Austere (band)

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Austere
Latest Austere Logo (2006)
Background information
Origin	Portland, Oregon USA
Genre(s)	Ambient, Drone, Minimalism
Years active	1998 – present
Label(s)	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (2001-present) Hypnos (2006-present) Blue Water Records (2007-present) Dark Duck Records: Drone Download Project (2001-present)
Associated acts	The Mystifying Oracle, Freq. Magnet
Website	austere.org
Members
anonymous
Former members
anonymous

Austere is an anonymous electronic music group specializing in ambient, dark ambient, drone, glitch-ambient, downtempo-style drum and bass and minimalist music. The group first started working together in 1997 with their first release in 1998, and is based in the Pacific Northwest in Portland, Oregon.

In regards to their Minimalist compositions and recordings, the group's work draws upon composer Steve Reich's concept of Process Music, as defined by his 1968 manifesto "Music as a Gradual Process".

They have worked with groups including Abstract Audio Systems (New York City), In The Now (Brighton, UK) and Stephen Phillips. The have also contributed music to films, and wrote the soundtrack for The Thin Horizon, an independent film written, directed and produced by Michael Peters of Artifexwerks located in Forest Grove, Oregon. In 2007, one of their tracks from the Dark Duck Records Drone Download Project was used in another independent film, Claude's Room.

Austere's members have recorded solo works, as The Mystifying Oracle and Freq. Magnet. The latter has released two full CDs, a DVD, and has a recent track on a Hypnos compilation CD.

1 Discography
2 Albums
3 EPs
4 Compilations
5 Soundtrack Appearances
6 DVDs
- 6.1 short form
7 Older Logos
8 External Links

[edit] Discography

**Austere** discography
Releases
Latest Austere Logo (2007)
↙Studio albums	10
↙Live albums	0
↙Extended plays	2
↙Singles	8
↙Video albums	2
↙Soundtracks	Claude's Room
References and footnotes

The discography of Austere, an American ambient band, includes ten studio albums, two extended plays, eight compilation appearances, and one compilation box set of previous released tracks.

[edit] Albums

Released	Title	Other information	Label
18 January 1998	Convergence (CD)	Originally a CDR released by the band. Reissued on CD by Sound-O-Mat Recordings in 2005.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#01)
October 1999	Monodia (CDR)	Limited edition of 50, now out-of-print.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#02)
February 2000	fade (CDR)		Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#03)
October 2000; reissued 2006	Curio (CDR)	First limited edition of 50 with gold foil. Reissued by Sound-O-Mat Recordings in 2006.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#05)
March 2003	Remission (CDR)	"Unreleased" in January 2004, replaced by Remittance CD.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#06)
December 2004	Remittance (CDR)	A "re-release" of Remission with two changed tracks and a remastering job. Free copies were offered to those who bought Remission via a "replacement kit".	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#08)
2005	Eco (CD)	Artwork by Cat Rayburn. First CD design done by someone other than one of the band members.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#09)
2005	faded (CDR)	A "demix" collaboration between Austere and Stephen Phillips of Dark Duck Records, using their original CD release fade.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#10); co-released by Dark Duck Records.
2007	Pulse (CDR)	The third of their Steve Reich inspired Process Music releases.	Hypnos Secret Sounds (hss10).
August 2007	rirrom ("mirror") (CDR)	All information on CD package is backwards, printed on "mirror-like" material, and can be read by holding up to a mirror.	Blue Water Records ().
18 January 2008	The Sound of Silence I: An "Unnatural History" of Rare and Unreleased Tracks (box set with MP3 player)	Box set comes with all tracks in 320Kbs CBR MP3 format on a SanDisk flash card in an MP3 player. Released exactly ten years after band's first release.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#11).
10 February 2008	Solyaris (CD)	The first on Hypnos main label.	Hypnos (hyp2753).

[edit] EPs

Year	Title	Other information	Label
August, 2000	distance (CDR)	A collaboration with In The Now from Brighton, U.K.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#04)
2004	evergone (CDR)	A collaboration with Abstract Audio Systems from New York City, New York.	Sound-O-Mat Recordings (SOM#07)

[edit] Compilations

Year	Title	Other information	Label
2001	Diapason	Drone Download Project Year 1 (data 2xCD)	Dark Duck Records (DDP #1)
2001	Whainer	CD-only bonus track on The Drone Download Project Year 1 (data 2xCD)	Dark Duck Records (DDP #1)
2003	Tea-Totaled	Drone Download Project Year 2 (data CD)	Dark Duck Records (DDP #2)
2004	The Hills Are Alive	Track on Full Cold Moon: A Tribute to Jhonn Balance (MP3)	Dark Winter
2005	Big Bang into Particle Acceleration	Track on Space Collaboration (MP3)	The Ambient Collective
2005	Wend	Drone Download Project Year 3 (data CD)	Dark Duck Records (DDP #3)
2006	The Cuce	Track on Orgambient: Long Form Ambient Vol. 1	Blue Water Records
2007	Alchemy (Gold Into Lead demix)	Track on Lena - Alchemy of Fingers and Dark CDS	Hypnos
2007	Puissant	Drone Download Project Year 4 (data CD)	Dark Duck Records (DDP #4)
2008	Fasciculate	Drone Download Project Year 5 (data CD)	Dark Duck Records
2008	Crystil	Track on Messages from a Subatomic World CD	Hypnos

[edit] Soundtrack Appearances

1988 - Fast 'n' Bulbous - A Tribute To Captain Beefheart (Song "Electricity")

[edit] DVDs

[edit] short form

Year	Title	Director	Album
2006	faded DVD	Austere	faded

All Austere releases are distributed by the ambient label Hypnos Records, and the band has signed with the labels Hypnos and Blue Water Records in 2007.