Biography
The Laziest Men on Mars is supposed to be a band, but is in fact the brainchild of Kansas City computer programmer and part-time disc jockey Jeffrey Ray Roberts (1977–2011). Mostly associated with Something Awful, a humor website, the "band" is known primarily for their musical tribute to (site creator) Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka's famous ICQ prank "Space Robot Bonanza" and "Invasion of the Gabber Robots", otherwise known as the background music to the popular "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" Flash animation floating around on the Internet. They have been mentioned in Time magazine.
The "All your base..." music is actually a remix of the video game music by Tatsuya Uemura.
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The name "Laziest Men on Mars" is a reference to a line from the cult film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. In the film, the King of the Martians, Kimar, identifies the comic relief (as such) martian, Dropo, as "the laziest man on Mars". Based on a 1989 Japanese video game, the phrase "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" has spread the internet with high velocity in the early years of the new millennium. The game called Zero Wing (Copyright Toaplan) was translated so poorly that the poor translation used in the game quickly became an internet meme.
On 16 February 2001, user Bad_CRC posted an animated music video accompanying the song onto the Flash game and animation sharing site Newgrounds, depicting several uses of the previously named sentence, sometimes shortened as AYBABTU, with numerous photographs (some clearly digitally altered to include the sentence "All Your Base Are Belong To Us") flashing by to the beat of gabber music accompanied by 'voices' of characters from the game.
The official home base for several editions of the video can be found here, background information can be found on Wikipedia.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.