released	1988
Recorded	1985–1988
Studio	Devo Studios (Marina del Rey, California)
Genre	Muzak new age Progressive electronic
Label	Enigma Rykodisc
Producer	Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh chronology
Muzik for Insomniaks, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (1988) Joyeux Mutato (1999)
Muzik for Insomniaks
Volume 2

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.^[1][2]

Muzik for Insomniaks is also the title of an album by Mothersbaugh released in Japan in 1985. This was released as part of the cassette magazine TRA after Mothersbaugh was given copies of the magazine by Hajime Tachibana, and asked if he could contribute. Only 10,000 copies were made of each TRA release, with Mothersbaugh's album also packaged with a deck of playing cards.^[3]

Track listing

Muzik for Insomniaks Volume 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Osoy"	2:03
2.	"Chechi"	3:42
3.	"Rojaero"	3:35
4.	"Mayoma"	4:04
5.	"Lifelong"	3:24
6.	"XP25"	5:33
7.	"XP39"	9:39
8.	"XP26"	3:34
9.	"XP29"	5:22
10.	"XP27"	11:19
11.	"XP28"	9:10
12.	"XP32"	6:31
13.	"XP31"	3:38
14.	"Index"	2:42

All tracks are written by Mark Mothersbaugh.

Muzik for Insomniaks Volume 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Ugo"	4:20
2.	"Slactime"	6:58
3.	"Movmnt"	4:12
4.	"XP105"	4:32
5.	"XP137"	4:09
6.	"Dayone"	8:15
7.	"Chance"	4:24
8.	"XP104"	5:56
9.	"Mallota"	3:38
10.	"Barcelon"	3:32
11.	"Niberia"	2:20
12.	"Keikavid"	3:47
13.	"Bonzaiko"	2:45
14.	"XP1010"	4:22
15.	"Trebrene"	6:03
16.	"Index"	3:20

Personnel

Credits are adapted from both of the album's liner notes which are identical.^[4][5]

• Mark Mothersbaugh – Fairlight CMI Series IIx programming; Roland keyboards; arrangements

Production team

• Mark Mothersbaugh – producer; art direction
• Bob Casale – engineering; mixing
• Patrick Pending – art direction
• David Lomeli – art assistance
• Jonathan Gelber – photography