mego - S/D

Comae, s/t (Rhiz/Mego, 009) CD
Kevin Drumm, Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego, 053) CD
Farmers Manual, No Backup (Mego, Mego 008) CD
Fennesz, Hotel Paral.lel (Mego, Mego 016) CD
Fennesz, O'Rourke, Rehberg, The Magic Sound of FENNo'Berg (Mego, Mego 031) CD
Fennesz, O'Rourke, Rehberg, The Return of FENNo'Berg (Mego, 054) CD
General Magic, Frantz (Mego, Mego 010) CD
General Magic, Rechenkonig (Mego, Mego 032) CD
Goem, Dertig CM (Mego, MEGO 019) 12"
Gcttcatt, AmpErase (Mego, 021) CD
Russell Haswell, Live Salvage 1997->2000 (Mego, 012) CD
Hecker, [R*]iso|chall (MEGO, MEGO 024) CD
Nachtstrom, 17 Songs After Midnight (Mego, Mego 028) LP
Dr. Nachtstrom, Leidenschaft (Mego, 042) CD
Ohne, 1 (Mego, Ohne 1) CD
Pita, Seven Tons for Free (Mego/Digital Narcis, Mego 009) CD
Pita, Get Out (Mego, Mego 029) CD
Pita, Get Down (Mego, 049) LP
Potuznik, Amore Motore (…Autobahn) (Mego, Mego 011) CD
Radian, TG11 (Mego/Rhiz, MEGORHIZ001) CD

pita - 7 tons, get out
fennesz - hotel paral.lel
goem - dertig cm
the first fennoberg thing

most of the things i think are my favorite mego releases actually seem to be on touch or that shitheel jim o'rourke's label.

fuck tom smith and ohne as well - why mego bothered to put his shit out after years of him tossing snipes at them i'll never know. but as long as _the wire_ is finally paying attention to him, i reckon he doesn't care.

but I do have "Hotel Paral.lel" and found it interesting, but truth be told, I only listened to it all the way through once. "Endless Summer" on the other hand is really beautiful.

"aus" by fennesz (one of the last songs on hotel paral.lel) is really amazing, as good as anything on endless summer... i think the jim o'rourke song "eureka" was influenced by this a little bit.

showroom dummies is pretty wild, "seven tons revisited" (as performed by pita/fennesz), the ilpo vaisanen record is great, the fennesz plays 7", the potuznik amore motore (...autobahn) from a few years ago would probably be right up the alley of any mike ink/kompakt fans who are looking backward, both the fenn o'berg records are pop-glitch click/cut exercises in live-editing funnnnnn. that's all i can think of off the top of my head, will probably add more when i'm actually in the same zip code as my music. yeah, that new kevin drumm record is really wild, although i like the triangles cd better which he may or may not have been involved with.

And the Mego site, too.

(Plus I explained it to Julio on another thread, sorry if I'm being bitchy, but it gets old.)

well i agree with the pita recommendations anyway. is that merzbow any good? (also is merzbeat on tigerbeat any good?). that francisco lopez untitled record. i think i'll give hotel parallel another go tonite

dave phillips is aiight, though - he was in FEAR OF GOD, and i think something to do with runzelstirn & gurglestock and/or the schimpfluch collective?

Whatever you say, champ.

all the TLASILA stuff i've heard sounded like moronic ranting through an answering machine with someone practicing the bass in the background. "classic."

The only TLASILA thing I have is the farewell double, The Wigmaker, and it sounds kinda like your description, and yeah, I think that's a good thing. At least it's more interesting to me than, say, J-Lo singing about how she's still "down" with people from the Bronx or something.

interestingly, i have a friend who loves TLASILA and even occasionally thinks he's a friend of smith's and he says the ohne album is trumped by tart's "radio orange" (on swill radio), which is a quite enjoyable album.

i think it's funny that people actually take "the wigmaker" seriously; if that's five years of work, it's five years wasted.

its fantastic stuff. very much in a post MMM sort of continuum.

thanks to hstencil for recommending it too.

9.9/10

Is anyone tempted by the Japanese version of Noriko Tujiko's last album recently released by Digital Narcis with the extra CD?

Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (brilliant)

and

PITA (the blue one - is it Get out? either way, it blew my mind when I first herad it)

get out is either blue or red.

http://rla.web.fm/

also search their side project Opopop; their ep Juicio Final is a busier, crazier version of the final track on Potagia

i connect to his stuff in my gutt more than my head is all.
m.

anybody want to give me a brief description of the Nachtstrom records?

also destroy that EVOL 3" CD. Yawn.

are you talking about "The Disenchanted Forest x 1001", have you heard it yet? the description here looks pretty interesting, although it doesn't say how much different it is from all other Hecker CDs.

I like the Evol 3" ok, though it's just a warmup to juicio final & magia potagia.

the very first release, by General Magic & Pita and made from fridge sounds is a (cold!) classic; Source Records (German not French) also put out their Live and Final Fridge.

The second release also risked a concept/joke that could have fallen flat: Die Mondlandung by General Magic, fine ambient sub-bass & bleeps soundtracking of the Houston-Eagle-Tranquility conversation. Thankfully sounds much more corny on paper or screen than on record, was an ambient staple during the mid-90s. Could outmixmaster Mixmaster Morris and throw The Orb off course.

Both of these even sounded quite similar, what with constant wind-like hissing and sparse deep bass pulses.

The ending, or last three unnamed tracks, of the initial Farmers Manual (re-)release has some exceptionally hypnotic, downright catchy drumming and DSP/sound treatment. I understand these cats put out a DVD in 2003 with all they ever did on it.

Sluta Leta's "Whispers Special" on Fan Club, super-unhinged funked out digitally processed hip hop/downtempo break with mad vocal loop treatment on top. More by those mad Swedes: "Klocken Tjugosju" on Uptight, "You Know What I Mean!" on Chocolate Industries.. the rest is more dry/experimental. Mego also put out excellent homegrown hip hop with DJ DSL. And if you like Elin you're probably aware that he has some long-ass deep (deep-ass long? ew) techno/breaks out on Mego, instead of wild Autorepeat loops.

Liking the Quehenberger album. Yay neo-industrial clunkiness.

wow fridge trax is so sick, way more intersting than you'd expect a record made from samples of fridge noises to be

Kevin Drumm, Sheer Hellish Miasma (Mego, 053) CD

Oooh boy I just picked this one up yesterday and it's bowling me over with delightful tunes. What other stuff is similar, and also this good, either in Drumm's catalog, the Mego archives, or just other noize stuff?

Sheer Hellish Miasma is arguably the strong Kevin Drumm release IMHO, though far from typical of his output.

Also -- can someone please explain this?

hotel paral.el is one of the best glitch albums ever made, so that

oneohtrix point never new album arrival coming out on editions mego in june

did anyone hear the new fennoberg album?

oneohtrix point never new album arrival coming out on editions mego in june

^first thing I've heard by this guy but I'm pretty into it - starts off really gnarly and then settles down into dubby fuckedupness

the fennoberg album is very good but i rly love the previous one and may well come to think similarly

re kevin drumm his album w/ daniel menche (mego 88) has been my soundtrack to the uk election aftermath

any thoughts on russell haswell's recent stuff?

as for 'typical', k drumm has also done some more ambient stuff like 'imperial horizon'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBb2u3KqBEI&feature=related

is the oneohtrix album anything like "rifts"? the description makes it sound pretty different.

I have all the Fennesz-related Mego stuff, yes, it's pretty great...

i thought the new fennoberg was monotonous tbh only gave it a cursory couple of listens but nothing made me want to really reconsider my 1st impression

"the return of..." is up there w/ the best of mego tho

is the oneohtrix album anything like "rifts"? the description makes it sound pretty different.

lots of stuff like rifts but also stuff that almost sounds like fever ray:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiWjl9GPhM

Ooh nice!

Fridge Tracks.

General Magic.

i'd like to put a good word in for the popol vuh remix ep. mika vainio mix is stunning

Yeah, seconded. On red vinyl as well.

massimo - hello dirty

triffic album

admittedly i was reminded of it because my laptop's fan is being weird, jumping up and down frequencies and it reminded me of one of the tracks on here

but this album is srsly lol

sheer hellish miasma just got released on vinyl for the first time! landmark album for me. really excited for this.

and I gotta disagree with the notion that the typical idiom drumm works in is ambient music. dude has serious range and I would say, if anything, his ambient stuff is atypical.

have to admit to not being quite sold on Edtions Mego recent "chillwave" direction, but the Cindytalk vinyl reissue has totally regained my confidence. beautiful, chilling stuff

I hope Fennesz' Instrument Ep gets a repress, shit is expensive! would be cool to have Hotel Paral.lel on vinyl as well

speaking of Fennesz, did anyone check out those Fenno'berg Live in japan vinyls?

second fennoberg album is all time

seriously, those two Cindytalk albums are some of the best music on Mego. hypnotic, emotional noise. the recent split w/ Robert Hampson is pretty smart as well, all wind-clattered sheet metal and organic drones

second fennoberg album is all time

seriously im sure ive posted itt about it but this is one of the best releases they ever did

slightly disappointed in the bj nilsen release (esp considering the tape he released on ash int'l is astoundingly good) but im still really interested in the thymolphthalein release next week. has anyone heard this yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21vJDBNgxYA

srsly

:-D

re kevin drumm his album w/ daniel menche (mego 88) has been my soundtrack to the uk election aftermath

not mego but menche has a tape out on tapeworm called 'raw fall' that i think youd really vibe - mostly unprocessed field recordings of waterfalls & its powerful and mesmerizing. he also has a related lp out called 'kataract' thats on editions mego thats more processed and 'constructed' but i think 'raw fall' is superior

That track "Viennese Tragedy" is so-called because it was recorded live at this swanky jazz club in Vienna where Fenn O'Berg were booked for some reason. About 10 people showed up.

ha I just bumped that Tapeworm thread before reading this one. yeah that menche tape is deep. never heard the second Fenno'berg but I like the first one a lot -- it's next on my list

so nobody else feeling the Cindytalk record? Up Here In The Clouds is probably my fav album this year

another great Mego thing this year is the Hecker 12" he did for a Comme des Garcon show. really sick rhythmic noise loops, kinda a cross between early Boyd Rice and Profan Records, w/ a spacious digital static piece on the flip

http://www.cyrk.org/v2/?p=1763

anyone know the track playing at 19:40?

oops, just needed to check Soundcloud.

Mist - Twin Lanes

haha, i just Shazamed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qiMl9o4Zv4 (poor audio)

fuck reissues with extra tracks LAZY LAZY attempt to make money and thoughtless tactless dozy fuckwit way to piss off those of us who already have the originals. no way to run a label. spesh if yr own releases consist of notable "ennio sample through a filter" and several hours of uninspired filler.

truthbomb^^^

love a lot of the editions mego stuff i've heard over the last few years. would love to have a copy of the new dome box set.

but if i read the euro conversion properly the dome box would cost a yank $166 + shipping? not gonna happen.

listening to the new mark mcguire record ('get lost') on editions mego. it's a little too mellow and new-agey for me to be honest. it might make good yoga music, though.

fuck reissues with extra tracks LAZY LAZY attempt to make money and thoughtless tactless dozy fuckwit way to piss off those of us who already have the originals. no way to run a label. spesh if yr own releases consist of notable "ennio sample through a filter" and several hours of uninspired filler.

― iglu ferrignu, Friday, 14 October 2011 17:35 (1 hour ago)

some of the old pita records are good, also the first & especially second fennoberg

well, i'll rep for some o those "rehberg & bauer"s, which still hold up - i actually LIKE them, but everything in his own name seems to me devoid of ingenuity & sub-bruce gilbert "my first zoom sampletrack" exercises (although i might hazard a guess they're max/msp supercollider or what have you) obvious systems & methods, & not at all transportative, revelatory or moving (even in a cold, paranoid machine type of way). it's only my take. don't matter any.

Already mentioned this on some noise thread but the new Peterlicker album is excellent. This was Rehberg's first group after he moved to Vienna (he was 21) and they have now reformed

http://editionsmego.com/recollection-grm/

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/editions-mego-starts-recollection-grm-sub-label-reissue-classic-musique-concr-te-not-realizing-

In addition to being handsome and French, Schaeffer (as I understand it) helped pioneer the highly exact science of making bumping, clubby jams out of steam engine samples. In other words, the Oneohtrix Point Never dude probably likes him a lot, so you’re fucking nobody if you don’t too. The second record Recollection GRM has announced so far is by Guy Reibel, who, for all intents and purposes is the same guy as Pierre Schaeffer, except with a much much shorter Wikipedia page.

• Pierre Schaeffer pre-order: http://editionsmego.com/release/REGRM+001
• Other Guy pre-order: http://editionsmego.com/release/REGRM+002

that Guy Reibel release is the one to get btw, it is insanely contemporary

p psyched 4 these

admittedly i was reminded of it because my laptop's fan is being weird, jumping up and down frequencies and it reminded me of one of the tracks on here

but this album is srsly lol

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, December 1, 2010 7:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol mego

Oh man two more GRM releases! I really liked the Schaeffer, the Reibel a little less, but I think I'll be buying all of these indiscriminately.

yeah, totally stoked.
mego is reissuing let's build a pussy too, which is not the most listenable thing in the world but fully satisfying as an idea.

That's the timestretched Harry Pussy thing? I vaguely remember that.

More GRM stuff:

Ivo Malec - Triola ou Symphonie pour moi-même Triola ou Symphonie pour moi-même LP
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien Presque Rien 2LP

And I'm waiting for my copy of Nick Edwards' Plekzationz to arrive.

Oops copy-pasted those poorly. But you get the idea.

lorenzo senni?

sometimes when I sit around alone, I think to myself, lol mego

Those in the Bexhill-on-Sea area would be well advised to make their way to the De La Warr Pavilion tomorrow for what is being touted as "the largest live assemblage of the Editions Mego aesthetic to date". Strangely though, Pita himself is not playing.

http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO-170

That looks like a really good day but I'm too broke to go and have other stuff that I've got to do. Excellent choice of venue, hope they get a good turnout. Are you going?

No, I don't live locally.

I might try to go, seeing if I can rally London/Brighton people...

If I can take his name in vain, Brighton ilxor Chewshabadoo was vaguely interested in going. Give him a shout on the Brighton thread maybe?

bbbut that would involve actually meeting another ILXor in person!

True, but he could actually pass for a normal person.

whereas I on the other hand...

i'm going to this. Chewshabadoo, sadly, is not. i'm sure it's going to be just the thing for the hangover that i will have tomorrow.

if I do go JH I might drop you a webmail, if that's cool...

huh why did all of vienna's #1 electronic label decamp to bexhill on sea

Rehberg was very taken with the venue when he was there for the Chris'n'Cosey event last year. Think that's what spurred him on to set this up.

yeah go for it Neil. i've not been to the DLWP before but i've heard it's great, i'm looking fwd to exploring the venue almost as much as the music.

cool, will do so if I get my act together, thanks!

That's an amazing lineup.

it was ace. not packed but a decent turnout and the venue was really nice. the only gripe was a truncated performance from fennesz but he seemed to be having some technical problems (i.e. his stack of effects units kept falling over, lol). russell haswell and kevin drumm = the realest shit ever.

Jeally

The Quicksails album is good, a special space between Black Dice and Emeralds, with crazy handclaps, Gamelan-style percussion.

Yeah I love that record! That, Unicorn Hard-On and Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask have all been great - super stuff from Spectrum Spools this year.

check the Max Eilbacher album, he rules

RIP Peter Rehberg :(

rip. there's an interview with him in the most recent issue of lasse marhaug's personal best zine and he seemed like a dude who'd really found his vibe. horrible news.

Awful news. Just 53.

Just awful. Hits me almost as hard as Mika Vainio's passing, as both felt like "my" people age- and music-wise.

Heartbreaking

oh no. way too soon, awful :/

rip

Whenever I saw the Mego label on an album, it immediately added cachet, maybe partly because the distribution of these albums wasn't caught up with demand in the early '00s. Terribly young. RIP.

oh no!!! was blessed to once spend a day with him. very, very sadly missed.

3am fridge trax yes come on

A tribute compilation to Peter Rehberg of Editions Mego is now live. All payments go towards continuing the work of the label. https://t.co/5m07APQeyv

— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) January 26, 2022

Heard of that guy.

what are your essential mego discs? would like to begin collecting... so far i only have fennesz.

https://i.discogs.com/P6bcYFEUS5ycH6a8X3b67sdwbWsnxs9zXJhfkdtZfu4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:400/w:400/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ5MjUy/MTgtMTM3OTYwNjUz/NS04NTY2LmpwZWc.jpeg

Enjoyed this mix today with favourites chosen by Mego associates:
https://bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-232-nik-colk-void

Pita – Get Out. The third track is one of the greatest pieces of electronic music ever made.

Agreed about Get Out, that's the place to start. His first CD ("Seven Tons For Free") is also great. And it's not a Mego record but Rehberg/Bauer is top notch laptop noise, particularly Passt.

Apart from those two Pita records, to me the essential Mego is (1) the first two Hecker CDs, (2). General Magic "Fridge Trax", (3) Kevin Drumm "Sheer Hellish Miasma", and (4) Russell Haswell "Live Salvage". That's more the noiser end of the Mego spectrum but there is also good melodic stuff like Tujiko Noriko.

Anthony Child's Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. 1 is an absolute essential.

all great recs

my personal fave o'rourke releases are on mego too -- those two fenn o'berg dics and the solo I'm happy, And I'm singing... one

agree with nphominoid, and would add the two Farmersmanual albums, the Ilsa Gold retrospective and the Mori/Parkins duet

And, once you finish all those, check out Pure's Noonbugs and GCTTCATT's s/t