2x cd-audio
release date: 30.07.2010
artists:  VARIOUS
title: VIVA NEGATIVA! A TRIBUTE TO THE NEW BLOCKADERS VOL. II EUROPE
order no.: aatp28
Label code (LC): 01291
time: disc 1: 73:53 min; disc 2: 71:28 min
16 pp full colour booklet with artwork by R. Rupenus; mastered by Asmus Tietchens
500 copies, jewel case

Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders: Volume II: Europe
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, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Giancarlo Toniutti, Christian Renou, Jerome Noetinger, Alexei Borisov, Lasse Marhaug, Massimo, Cisfinitum, Sudden Infant, Kommissar Hjuler, Freiband, Achim Wollscheid, Mama Baer, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Dave Philips, Vortex Campaign, Vom Grill, Zbigniew Karkowski, Grunt, Pita, Treriksroset, Benzo, Eshak, RLW.

The New Blockaders are a group who, more than any other, define the essence of true Noise music both in art and in act. Their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Prurient and Wolf Eyes is immeasurable. Emerging at the beginning of the 1980s alongside the Industrial grind of Throbbing Gristle and the harsh, abrasive Power Electronics of Whitehouse, TNB stood out through a purity of vision. Their first record, 1982’s Changez Les Blockeurs, is noise in its most rudimentary form: metallic grating sounds and analogue feedback redefined what could be classified as music. Its abstract form and Dadaist construction challenged all that had appeared before. It’s anti-music approach presented a recording closer to the theory-driven work of Einsturzende Neubauten than their supposed contemporaries.They would appear rarely and when they did it would be in anonymity. The records would emerge even more infrequently with little information and in tiny runs. Collaborations in recent years with artists such as Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Merzbow have brough their anti-sound to a younger and diverse audience. The metal-bashing of K2, the awkwardness of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, the density of Macronympha and the abrasiveness of Merzbow all owe something to the anti-music of TNB. They can truly be credited as pioneers of Noise music as we know it today.

Info:
www.thenewblockaders.org.uk

price: 18,00 euro
wholesale requests welcome

On “Fabrication 2″:

„Fabrication 2″ ist the sequel to “Fabrication”, the first collaboration between Richard Chartier and Asmus Tietchens released in 2007. Whereas for the first collab the idea developed from the project around reinterpretations of Chartier’s “Postfabricated” this time the efforts where directly focussed on the reinterpretation of specific basic sound material. This basic sound material can be found on the first disc in the set “Prefabrication 2″ which was constructed by Richard Chartier alone in Montreal and Washington, DC. “Fabrication 2″ is the reworking of this sonic basis by Asmus Tietchens. Whereas the first CD has traces of subtle dematerialized rhythmic structures the second disc is a study in minimalism and concentrated sound manipulation.

Richard Chartier (b.1971), sound and installation artist, is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist electronic sound art which has been termed both “microsound” and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself.

Chartier’s critically acclaimed sound works have been published over the past 12 years as 38 compact discs on labels such as 12k/LINE (US), Raster-Noton (Germany), Spekk (Japan), Non Visual Objects (Austria), Room40 (Australia), Die Stadt (Germany), DSP (Italy), ERS (Netherlands), and Trente Oiseaux (Germany). He has collaborated with noted sound artists Taylor Deupree, William Basinski, CoH, and German pioneer Asmus Tietchens, as well as installation artists Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand, and visual artist Linn Meyers.

Asmus Tietchens has been producing electronic music since the 1960ies and is one of the most renowned sound artists today in Germany. In the last five years he was awarded twice the SWR state radio prize “Karl Sczuka Preis” for radio art. He has released more than 80 records and CDs on labels all around the world.

Info:
www.aufabwegen.com
www.3particles.com
www.tietchens.de

18,00 euros plus postage
order from zipo@aufabwegen.com

A U F  A B W E G E N  RELEASE INFO

cd-audio
release date: 12.04.2009
artist:  ASMUS TIETCHENS
title: EINE MENGE PAPIER
order no.: aatp27
time: 20:40 min
full colour paper sleeve, printed inner sleeve, mini-cd on clear full size printed 8” disc 500 copies / designed by Asmus Tietchens

On “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 two tracks were planned for a follow up 7” on the same label that never materialized. The fifth track is a study of sonic material in the same series. There are two further tracks from the P.I.G. series that are considered by the artists as failed attemps. These remain in the closet. The five sonic movements on “Eine Menge Papier” go back to the Tietchens sound right before he started the Mengen series, using primarily sine waves and white noise. “Eine Menge Papier” is an interesting documentation of the transitioin in Tietchens’ sound from the concretish, post-industrial rumblings and textures to the more refined, abstract and cold atmospheres.
Asmus Tietchens has been producing electronic music since the 1960ies and is one of the most renowned sound artists today in Germany. In the last five years he was awarded twice the SWR state radio prize “Karl Sczuka Preis” for radio art. He has released more than 80 records and CDs on labels all around the world.
Info:
www.aufabwegen.com
www.tietchens.de

DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE:
Neunundvierzig Entgleisungen 2×10″ records
catalogue no.: aatp23
full colour sleeve, black vinyl, edition of 500
total playing time: appr. 40 mins.
price: 18,00 (available)

aufabwegen is very proud to offer a new release by what we consider to be one of germany’s most important sound projects: DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE. DSM is now the sole project of guido huebner, who has been working in the medium of sound and found objects since the early 1980ies. DSM have their very own take on the spatialization of sound and the moving around of sonic objects in the stero field. the overall impression is of rawness and fragility at the same time. the music on these two 10″ records is super-dynamic and fragmentated and sounds very fresh and alive.
DSM have collaborated over the years with artists such as Michael Northam, Frans de Waard, New Blockaders, MSBR and many more and have released material on various labels around the globe. DSM have played many concerts all over and have combined their sound with different art froms, such as projections, film, dance and even conducting workshops fro kids.
“neunundvierzig entgleisungen” comes in a full cover fold sleeve and is slipped in a stable plastic seethrough. it plays on 45rpm, even if the label prints instructs you to run it at 33.
the record was recorded by guido huebner and features texts by jean rene lasalle and artwork (paintings reproduced) by francoise vigot. it was layouted by stefan hanser (anemone tube), mastered by josef suchy and cut by lupo at dubplates & mastering.

23.10.2008 /Workshop ab 14 h / Konzerte 21 h
Kulturbunker Mülheim / Berliner Str. 20 / 51063 Köln

open ears: open world
Workshop + Konzert mit

Kapotte Muziek (NL, Staalplaat, Korm Plastics)
Tarkatak (Bremen, Dachstuhl)

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10” vinyl EP
release date: 09.06.2008
artist: BARBED
title: Through The Barricades
catalogue no.: td#6
time: appr. 23 min., 6 tracks
full colour sleeve / 500 copies / designed by Barbed
Available: 8,00 Euros

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2x cd-audio
release date: 27.04.2008
artist: CARL MICHAEL VON HAUSSWOLFF
title: PERHAPS I ARRIVE – music for Atatürk Airport, Istanbul
catalogue no.: aatp25
time: CD 1: 61:09; CD 2: 46:36 min
full colour digipak / 500 copies / designed by Akifumi Nakajima (Aube)
Available:  18,00 Euros

On “Perhaps I Arrive”:
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. His classic sound combining low frequency rumblings, very monotonous oscillations and hissy non-narrative sequences was deemed too confusing for the commutors.

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cd-audio
release date: 27.01.2008
artist: TOY.BIZARRE & PIERRE REDON
catalogue.: aatp24
time: 47:55 min
full colour digipak / 500 copies / designed by Pierre Redon
Available: 13,00 Euros

About 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 recordings, detailed electro-acoustic passages, swelling metallic drones and amplified silences.

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cd-audio
release date: 17.11.2007
artist: ASMUS TIETCHENS/JON MUELLER
title: ACHT STÜCKE
order no.: aatp20
time: 53:08 min
full colour paper sleeve / 500 copies / designed by Asmus Tietchens
Available: 13,00 Euros

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