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{{Refimprove|date=January 2012}}{{Infobox musical artist |
| name = Austere
| image =
| caption = Austere Logo (2006)
| background = group_or_band
| origin = Portland, Oregon, United States
| genre = Ambient, drone, minimalism
| years_active = 1998 – present
| label = Sound-O-Mat Recordings
(2001-present)
Hypnos
(2006-2011)
Blue Water Records
(2007-2010)
Dark Duck Records:
Drone Download Project
(2001=2--8)
relaxedMACHINERY (rM)
(2010-2012)
| associated_acts = The Mystifying Oracle, Freq. Magnet
| website =
| current_members = anonymous
| past_members = anonymous
}}Austere is an anonymous, obscurantist electronic music group that has covered a wide variety of styles in their releases: Classical Minimalism, psybient, psychedelic ambient, ambient, dark ambient, drone, glitch-ambient, and downtempo-style drum and bass music, which out of deference to Coil they spell "musick." The group started working together in 1997, with their first release on 1 January 1998, and is loosely based in the Pacific Northwest in Portlandia, Oregon due to their connection to Sound-O-Mat Recordings which is located there. The two members have lived in various places, such as New York City, NY; North Chatam UK, UK; Portlandia, OR; Seattle, WA; Brighton, UK and SF, CA amongst many more. Their Classical Minimalism recordings: "Convergence", "Eco", "Pulse" and "Vox" all draw upon composer Steve Reich's Process Music approach, as defined by his 1968 manifesto "Music as a Gradual Process." They have collaborated with a number of musicians/bands including Abstract Audio Systems (New York City), In The Now (Brighton, UK) and Stephen Philips, owner of Dark Duck Records. They have contributed to videos and films: the soundtrack for The Thin Horizon, an independent film written, directed and produced by Michael Peters of Artifexwerks located in Forest Grove, Oregon; a track from the Dark Duck Records Drone Download Project was used Claude's Room, also an independent film. They have also contributed to several music videos, such as the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRRcgJA32Sk Abandon] video, and most recently, the Tiny Danser. Austere's members have recorded solo works, as The Mystifying Oracle and Freq. Magnet. The latter has released three full CDs, a DVD, and a recent track on a Hypnos compilation CD. Discography {{Infobox artist discography
|Artist = Austere
|Logo =
|Image = Austere 2007 Logo.jpg
|Caption = Austere Logo (2007)
|Studio = 13
|EP = 4
|Live = 1
|Soundtrack = 2
|Video = 2
|Singles = 10
| Option name = Collection
| Option = 1
}}The discography of Austere, includes thirteen studio albums, four extended play CDEPs, ten compilation appearances, including several on Hypnos and a 6-hour compilation box set of previously released and three unreleased tracks. 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 and 15 promo copies (65 total), long 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 Philips 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 (). | | 10 February 2008 | Solyaris (CD) | The first on Hypnos main label. | Hypnos (hyp2753). | | 18 January 2009 | 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). | | 13 January 2012 | Euterpe (CD) | The first on relaxedMACHINERY art /music / community label. | relaxedMACHINERY (rM_0021). |
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) |
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 |
Soundtracks| Film | Studio | Year | Producer | | Fast 'n' Bulbous - A Tribute To Captain Beefheart (Song "Electricity") | unknown | 1988 | none | | The Thin Horizon | Artifexwerks{{dead link>date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} | 2006 | Artifexwerks{{dead link>date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} | | Claude's Room | unknown | 2008 | unknown |
DVDsshort 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. Older logo {{clear}}External links- Band Web Site
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050501081554/http://www.austere.org/oracle/ The Mystifying Oracle] - solo side-project, ethnic-styled psybient musick
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070824092336/http://www.austere.org/freqmagnet/ Freq. Magnet] - solo side-project, guitar-only ambient musick
References{{DEFAULTSORT:Austere (Band)}} 4 : Electronic music groups from Oregon|Musical groups established in 1998|1998 establishments in Oregon|Musical groups from Portland, Oregon |