Asche is a German

Germany

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 musical project, one which encompasses the spectrum of noise, power electronics, and droning ambient. It is a staple act of Germany’s industrial

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 and power noise

Noise music

Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 record label, Ant-Zen

Ant-Zen

Ant-Zen Audio and Visual Arts is a German independent record label founded in 1994 by Stefan Alt , who serves as the art director. Visual arts from Ant-Zen are typically bleak but astonishing landscapes, or microscopic studies of what is often overlooked...

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Members / History

Asche’s lineup consists of one man, Andreas Schramm. The term Asche is German for "ash", but is also an allusion to Schramm's name, which as often credited as A. Schramm. Schramm was also a founding member of the industrial group Ars Moriendi

Ars moriendi

The Ars moriendi are two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 which offer advice on the protocols and procedures of a good death, explaining how to "die well" according to Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages...

, and is a co-member of the ritual-ambient project Templegarden’s and other projects KYAM and Monokrom.

Discography

• That Loop In My Eye, Tape
• Down By Loop, CD-R
• Older Stuff, CD-R
• Non Apocalypse, 1993, Tape / CD
• Times, (with The Rorschach Garden), 1995, Tape
• (split w/ Morgenstern
  Morgenstern (band)
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  ), 1996, LP
• S/T, 1998, Tape
• (split w/ Templegarden’s), 1998, 10”
• Erode (with Converter and Morgenstern
  Morgenstern (band)
  thumb|Morgenstern on stage at the IWTBF Festival, Berlin, Dez 2003Morgenstern is the name of a musical project combining noise, industrial, and ambient music. It is a continuing act of Germany's Ant-Zen record label.-Members/History:...
  
  ), CD
• Recycling Art, 2000, CD / Boxset
• Distorted Disco, 2000, CD
• Distorted DJ, 2003, 2CD / 2LP
• Scenes From A Galton's Walk (with Synapscape
  Synapscape
  Synapscape is a German recording duo specializing in the creation of dark noise, teknoid, and power electronics. It is a long-time act of Germany’s industrial music record label, Ant-Zen.-Members / History:...
  
  ), 2006, CD
• The Easter Island Phenomenon, 2010, CD
• Stonebrain EP (2011)

External links

• Official site