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Release Date: 02.04.2010
2 tracks:
Cindytalk - Five Mountains Of Fire
Gordon Sharp: electronics
Paul Middleton: drums
Dan Knowler: Guitar
Gary Jeff: Percussion
Sherrill Crosby: Electronics
Pre-mixed /re-played by GS at Roi Vert, Okamoto, Japan, March 2009.
Robert Hampson - Antarctica Ends Here
Dedicated to John Cale
Recorded and Mixed at Thirst 2007–2009 in London and Paris
Design: Dave Coppenhall
Cindytalk’s Gordon Sharp and Robert Hampson (Loop. Main...) are 2 characters of legend circulating on the periphery of London (and beyond) underground music over the last 2 plus decades. It may come as s surprise then that this stunning split 10" is the first meeting of these two singular minds.
'Five Mountains Of Fire' by Cindytalk is a cracking track taking their recent brittle electronic experiments and charging them with firecracker like percussion to create a pleasantly disorienting soundscape. Flip it over and Hampson delivers the practical polar opposite with Antarctica Ends Here. An exceptionally beautiful piece utilizing piano and carefully placed electronics so as not to break the ice, a tribute to John Cale's 'Antarctica Starts Here' (from 'Paris, 1919' album).
Limited to 500 copies.
Pre-order here. Copies will be shipped mid March 2010
Release Date: 05.03.2010
7 tracks:
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part I
Part VII
Part VI
Part II (vinyl only)
Written and performed by Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke & Peter Rehberg
Recorded and mixed at Studio GOK Sound, Tokyo, October 2009
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, December 2009
Photos by Shunichiro Okada (Outside) & Ujin Matsuo (Inside)
Thats right, they’re back!
After a hiatus of almost 9 years the legendary trio of Christian Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke and Peter Rehberg have returned with a new studio album. Technically the first studio album as previous releases were edits of live performances.
They spent a week in Studio GOK Sound, Tokyo to lay down some stunning electronic works. Whereas previously the emphasis was on a chaotic blend of found samples mangled through their mobile computing systems to create a humorous oddball sound, ‘In Stereo’ implements a more wider instrumental palette of analogue & digital synthesis, guitar, piano, bass and percussion. What they do maintain is the ability to make a near psychedelic audio blend where its impossible to determine who does what.
Released as CD digipack and gatefold double vinyl which features an extra slice of classic Fenn O’Berg magic beauty.
‘In Stereo’ ...for you.
Pre-order here. Copies will be shipped mid February 2010
Release Date: 02.02.2010
2 tracks:
Space Finale 1
Space Finale 2
Images by Franz Graf
The follow up to the well received ‘Man From Deep River’ (DeMEGO 007), ‘Space Finale is another surreal slice of heavy listening from these legendary north Europeans.
The material included here was realised on analogue equipment, with a Revox 2-Channel tape machine as their main instrument. Maintaining the analogue spirit of the audio this release is available as a C90 cassette.
The tracks presented here are long form excursions into intense slabs atmospheric disturbance, melancholic fog and chattering melodies, as well as their legendary field recordings.
Packaged with some suitably cool images by Franz Graf.
Limited 200 copies
Release Date: 02.12.2009
1 track:
Kataract
Daniel Menche: Waterfall recordings and electronics.
All waterfall field recordings were captured around the Pacific Northwest of USA
Mixed and recorded throughout 2007-2009.
Mastered in the analog domain at Stereophonic Mastering, Portland Oregon
Artwork and illustrations by Emily Hyde
Photo art reproduction by Circle 23
Design by Johnny Pinkhouse.
Another sizzling power block from Menche. This time capturing the intense force of various Pacific Northwest waterfalls, to create a mind blowing audio sculpture. This single track slices its way through the sonic spectrum over 39 minutes of high end processing. One hell of beauty of a beast!
Packaged in stunning, almost disturbing artwork.
Limited to 500 copies
Release Date: 02.12.2009
4 tracks:
Work for Do You Me? I Did [1 & 2] / Swamp (20:09)*
Work for Do You Me? I Did [3] / Swamp (10:18)*
Here Visit (5:53)
U Mu U (3:12)
* Inspired & commissioned by Michael Clark for dance-work Do you Me? I Did / Swamp
Music by Bruce Gilbert
Engineered by John Fryer
Recorded at Blackwing Studios
Remastered by Russell Haswell @ Haswell Studios
New artwork by Dave Coppenhall
This Way, originally released in 1984 on Mute (STUMM 18), was Bruce Gilbert’s first solo album being realised in that brief period between Dome winding down operations and Wire reforming for first time.
A stunning study of controlled ambience and subtle minimalism, which is still regarded as an all time favourite to us here at Editions Mego. The bulk of the album is taken up by the mighty Do You Me? I Did / Swamp pieces which were commissioned for piece of the same name by choreographer Michael Clark. A grey tonal poem of amazing bleak beauty building up to the ecstatic crescendo of the third movement. Elsewhere short notes on the possibilities of abstract electronic noise are included in the form of Here Visit and U, Mu, U, which still hold their sense of urgency a quarter of a century after being initially recorded.
This is also the first time the complete album is available domestically on CD.
Previous CD issues were the This Way to The Shivering Man on Mute (with U Mu U missing), and the Japan only 3 CD box with This Way, Shivering Man and Insiding previously released by Alfa Recordings.
This 25th Anniversary reissue is remastered by Russell Haswell and contains a re-work by Dave Coppenhall on Angela Conway’s original artwork.
Release Date: 02.11.2009
12 tracks:
You / Lacerate
Lava Junkie
Total Sumatra Shoot
Terminal Pain
Black Trauma Delice
You Doped
Napalmee
K
Porn Saccage
Trope
Chromata Vein
You Burned
Recorded at SSStudio with Raphael Seguin, early 2008.
Mixed and Produced by Lionel Fernandez, summer 2008 at SSS.
Mastered by Christophe Le Dantec at Grand Canal Studio, Dublin
All music by Sister Iodine:
Lionel Fernandez
Erik Minkkinen
Nicolas Sakamoto-Mazet
Artwork by Hendrik Hegray and Jonas Delaborde
Flame Desastre is the fourth release by french band Sister Iodine; and is probably the most straight forward, concise and focused by the trio. Its intense and rough attack leaves not much time for the listener to take cover, from its aggressively joyful violent orgy of lacerated guitars, meshed with primal and exacting heavy laden drums.
The production is kept deliberately raw occasionally pierced by minimal electronic effects creating a collection of burning brutality and elegant sonic devastation.
Initially released in spring 2009 as a vinyl LP by Premier Sang, this special re-sequenced and remastered CD edition comes with 2 bonus tracks: Lava Junkie and K.
Limited to 500 copies
Release Date: 02.11.2009
10 tracks:
signalling through the flames
of ghosts and buildings
maglev
troubled aria
our shadow, remembered
feathers burn
one hundred years tomorrow
transgender warrior
if we meet, we meet in silence
debris of a smile
written and recorded by gordon sharp at belmont shore (ca), mid-levels (hk) & kobe (japan) 2001-2009.
mastered at piethopraxis, july 2009
dedicated to matt kinnison (1965-2008)
Cindytalk have been active since 1982, which we won’t go into here (a quick Google search will satisfy that need). During the 80s and 90s their sound was defined by broken down rock structures and abstract piano ambience. A third side to their coin emerged at the dawn of the 21st Century with a turn towards obscure computer usage pushing all resemblance of melody and conventual texture to the outer edges.
‘The Crackle Of My Soul’ is the first full length to come from this new direction, starting in 2001 and now finally ready for release. Its also the first Cindytalk album since the 1995 release of ‘Wappinschaw’.
Although very abstract in nature these 10 tracks still echo the vocal brilliance and subtle beauty that they become known for, as well as pushing back the boundaries making this an essential listen regardless if you are aware of the back catalogue or not,
This is the first in a series of already finished releases, which will see the light of day throughout 2010.
"and if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames." artaud via trocchi
Release Date: 02.10.2009
15 tracks:
EXCEPTIONALLY LOUD PROPANE GAS CANNON BIRD SCARER
JAMAICAN BLOWHOLE
ANT COLONY (FEATURING EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON F2 FLYBY)
WASP-WAR (FEATURING APACHE AH Mk 1 DUET)
HELICOPTER TRIP (EDIT)
A HORDE OF FLIES FEAST ON A ROTTING PHEASANT CARCASS (EXTRACT)
ELECTROSWAT (PLAYLIST RE-EDIT)
LOCAL GAMEKEEPERS SHOOTING A FEW FIELDS AWAY
MISSING / HITTING BEER CAN TARGET
ROCKET LAUNCH
HIGH FORCE FROM ABOVE
SUMMERHILL FORCE FROM INSIDE GIBSON’S CAVE
TRAPPERS BAIT DIGITAL CALLER
FALLING SNOW #4, +20dB (EXTRACT)
DRAMATIC WHINING WIND
Total Time: 73:59
Recorded in Suffolk, Co. Durham, St. Lucia & Jamaica 2007-2009.
Edited, compiled and mastered @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk
WARNING: Extreme Dynamic Levels. Listeners experience may change during playback!
"wild track: Sound recorded during production without picture."
(SOUND-ON FILM. VINCENT LoBRUTTO. Praeger, 1994. p.287)
Russell Haswell returns with a complete departure from his real-time computer generated improvisations (‘Live Salvage’ & ‘Second Live Salvage’).
WILD TRACKS is a collection of ‘deliberate recordings’ made with other multi media / film projects in mind. These recordings do not contain any overdubs or compression, and document a wide variety of audio experiences. Taking you to a blowhole in Jamaica, inside an ant colony and to the entrance of wasp nest in Suffolk, on a helicopter ride in St. Lucia, two waterfalls in County Durham, as well as the sound of freshly fallen snow, flies being electrocuted and contributions from various military tactical airlift planes, air defence fighters and attack helicopters.
The recordings on WILD TRACKS were realised using a variety of techniques including using hydrophones to record falling snow, recording gamekeepers many fields away with a parabolic dish, as well as binaural, ‘near-field’ & ‘direct’.
At Editions Mego, we understand this to be the first commercially released audio CD to be packaged in a KIDZBOX™ containing a full colour A2 poster with photographs and detailed recording notes.
Unlike any other release this season!
Release Date: 02.10.2009
3 tracks:
OBLIVIO AGITATUM
ZEROS
ISOPYRE
Total Time: 34:20
All titles written by Bruce Gilbert
Mastered @ Haswell Studio, Suffolk
Design by David Coppenhall
Images: front Bruce Gilbert, inner: David Coppenhall
Editions Mego is very pleased to announce the release of a new album by Bruce Gilbert, whose career stretches back to late 1960’s British avant garde art & music scenes, and has since played an important and influential role with his involvement in various rock based formations, work for choreographic projects and art installations
‘Oblivio Agitatum’ is Gilbert’s first album length release since ‘Ordier’ (realised 1996 and released in 2004), essentially making this his first album of the 21st century. A startling and mesmerizing work which recalls some of his mid 1980’s works such as ‘This Way’ and ‘Shivering Man’. An ever shifting set of agitated and obscure tones creating a sense of confusion while still being highly structured and concentrated.
A stunning return.
Release Date: 05.07.2009
14 tracks:
Disc One: MAGIC SOUND
1.1 Shinjuku Baby Pt. 1
1.2 Steam Powered Oscillation
1.3 Horst und Snail mit Markus
1.4 Gürtel Eins
1.5 Escape From Hamburg
1.6 Shinjuku Baby Pt. 2
1.7 Gürtel Zwei
1.8 Fenn O’Berg Theme
1.9 (5,6m Of) Fenn O’Berg
Disc Two: RETURN
2.1 Floating My Boat
2.2 A Viennese Tragedy
2.3 Riding Again
2.4 We Will Diffuse You
2.5 Adidas Sun Tanned Avant Man
Total Time: 01:40:08
Recorded at:
ICC, Tokyo, 17.01.1999 (1.1 & 1.6)
Some old raft floating in Hamburg harbour, 08.05.1998 (1.2 & 1.5)
Die Insel, Berlin, 05.05.1998 (1.3)
Rhiz, Vienna, 15.07.1999 (1.4 & 1.7)
Büro 1 @ Le Garage, Paris, 10.05.1998 (1.8)
Porgy & Bess, Vienna, 10.05.2001 (2.1 & 2.2)
Centre Pompidou, Paris, 21.03.2001 (2.3 & 2.4)
All tracks by Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke & Peter Rehberg
Artwork by Tina Frank
Remastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, January 2009
The legendary Fenn O’Berg are resurfacing eight years since their last performance. Starting with this double CD reissue of their two albums; ‘The Magic Sound Of...’ and ‘The Return Of...’, originally released in 1999 and 2002.
Fenn O’Berg (Christian Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke and Peter Rehberg) first hit the scene after a surprise appearance at the Nickelsdorf Festival in 1997. Throughout 1998 and 1999 the trio toured extensively throughout Austria, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain, as well as shows in North America and Japan. The highlights of these trips were presented on ‘The Magic Sound’. Although they were not first group to utilise mainly mobile computing devices, they were the first to bring such a set up to venues that would not normally book or even be interested in such things. This resulted in some very polarised reactions from both audience and promoters alike. In many instances the group needed to ‘escape’ the city they played. In Rome Jim O’Rourke was even given an acoustic guitar and more or less forced to play a short acoustic set before anyone could leave the building. Despite all of this, there was a generally positive response, with some shows going down as local legend. However its worth considering that the technology at the tine didn’t offer the convenience of ‘plug in and play’ of current operating systems and applications. This of course led to set of recordings like no other. Not only was the rule book ripped up but the tour book as well. Each show became an improvised twisted journey through the various strands of electronic music where popular music sources (some more obvious than others) clashed with more academic tricks, but never sounding like being part of either.
By 2002, the groups live output was drastically reduced due to all three members schedules moving in different directions. Only two performances were committed that year, and although the sound was more polished and one could even suggest that ‘they knew what they were doing’, their polarising effect was still there. One show was a sold out over enthusiastic Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the other a miserable ‘count them on one hand’ turnout at a jazz club in Vienna. Edited highlights of these shows made up ‘The Return Of..’
Since then the trio has been on a constant pause. In October 2009 they will get together in Tokyo to record a new studio album planned for early 2010 release.
This reissue is repackaged with new artwork by Tina Frank, and contains two bonus tracks from the same period.
Release Date: 08.05.2009
6 tracks:
Disc One:
i’m happy
and i’m singing
and a 1, 2, 3, 4
Disc Two
let's take it again from the top
getting the vapors
he who laughs
Total Time: 01:43:53
Recorded 1997-1999 in NY, Osaka, Tokyo, Toronto and Malmö
Originally released on Mego in 2001
Of course, Jim O’Rourke needs no introduction being well known as a performer, producer and all round top chap, as well membership of various pop and rock combos for more than two decades.
‘Im Happy, and I’m Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4’ was called by many common folk Jim’s laptop record or his powerbook album. We prefer the simple term computer when referring to the instrument used for the creation of this milestone album.
Equal parts - schizoid pop, cracked minimalism, concrete drama and melancholic contemplation. It strikes us as a highly personal release. Given the nature of this warm beast, it seems likely to appeal across the board - electronic nuts, indie rock kids and yes, even the good folk of the established experimental world may take pleasure in the delicate nuances of Jim's hard drive.
This reissue is long overdue (the album being out of print for 5 years), and comes with a bonus disc featuring unreleased material from same period sourced from Jim’s vast archive, as well as new artwork.
File under 'handsome'
This album will not be available as a download.
Release Date: 04.05.2009
10 tracks:
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
ASA 1
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
ASA 2
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
ASA 3
Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
Ten
Total Time: 51:53
Produced by Florian Hecker
Booklet Essay by Robin Mackay
Typesetting by Tina Frank
Mastered by Rashad Becker
‘Acid In The Style Of David Tudor’ is Florian Hecker’s first full length studio (as opposed to collections and commissions for art installations) album since 2003, when the groundbreaking ‘Sun Pandämonium’ was unleashed by Mego. Since then he has collaborated on audio projects with Yasunao Tone, Russell Haswell (as Haswell & Hecker) and a forthcoming live collaboration with Richard James as well a myriad of sound installation works, individually and with numerous artists worldwide.
As the title suggests this album is referencing the parallel universes of modern 20th century composition and hedonistic rave culture. A challenging but ultimately rewarding set of Electronic Music compositions which push these two reference points into unknown areas.
Set in apparent contrast are the sequence of six pieces Acid In The Style of David Tudor, where hyperchaotic functions are inherently coupled to their sources of manipulation - a Buchla modular synthesizer in combination with a Comdyna analog computer - in opposition to the ASA pieces, fruit of a complex manipulation of distinct auditory patterns into a new acoustic whole. The closing Ten opens with an intense head related localization blur. Here, virtual binaural, stereophonic, biphonic and monaural sound reproduction coexist. All three approaches are displayed into a contrasting dynamics, where non- linear waveforms and psychoacoustic illusions that constantly push our perceptual and representational fabrics. Following the ideas of Robin Mackay, Hecker’s work reinstanciates the genetic ofness, once proposed by philosopher David Kaplan, cutting both genetic and cultural territories of hearing.
This release is available as CD and download with an extensive 12 page essay ‘Climate of Bass Hunter: Florian Hecker, Acid in the Style of David Tudor’ by Robin Mackay, founding editor of Collapse.
It is recommended to listen to this material on loudspeakers at high volume. Headphone use is not advised.
Release Date: 02.03.2009
11 tracks:
Ujellus
Juurake
Escapes
Hondonada
Valontuo
Hobojungle
Ahuyenta Temores
Sahalaitainen
Tolmavuo
Sigilo
Mañana
Total Time: 59:15
Lucio Capece: Soprano Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Preparations, Mixer-Sax Feedback, Sruti Box
Mika Vainio: Electronics and Treatments, Electric Guitar, Cymbal
Recorded in Berlin 2006-2008
Artwork: Tina Frank
On first glance Lucio Capece and Mika Vainio seem unlikely partners. Two standard bearers at opposing poles of extremity, both sonically and geographically. Lucio from Argentina and rooted in a traditions of jazz and Improv, while Mika hailing from Finland sourced in early 90s electronic and Industrial scenes.
However, they both share an alarming attention to detail when it comes to their audio compositions, and neither are afraid of pushing boundaries of abstraction to the limit. With this in mind its with great pleasure that Editions Mego issues their first album as a duo. Recorded over a 2 year period in Berlin (their common chosen home), its as startling as it is visceral. Delicate as it is extreme.
Huge blasting slabs of concrete sax geometrically oppose sonic taps of electronic sound, which bring about a fascinating sound palette.
The opening ‘Ujellus’ is both piercing and soothing; ‘Juurake’ combines pure sweat with cold emotion; tense environmental scrapes flesh out on ‘Ahuyenta Temores’. From the pounding machinist overdrive on ‘ Tolmavuo’ to the poignant melancholy of ‘Mañana’.
Its all here.
Release Date: 26.01.2009
3 tracks:
Man From Deep River Part One
Man From Deep River Part Two
Man From Deep River Part Three
Total Time: 69:59
Compiled and mixed in Berlin and Reykjavik 2008
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln July 2008
The boiling up bottomless numbness. Slowly disappearing and so suddenly reappearing. A constant vivid reminder yet as honest as possible. The man from deep river quickly develops between two lonely desperate individuals, and the savage natives around him turn just as quickly against their own mountain god. The ‘illness’ is caused by several deeply depressing circumstances and by the intense difficulty of other sickening circumstances happening around deep river. The underlining of this situation is precise but not quite naturalistic which has only a very limited influence on the god mountain.
Those lovable Nordic heroes are back with a fourth album of intense listening and shined isolationist compositions. In doing so, they have issued yet another brief statement in defense of their research:
“Like another wall of jungle trees Man From Deep River leaves us both stunned and disoriented. It is an environment of high tension but also with moments of temporary insanity and auditory hallucinations. Based on a found tape from 1975, which served as guidance for the compositions"
Man From Deep River opens up a new development in their sound. Melodic passages with sweeping electronics and analogue synthesizers mixed with field recordings and disturbed voices creating a multifaceted piece.
The Swedish born BJ Nilsen defines his work as "focused upon the sound of nature and its effects on humans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound." He has numerous recordings on Touch and has collaborated with the likes of Chris Watson, Christian Fennesz, and Z'ev. The Icelandic citizens Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Helgi Thorsson are Stilluppsteypa, whose electronic abstractions engage absurd theatrics that mar the pristine surface of minimalism.
Limited to 500 copies.
Release Date: 09.01.2009
6 tracks:
Paraug
Paratrooper
Wicked Way
Benbbet
Eternal Winter
Natural Trouble
Total Time: 59:36
Written and performed by KTL
Produced by Jim O'Rourke
Recorded and mixed at Studio GOK Sound, Tokyo, September 2008
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, October 2008
Stephen O'Malley: Guitar
Peter Rehberg: Computer & Synthesizer
Atsuo: Drums on 2 and Gong on 6
Design by SOMA
And how things have evolved. Long awaited new album by the ongoing duo of Stephen O’Malley and Peter Rehberg.
KTL’s first full length release that is not commissioned work for theatre or film, showcases their approach to composition and structure as a highly active live band. Whereas the ‘Kindertotenlieder’ trilogy of 1, 2 and 3 were blurred washes of fog and noise polished in by ambient shine, IV is a more direct and demanding beast, referencing such diverse projects as; volume era Swans, Mecca period Cabaret Voltaire, phase one Wire, Fushitsusha and This Heat.....
Developed and composed over the spring and summer of 2008, KTL brought the material to Tokyo the following September and worked with Jim O’Rourke at the desk & controls, IV is a stunning new direction and great addition to both artists' already impressive canon.
The opening and shortest track, ‘Paraug’ is a dark shadow of previous KTL sounds, with its blowtorch riffs and sub bass rumbles. This leads the way for the album's monster ‘Paratrooper’. Over 21 minutes of driving bass pulse interwoven with razor sharp guitar from O’Malley & synth and organ blasts from Rehberg. Atsuo, from Japanese top-rockers Boris, glues it together with his arhythmic and punishing drumming. ‘Wicked Way’ is a breezy upbeat number, which if we were that way inclined would be the album's single. ‘Benbbet’ on the other hand is whole different ball game: a distant guitar loop is joined by slamming No Step beats and making way for a guitar riff to straddle all valleys and computer bass rattles. Possibly KTL’s most detailed recording. ‘Eternal Winter’ is an exercise in black frozen resonant harmonics, whereas ‘Natural Trouble’ is a slowly evolving twister of a track which is both spontaneous and focused.
KTL IV is issued on CD for the world (except Japan) on Editions Mego.
Daymere will be releasing the Japanese version, with Inoxia issuing a special vinyl edition.
Photo: Miki Matsushima
Release Date: 28.12.2008
8 tracks:
Prelude
Apollonian Gasket
You're All Answers
Whipped Silk
Rupture
A Simple Death
Lung Butter Blues
Hyperpole
Total Time: 35:20
Robin Fox: Computer, Controllers, ARP 2500, Programming
Anthony Pateras: Computer, Doepfer A-100, Voice, Revox B-77
All tracks recorded at Chinatown Studios, Brunswick.
Mixed and mastered at Wilkinsound, West Footscray, Melbourne, Australia, 2008.
ARP 2500 materials in "Rupture" recorded at WORM, Rotterdam
Design by Clare Cooper
The first cabs off the Editions Mego rank in 2006, Pateras and Fox return with their third shredding album of Antipodean-blasted bliss that will get even the darkest of doomlords crawling out of their abyss of hatred, and dancing like lunatics.
End of Daze is a bulletproof testament to the Duo’s eight year history in the trenches of live electro-acoustic music - their messy, over-the top contact-miked beginnings now formed into a powerful and futuristic meta-language borrowing from the early electronic masters, bizarre sound poetry, vintage synth festishism, the eternal patch tweak and good old fashioned Melbourne experimentalist brutality, fuelled by a poisonous love affair with sonic invention.
A combination of materials forged live on stage alongside carefully considered studio mayhem, the audio contained on this disc is their finest vein-popping blend of chaos and order to date. Recorded beautifully by longtime engineer James “Wilkinsound” Wilkinson in Melbourne, combined with some sessions from WORM in Rotterdam, End of Daze promises a sonic range as wide as its genesis, complete with angry boy artwork courtesy of Clare Cooper.
Limited to 500 copies.
Anthony Pateras website
Pateras & Fox MySpace
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Release Date: 09.12.2008
10 tracks:
Holding Loose
Unknown Dawn
Hatch
Adrenaline Strike
Dropping The Ego
Highrise 1
Unsymmetric Distance
Spectral Gate
Mirrorworld
Hornet
Total Time: 54’00
Music by Dirk Dresselhaus & Ilpo Väisänen
Recorded & mixed January 2004 - December 2007 Constructionsite Studios, Berlin and Ilpo's cottage, Karttula
Mastered by Rashad Becker, August 2008
Cover photo by D. Dresselhaus
Design by Stephen O’Malley
Despite only being released now 'Hedonism' is actually the first studio album by Dirk Dresselhaus and Ilpo Väsiänen as duo, a project which started in 1999. 5 years in the making and being started before Hildur Gudnadottir joined forces, 'Hedonism' is colllision of urban and rural settings.
The opening five blistering tracks retain a full in sci-fi punk feel being made in Dirk's Berlin studio. Tracks such as ‘Holding Loose’ and ‘Adrenaline Strike’ are brutal urban mantras bristling with energy. These are followed by electro-acoustic exercise manipulating various concrete sources, leading up to the final 2 pieces recorded at Ilpo's lakeside cottage in the wilds of northern Finland. Here fragile field recordings of insects, fish eating mosquitos, birds mesh with the duos shiny electronics to create the massive 'Mirrorworld'. The closing 'Hornet' while stating a calm atmosphere has a somewhat startling surprise in store for the listener.
Digital Purchase via Mirror World Music
Release Date: 28.11.2008
1 track:
foolproof betters fools bettering foolproof....
Total Time: 24:46
Done by ibitsu, March 2008
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, September 2008
Artwork by SOMA, July 2008
A curious and highly fine tuned digital composition emerging from somewhere in Japan. Starting life nearly a decade ago, this piece was refined, restarted, thrown away, though lost and finally adjusted and completed in March of this
year.
A shimmering sub rumble counters hi-end tweaks, like an acid drenched take on the spirit of early trente oiseaux releases. 'foolproof betters fools bettering foolproof...' demands total attention as well playback on correct speaker
systems. This is not a soundtrack to other activity.
Limited to 500 copies.
Release Date: 31.10.2008
8 tracks:
Murder Version **
ML6 *
Slow Investigation **
Black Holes *
Pia **
ML3
Boxes & Angels *
Final Jerk ***
Total Time: 54:36
All audio made by Peter Rehberg 2004-2008. For the following Gisèle Vienne productions:
'I Apologize' (2004) *
'Une Belle Enfant Blonde' (2005) **
'Jerk' (2008) ***
Text written and spoken by Dennis Cooper
Action on ‘Murder Version’ by Catherine Robbe-Grillet & Jonathan Capdevielle
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, June 2008
Artwork by SOMA
Photos by Gisèle Vienne
Peter Rehberg’s collaboration with the Paris based puppeteer and choreographer, Gisèle Vienne began in 2001, with the production of the DACM piece ‘ShowroomDummies’, followed by ‘Stereotypie’ in 2003.
In 2004, Vienne started to direct under her own name and began to work on pieces collaborating on text with US author, Dennis Cooper. This CD is a document of selected audio parts of all Gisèle Vienne productions made between 2004 and 2008, except for the epic ‘Kindertotenlieder’, whose audio material was presented on the various KTL releases in 2006 and 2007 (eMEGO 084, eMEGO 085).
The range here is vast from the upfront noise excess of the ‘I Apologize’ (2004) tracks to the lonely synth passages which were used in ‘Une Belle Enfant Blonde’ (2005), and the sad coda used for ‘Jerk’, which began as a radio play for Radio France Culture in 2007, before being adapted for stage in 2008.
The opening ‘Murder Version’ is a version of the recording ‘Meurtre’ by Catherine Robbe-Grillet & Jonathan Capdevielle, which was released as a single sided 12” vinyl in 2005 (UBEB 001), and is to be considered as a tribute to the Alain Robbe-Grillet film ‘Glissements progressifs du plaisir’ (1974).
Although this material was intended for consumption in a theatrical setting, it has been edited with domestic use in mind ultimately representing that the grey zone where puppetry, literature, contemporary theatre & dance, visual art, and extreme computer music meet.
Release Date: 12.09.2008
Limited to 150 copies
Available at the KTL concert at Earthdom, Tokyo 12.09.2008
Demo recordings for the new KTL album IV, which is to be recorded with Jim O'Rourke in Tokyo September 2008. KTL IV will be available early 2009.
Last copies available for purchase here. First come, first served. One copy per person. Orders will be shipped October 1st 2008.
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Release Date: 02.08.2008
1 continuous track split into 11 parts
Total Time: 35’46
Acoustic/digital presentation recorded Colchester Arts Centre 17.10.2006
Final mix by Z'EV London 01.2008
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln 04.2008
Design by SOMA
Neither Z’EV or PITA need any introduction in these circles. These 2 heavyweights of experimental music have been associates for 2 decades.
Their creative collaboration came about after a meeting in 2004, which led to a monthly file exchange program in 2005. Instead of releasing results immediately it was decided to test the material in a live setting. Performances were held in Vienna and throughout the UK during 2006. ‘Colchester’ is the final result of this process. A mesmerising and intense collision of Z’EV’s acoustic percussion work and PITA’s computer manipulation.
Edition of 500
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Release Date: 28.07.2008
3 tracks:
Sternum
Ribcage
Lungs
Total Time: 30:43
Recorded winter 2004 in Providence, RI
Finalized winter 2005 in New York City
Design by DF
Guest Personal: Kris Lapke
New York based Prurient (aka Dominick Fernow) has been an active instigator of the Power Electronics and Noise genres for well over a decade, with 100+ releases issued so far, usually limited and over all known formats. Its with great pleasure that Editions Mego present this new set of Prurient compositions. Comprising of 3 ear splitting tracks of high end quality feedback, disturbed vocals and twisted percussion. While previewing this work for release on a flight from Milan to Vienna it came to the attention of the listener that an irritated passenger 2 rows in front complained of high pitched whistling in the air conditioning. Such is the power of Arrowhead.
Release Date: 30.06.2008
8 tracks:
1] 06:52:51, 1999, Metro, Kyoto.
2] 16:03:54, 1998, Klangturm, St.Pölten .
3] 06:48:30, 1999, Posthof, Linz.
4] 07:53:60, 1998, 121, London .
5] 02:00:30, 1998, Queen Elisabeth Hall, London.
6] 03:08:62, 2000, National Centre For Early Music, York.
7] 07:47:63, 1997, Wuk, Wien .
8] 11:18:24, 2000, Lok, Munchen .
Originally released as a CD in May 2001 on Mego, now finally made available on digital to coincide with the release of the 'Second Live Salvage' double vinyl set.
What has been said about ‘Live Salvage 1997->2000’:
"play this to a Slipknot fan and watch his head fall off."
unknown web source
"It reminds us of death. But death sells! As will 'Live Salvage' - though mostly to smug wanker's who like to confuse their less 'artistic' friends with a barrage of outré unpleasantness."
Muzik
"This is fine granulation work. I will play it for my lectures on 'Noise Resources in Electronic Music'."
Curtis Roads
"The abstract noise excesses contained on this CD present a clear sign of an attitude critical of technology, and in addition help rehabilitate the somewhat forgotten expression, "Fuck You"."
de:bug
"a fearsome, skull shattering, flesh shredding display of electronic hostility."
The Wire
"Notes reveal that seven people attended the digital apocalypse that was '11:18:24, 2000, LOK, München'. Now you can experience the terror in your own home."
NME
"Haswell has made a record that not only demands but also commands your attention"
Other Muisc
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Release Date: 30.06.2008
5 tracks:
SIDEONE:
1] 08:12.14, 2000, Museu de Cièmcies, Valencia.
2] 10:53.82, 2002, Färgfabriken, Stockholm.
SIDE TWO:
3] 16:02.84, 2002, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt.
SIDE THREE:
4] 18:37.59, 2004, Engine Rooms, Brighton.
SIDE FOUR:
5] 5:08.62, 2006, Point Éphémère, Paris.
+ 'Bonus Recording', Russell Haswell & Toshiji Mikawa:
10:12.81, 2007, IKKI, Kita Kyushu.
Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, April 2008.
Follow up to the award winning ‘Live Salvage 1997->2000’ CD (MEGO 012, 2000).
Hot on the heels of recent collaborative releases with Florian Hecker (as HASWELL & HECKER) on Warner Classics and WARP Records, Russell Haswell (b.1970. Coventry, UK) presents the second volume of his LIVE SALVAGE archive series. Documenting improvised real-time, computer-generated audio-presentations given over the past 10 years, in different types of venues all with contrasting acoustics and audiences.
Editions Mego is proud to announce this double vinyl set.
Release Date: 12.05.2008
12 tracks:
1
2
3
ce3
4
5
6
7
8
9
pe2
tr1
Total Time: 50:12
Made by Pita 1998/99 using an Apple Powerbook 1400cs/133
Initial file management at Random Studio, Wien, July 1999
Remastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, July 2007
Artwork by Tina Frank
Re-issue consultantancy by Russell Haswell
Liner notes by David Keenan
‘Get Out’ was the second full length album release by Pita (aka Peter Rehberg). The folllow up to the award winning ‘Seven Tons For Free’. Its harsh use of available computing devices made it popular both in and outside electronic music circles of the time, especially the 11 minute anthem like 3rd track.
David Keenan in his liner notes states that ‘Get Out’ “...stands as the first major musical laptop statement in the same way that Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced album spoke for the most extended instrument-specific modes of the electric guitar three decades earlier.”
Out of print for over half a decade, now remastered and packaged in a 6 panel digipack. Half the original edition was printed in red, the other in blue. This definitive edition comes in purple.
Extra content comes in the form of the 3 tracks which appeared on the the split 12” with Kevin Drumm released by BOXmedia in 2000.
Release Date: 31.03.2008
2 tracks:
Nachts: Schnee Mika Vainio Remix
Aguirre I Haswell & Hecker Remix
Cut by Rashad Becker @ Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin December 2007
Popol Vuh’s soundtrack work for the films of Werner Herzog in 1970’s and 1980’s are some of the most stunning in the field. Editions Mego is pleased to present 2 re-workings of classic Vuh tracks. Mika Vainio takes ‘Nachts: Schnee’ from the 1987 soundtrack ‘Cobra Verde’, and delivers a skillfully constructed ambient piece of beauty, which shifts and turns over 10 minutes. Haswell & Hecker turn the majestic ‘Aguirre I’ from the 1972 soundtrack ‘Aguirre - The Wrath Of God’ into possibly the first track to be played at the last rave on Earth. Unlike recent H&H releases on Warner Classics and Warp this does NOT utilize the UPIC system but vintage digital delays and freeze effect units, in conjunction with digital compositional tools.
This release is pressed on red vinyl and packaged in a plastic sleeve with a golden sticker.
Information on Popol Vuh recordings can be found here
Release Date: 13.02.2008
3 tracks:
Soba Ghost, Horse, Hells (Bathing In Vulkano Tears)
Submarine Peanut
Happy In Nagoya
Track 1 recorded at IKKI, Kita Kyushu
Track 2 recorded at Base Sous Marine, Bordeaux
Track 3 recorded at Club Upset, Nagoya
Liner Notes by Oren Ambarchi
Limited Edition of 200 copies available on KTL Earth and Poland tours February and April 2008
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Release Date: 21.01.2008
4 tracks
Bones In The Sand
Kalmukia - The Discovery, Wiring, Invasion
Effect Of Discovery, Test, Alarm, Catastrophy
Aftermath: The Mutation
Total Time: 58:29
Recorded 2006, Berlin
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln October 2007
Story and drawings by Ilpo Väisänen
Layout by SOMA
Angel is Ilpo Väisänen (Pan sonic), Hildur Guðnadóttir (Lost In Hildurness) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM). ‘Kalmukia’ is a vast epic, sprawling through guitar riffs spanning deep electronic canyons overlooked by a melocholic grey sky. A journey leading to discovery and a final mutation. All players delicately playing off each other creating a mesmerising work that sounds like nothing they have done before yet still retaining the audio signatures they have become known for.
Packaged in a notebook style sleeve.
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Release Date: 08.01.2008
11 tracks
Silly
Pink Umbrella
Megrim
Broomgroom
Kirre
Skylla
Schwarzschild
Rusty Spoon
Syne
Astra
Jimijohnnyfreddy
Total Time: 53:11
Silvia Fässler: computer, electronics, guitar
Billy Roisz: computer, turntable
All tracks by Silvia Fässler & Billy Roisz
Recorded & mixed June 2007 by Dieter Kovacic at Fleetinsel/Hamburg
Except 'Jimijohnnyfreddy' and 'Kirre' - recorded 2003 at Sperrmücc Studios/Vienna.
Mastered by Martin Siewert at Motone Sound Services/Vienna.
Instruments used:
http://kluppe.klingt.org
http://lloopp.klingt.org
Artwork by Clare Cooper
‘Skylla’ is a monster. A sheering, scathing collision of computer generated sounds meshed with guitar and turntable. The results are intense yet bearable, funny but not stupid. From the rhythmical excesses of ‘Pink Umbrella’ and ‘Kirre’ to the subtle dronescape of ‘Syne’, this is a full on experience.
A long awaited collaboration between these long time associates of Viennese subculture; Silvia in various curatorial roles and Billy as video artist. ‘Skylla’ is their debut album.
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Release Date: 04.01.2008
14 tracks
Cryish2
Timpanilowfdbck
Drn upish
Flirtcatastph
Groove&flowdispersion
Ringflirtsinterlude
Ritmokickcercando
Drnindustriaagitato
Intro elastico
Timpani basso ritmo
Drummohey
Rockassymmetrico
Voceevocando
Longraspgroove
Total Time: 24:07
Gert-Jan Prins: electronics, timpani, voice
Recorded at the Prins Studio, Amsterdam, NL, 2007
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln.
Artwork by Tina Frank
Another bulletin of customised electronics from this Dutch master. Break Before Make, like its predecessor ‘Risk’ investigates the sonic possibilities to be found in electronic circuits and components, resulting in a high-definition compact set of finely crafted pieces . Short, sharp shock with a bit of timpani thrown in.
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Release Date: 08.01.2008
1 track
6°FSKYQUAKE
Total Time: 33:41
Stephen O'Malley: HP 200CD & Travis Bean / Fender Twin Reverb
Attila Csihar: Vocals
Written & Produced by Stephen O’Malley
Lyrics by Attila Csihar
Room recording at TEAM Gallery, NYC 10th, 11th & 12th June 2007
Vocals recorded at Château Csihar, Budapest June 2007
Engineered by Randall Dunn
Art by Banks Violette
Gallery photos by Seldon Hunt, SOMA portrait by Jan Bauer
Design by SOMA
Produced for Banks Violette exhibitions at Barbara Gladstone & TEAM Galleries, NYC 28th June - 17th August 2007.
6°Fskyquake is an audio composition designed in 2001 but explored conjunction with the american sculptor Banks Violette's solo shows in summer 2007. Actually, two shows at two different galleries, Barbara Gladstone & Team, running simultaneously for the duration. The interaction of sound and Violette's work revisited concepts touched in prior collaboration of loss, absence, residual energy of a missed evocative experience.
The composition was captured at a recording session during the installation process in Team gallery, and later transfered to Gladstone as recorded playback in the public. Designed for 3 separate systems consisting of powered 18" subwoofers and PA tops, the composition runs a total of 8 hours and 35 minutes.
This room recording represents a possible stereo interpretation of a portion of that work.
The fifth collaboration between Stephen O'Malley & Banks Violette circulated amongst the main theme of sound as physical presence. Sound pressure in substantial space, relative dimension between concrete & perceptual mass, gravity induced by heightened sonic action and standing sub bass pressure. The contribution of lyrics, text & vocals by Attila Csihar inspired by his journeys inside imperial Tokyo bring emotive & meditative identity to the otherwise purely structural composition. For this we shall be blessed.
The ghost of presence subsists across physical space, the phantom of absence across linear finite, the shadow of mass via memories. What once was.
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Release Date: 14.12.2007
Side A 22:56
Loud Game - Abattoir - Forest Floor
Side B 22:56
Theme - Coldest Piece
Stephen O'Malley: Guitar / 1606559580
Peter Rehberg: Computer / 1376480544
Multi channel recording 30.04.2007 at Donaufestival, Krems by Throbbing Gristle.
Live Sound by Charlie Poulet.
Mixed by KTL in Kyoto and Benance, July-August 2007
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D+M, Berlin, August 2007
Edition of 500 numbered copies in gatefold cover with poster.
Artwork by SOMA
Scorching document of the first phase of KTL concerts in 2007. This is a different version to the Florian Hecker recording which appears on the KTL Live Archive podcast. Featuring stunning versions of KTL standards such as ‘Abattoir’, ‘Forest Floor’ and ‘Theme’, as well as unreleased track ‘Coldest Piece’.
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Release Date: 22.10.2007
DVD side
Altars Of Science 1-8 (Multi Channel Mix) 38’50
CD side
Altars Of Science 1-8 (Stereo Mix) 38’50
Composed & Mixed by Marcus Schmickler
Artwork by SOMA
The work of Cologne based Marcus Schmickler has over the years crossed the boundaries between classical and pop, improvisation and techno. Active as a solo artist under his own name, as well as working under the Pluramon moniker with Julee Cruise, plus countless collaborations in the filed of electronic improvisation.
‘Altars Of Science’ is Schmickler’s first purely electronic release since 1998’s prize winning ‘Sator Rotas’. A fascinating ‘tour de force’ of modern computer music composition. Intense in its outlook, yet polished in its execution, making it an essential addition to any serious collection of 21st century audio.
This special DVD+ contains two versions of the same piece; Stereo Mix playable on all CD playing devices, and the mind blowing Multi Channel Mix, playable on DVD players set up to 5.1
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Release Date: 01.10.2007
4 tracks:
Deep Fridge
Dope Fridge
Funk Fridge
Theme Fridge
Total Time: 28:59
The first Mego release from 1995! Originally available only as a 12" vinyl in an edition of 500. Thought long lost these tracks are now available in digital format for the first time.
General Magic (Ramon Bauer & Andi Pieper) team up with Pita (Peter Rehberg), to create a suite of off the wall electronica created using fridge sounds as source.
Available 01.10.2007 at good digital outlets.
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Release Date: 24.09.2007
15 audio tracks:
Sz
Nebenraum
Zeug
Blok M
Santora
Dheli Plaza
Fa
Traxdata
GR-500
Szabo
Uds
Herbert Missing
Super Feedbacker
Aus
5
Total Time: 60:13
1 video track:
Aus video by Tina Frank/skot
Re-mastered at Piethopraxis in Köln, July 2007.
Artwork by Tina Frank.
"Hotel Paral.lel", originally released in September 1997 by Mego, was Christian Fennesz’s debut solo album. Following up from the EP “Instrument”, it was an investigation into the sonic possibilties residing in guitar based digital music, recorded just before mobile computing devices became the norm.
A far more darker and experimental work than what was to follow. Freeform noise, sliced techno beats and subtle ambient textures create a timeless work, which is an essential addition to any collection of pioneering music of the late 20th Century. On the closing “Aus” we see a glimpse of what was to come, a springboard to the future.
In addition to the original 14 tracks, 2 extra titles are included:
"5", (originally released in 1996 as a 7” single on Syntactic (LEAK20), in an edition of 100), and the acclaimed video made by Tina Frank/skot for the track “Aus”.
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Release Date: 14.09.2007
2 tracks:
20070529 Luminaire, London (Salvage Mix) (52:21)
Forest Floor (Filter Mix) (2:01)
Track 2 remixed by Florian @ Hecker Studio, Kissing, August 2006
Limited Edition of 300 copies available on KTL Japan tour September 2007
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Release Date: 24.07.2007
1 track:
Gauntlet
Total Time: 28:47
Kevin Drumm: guitar and noise
Daniel Menche: organ and noise
Recorded Fall of 2006 in Chicago at Uggae’s Porta-toilet studio. Mixed and mastered at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, Oregon.
One organ, one guitar, several fuzz boxes and two highly regarded purveyors of american extreme sonics are the savuory ingredients that created GAUNTLET. Building on Menche’s aural low end physicality and Drumm’s exacting attention to high frequency detail - the aptly titled ‘Gauntlet’ is sizzling, scorching slab of essential audio. Heavy in iron and protein. A lean cut indeed, no fat included.
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Release Date: 07.05.2007
4 tracks:
Game
Theme
Abattoir
Snow 2
Total Time: 73:03
Stephen O'Malley: strings, fx, amps, tube osc
Peter Rehberg: digital osc, apps, drives
Written, recorded & mixed by Stephen O’Malley & Peter Rehberg at Studio Abattoir, Angers & Manoir Kéroual, Guilers, December 2006 - February 2007.
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, March 2007
Cover by SOMA
Devastatingly beautiful four part follow up to the acclaimed debut CD recorded in a former abattoir in Angers, as well as a 16th Century manor in the extreme west of France.
Taking the blueprint that was laid out on the first record even further, with the ecstatic build up of ‘Theme’, the near psychedelic ‘Abattoir’, and closing with the twisted romanticism of the closing ‘Snow 2’. An upgrade both artistically and emotionaly.
As with the first CD elements appeared in the finished version of the theatre piece ‘Kindertotenlieder’ by Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper, which was premiered in Brest, France, March 2007.
KTL My Space
Stephen O'Malley website
Peter Rehberg website
Gisèle Vienne website
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Kindertotenlieder T-Shirt available here.
Release Date: 02.04.2007
9 tracks:
Wives With Knives
Loner Goner
Varad
Far Away Places
Ozerea 1
Puss In Boots
That's That
Cup Of Coffee
Verdammst!
Total time: 46:57
Written, performed and produced by Philipp Quehenberger
Artwork by Tina Frank
Phillip Quehenberger’s long awaited long-player debut (after the 12”EP “QBBQ” on Cheap in 2002) seems to be immune against quick categorization. Based on a wondrous forwardness , the prevailing instrumental tracks neglect predictability, never lose their mysteries, opening psychedelic trap doors and windows,bunching imagination and closeness.
"Phantom in Paradise" captivates with intelligent dancefloor confusions, out of which in a hypnotic maelstrom are peeling off a sneaking, dark gleaming Pop appeal and uncaring magic.
Quehenberger has taken the raw energy of his ecstatic live performances and crafted a diamond of a release. From the catchy riffs of ‘Loner Goner’, to the polyrhythmic UR-like ‘Varad” and the scorching twisted keyboard distortion of ‘Verdammst!’.
File under: Prog - dance heavy listening
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Release Date: 12.03.2007
5 tracks:
Impotent Hummer
Turning Point
Hitting The Pavement
The Inferno
Cloudy
Total time: 66:22
Originally released 2002
Utilising guitar, tapes, mics, pedals, analogue synthesizer and some computer assistance Drumm has concocted a sonic beast. In doing so one is taken on an intense journey of storming feedback, open audio onslaught and somewhat savaged sonics. The extreme end of anarchic electronics and possibly a hint of musical violence is present throughout the much of the disc. An essential release capturing Drumm at his most ferocious and most inventive. It’s an exhilarating, visceral test of endurance brimming with demonic humor and a tour of Drumm’s ever-expanding sonic palette.
For seasoned noise veterans, Sheer Hellish Miasma offers a bracing soundscape filled with exquisitely abrasive textures and more than enough hidden detail to warrant repeated listening – a distinct voice in the increasingly same-sounding world of abstract electronic noise. For everyone else, Drumm’s journey through the noisy underworld is likely to inspire fear or, in an optimistic case, fearful admiration. This reissue comes with an additional track, 'Impotent Hummer', taken from the same period. A 13 minute drone piece which draws the listener into the forthcoming blizzard.
Revised artwork by Stephen O’Malley.
Re-mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, December 2006.
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Release Date: 05.02.2007
9 tracks:
Magic
Sun!
Ending Kiss
Let Me See Your Face
Saigo No Chikyu
Gift
No Error In My Memory
Spot
In A Chinese Restaurant
Total time: 51:17
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, September 2006.
“Making music was like I drive and drive looking for a place where there is nobody. I would arrive there, wow cool, I get out of the car quickly. Then I happily dance, sing, doing a mini party alone. Doing a solo show alone in a big green field. There is a lake, the sun, a train, an airplane, the city, a forest, camera,second sight & everything in the field. etc. Anyway, it's nice when it's working well. I had forgotten this way of enjoying for a while. Last year, after some collaboration albums, I remembered I wanted to have this feeling again.” Tujiko Noriko, 24.11.2006.
While still maintaing her trademark version of experimental japapnese pop, on ‘Solo’ the edges have been polished with some of Noriko’s most acomplished works. In part due to the mixing skills of Gerhard Potuznik and Tyme (from Mas).
Design by Etienne Bideau-Rey & Tujiko Noriko
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Release Date: 06.12.2006
10 tracks:
Made In Hong Kong
Endless Summer
A Year In A Minute
Caecilia
Got To Move On
Shisheido
Before I Leave
Happy Audio
Badminton Girl
Endless
Total time: 50:33
Remastered by Denis Blackham at Skye
Artwork by Jon Wozencroft
"Endless Summer", originally released in 2001 by Mego, was a breakthrough album for Christian Fennesz. The album which brought his name and music towards the first steps of mainstream recognition. Following on from the more experimental "Hotel Paral.lell" and the Beach Boys homaged "Plays" single "Endless Summer" brought the guitars more to the front, the electronics shimmered more, and the melodies shined more brightly. It went on to be a classic of its time, topping many end of year polls.
This new definitive edition is newly mixed by Fennesz resulting in a more open sounding version of the tracks, especially the marimba driven "Caecilia", the hypnotic "Before I Leave", and the towering "Happy Audio".
In addition 2 extra titles are included:
"Badminton Girl", originally released in 2001 as part of the Split #15 12" with Main on Fat Cat Records (12FAT045), now out of print.
"Endless", previously unreleased.
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Release Date: 06.11.2006
2 tracks:
Paint It Black
Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
Total Time: 7:34
Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin
Artwork by Jon Wozencroft
"Plays" was orginally released as a 7" vinyl by Mego in 1998 and a CD single by Moikai in 1999. Its seen by many as the 'turning point' between early Fennesz electronic abstract works such as the "Instrument" 12" and "Hotel Paral.lel" CD, and the more guitar based works such as "Endless Summer" and "Venice". The two tracks featured; "Paint It Black" and "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)" were intially released as cover versions of songs by The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys respectively. Since then, the relevant mechanical and publishing rights societies have ruled that these tracks are so far removed the originals, that they should be considered as homages written by Christian Fennesz.
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Release Date: 06.10.2006
6 tracks:
Estranged
Forest Floor 1
Forest Floor 2
Forest Floor 3
Forest Floor 4
Snow
Total Time: 77:49
Stephen O'Malley: strings, fx, amps
Peter Rehberg: oscs, apps, drives
Written, recorded & mixed by Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg at Fort du Murier & Vienne Wintergarden, Grenoble July 2006.
Mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, August 2006
Cover by SOMA
Threatening new collaboration taking in parallel worlds of Extreme Computer Music and Black Metal. KTL is Stephen O'Malley (SUNNO))), Khanate) and Peter Rehberg (PITA).
A six part collision amongst the increasingly fading prescences between the light and the dark. This work came about as the two were composing sound and music for a piece by Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper, entitled 'Kindertotenlieder'. It must be stated that this CD is NOT the soundtrack to said piece, but a separate project. However, elements may appear in the finished piece which is to be
premiered in Brest, France, March 2007.
Pieces were recorded in a resistance fortress in southern France during a thunderstorm. Others in a wintergarden drenched in the sunlight.
A double vinyl version of this album will appear on Aurora Borealis.
Stephen O'Malley website
Peter Rehberg website
Gisèle Vienne website
Dennis Cooper website
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Release Date: 07.07.2006
Total Time: 39:01
Lionel Marchetti : magnétophone à bandes
Jérôme Noetinger : magnétophone à bandes
Jean Pallandre : magnétophone à bandes
Marc Pichelin : synthé analogique
Laurent Sassi : enregistrement numérique
Cover by Tina Frank
Five leading lights of the French improvised, electronic, electroacoustic scene combine once again electronic tape, analogue synths and a united love for strange sonorities for their debut CD release.
Like its predecessor, the vinyl only release 'Floppy Nails' (MEGO 059) this is an exciting display of concrete improvisation. Taken from a live session at the Musique Action Festival, and mastered at Piethopraxis in Köln.
Given that this has sprung from the blank slate of open improvisation - resting on the dexterity, patience, and the listening ability provided by the participants sees the results as all the more inspired. Interlocking, overlapping, stretching, snapping, bending, morphing and panning, along with vast dynamics: calm and restrained through to hyperactive and fierce. Even some Foie Gras geese get a look in.
The best band currently active in France? Maybe... maybe.
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Release Date: 15.05.2006 15 tracks: Endless End Total Time: 01:11:20 All tracks written and performed by Tujiko Noriko Tracks 01-10 taken from 'Shojo Toshi' CD (MEGO 047) Originally released in 2001 on Mego. This was Tujiko Noriko's first international release (after the limited Japan only release 'Make Up And Soldier'). The initial response was one of surprise that such a record could be released on Mego (at the time the label was pigeonholed as label dealing in 'laptop music', whatever that is). Despite this, the overall reaction was very positive, although Brainwashed's Jon Whitney decided to declare the whole thing as 'Bullshit bullshit BULLSHIT!!!' and that Noriko didn't actually exist. Well, sorry to break the news Jon, but she does. And has since made albums for Mego, Tomlab, Room40 as well as collaborations with Aoki Tokomasa, Port Radium, Lionel Fernandez, J plus performing her brilliant songs for french theatre group DACM and making a film ('Sand And Mini Hawaii').
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Release Date: 28.02.2006 2 tracks: Disc One: Stereo Mix Total Time: 01:42:00 Produced by Florian Hecker Stereo Mix recorded with a Neumann RSM 191 Microphone direct to Harddisc at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin on 01.10. 2005 by Lupo / Acoustic - Interface
Virtual Binaural Rendering by Alberto de Campo Photography: Carsten Eisfeld Florian Hecker's Electronic Music Soundtrack for Angela Bulloch's "The Disenchanted Forest x 1001", has already been described as 'irritating' by The Guardian after its showing at the Tate Triennial 2006 in London. However, this double CD contains some of his most accessible works to date, while at the same time being far more experimental than the pieces found on "Sun Pandämonium" (MEGO 044) or his collaboration with Yasunao Tone, "Palimpsest" (MEGO 060). Links: http://www.estherschipper.com/ http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/triennial/ http://www.acoustic-interface.de Release Date: 13.01.2006 9 tracks: Apocalypse Now & Then Total Time: 42:50 Robin Fox - Computer, Programming & Controllers Recorded, mixed and mastered in Melbourne, March-June 2005 by James Wilkinson @ Wilkinsound All tracks written and performed by Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox Photography by Sarah Pirrie Ectoplasmic drool, ruptured voice, multi-temporal cash, concerti for nostrils, hyperactive excursions into comedy and violence. An aural textbook of constant change presenting a multi-dynamic evaluation of what may be possible with what we have at this point. Equal parts postwar beard and modern patchnocrat, Flux Compendium sees two of Melbourne's hairiest sons nose dive and writhe in their unique take of sonic totalism, rising out of the muck with their kaleidoscopic best. Far from the lifeless plague of spacebartronica, they execute an electrified real-time homage to some of their favorite obsessions: breakneck pacing, vocal hysterics, blistering textures, bodily functions and dysfunctions. Eschewing their intuitive beginnings in favor of more a concrète punk miniature aesthetic. Digital Purchase via Bleep
eMEGO 047
Tujiko Noriko: Shojo Toshi+ CD 
White Film
BeBe
Marble Waltz
Machi No Kakera
Tokyo
Girl Meets Boy
Differencia
Mannequin Surfer
Porsche
Anti Newton
Pop Skirt
I Love You
A's Travelling
Robot Hero (Live in Rhiz 23.08.01)
Tracks 11-15 taken from 'I Forgot The Title' 12" vinyl (MEGO 057)
‘Shojo Toshi’ contains some of Tujiko Noriko's most accomplished songs such as 'White Film', 'Machi No Kakera' and 'Differencia'. Beautifully abstracted pop songs and arrangements intertwined with shards and splinters if alienated sound, all building up to that voice. In places pure melancholy reigns, in others blistering beats come charging through the speakers. This reissued edition is skillfully re-mastered by Marcus Schmickler and is packaged in new artwork.
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eMEGO 081
Hecker: Electronic Music Soundtrack for "The Disenchanted Forest x 1001" by Angela Bulloch DoCD, SuperJewel Box 
Disc Two: Virtual Binaural Mix
Mastered by Lupo @ Dubplates and Mastering
Graphic Design: Tina Frank
Comprising of a "Stereo Mix" and a "Virtual Binaural Mix", 1000's of minute pockets of sound spring from all corners creating a mindful experience. The "Virtual Binaural Mix" rendered by Hecker's long time collaborator, the Composer and Software Engineer Alberto de Campo offers a hypnotizing, yet spatially disorientating version of the original seven channel piece. For Headphone use.
"The Disenchanted Forest x 1001" is a complex sound, light and architectural installation consisting of a suspended ceiling, a raised floor, a web of luminescent string, a found text describing the method to place numbers on trees, four different kinds of posters which give views into other optical worlds, a stack of posters on a europallet held down by a plate dispenser, a hammer, a wooden stick to extend the length of an arm and several nails. Furthermore, on a straight line, all the way around the perimeter of the room, are aluminum numbering plates from 1 - 1001. These plates are normally used to number trees along the avenues of cities in Germany but here the individual plates are nailed directly to the wall and spotlit by an occasionally revolving pistol lamp hanging from the suspended ceiling. The different light sources within the installation shift and change according to a sequenced program which is not in synch with the soundtrack. The seven channel electronic music soundtrack was composed by Florian Hecker, commissioned by Angela Bulloch especially for this work. Six of the sound channels are audible in separate localized areas within the installation between the suspended ceiling and the floor. The seventh sound channel is audible throughout the room. The installation was first shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, on the occasion of the, Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst 2005, 01.09.2005 - 15.10.2005; followed by the Tate Triennial, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Tate Britain, London, 01.03.2006 - 14.05.2006.
eMEGO 080
Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox: Flux Compendium CD 
Aphasia
Freckle Cream
$2.50
Throat In Three Parts
Perilymph
Olfactophobia
Protoplasm
Flex & Belch
Anthony Pateras - Voice, Synthi A, Mixing Desk, Electronics & Objects
Installation by Natasha Anderson
Layout by Implant
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