Christoph Heeman's recordings with H.N.A.S. and as a solo act reflect his inheritance of a number of rich European legacies: Kraut-rock, the industrial cut-ups of Nurse with Wound and Cabaret Voltaire, and the idea of the invisible soundtrack which has intrigued many independent-minded producers from Brian Eno to Paul Schütze. In 1983, the teenaged Heemann formed H.N.A.S. (hirsche nicht aus sofa, roughly translated as Moose Without a Sofa) with Achim Flaan (aka Achim P. Li Khan).
Amidst a parade of obscure cassette-only releases on their own Dom Records, the duo's first major...