1. The Throne Of Drones (Asphodel0952)
2. Swarm Of Drones (Asphodel0953)
3. The Sombient Trilogy (Asphodel0966)
One of the most striking CD sets of US label Asphodel (0966 was a 3CD Box), which I have never listened to all of them and should never. This kind of huge compilation is overwhelming for me. Many tracks focus too much on the noise-"ritual" (a.k.a immersion) aspect and not so much on the electronic (drum beats and manipulation of components of sound). One can imagine the guy who did the soundtrack for Dune1,2 would like some of these tracks.
Asphodel is an ambitious avant-garde label that has released more than one Xenakis so it caught my attention. I owned the
Iannis Xenakis – Kraanerg (Asphodel0975). The booklet was so simply designed so that it looked like a scrap of paper with only typography shown.
There was some very mediocre ("elaborate") french electronic music like Francis Dhomont also
had an release on this label. Well.
- Some stories could be found at:
Incredibly Strange Music: The Untold Story of Asphodel Records- Historical archive of old site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170222225812/http://asphodel.com/So this is not really Aube-like but it worth a mention.