The archive
Everything the national library has catalogued.
Every line below is an entry in the catalogue of the German National Library. Title, date, publisher and identifiers appear exactly as the library holds them — nothing has been added, estimated or tidied up.
What the abbreviations mean
- DNB
- The German National Library. Its statutory mandate covers German and German-language publications as well as certain publications about Germany, including digital music releases. An entry there is a bibliographic record of the German National Library, not a freely created promotional profile.
- IDN
- The number under which the national library files a single record. With it, every entry here can be looked up directly in the library’s own catalogue.
- URN
- A permanent address. Unlike a web link it still points at the work after a site moves or disappears. It names the archived audio file, though, and the library serves that only at its reading-room computers in Leipzig and Frankfurt. What is freely readable is the catalogue record, and that is where the links on this site go.
- ISRC
- The international identifier of a single sound recording, assigned by its producer. It stays with the recording on every platform — which is what makes it possible to check whether two registers really mean the same track.
- UPC
- The barcode number of a release — the same kind of number printed on a CD case.
services.dnb.de/sru/dnb. It was taken over by machine rather than retyped — which is also why nothing appears here that is not there. The IDN and URN on every line take you to the library’s own entry, so you can check any detail yourself. The owner released 233 of the 367 entries for display on 5 August 2026; the rest stay marked as drafts and closed to search engines. What was released is showing the catalogue entry — not the claim that it belongs to a particular release on this site.How far the cataloguing has got
The artist’s own account publishes 479 recordings; the national library catalogues 367. Sorted by year the difference explains nothing. Sorted by initial letter it explains itself: the entries run densely from A to T and then stop. The gap is made at deposit, not at cataloguing: the artist is currently submitting his recordings in alphabetical order and has reached T. The library registers what arrives, so the catalogue reflects the order of deposit. Four snapshots catch it moving: on 4 August 2026 the holding stood in the middle of L, on the 11th through M into N, on the 18th through O into P, on the 29th through Q into R. The gap is not a verdict on which recordings deserve cataloguing. Nor is it a forecast: alphabetical is how the artist is working at the moment, not a rule — what comes after Twill come as it comes.
So far that rests on snapshots taken by this site. The catalogue shows it without them. Every record names the issue of the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie that announced it — and the issues run through the alphabet in order: each one starts where the last stopped. That is the order of deposit, read off the library’s own numbering.
| Issue | Records | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 26,O02 | 5 | A |
| 26,O03 | 20 | A–B |
| 26,O04 | 35 | A–D |
| 26,O05 | 40 | A–E |
| 26,O06 | 50 | B–G |
| 26,O07 | 29 | G–H |
| 26,O08 | 40 | H–L |
| 26,O09 | 95 | L–R |
| 26,O10 | 49 | B–T |
For precision: 8 titles begin with THE and therefore sit under T in the letter chart above. Each was announced in the issue covering its second initial — B, C, F, J, L, P, T — so the article was set aside at deposit. The catalogue data agrees: the MARC field for non-filing characters is 0 on all 367 records. The library is not filing past the article; the article was dropped before it got there. This table follows the order of deposit, the chart follows the title as recorded. Without those 8 there is no entry under T at all.
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Records
Every IDN links to the freely readable catalogue entry at the German National Library. The audio itself sits in its archive and can only be played at the reading-room computers.
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