Dieter Moebius and Asmus Tietchens last collaborated together on Moebius' project Liliental in 1976 so this joint venture has been a long time coming.
Moebius' claim to fame is as a member of Krautrock names to drop Kluster/Cluster and Harmonia.
Tietchens, meanwhile, is almost exclusively a solo artist exploring experimental fields such as musique concrete and abstract electonica.
It's hard to fathom out what the duo's aim is with this album and I suspect that they simply went in the studio with an open mind on the basis of what will be, will be.
Most of the thirteen drags exist within a kind of mechanical loop of their own making. Kattrepul, for example is a chugging minimalist ten-minute piece which suggests a motorik beat that has somehow got stuck on a roundabout on the way to the autobahn.
The other longish track, Lange Reihe, also plods along with some random interference while most of the shorter tracks have squelching, organic textures that are briefly interesting but don't have sufficient character to hold the attention for long.
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There are some good moments. Thorax has some edgy tension and the whirlpool beats of Yes,Yes, the best track, function effectively as a kind of distorted robotic dance number.
I suppose, in a certain frame of mind, some of the synthesized effects could nudge the listener towards some creative strands of thought but the sound is too jarring to be restful and too static to give any sense of motion or momentum.
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