TIETCHENS, ASMUS

AlbumFormatLabel & Cat. Number DescriptionYear Price (incl. 19% VAT)  
Sinkende Schwimmer CD Barooni BAR 004 rare original BAROONI-CD, feat. basis material of THOMAS KNER on one track; a more "droning" TIETCHENS album with very strange & alien sounds.. 1991 €15.00 Order it!
Das Vieh und sein Vater CD Realization Recordings RZD020 hard to find CD with 18 tracks ranging from 1981-1995 that appeared on MC-only and LP-compilations, many rare tracks! 1996 €13.00 Order it!
Leuchtidioten 10inch Die Stadt DS44 2-track 10" with material recorded during the "Teilmengen" sessions; lim. 500 2002 €11.50 Order it!
Adventures in Sound / Nachtstcke do-CD Die Stadt DS55 re-release of "Nachtstcke" LP (1980) and very early material from 1965-1969. First part of re-release series 2003 €18.00 Order it!
Biotop CD Die Stadt DS 61 re-issue of early TIETCHENS album from 1981 - obscure & pure analog electro-Pop-music, in the typical ASMUS STYLE;) - his second album for Sky Records 2003 €15.00 Order it!
Eine ganze Menge mCD Tausendfssler 004 warehous found, this mini CD feat. 3 tracks (about 20 min.) with three "Teilmengen" tracks, the typical *microwave ambience* from TIETCHENS from this time, somehow glitchy and electronic, sometimes on the border to silence, for a concentrated contemplation in sound and beyond sound...- *sinustne und weies rauschen modifiziert zu riesigen fast-nichts-rumen, abstrakter menschenleere, in schnffelndes und knabberndes* - cardboard cover 2004 €8.00 Order it!
In die Nacht CD Die Stadt DS72 fourth part in the rerelease-series of all early vinyl albums by Asmus Tietchens on CD. This is the third of the SKY albums from 1982 incl. three bonus tracks of unreleased material not included on the original LP. Comes with a poster booklet feat. the original cover artwork. 2004 €15.00 Order it!
Litia CD Die Stadt DS80 re-release of LP from 1983 w. bonus material 2004 €15.00 Order it!
Spt-Europa CD Die Stadt DS68 Nummer Drei der Re-Release-Orgie auf dem feinen Bremer Label. SPT-EUROPA ist eines der vier frhen SKY Records Alben und beinhaltet 20 Miniaturen mit unnachahmlichen frhachtziger analog-Elektronik-Sounds... 2004 €15.00 Order it!
Geboren um zu dienen CD Die Stadt DS 92 re-release of LP from 1986 (Discos Esplendor Geometrico), his legendary "Industrial" album; incl. three bonus tracks and new liner-notes from TIETCHENS 2006 €15.00 Order it!
Monographie edited by Kai U. Jrgens BOOK & CD Auf Abwegen aatp16/ Ludwig ISBN 3-9807006-1-5 second, revised and expanded edition of this book! 300pp paperback book, plus 70 min audio CD "VERSTREUTES 2" only available here, most texts written in German, ed.of 600 2006 €39.9 Order it!
Zwingburgen des Hedonismus / Mysterien des Hafens CD Die Stadt DS96 re-release of these two one-side / split-LP pieces from 1987/1988. First ed. 600 copies 2006 €15.00 Order it!
Notturno CD Die Stadt DS102 one of the very early (originally 1987) TIETCHENS albums from the experimental (somehow post "industrial") phase, re-issued in the DIE STADT CD series, back in stock! - "..eine ganze eigene, verstrende "Alien"-Atmosphre, recht schroff & konkret mit viel verfremdeten Klaviermaterial und wieder bemerkenswerten Titeln wie "Halbe Tanzmusik" - wie auch "Formen letzter Hausmusik" eines der frhen Meisterwerke auf denen sich der hier schon unverkennbare TIETCHENS-Stil deutlich niederschlug." 2007 €15.00 Order it!
Abfleischung CD Die Stadt DS108 re-issue of album from 1989 (Hamster Records), incl. 2 bonus-tracks. 12th part in the re-release series, edition of 600 copies 2008 €14.00 Order it!
Aus Freude am Elend CD Die Stadt DS105 11th part in the re-issue series; originally as LP on DOM in 1988; includes two previously unreleased tracks, ed. of 600 2008 €13.00 Order it!
Abraum CD 1000fssler 017 microscopic ambience work based on field recordings of steel tubes transporting waste during the creation of a new subway-tunnel through Hamburg; lim. 300 - "Obwohl Abraum gerne aus der Menschenferne zitiert, wirken die vier Kompositionen in ihrer sterilen Offenbarung eingesunkener Materiestrme und ziselierten Klangklumpen wie neugewonnenes Gold aus Tietchens audiophiler Alchemie.." [AEMAG] 2010 €13.00 Order it!
Marches Funebres CD Die Stadt DS112 / Auf Abwegen aatp 32 re-issue of LP from 1989 (& 13th part of re-release series); comes with full colour poster booklet, reproduction of the original artwork & bonus-track "Grnschattiger Nachmittag" from 1979; lim. 600 2010 €15.00 Order it!
Soiree CD Line / 12k LINE_051 "recycle the recycled recycling ad infinitum" - extended recyclings of old tracks, until the original pieces vanish completely - presenting here the 10th generation of this process; lim. 500 2011 €12.00 Order it!
Stupor Mundi CD Die Stadt DS114 / Auf Abwegen aatp 41 re-issue of LP from 1989 (Discos Esplendor Geometrico), plus 4 previously unreleased bonus-tracks, lim. 600 (part 14 in the ongoing series of re-releasing all TIETCHENS vinyls 1980-1991) 2012 €15.00 Order it!
Biotop LP Bureau B re-issue of this very early TIETCHENS album from 1981 (the first from his "SKY-phase") presenting short miniatures of his inimitable analogue-electronics of artificial pseudo-pop, using MOOG & drum-machine... 180gr vinyl 2013 €20.00 Order it!
Fast ohne Titel, Korrosion CD Black Rose Recordings BRCD 13-1012 eight different stages of "Ernste Musik" (serious music) on this new TIETCHENS work, the title-names filled with the typical irony but the sounds build a wonderful journey into unorganic micro-sound drones and a kind of electro-acoustic minimalism, with a development from the 'serious' to the absurd &surrealistic... 2013 €13.00 Order it!
Spt-Europa LP Bureau B 'MYTHOS UND GUMMIBRCHEN' - re-issue of this very early TIETCHENS album from 1982 (the second from his "SKY-phase") presenting 20 miniatures of his inimitable analogue-electronic sound between weird pop & industrial 2013 €18.50 Order it!
Der fnfte Himmel LP Bureau B BB LP 156 outtakes from the early "SKY" phase of Hamburgs genius 'anorganic' pseudo-pop magician, all recorded 1980-1983 & previously unpublished !! 2014 €26.00 Order it!
Der fnfte Himmel CD Bureau B BB 156 previously unpublished material / outtakes from 1980-1983 = the early 80's "Pop" phase when TIETCHENS released the 4 LPs on SKY that sound completely different from the rest of his works.... special low priced now! "... fusing rhythmic set pieces and off-kilter sounds into gaudy escapades of saccharine artificiality...." 2014 €10.00 Order it!
Humoresken und Vektoren CD Auf Abwegen aatp 45 16 tracks of very abstract, concrete, detailed & dynamic Tietchens-scapes between 'zero and one' (so to say), with an ironic relation to the 19th century tradition of composing "humoresques" that were not funny at all.. lim. 500 2014 €13.00 Order it!
Nachtstcke LP Bureau B BB LP 155 finally a vinyl re-issue of his very first solo LP from 1980 with recordings from 1975-1978 made on MOOG Sonic Six and Minimoog, produced by PETER BAUMANN (TANGERINE DREAM); strange harmonic ghostly synth-music, revealing even a dark romantic character... 2014 €25.00 Order it!
Ornamente (zwischen Null und Eins) CD Line LINE_073 excellent new album of micro tonal TIETCHENS drones; a more 'ambient' and floating work with 5 movements, incredible strange but somehow fluid sounds not from this earth!! ed. of 400 copies 2015 €15.00 Order it!
Parergon CD Stille Andacht SA 04 'Sounds from te Vacuum' - TIETCHENS continues here to follow the idea of recycling already recycled material, in order to create something completely new (NO remixes), no moods or 'pictures' should be evoked, the basic intention is: JUST LISTEN! 2016 €13.00 Order it!
Dmmerattacke CD Klanggalerie gg251 a new issue of TIETCHENS superb ambient work from 1997, now with a new bonus track ("Franz-Joseph-Land") that was not on the CD re-issue from 2002; "....It reminded me of the very first Werkbund LP, Skagerrak, with that very same submarine below sea surface sound..." [FdW/Vital Weekly] 2017 €15.00 Order it!
Soiree Fantastique mCD Auf Abwegen aatp57 three new pieces of wondrous and mysterious sounds, blurred harmonies appear in otherworldly, somehow subaqueous surroundings.... darker and less micro-sounding as before... this is TIETCHENS as we love him most! Lim. 500 2017 €9.50 Order it!
Linea + CD Klanggalerie gg266 LINEA appeared originally as a cassette on KORM PLASTICS in 1988 (with the two long pieces "Linea 1" and "Linea 3", later once re-issued as CDR); this first time CD issue has about 35 minutes of previously unreleased bonus material ("Linea 12" and "Linea 13") => extremely minimal quasi-rhythmic patterns that move in circles and strange harmonic forms, very hypnotic and slowly shifting in tone and colour... 2018 €14.00 Order it!
Bleiche Brunnen CD Stille Andacht STILLE 5 "Elektronische Musik von uerster Abstraktion. Menschenferne Klnge und Gerusche aus bleichen, vergessenen Brunnen. Porse berreste in verlassenen Landschaften, kristalline Zeugnisse anorganischer Zustnde von hchster Transparenz." - TIETCHENS at his best, electronic sounds that seem to report from non-human, abandoned landscapes.. 3rd album for Stille Andacht that forms a very nice trilogy now 2020 €14.00 Order it!
Abraum Zwo CD Universal Exports UE3 the phantastic follower to "Abraum" (2010), based on the same source recodings from the harbour in Hamburg, but re-processed with different approach.. "...On this new release, everything that reverts to musique concrte is removed, and shimmering sounds is what remains. At times quite droney, but in the world of Asmus Tietchens, nothing is static. Much like the water in the harbour, everything is fluid. Tietchens traces the contour of sound without touching too much upon the sound itself." - ed. of 300 2021 €13.00 Order it!
Ptomaine 1 CD Klanggalerie gg388 PTOMAINE was a 3 x LP release from 1996, a genius re-working of 40 lock grooves from the legendary RRR100 7\" that ended themselves again in a lock groove... => this first ever CD version holds 22 versions of those 40 lock-grooves, now all about 2 1/2 minutes in length, named after three substances playing a role in the intoxication and decomposition of dead bodies: Atropin, Lysin, and Neurin 2021 €15.00 Order it!
Seuchengebiete 4 CD Auf Abwegen AATP83 The "Seuchengebiete" series continues, focused on water- and underwater-sounds, with six more "Hydrophonien", adding maybe more (soft) digital synthesis effects as before, this sounds all mysterious, somehow organic and sensually touching, a masterpiece! ... - "there is something profound about the music, slow, contemplative; maybe the music is a sign of the sorry state of our times..." [Vital Weekly] 2021 €13.50 Order it!
Schatten ohne Licht CD Black Rose Recordings BRCD 21-1019 "Es ist Endlich Still" - this new work is inspired by the radical theory of ULRICH HORSTMANN, who propagates the self-elimination of the human mankind, in order to come back to a peaceful mineral un-organic life... - "There is something profound about the music. It can be slow and is certainly contemplative. Maybe the music is a sign of the state of our times?" 2022 €13.00 Order it!
Ptomaine 2 CD Klanggalerie gg415 PTOMAINE was a 3 x LP release from 1996, a genius re-working of 40 lock grooves from the legendary RRR100 7\" that all ended themselves again in a lock groove...=> this 2nd part of the first ever CD version holds another 24 tracks based on 3 lock grooves, named after three organic substances with poisonous effects: PUTRECIN, OMITHIN, CONIIN (Ptomaine means \"cadaveric poison\") !! 2023 €15.00 Order it!
Conclusio CD Die Stadt - DS 124 "Die Schwere Der Leere" - 12 new eerie tracks of his "absolute music" rec. 2025, with a truly fitting E.M. CIORAN quote! - "...in besonderem Mae unheimlich, durchzogen von einer Atmosphre des Irritierenden. Das im Innern der CD abgebildete Gesicht einer Person, deren Mund zum Schrei geweitet ist, das karge Interieur des Covers und das die Rckseite zierende Bild mit dem Wort Auflsung tragen ihr briges dazu bei, ein Schaudern auszulsen." (MG / African Paper] 2025 €15.00 Order it!