condition (record/cover): NM / NM

A 1993 LP on Dom Elchklang, the successor imprint that replaced the long-running Dom label when Dom folded that same year after a decade of German industrial-experimental-electronic releases (1983-1993). Maat's Konstruktionen sits near the start of the Dom Elchklang catalogue and inherits the earlier label's house preference for austere graphic design and small-edition vinyl in the tradition of the old Aachen industrial underground.

The album's sonic method operates on a compelling balance between minimalism and textural richness, as the original sales copy usefully put it: long stretches of spare, almost arid electronic tone, punctuated by careful insertions of processed concrète material. This was the direction a number of the late-Dom and early-Dom Elchklang artists were pursuing, close to the contemporaneous work of Kallabris, Cranioclast, and the quieter end of H.N.A.S.

Maat issued relatively little material and has never been one of the more visibly documented projects on the German experimental circuit, but the Dom Elchklang provenance gives Konstruktionen its specific position in the family tree. A compact, carefully composed LP that repays patient listening and belongs on the same shelf as the label's surrounding catalogue numbers.