RAUSCHKASSETTE is a collaborative work by RoN Schmidt & Max Würden, created over several years of focused experimentation. At its core lies a simple, uncompromising decision: to treat noise not as a by-product of sound, but as the primary material from which an entire narrative can be built.
Side A forms this narrative.
Composed almost entirely from noise, it traces a movement from cosmic turbulence through shifting, granular textures and gradually returns to a quieter, grounded state. What begins as an abstract field of energy develops into a subtle, atmospheric descent — a story told without words, shaped only through texture, density and motion.
Side B shifts the perspective.
Here, the noise recedes and remains only as a distant imprint in the sound field. Out of this residue emerges a 45-minute meditative ambient piece — spacious, slow and restorative. It feels less like a continuation and more like the reverberation of the first act: a long exhale after the storm.
The release appears as a strictly limited edition of 44 tapes, each numbered and signed, housed in a black metal box. Included are 10 photography prints documenting instruments, notes and fragments from the work process, small traces of the material world behind a very immaterial piece of sound art.
RAUSCHKASSETTE follows one continuous movement:
a passage through shifting landscapes of noise toward a space of quiet, meditative stillness.
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LANDMARK
My latest soloalbum LANDMARK is out on A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE and available on Gatefold 2LP Gold vinyl and digital, mastered by Rafael Anton Iirsarri and featuring original photography by Max Würden, artwork edited by Noah M / Keep Adding.
In addition, a limited special edition of framed paintings (10 unique versions) from my LANDMARK painting series is available.
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out on OIGOVISIONES in a special limited edition of 50 pieces! SOLD OUT!
Format: CDr/Digital
Release Date: April 9th 2021
Ltd. Edition: 50 copies
Composed & produced by Max Würden
Label Curated Edition by Pepo Galán/ El Muelle Records
Mastered by Rubén Suárez
Desing by GranBengala:
DIY cut diptych on 250gr Keaykolour Particles Artico paper
Inlay on 240gr Purple Popset cardboard
Printed transparency film
Black paper bag for Cd
PE protective sleeve with OV sticker
Hand-cutted & hand-assembled
FORMAT
Format draws from its Latin origin: “formatus”, meaning “to be formed”. Over two years, Germany’s Max Würden produced a variety of tracks using completely different approaches. It wasn’t until they were placed together in unison that the strengths from the variety of productions came together.
Max’s studio recordings lined up alongside live performances; field recordings of foot-steps and sounds from deep forests amongst broken leaves and custom synthesizers; processed guitar-loops weave amongst soaring ambient pads and energetic driving analog pulses segue classic 90’s ambient depicting the very furthest reaches of space. Max’s abstract impressions were weaved together and Format was born.
The result captures the very best of Max’s multi-disciplinary techniques we’ve come to admire throughout his many productions and collaborations over the years with the likes of Thore Pfeiffer and his releases on Kompakt’s Pop Ambient series.
Format can be enjoyed as individual tracks, one mixed journey (digital) or as unique mixed-edits for vinyl. Featuring artwork by Noah M / Keep Adding, who unfolds the track’s unique individual elements from the front into one expansive inside gatefold. Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri @ Black Knoll Studio and pressed on opaque purple vinyl, 500 copies worldwide.
VINYL SOLD OUT
Release date: June 10th 2019 on A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE
MOMENTUM
On his album MOMENTUM he went beyond the guitar, but he placed the intrument into focus of the production.
Max creates energyladen and experimental ambient music that always aims for what genre listeners looking for: the ultimate relaxation moment.
The tracks are carried by slowly building string-generated sounds. Live recordings and complex arrangements find a delicate symbiosis of ambient and strings.
Produced and mixed by Max Würden
Design by Finna Leibenguth / www.eaudecollage.de
Mastering by Südblock Studios
P & C 2018 El Muelle Records

