discography

for further notes on most releases listed here, please visit the discogs page detailing many releases by cryptic scenery, christian h. sötemann and the organisation of sound.

several releases are marked with a separate download link which leads to the respective site of the internet archive.

most of the more recent releases and some older ones can be downloaded at the bandcamp site. clicking on recent release titles will redirect you to the respectiove page on bandcamp. information and links regarding the minimalist piece ‘ being‘ are present on this page.

cryptic scenery discography

cupboard (tape, 1995, private release)
seashore (cd-r, 1997, private release)
a safety pin (tape, 1998, private release)
oceanic feeling (cd, 1999, starfish records)
being -six objects- (cd-r, 2001, bsbta) – download
cd-r (cd-r, 2002, bsbta)
four crescent figures (cd, 2002, bsbta)
behind the gates (cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
the singing machine (cd-r, 2003, retinascan)
music for museums (cd-r, 2003, bsbta)* – download
the playground of the world (cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
ontic (cd, 2003, bsbta)
cupboard (cd-r, 2004, bsbta)
simrishamn (cd-r, 2004, retinascan)
sedatives (cd-r, 2004, bsbta)
at the atelier (cd-r & painting, 2005, private release)
long to kiss (antenne) / escape (cryptic scenery) (7", 2005, bsbta)
seven bars of silence (cd-r, 2006, bsbta)
requested a.b.b.a. to tutorial headaches - split release with ianuar, stasola & behave without having a chance (cd-r, 2006, bsbta)
being / the 2nd rest (5", 2007, bsbta)
on the outskirts (cd, 2007, d'oorhinge l'orange)
the radar society (cd-r, 2008, tosom)
early morning haze (cd-r, 2009, d'oorhinge mandarine)
being / preparation (clean mix) / preparation (wide mix) (digital, 2010, sonus)
low battery (digital, 2010, test tube) - download
tragic monochrome (cd-r, 2011, tosom)
being -three sections- (cd-r, 2011, bsbta)
five mindsets (tape & digital, 2013, metaphysical circuits)
pharmaceutical industry (single mix) (digital, 2015, bandcamp & cdbaby)
interstate (digital, 2015, metaphysical digital)
isolation & surveillance (digital / tape, 2015, bandcamp & metaphysical circuits)
hospitals (digital, 2018, bandcamp & nailed nazarene industries)
imaginary cities (digital, 2019, bandcamp & nailed nazarene industries)
evelyn says (digital, 2019, bandcamp)
waves never cease (oceanic feeling 2019), (digital, 2019, bandcamp)
the glacial age (digital, 2020, bandcamp)
stazione termini (digital, 2020, bandcamp)
imaginary cities ii (digital, 2020)bandcamp
ephemeral (digital, 2021, bandcamp and bs,bta)
pharmaceutical industry (cdn remix) (digital, 2023, bandcamp)
imaginary cities iii (digital, 2023, bandcamp)

on samplers:
the bridge (on 'hidden treasures', cd-r, 1999, public records)
spoon lost in the snow (on 'hidden treasures ii', cd-r, 1999, public records)
red brick coffin (on the february e.p. of the e.p. club, cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
being, cd-r, six daughters, behind the gates,
forward & zone i.d. (on 'bsbta 5-0, cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
being (on 'sonic supper #3', cd-r, 2004, sonic supper)
blue boy soul (on 'affiliate program, vol. 1, cd-r, 2004, bsbta)
discreetly trapped in webs (on 'the escape from beer mountain, cd-r, 2007, bsbta)
if there is something (on 'take refuge in pleasure‘, cd, 2009, burning sky records)
recluses of riga (on 'metaphysical world pieces #2‘, digital, 2013, metaphysical circuits)
save someone else (on 'dylan sparrow presents save someone else', digital, 2015, bandcamp)
disused area (on '400/100‘, tape & digital, 2015, metaphysical circuits)
inconceivability (on 'metaphysical world pieces #4', digital, 2016, metaphysical circuits)
the placid disappearance (on 'reflection', digital, 2016, free floating music)
the hidden country (on 'i never metaphysical i didn‘t like', digital, 2018, metaphysical circuits)

christian h. sötemann discography

music from & about suit-case (tape, 1995, private release)
being (cd-r, 1996, private release; edited version also as mp3 file, sonus)
next to mirror and tealight (tape, 1997, private release)
memory in the land of evening steel (tape, 1998, private release)
a deadline for the living (cd-r, 2001, ee tapes) – download
being -six objects- (cd-r, 2001, bsbta) – download
the kick-out disc (cd-r, 2002, bsbta)
golden ether (cd-r, 2002, bsbta) – download
seems ancient to me (cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
music for museums (cd-r, 2003, bsbta)* – download
electronic works (cd-r, 2004, promo; also as digital files, sonus)
new minimalist (cd-r, 2004, bsbta) – download
sine world (cd-r, 2005, yousns)
being -three sections- (cd-r, 2011, bsbta)
the aural rear-view mirror (retro collage) (digital, 2020, bandcamp)

a number of digital versions of several tracks ('being', 'relentlessness' and others are included in the online listening library 'sonus'

several field recording/sound loops are available for download at the 'white noise market' site

on samplers:
bell (dark) & brrr (with v. a., on 'musical chain letters', cd-r, 2002, bsbta)
con/crete/cow/boy (for (the) e.(b.)p.)/
les vagues pulsatives/refuse to act on lorry (with v.a., on 'footnotes',
cd-r, 2002, bsbta)
sedatives (on the june e.p. of the 'e.p. club', cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
the train (on 'lpn 3', cd-r, 2003, private release)
being, two pictures, kick out the disc (on 'bsbta 5-0', cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
being (on 'sonic supper #3', cd-r, 2004, sonic supper)
inauspicious & the buoy (on 'blow your own melodica', cd-r, 2005, bsbta)

the organisation of sound discography

music for museums (cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
office music (cd-r, 2005, yousns)
behead butlers at discotheque aorta - split release with bellerophone, karla mishue & the slate pipe banjo draggers (cd-r, 2006, bsbta)
illusion of a movement (cd-r, 2007, ostroga)
briefest sketchbook (5", 2007, bsbta)

on samplers:
sadness will you shimmer? (on the july e.p. of the 'e.p. club', cd-r, 2003, bsbta)
summer sky (on au revoir, 3s3ta, cd-r, 2008, bsbta)