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Troum is a German project of drone music, ambient music, noise music, and experimental music. It was founded in the late 1990s by Stefan Knappe (a.k.a. Baraka[H]) and Martin Gitschel (a.k.a. Glit[S]ch). It is sometimes considered to be the follow-up project to Maeror Tri. Stefan Knappe is also the founder and owner of Drone Records.
TROUM is a duo located in Bremen, Germany, established in early 1997. The two members "Glit[S]ch" and "Baraka[H]" were active before in the influential ambient/industrial group MAËROR TRI (which existed from 1988 to 1996). TROUM is the old German word for "DREAM". The dream is seen as a central manifestation of the unconscious, and symbolizes the aim of TROUM to lead the listener into a hypnotizing dream-state of mind, a pre-verbal and primal consciousness sphere. TROUM uses music as the direct path to the Unconscious, pointing to the archaic "essence" of the humans inner psyche. TROUM tries to create music that works like a direct transformation of unconscious matter.
TROUM's creations are influenced by post-industrial, minimal and drone-music. Both members use guitar, bass, voice, accordion, balalaika, flute, mouth-organ, melodica, gong, field recordings, pre-recorded-tapes and a diversity of sound-objects to build a kind of multi-layered and highly atmospheric dreaming-muzak. Their sound could be described as “dark atmospheric ambient industrial”, "transcendental noise" or just “Tiefenmusik”. TROUM doesn't work with samplers or computer-soundsources, the sounds are created "by hand" to reach a broader sensibility. TROUM uses a spiral as their logo, expressing the trance-inducing potential of the music and the wish to reach inner, deeper spheres of the mind with it. Music as a door to unknown & alien dimensions. Music as an expression of the mystery of existence itself.
| Year | Title | Format | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Troumings | MC | No label | |
| 1998 | Daur | 10" | Cohort Records | Limited to 300 copies on blue vinyl; 24 copies in special cover |
| 1998 | Dreaming Muzak | MC | Cling Film - Records 7 | Limited to 100 copies, handmade pillow-cover |
| 1998 | Ryna | CD | Myotis Records | First edition of 500 copies came in large cover |
| 2000 | Framapeis / Var | 12" | Moloko+ | First edition 200 copies; second edition 100 copies |
| 2000 | Mort Aux Vaches: Sen | CD | Staalplaat | Limited to 600 copies |
| 2001 | Kapotte Muziek By... | 7" | Korm Plastics | Limited to 300 copies |
| 2001 | Tjukurrpa (Part One: Harmonies) | CD | Transgredient Records | First 2,000 copies in special cover |
| 2001 | Tjukurrpa (Part Two: Drones) | CD | Transgredient Records | First 2,000 copies in special cover |
| 2002 | Mnemonic Induction | CD | Malignant Records | Collaboration with Yen Pox |
| 2002 | Symbiosis | MCD | Transgredient Records | First 200 copies in special cover |
| 2003 | Darvê Sh | 10" | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | Limited to 500 copies; first 100 copies came in red-white vinyl |
| 2003 | Kasha-Pâshâna | CD | Old Europa Cafe | Limited to 500 copies, together with Tam Quam Tabula Rasa and Kallabris |
| 2003 | Ljubimaya | 10" | Waystyx Records | Limited to 455 copies; all in special cover |
| 2003 | Sigqan | CD | Desolation House | Limited to 1,000 copies |
| 2003 | Tjukurrpa (Part Three: Rhythms And Pulsations) | CD | Transgredient Records | First 2,000 copies in special cover |
| 2004 | Autopoiesis | Pic-LP | Small Voices | Limited to 567 copies |
| 2004 | Un/Mahts | Pic-7" | Equation Records | Limited to 444 copies |
| 2005 | Ajin | Pic-12" | Equation Records | Limited to 500 copies |
| 2005 | Dissolution | CD | Fario | Split/Collaboration with Christian Renou |
| 2005 | Nahtscato | 12" | Paranoise Records | Limited to 300 copies on red vinyl |
| 2005 | Objectlessness | CD-R | Mystery Sea | Limited to 100 copies |
| 2006 | Seeing-Ear Gods | CD-R | Discorporeality Records | Live, limited to 200 copies |
| 2006 | Shutûn | CD | Old Europa Cafe | Collaboration with All Sides, Limited to 1,000 copies |
| 2006 | To A Child Dancing In The Wind | CD | Transgredient Records | Collaboration with Martyn Bates |
| 2006 | Dreaming Muzak | CD-R | Taalem/Kokeshidisk | Reissue, first 100 in special cover |
| 2007 | AIWS | CD | Transgredient Records | |
| 2007 | Ignis Sacer | LP | Welt Am Draht | Live |
| 2007 | Nargis | 7" | Viva Hate Records | Limited to 500 copies; 100 violett, 400 red, first 50 with T-shirt |
| 2007 | Ryna | CD | Transgredient Records | Reissue |
| 2007 | Symballein | CD | SmallVoices | |
| 2008 | Darvê Sh / Ajin | CD | Nefryt | Reissue, limited to 404 copies |
| 2008 | Sen | 2x12" | Equation Records | Reissue, limited to 217 picture discs, 147 clear tan with black/white halo, 97 clear milky white with sepia haze |
| 2009 | Eald-Ge-Stréon | CD | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | |
| 2009 | Eald-Ge-Stréon/Abhijñâ | 2xCD | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | Limited to 500 copies |
| 2009 | Sigqan | CD | Transgredient Records | Reissue |
| 2009 | Ljubimaya / Daur | CD | Abgurd Records | Reissue, limited to 500 copies |
| 2010 | Mare Idiophonika | CD | Tourette Records | limited to 500 copies |
| Year | Track title | Appears on/Compilation name | Format | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | "Stredan" | Ambient Intimacy | CD-R | EE Tapes | Limited to 169 copies, two editions |
| 1998 | "Krêt" | Circles of Infinity | 2MC | Myotis Records | Limited to 150 copies |
| 1999 | "Untitled 15 Min. Extract" | 11th Festival for Independent Music & Arts | Video (VHS) | EE Tapes | Limited to 100 copies |
| 1999 | "Luaid" | Paraphilia Worship | CD-R | Maintenance | Limited to 150 copies |
| 1999 | "Exic" | Vorely Relay | CD | Noctovision | Remix of an Ultra Milmmaids track |
| 1999 | "Brinnan" | Lagrimas Die Miedo | CD | Fear Drop No. 6 magazine | Limited to 1,000 copies |
| 2000 | "Lumen" | A Bell Is Just a Bowl Till It's Struck | CD-R | Beta lactam Ring Records | Limited to 100 copies, all in special covers |
| 2000 | "Rigor Vitreus" | Audio Odditions #2 | CD | Influx Communications | |
| 2000 | "Navis" | Ten Years of Madness. Behind The Iron Curtain | 2CD | Achtung Baby/Indiestate | Limited to 1,000 copies |
| 2000 | "Untitled Loop" | lockERS | LP | ERS | |
| 2000 | "Thumus" | Cling Film Compilation | CD-R | Cling Film Festival | Limited to 200 copies |
| 2001 | "Ganymed" | Automation | 2LP | Laub Records | |
| 2002 | "Eugh [Cunabula]" | ThisConnected | CD | Thisco | Limited to 500 copies |
| 2002 | "Part II (edit) of Sigqan" | A Slight Touch of Grace | CD | Release Entertainment | Promotional release |
| 2002 | "Wit Wists Fra-Qistjan" | Fear Drop No. 9 | CD | Fear Drop No. 9 magazine | |
| 2002 | "Khan-Arachnid" | Infernal Proteus | 4CD/Book | The Ajna Offensive | |
| 2002 | "Ater" | Painted Black | CD | Tumult Records | |
| 2003 | "Magischer Moment" | DHY 050 | LP | Dhyana Records | |
| 2003 | "Untitled" | Lactamase Bonus Compilation | 10" | Beta-Lactam Ring Records | |
| 2003 | "Makaria" | The Walls Are Whispering | CD | EE Tapes | Limited to 525 copies |
| 2003 | "Ananke" | Evolved As One | CD | Evolved As One | |
| 2004 | "Uswena" | Shadows of Records Infinite | CD | Crucialblast | |
| 2005 | "When You Scream..." | Aidan Baker - Remixes | CD | Arcolepsy | Limited to 250 copies, remix of an Aidan Baker track |
| 2006 | "Dhanu-h" | Breaking Down the Barriers 1995-2005. Ten Years of Afe | MP3 | Contributed to free online compilation | |
| 2006 | "Drüsian" | Brainwaves | 3XCD | Limited to 500 copies | |
| 2006 | "Giascei" | cryosphere | CD | Glacial Movements |
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