Telepherique.

Telepherique is the Würzburg-based German industrial / noise / dark ambient project of Klaus, Danijela and Rene Jochim, started 1989 in Bayern. The Rate Your Music entry places the project as formed 1989, Würzburg, Bayern, Germany. Klaus Jochim has remained the catalogue's consistent compositional voice across all thirty-seven years; Danijela and Rene have appeared across the catalogue at varying frequencies. The Jochims also run the sister project Technostria, the later project Telerotor, and have released material under the alias Das Konzentrat. The catalogue's genre-position sits across industrial, noise, dark ambient, experimental and electronic; the Discogs catalogue tags the work consistently as Industrial, Noise, Experimental, Ambient, Electronic, Dark Ambient.

The 1990–1992 cassette catalogue. The first documented Telepherique release is the 1990 cassette Existenztrauma. The catalogue's 1991–1992 period is dense and collaborative: Montag - Impressionen (1991), Alltag (1991), the Technostria-with-Telepherique joint 1986 (1991), the further Technostria joint Faint Facing the Dependence (1992), the S·Core joint Result of a Mail-Art 1992 (1992; documenting the mail-art-tape-trading circuit Telepherique sat inside), the Brume joint Sound-World-Travel / The Strand of a Soul (1992), and the central cross-tradition document: the 1992 joint cassette LP Apokalypse with the Dutch DIY collective De Fabriek (subtitled Money Talks, C90 cassette). The De Fabriek collaboration places Telepherique inside the European DIY-cassette industrial network the 1980s-1990s catalogue threads through.

The mid-1990s LP and CD catalogue. The 1994 LP Kein Teil Dieser Welt is a live recording in an edition of 300. The catalogue shifts into CD form with the 1996 Licht und Schatten on Stefan Alt's Ant-Zen imprint (catalogue number ACT 51), the Mühldorf am Inn label that became the catalogue's home for much of the late 1990s and 2000s output. Ant-Zen is the Bavarian-electronic-industrial label parallel to the Cologne Aufabwegen tradition the Bureau documents elsewhere · Ant-Zen leans toward the rhythmic / Maschinenfest-festival circuit mode; Aufabwegen toward the experimental / soundart vein. Telepherique's catalogue across the late 1990s and 2000s circulates through Ant-Zen, the Hands Productions / Hymen / Zhark imprint network, and the Mühldorf-and-Aachen industrial-electronic circuit.

The collaborative method is the catalogue's defining feature. The 1990s document a sequence of one-LP collaborations: with Brume (the French Christian Renou project), with S·Core (the Japanese noise project), with Contagious Orgasm (the Japanese dark-ambient / experimental project of Hiroshi Hashimoto), with M.S.B.R. (the Japanese harsh-noise project of Koji Tano), with De Fabriek (the Dutch DIY collective documented earlier in this archive), with Doc Wör Mirran (the Bavarian Fürth experimental collective), and across the European mail-art-tape-trading circuit. The Flint Glass collaboration Information Gigabyte (2011), with Paris-based Gwenn Tremorin, is one of the catalogue's recent statements · the Bandcamp summary places Telepherique as the analogic / old-school half of the duo's analog-and-digital confrontation, with the Telepherique signature described as dirty soundscapes and machinesque old-school and sometimes or often lo-fi drifts.

The festival-circuit position. Telepherique sits inside the early-2000s Maschinenfest network in Aachen at the Autonomous Zentrum, the rhythmic-industrial / power-noise festival circuit that ran the Ant-Zen / Hands Productions / Zhark generation. The October 2001 Maschinenfest carried Telepherique alongside Winterkälte, Synapscape, Sonar, Black Lung and the Ant-Zen-affiliated catalogue. The catalogue's touring frequency through this period sat at the European-festival-circuit pace rather than the touring-band pace; Klaus Jochim has historically preferred the studio-and-collaboration practice to the conventional live touring practice.

The contemporary catalogue continues through Klaus Jochim's sustained output across Ant-Zen-adjacent labels and digital release. The Telepherique signature · analog-electronic, lo-fi or deliberately degraded source material, dense rhythmic and dark-ambient layering, the catalogue's distinctive Bavarian-industrial method · has remained consistent across the project's thirty-seven-year span. Telerotor and Das Konzentrat have intermittently appeared as parallel-project releases throughout the catalogue.

Citation. The Bureau files Telepherique at Tier I as the long-running Würzburg industrial / dark ambient project and as one of the catalogue's anchor entries for the 1989-onward European DIY-cassette-network into the Ant-Zen rhythmic-industrial circuit. The cross-references across this archive: the 1992 Apokalypse joint LP with De Fabriek as the cross-tradition document; the Brume / S·Core / Contagious Orgasm / M.S.B.R. mid-1990s collaborative cassettes as the entry into the Japanese / French / European-Asian-network noise tradition; the Ant-Zen catalogue placement at Licht und Schatten 1996 as the entry into the Bavarian rhythmic-industrial circuit. Klaus Jochim's catalogue is one of the longer continuous practices in the post-1989 European industrial tradition.