condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Clear vinyl. Edition of 300 hand-numbered copies (this is 181/300) in hand-painted sleeve with insert included.

A collaborative double-LP between Brume (French composer Christian Renou, b. 1959, running the project since 1985) and Telepherique (German project by Klaus, active since 1989). Co-released in 1999 by the Duëbel and Ant-Zen imprints in a 500-copy edition, housed in a custom die-cut grey sleeve with insert text viewable through a window on the front.

The working method is specifically collaborative: each artist recorded with "basics" (source material, fragments, starting points) supplied by the other. Brume handles the C1 through D2 tracks (side 2 of disc 1 and disc 2 in full), Telepherique handles sides A and B (disc 1, side 1). The compositional logic is continuous with Renou's previous Brume catalogue (more than a hundred releases by this point, mostly on small cassette labels): densely-layered processed electronics, field recording, self-made noise generators (what Renou calls his "galène receiver"), and the Nurse-With-Wound / Lieutenant Caramel-adjacent dialect of French post-industrial sound-collage.

Renou had by this point spent a decade and a half building one of the most sustained bodies of work in European experimental music, mostly through direct mail-order and small imprints; Klaus's Telepherique project had established a parallel German presence since the beginning of the Nineties. The 2LP is one of the points at which the two projects met on equal terms, and the format (double LP rather than the cassette or CDR that dominated both projects' outputs) marks the collaboration as a deliberate full-scale statement.