List of distributors updated.
Here's a (somewhat incorrect) review from Vital:
DIETER MÜH - HETERODOXIE (LP by Verlautbarung)
Its fair to say that Dieter Müh is one of the older groups from the third (fourth?) wave
of power electronics that came to us in the mid to late 90s. Too late for the cassettes
of the 80s, too obscure to be part of the whole retro noise scene and perhaps, simply
(but better yet), not enough power electronics/noise based. So over the years there
have been a bunch of releases, but not a lot, and they are always quite interesting.
Dieter Müh played at the Broken Festival in London last month and its not difficult to
see where they did in. Not because they play very loud music, but rather densely
knitted, rough patterns of drone noise, along with primitive (casio) sampling of
rhythms and cheap sound effects. Not that their music is cheap, by now means.
Its music that takes out the best of industrial music and combines it with the more
adventurous sounds of ambient music. Layered sounds of those wind pipes that
children swing above their heads (no craze these days but I am sure some day it will
return), along with the sampled percussion of something highly obscure, a bit of sound
effects - music that stands in one form or another in the long tradition of Giancarlo
Toniutti, Andrew Chalk and Controlled Bleeding, or, but this requires an in-depth
knowledge of the Broken Flag catalogue, say Ain-Tow. It doesn't sound like them, but
its part of the whole esthetic of working with ambient sounds and electronic music.
Music with a long tradition, like cogs in a machine. Dieter Müh is one of those cogs.
Not the most essential one, but nevertheless one that forms part of the family, so that
you have the complete picture. 'Heterodoxie' is a nice record. Not great, just pleasant
electronic music - noise but then one I like. (FdW)
