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Spät-Europa Die Stadt DS68 CD £12.99 Asmus Tietchens is a major player in the European avant garde and a consistently prolific thinker who has single-handedly formulated and discarded a whole host of advanced operating paradigms. His career stretches right back to the late 70 when he collaborated with the German electronic duo Cluster during the same period that they were engaged in working with Brian Eno. From there he launched a series of beautiful electro-harmonic recordings that pushed the envelope for machine music in much the same way that the early Harmonia and Cluster releases had. In the mid-80s he became involved with Nurse With Wound and Christoph Heemann’s HNAS and his own music became more focussed on blank tones, Industrial-scale ambience and the philosophy of decay and despair as articulated by the Romanian philosopher E M Cioran. These days he also works more rhythmic territories, often in the company of Thomas Köner as half of Kontakte der Junglinge. |
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4K7 Vinyl On Demand VOD-40B 4xLP Box Set + 7" £59.99 Another jaw-dropping box set from the Vinyl On Demand label, this one bundles all four of Euro Industrial/electronic artist Asmus Tietchens notoriously limited early cassette albums, originally released in the early 80s on David Elliott’s (publisher of the great UK Kraut zine Neumusik) York House Records and briefly reissued in 1987 on Auricle. The music stems from an even earlier date, running from 1975 through 1979, when Tietchens was still playing a mix of melodic Kraut synth stylings ala Harmonia, beautifully reductive drone vistas and the kind of vast Industrial spaceways that you could drown in for weeks. Call me a sucker – and not to take anything away from the massive import of his later work – but the early Tietchens is the place I’d set up camp. And this box is as fine a tent as any. Beautifully packaged as ever, the box comes with four LPs in individual sleeves, white vinyl pressings and in a numbered edition of only 600 copies with the subscribers-only bonus 7" Musik Hinter Glas featuring two unreleased works from 1976. Highly recommended! |
