Browse by Label: TONSCHACHT (GERMANY)

Artist:	A.F.R.I. STUDIO
Title:	Room Service (Part 1-3_
Label:	TONSCHACHT (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	TONS 003

"The second release of a.f.r.i. studios, a project of the Cologne-based Andres Krause. as on his debut CD which appeared last year on his own BMB Lab-label he's creating atmospheric electronic music which could be compared to releases on, say, Meme or Rastermusic. It is not only his almost Ikedaesque use of 'sinewaves', but his combination of them with the linear, almost narrative construction of loops that makes the three parts of this record so fascinating."

Artist:	SUCHY, JOSEPH
Title:	Tau
Label:	TONSCHACHT (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$6.00
Catalog #:	TONS 005

"Already on his first 7" from the early 90s the Cologne-based guitar-maniac Joseph Suchy explored the possibilities of the coalition between guitar and electronics, then together with Jan St. Werner and F.X. Randomiz on the long o/p first release of their Gefriem-label. Some years have passed since and Suchy is now working with guitar plus electronics on his own -- the first results of these works were released on Grob which he is also co-running; this is his second release of his heavily reworked, bombastic walls of sounds -- which let you know how Hendrix would have sounded in the 00s. Or Ron Asheton in the age of glitch. Or whatever."

Artist:	JAZZKAMMER
Title:	Knitter
Label:	TONSCHACHT (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	TONS 013

"Knitter is the first 7" from this Norwegian duo -- guitarist, improviser and composer John Hegre (also in Der Brief) and Lasse Marhaug, one of the most productive musicians in the international noise/experimental underground of the last 10 years. Jazzkammer combines timbre sound textures, drones, crashing noise, digitalia, field recordings, turntables, static electric atmospheres, samplers sine waves and location recordings, all used in free improvisation to create fragmented, eclectic and relentless yet focused and massive collages. 'A-sia' might remind you of mixture between the hi-speed electronics of Belgian irregularities scratch pet land and the microsound-turntablism alà Otomo Yoshihide or Martin Tétreault, 'b-sia' begins like 'Pop' defined by the Tochnit Aleph crew, but slowly between layers of distortions there rise sweet, Fenneszian melody as if they were re-arranged by Rudolf E.ber."

Artist:	FIBO-TRESPO
Title:	A Hoax. A Scam. A Phony.
Label:	TONSCHACHT (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$7.00
Catalog #:	TONS 014

"Fibo-Trespo is the project of DJ/multi-instrumentalist Sindre Bjerga from Stavanger/Norway (owner of the Gold Soundz label and zine), mainly as a duo with Kjetil D. Brandsdal. Together they explored different subgenres of experimental music, from field recordings via music concrète to improv and back, on several tapes and 7''s and a very special sort of rock-deconstruction on their first LP (on Smalltown Supersound), which at the same time contained already less improvisation, more electronics, samples, electric toys. This direction which is further developed on this 7". A hoax. A scam. A phony is the first Fibo-Trespo record Bjerga released together with Andres Gjerde (owner of the Humbug label). Side A contains a more ambient piece which consists of melancholic organ melodies mixed with miniatures on a toy-piano and a wild oscilloscope sounds like a homemade scifi-soundtrack in the vein of Forbidden Planet. Side B begins as a thick, multi-layered and heavily distorted drone piece -- which lets you know how a jam-session between the vibracathedral orchestra with Tony Conrad could sound like -- and ends in abstract, celestial reverb. Those two very different sides illustrates the eclecticism inside the cosmos of Fibo-Trespo's homemade weirdness which sometimes isn't that far away from the genius of early Royal Trux."

Artist:	SCHAEFER, JANEK
Title:	Early Electronic Compositions
Label:	TONSCHACHT (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	TONS 016

"Both of these compositions were produced while I was working freelance for de Rijke Marsh Morgan architects in London. One afternoon I had a message to call a guy named 'Jet Mistry' who worked for the lift company Thyssen. He was a chatty guy so we talked about names etc, and I decided to dedicate a track to his as I liked it so much. This was produced using an 'RS Integrator' analog patch bay synthesizer that I'd bought around then with the profits of working a 96 hours week on a new London park competition. Another project we produced at the practice was a quirky, live, stop frame short video showcasing various projects for a touring architecture exhibition. I was asked to edit and produce the sound. Side B is a 7" mix with the spoken sections removed."

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