Aux Raus was founded in 1545, following the re-discovery of the pentatonic scale. During the almost 300 years of colonial rule the working conditions in the band were so appalling that often, band-members survived no more than 6 months. It has been estimated that between 1545 and 1825, 8 million band-members died.
The music reforms of 1952 brought some bands - including Aux Raus - under government control, and music conditions improved. The government bands had to stop in the early 1990's because record sales fell. Most operations are now in the control of musician-owned cooperatives. All work is done by hand under conditions that have changed little from the colonial period. Today, Aux Raus ?or, what's left of it - consists of the two sole survivors Bastiaan Bosma and Luuk Bouwman. All words are ambiguous and even children knowthat because of this the possibility of a complete interpretation is impossible. Language shapes us and can give us a surplus of possibilities. It can also narrow down things: we often find ourselves playing the roles we are expected to play. Think of the neo-punks who continually misperceive their middle finger as provocation rather than an automatic response shaped by linguistic structures over which they have no control.
Rock is repeating itself. Why then start another band? Why do girls like horses? What exactly is the power of Grey Skull? Yet another example of the settled bedrock of cynical rationalism that inspires the academic scientist. As for Aux Raus, the messenger is more important than the message, and vice versa.

Aux Raus is part of the label: Nuevos Ricos

…What do you feel?

After that the band played on almost all club stages in the Netherlands and did a great deal of (dutch) summer festivals, including the free 300.000 people Parkpop festival. They’d also played, on designers invitation, at a fashion show in Paris.

Reviews of their November 2003 released EP “…From the Factory” were extremely positive: “It’s a beautiful cd with a, for our era, very peculiar idiom” and “MeloManics make dance songs without being dominantly electronic and rock music without sounding macho”.
Also national radio got an eye on the band and played their cd on regular basis. As a “thank you” the band supported de stations playing live in the studios.

For the band, 2006 will (again) be a productive year. They will release their first official 12-inch single in early april. After that there will be some extensive touring throughout the Netherlands.
Under the influence of a great deal of bands, such as: Kraftwerk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Daftpunk, Zoot Woman, New Order, Faith no More, Devo, the Rapture, Primal Scream, NERD and Bloc Party they have created an ever increasing fanbase.

MeloManics sounds,--opzwepend---, organic and dirty as hell !!!

Melomanics is also part of the great: Blacklabel

„Catchy lyrics accompanied by electro groovebox, heavy metal guitar, and a highpitched rockbitch upfront. Mignon’s lyrics are as domineering as they are playful, demonic beats and slithering synthesisers crawl at her feet as she consumes and projects all the music’s hellish glory. Mignon the merciless never leaves a boast unwarranted; you’ll know this if you have ever caught one of her live performances. She will however, leave you enslaved by her metallic, satanic, rap trapping electro-voodoo Mignon´s live show, rocking and shocking, erupts with a violent combination of face-paint and smoke-bombs. Nurses and Military ensembles, fake knives and Freddy Kruger-esque gloves all get their turn. It’s almost as if Rob Zombie had raised her from the dead and sent one too many bolts of electricity to the brain. As Mignon heightens the pace, her heels flying far off the floor she performs with gratification and that alone compels you to dance like the devil.“
Mignon´s stage presence is so comanding that Peaches has taken her around the world.They charmed England at the Leeds and Reading Festival in 02.Australia and New Zealand for the „Big Day Out“ also Spain, Germany and Poland. They also sprayed the scent of rock while supporting „Queens Of The Stoneage“ and And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead in Northamerica through the fall of 2002.

Mignon has been steadily displaying her metalbitch performance to an enthusiastic audience since early 2002.She played at the New York Electroclash-Festival and Arthur Bakers Festival in London“ Return to NewYork „ opening for Pink Grease. Mignon played allover Europe and played Festivals in Germany,Switzerland and France, opening for Ellen Alien and Chicks on Speed. She also opened for ..Trail of Dead..“ in Germany on their Tour 2004.

Mignon is heard on several compilations and is also featured on Peaches current album „Fatherfucker“ released by XL records.

All songs on the Mignon Debut are written and produced by herself.
Invited guests round out the album:
Lady Miss Kier(ex-Deelite), Peaches, Thomas Wydler(Bad Seeds), Gonzales and Taylor Savvy, Quan Yeomans, guitarist of innovative Aussie-bordercrossers Regurgitator

Mignon is also part of the great: Badgirl records and Pale music