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.

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