Wurmloch Variationen, by Stephan Mathieu

Wurmloch Variationen

by Stephan Mathieu

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sehrsehr I’d bought it 20 years ago, if only I‘d known about it. Very satisfying to be able to do it now. Favorite track: Variation Eins.

In.Visible.Generator Algorhytmic borderlined sound sculpting that creates an iconic space. Impressive how very less it aged. A great choice to reprint it on vinyl.

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First pressing, 12" vinyl version of Wurmloch Variationen with brand new artwork and insert. Pressed on 180g black vinyl. Limited to 300 copies.

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2.	Variation Eins 10:52	buy track
3.	Flimmer 09:15	buy track
4.	Variation Zwei 05:00	buy track
5.	Variation Drei 07:28	buy track
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For the past 20 years, German composer Stephan Mathieu has been steadfast in pushing his electro-acoustic alchemy to unique and personal places. His debut LP release on Ritornell in 2000, Wurmloch Variationen, would come to define the sound of ambient music for the two decades that followed.

This October, on the 20th anniversary of its release, Wurmloch Variationen will be issued for the first time on vinyl by Dublin-based label Weeding. The album has been astutely remastered by Stephan Mathieu himself, with an extra piece restored from the original sessions at Pixelland, and brand new reimagined artwork from designer Carolina Mikalef.

In the tradition of avant-garde minimalists like Alvien Lucier, Pauline Oliverios and Yoshi Wada, but released at the turn of the century when glitch and abstract techno dominated the European electronic underground, Wurmloch Variationen is environmental music. It feels ambient in a sense that it flows with your surroundings and augments that space, but the ambience too becomes its own absorbent landscape in the evirons between your headphones.

Low-lying drones layered with the glitching of downed pylons, swelling synths reducing down into the hum of your hardware running hot, with the stillness of a yearning piano shimmering through the rising dust; the record can sound like the painfully personal and homespun sounds of Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet, at the same time as preserving the defiantly futurist attitude of the noisiest experimentalists like Ikue Mori or Mark Fell.

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released October 14, 2020

Wurmloch Varationen was recorded in 1998 at Pixelland, Saarbrücken.

I-III and V-VI originally released in September 2000 by Ritornell.

I-VI remastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering.

Mastercut engineered by Lupo Lubich at Loop-o Mastering.

Reissued September 2020 by Weeding.

Artwork and design by Caro Mikalef at Cabina.

Distributed worldwide by Boomkat.

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