Asmus Tietchens

Synthesizer experimentalist and musique concrète producer Asmus Tietchens began recording in the mid-'60s and continued to record three decades after that. Born in 1947 and based in Hamburg, Tietchens listened to German radio as a child and heard pioneering electric transmissions by the likes of Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig. He began recording his own home experiments in 1965 with crude reverb devices and picked up a MiniMoog several years later. Also influenced by atonal Kraut-rockers like Cluster and Faust, Tietchens met Okko Bekker and began a partnership that lasted for decades (Bekker has produced most of Tietchens' work). After Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann heard a tape of his work, he produced Tietchens' debut album Nachtstücke, released in 1980 on Sky Records. His four albums for Sky during the early '80s focused on surprisingly accessible electronic pop, though 1984's Formen Letzter Hausmusik (recorded for Nurse with Wound's United Dairies label) began a period of more abstract, concrète recordings that often use tape experiments as well as synthesizers. During the '90s, Tietchens recorded for experimental labels Barooni, Staalplaat and Syrenia, the latter a 1996 collaboration with Vidna Obmana. Since 1990, he has also taught sound at a Hamburg university.

• 1980 - Nachtstücke - 320 Kbps
• 1981 - Biotop - 320 Kbps
• 1982 - Spät-Europa - 320 Kbps
• 1982 - In Die Nacht - 320 Kbps
• 1982 - Musik An Der Grenze - 320 Kbps
• 1983 - Litia - 320 Kbps
• 1984 - Formen Letzter Hausmusik - 320 Kbps
• 1985 - Seuchengebiete - 320 Kbps
• 1986 - Geboren, Um Zu Dienen - 320 Kbps
• 1986 - Notturno - 320 Kbps
• 1986 - Watching The Burning Bride [with Terry Burrows] - 320 Kbps
• 1988 - Aus Freude Am Elend - 320 Kbps
• 1988 - Linea - 320 Kbps
• 1988 - Face To Face Vol. 1 [with Die Form] - 320 Kbps
• 1989 - Marches Funèbres - 320 Kbps
• 1989 - Abfleischung - 320 Kbps
• 1990 - Stupor Mundi - 320 Kbps
• 1991 - Seuchengebiete 2 - 320 Kbps
• 1991 - Raum 318 - 320 Kbps
• 1991 - Grav [with PGR & Merzbow] - 320 Kbps
• 1991 - Sinkende Schwimmer - 320 Kbps
• 1992 - Five Manifestoes [with PBK] - 320 Kbps
• 1993 - DBL_FDBK [with Arcane Device] - 192 Kbps
• 1993 - Das Fest Is Zu Ende. Aus. - 320 Kbps
• 1994 - Die Nacht Aus Blei - 320 Kbps
• 1995 - Asmus Tietchens. Vidna Obmana. [with Vidna Obmana] - 320 Kbps
• 1996 - Speiseleitung [with Arcane Device] - 256 Kbps
• 1996 - Das Vieh Und Sein Vater - 320 Kbps
• 1997 - Seuchengebiete 3 - 320 Kbps
• 1997 - Das Digitale Vertrauen [with Edward Ka-Spel & Jetzmann/L.Ski] - 320 Kbps
• 1998 - Repetetive Movement [with Achim Wollscheid] - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - Glimmen - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - Stockholmer Totentanz [with Okko Bekker] - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - Motives For Recycling [with Vidna Obmana] - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - α-Menge - 320 Kbps
• 2001 - β-Menge - 320 Kbps
• 2001 - Flussdichte [with with David Lee Myers] - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - The Shifts Recyclings [with Vidna Obmana] - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - γ-Menge - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - Eisgang / Dämmerattacke - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - δ-Menge - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Sechs Heidelberger Studien - 320 Kbps
• 2004 - 60:00 [with David Lee Myers] - 320 Kbps
• 2004 - Eine Ganze Menge - 320 Kbps
• 2005 - ε-Menge - 320 Kbps
• 2006 - Verstreutes 2 - 320 Kbps
• 2006 - ζ-Menge - 320 Kbps
• 2006 - Zwingburgen Des Hedonismus - Mysterien Des Hafens - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - Fabrication [with Richard Chartier] - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - Acht Stücke [with Jon Mueller] - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - 4K7 - 320 Kbps
• 2008 - η-Menge - 320 Kbps
• 2008 - Teils Teils - 234-313 Kbps
• 2009 - Flächen Mit Figuren - 320 Kbps
• 2009 - Eine Menge Papier - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - Abraum - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - Fabrication 2 [with Richard Chartier] - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - Soirée - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - Asmus Tietchens / Kouhei Matsunaga [with Kouhei Matsunaga] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Moebius + Tietchens [with Dieter Moebius] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Untitled [with Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg & Thomas Köner] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Der Fünfte Himmel - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Humoresken Und Vektoren - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Ornamente (zwischen Null und Eins) - 320 Kbps

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