Asmus Tietchens
Asmus Tietchens has called his work "absolute music": sound with no story attached, built from tape loops, synthesizers and, later, minute transformations of recorded objects and water. Born in Hamburg in 1947, he began experimenting with tape in 1965, and his first albums for Sky Records around 1980, produced by Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream, were still oddly tuneful electronic miniatures. From Formen letzter Hausmusik (1984), released on Nurse With Wound's United Dairies label, he moved into abstract sound collage and never came back.
Seuchengebiete 3
original, long time deleted edition of 500 copies, a static massive drone work, with a repetitive material that evolves/distortes/returns one piece uses an orchestral source that is looped etc etc and another is a fairly simple synth pattern that cha…
Acht Stücke
Second collaborative effort between german sound manipulation pioneer Asmus Tietchens and american improv-drummer Jon Mueller. The CD features 8 tracks that run up to 53 minutes. Jon Mueller on the second collaboration: "The previous collaboration be…
Sinkende Schwimmer
beautiful Asmus Tietchens / Thomas Köner CD with droning soundscapes all over - produced by legendar Okko Bekker, long out of print
Formen letzter Hausmusik
Part six in the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums on CD. »Formen letzter Hausmusik« was originally released on UNITED DAIRIES (the label run by Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound) in 1984. The original album consisted of a m…
Untitled Songs
2005 release ** This new double CD compilation project departs by celebrating the seminal Gesang der Jünglinge by Karlheinz Stockhausen. 21 sound artists and composers share their views upon this piece and reflect its groundbreaking dimension, as for…
Fabrication
The first collaboration by these two renowned sound artists. Fabrication saw its beginning during the production of Re-post-refabricated, a project in which artists were selected by Richard Chartier to rework/create new works from his 1998 CD Postfab…
7 Stücke
First collaboration between Tietchens & Mueller, the man behind the fabulous crouton music label. On '7 stücke' Tietchens has reworked Mueller's drum head sounds and formed them into a subtle yawning, moving and buzzing soundstream. a beautiful work,…
Z-menge
LINE is proud to present Z-Menge the new installment of the continuing Mengen series from influential German electronic music pioneer Asmus Tietchens. LINE will be releasing the subsequent works in this series. Zeta-Menge means Zeta quantity.“Another…
Monographie
Limited edition of 600 copies, 300pp. book with full length CD. Mostly German. This is the second edition of the MONOGRAPHIE ASMUS TIETCHENS - the book about the work of Asmus Tietchens, edited by Kai U. Jürgens. The new edition will have almost 300 …
Notturno
10th part in the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980—1991. »Notturno« was originally released by spanish label Discos Esplendor Geometrico in 1987 and also by Barooni on CD in 1992. Remastered version in a first editi…
Zwingburgen des hedonismus - Mysterien des hafens
Part 9 of the ongoing re-release series of all early Tietchens albums from 1980—1991 on CD. This combines two seperate releases from 1987 (»Zwingburgen des Hedonismus«) and 1988 (»Mysterien des Hafens« on »Face To Face, Vol. 1«). »Zwingburgen des Hed…
Seuchengebiete
7th part in the re-release series of all early Tietchens albums between 1980—1991. Another early Tietchens classic, the first where he only used a single sound source as the basis for a complete album. Originally released on A-Mission in 1985 the CD…