Auf Abwegen
Auf abwegen is a magazine for music and culture and an experimental music label focused on uncompromising sound research. It plunges the depths of counter-culture since 1992, with the magazine and label's main focus being on the various forms of alternative music.
Untitled #205
Based exclusively on end grooves from vintage records, 'untitled #205' is a straightforward and joyful exploration of the potential for reincarnation of these unintended sonic structures into new life. More a tool than a final product, it delves i…
Temporary Audiosculptures And Artefacts
* 300 copies * Trying to set musical events in a sculptural form, the Düsseldorf/Wuppertal based artist and musician Detlef Funder (a.k.a. Konrad Kraft), develops the temporary audio-sculpture. Knowing that a tonal event can never take the materialit…
Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders Vol. II
Volume II in a series of UK / European / US and Japanese artists' tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by : Asmus Tietchens, RLW, Achim Wollscheid, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant, Dave P…
Fabrication 2
'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 Postfa…
20 zonen
Produced in 2010 for a radio broadcast on Germany's hr2-kultur radio, 20 Zonen (20 Zones) is Marc Behrens' homage to Darmstadt, Germany, his hometown, and in particular the city's Kranichstein district, where he grew up and learned to listen. Beh…
The rainbow mirrors a burning heart
Fear Falls Burning - With all the power, noise, aggression and subtlety that comes from a single man performing real-time on the electric guitar through a maze of pedal effects, notes and chords shifting and multiplying over time into dense and tranc…
Mondo Paradoxa
Constructed over the period of two years via mail collaboration this is a great and forceful collaboration between two artists that each have made a name for themselves with their unique approach to making sound. KKNULL is a master of feedback studie…
Eine Menge Papier
“Eine Menge Papier” assembles 20 minutes of sounds derived from using paper as the sound souce. Two tracks originally came out as a limited 7” record on the austrian Syntactic label in the 1990ies and appear here for the first time on CD. The other t…
Sold Out
perhaps I arrive - music for Atatürk Airport, Istanbul
This double disc set includes some of the most unusual sounds you will have heard from Carl Michael von Hausswolff. The story goes like this. Von Hausswolff was chosen by the 1997 Istanbul Biennal to create a sound installation for Atatürk Airport. H…
Saisons
This collaborative effort brings us some of the most beautiful and atmospheric instances of composition with nature. The four tracks, some solitary works, some creatied by using field sourcings of the opponent, feature subtle wildlife field recording…
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…
Entity Mülheim
Double DVD (region free, ntsc) release documenting a sound installation dealing with the suburb Muelheim in the City of Cologne. Based on field recordings, interviews with the population and photographs the sound-video-installation presented a very p…
Animistic (for Donatella)
Animistic [for Donatella], CD album in DVD case with 7 full colour photo cards. This CD contains two pieces, 'Animistic (for Donatella)' concentrating on mixing location recordings with 'played' objects to obtain a complex soundscape in three parts t…
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,…
5 {Zwischenfälle}
2007 release ** "5(zwischenfaelle) is the latest release by dutch electronic musician Roel Meelkop. It is a special release in Meelkop’s catalogue because it is consist of five piece that were originally used in the context of sound installations run…
Sold Out
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 …
Feldaufnahmen
Feldaufnahmen I is the first release in a series of pure filed recordings by german multi-disciplinary experimental group Column One. The 12 recordings where collected in east Germany in the Polenztal within the mountain range called Elbsandsteingebi…
Plate tectonics
'Crawling back into the wound: NID 1995 - 2007. NID is an experimental group whose aim it is to challenge conventional concepts and structures of electronic music by experimenting with the source of sounds. The music is created on the spot, making ea…
Disambiguation
Limited edition of 500 copies, CD in full colour paper sleeve.Disambiguation [46:25]'Disambiguation' is the third CD from the duo of Zbigniew Karkowski and Kaspar T. Toeplitz. It features one ongoing stream of grey, heavy and disturbing noises. It co…
Verstreutes 2
Second revised and expanded edition of our book about the work of Asmus Tietchens. The book is in GERMAN. It includes essays about Tietchens, a fully commentated discography up to December 2005, short prose by Tietchens and a 70 minute CD collecting …
transference
Christian Renou, the french man behind the project Brume, reworks tracks by german artist Anemone Tube. The result is a mixcture of dense soundscapes, crackling analogue manipulations and occasional outbursts of noise. Underneath the rumbling lies a …
Zodiac
2002 release ** "Andrew Lagowski's dark ambient soundscapes are nothing less than a penetration into the most hidden and sun-drenched aspects of human psycho-geography. Other projects include work for S.E.T.I., Lustmord, and Graeme Revell. "Zodiac" i…
Schauzeichen
This 10" is the most condensed kind of a summary of the sound of [multer] in its whole variety from 1997 to 2003. From abstract soundscapes with added field-recordings to hypnotically looping song-derivates or even shorter running proto-tech. ………and …
Through The Barricades
Barbed are Alex Burrow and Alex McKechnie. They formed in London in 1988, and spent the next six years working on their “album”. During that time they worked pretty much 14 hours a day, seven days a week. They didn’t go out or see anyone. Their high …
Carl's On Acit
After quite some silence here come two unheard tracks by the mysterious German duo Cranioclast. In keeping with the spirit of the 10” travel document series, issued by the krev ministry of detours, Cranioclast provide two rhythmic tracks in the form …
:existence
2001 release ** Limited hand-numbered edition of 500 copies. "This is the first real CD release from the German Anemone Tube, previously having released a load of tapes, vinyl and CDRs. Originally this was supposed to be Anemone Tubes last release, …
Lisa Says
This LP captures the transcontinental collaboration between artists Mattin and Richard Francis with sounds recorded in Stockholm, Berlin and Auckland, NZ. The mixdown portrays the current state of affairs in improvised noise noise: filtered gritty s…
Sold Out