In what he later described as a "necessary task" he did a ritual which involved floating in a bathtub of "blood". The associated photograph and narrative were so "convincing" to some that they really started to believe he had "pulled the plug"!
This one episode out of many in his life as an artist should make quite clear that Taciturne is/was no ordinary producer at all.
Entering the Hardcore world as shy teenager like most of us, he quickly trail-blazed and out-gunned the underground scene, playing in front of tens of thousand people in de-ranged airport hangars and having the most expensive hardcore techno collector record at one point ("6 Fragmente in der Chronologie des Wahnsinns").
"He took it all too far (but, boy, could he play guitar)" (like David Bowie might have said), then came the fall, and his life "ended", like that of many great musicians, in a bath tub.
There was a long silence that lasted over a decade. His path crossed the Hardcore realms a few times since then. Not least because of the fact that he made hundreds (or thousands?) of tracks in the 90s, of which only the tiniest fracture got released - so we have (finally!) seen some unearthing of this material recently.
But now... let's look directly at 10 of his compositions!
Der Toten
his big gig gabber hit! featured on all the huge compilations and festivals in the 90s, and ripped-off several times by other artists.
Mourning
sacred chanting meets "devilish" bassdrums... a dangerous and nasty mixture!
Moonbreaker
james bond is a good sampling source, ain't that the truth? this time getting messed up with proto-breakcore beats.
Praxis Dr. Fischer
was all the rage for the speedcore heads.
Boys Don't Cry (Revisited)
yes yes even hardened noizecore producers weep to robert smith.
They Appear
proto-doomcore appears on this track.
Infrustrial
experimental beats, sounds, noise!
Nix Mellow
"not" mellow indeed... early speedcore lunacy.
Corrupting Morality
the sound station and gear seem to be corrupted too, in this fast-tempo hardcore track.
Module Of The Damned
interesting amiga experiments!
interesting amiga experiments!
11 AM
11 am is usually the time a producing session ends, so we fade out with these soothing ambient-electronic sounds.
11 am is usually the time a producing session ends, so we fade out with these soothing ambient-electronic sounds.
Also check this interview:
https://www.paynomindtous.it/hardcoretales-taciturne/
and this story:
"Taciturne; Another Clue" - https://www.discogs.com/group/thread/697296?message_id=6965370#6965370
And his Bandcamp presence:
https://taciturne.bandcamp.com/
https://www.paynomindtous.it/hardcoretales-taciturne/
and this story:
"Taciturne; Another Clue" - https://www.discogs.com/group/thread/697296?message_id=6965370#6965370
And his Bandcamp presence:
https://taciturne.bandcamp.com/
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