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... happy spring everyone !!! to commemorate our favorite season (and to help* get this place back to some sort of workable condition)* we're having a "spring cleaning" sale !!! please visit the *spring (2013)* cleaning page to view a list** of (recent, mostly 2012) releases that we're now offering at reduced prices (while supplies last, no rainchecks, etc) ...

previous record label: editions eg		there are 131 titles on editions mego in stock. they are listed below.		next record label: ee tapes

$158.01

back in stock as of
november 14th, 2012

first in stock on
december 12th, 2011

threads:
1980s-electronic
beat-research
analogue-synth
electro-acoustic-composition
psych-prog
machine-music

best of 2011 !!!

editions mego (austria) #emego dome12345 lp
dome (austria) #dome 12345 lp

dome “1-4+5” quintuple long playing record boxed set

cancel your order (lewis/gilbert) a, b
cruel when complete (a.m.c./gilbert) b, c
and then… (lewis/gilbert) a
here we go (lewis/gilbert) c
rolling upon my day (lewis/gilbert) c
say again (lewis/gilbert) a
linasixup (lewis) c
airmail (lewis/gilbert) a
ampnoise (lewis/gilbert) a, c
madmen (lewis/gilbert) a
the red tent i
the red tent ii
long lost life
breathsteps
reading prof. b
ritual view
twist up
keep it
g. lewis + b.c. gilbert. august 1980.
jasz (gilbert/lewis) d, e
ar-gu (gilbert/lewis) d, e
an-an-an-d-d-d (gilbert/lewis/a.m.c.) a
ba-dr (gilbert/lewis) e, f
d-d-bo (gilbert/lewis) e
na-drm (gilbert/lewis/a.m.c.) b
ur-ur (gilbert/lewis) e, f
danse (gilbert/lewis) d
dasz (gilbert/lewis) c, e
roos-an (gilbert/lewis) c, e
to speak (gilbert/lewis/drinkwater)
to walk, to run (gilbert/lewis)
to duck, to dive (gilbert/lewis)
this (gilbert/lewis)
seven year (gilbert/lewis)
atlas (gilbert/lewis)
virtual sweden (v.s. #1)
plosive pluck
because we must (version 1)
carpo
vertical seeding (v.s. #2)
crossh
making a meeting (excerpt)
gebar
virtuous speed (v.s. #3)
liver & lungs
because we must (version 2)

december 2011 release ; ... coming in at 2011’s 11th hour, this epic concatenation of the entirety of dome (aka wire’s bruce gilbert & “edvard” graham lewis) ’s recorded output is as mouth-watering & feature-laden as these things get (all three era albums in newly remastered, high-spec form with new art, plus the 4th from a few years later & the late 90’s “comeback” set, along with reproductions of the posters that came w/ the original issues, a huge booklet, and a matchbox) ...

... a perfectly logical link in the “studio as instrument” ethos that brought us faust, then this heat, i’ve long held dome’s canon of early-80’s alien electronic pop music as something of a high-water mark in a continuum that eventually led to flying lizards (actually, they were contemporaneous), art of noise, etc ... nice to have everything in one handy desk-reference set !!!

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dome12345 / dome
1-4+5
5lp box

dome
b.c. gilbert & g. lewis

floating-point re-master by russell haswell, august 2011
cut at dubplates & mastering by rashad becker, august 2011
new artwork and layout: dave coppenhall

editions mego are proud to release the complete recorded works of dome in a deluxe vinyl box set that that also includes newly designed artwork by david coppenhall, reproductions of the original atelier koninck posters that accompanied dome 1 and dome 2, insert with sleeve notes by howard jacques and neil martinson as well as unseen photos from the period. if that wasn't enough it also contains a matchbox to put matches in to shake along to your favourite dome tune!

with the demise of the group wire in 1980, founder members bruce gilbert and graham lewis joined forces to create dome. with the assistance of engineer eric radcliffe and his blackwing studio dome took the ethic of “using the studio as a compositional tool” and recorded and released three dome albums on their own label in the space of 12 months: dome (july 1980), dome 2 (october 1980) and dome 3 (october 1981). a final fourth album, will you speak this word: dome iv was released on the norwegian uniton label in may 1983.

these albums represent some of the most beautifuly stark and above all timeless exercises in studio experimentation from early 1980s alternative music scene.

with the re-activation of wire in 1985 it was thought that all dome activity had ceased. whilst no new recordings appeared dome utilised any spare time to secretly record new pieces. in 1989 dancer/choreographer michael clark commissioned them to record a piece for his new ballet ‘because we must’. in the same year they also performed live in rotterdam and amsterdam.

in 1999 wmo commissioned dome to record new pieces to accompany the recordings from 1989. this compilation, entitled yclept, would be the final recordings, to date, that dome have made.

dome 1-4 appearing on vinyl for the first time in over 30 years, whereas the recordings making up yclept (dome 5) appear for the first time on vinyl.

$20.01

new to stock as of
april 17th, 2013

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
harsh-noise
digital-musics
experimental-instruments

editions mego (austria) #emego 174 lp

daniel menche “marriage of metals” long playing record

marriage of metals (1)
marriage of metals (2)

april 2013 release ; ... gorgeous set of processed-gamelan pieces from pnw composer daniel menche, surprisingly light (not at all a continuous blast of gained bell-tone excesses, but in fact a rather subtle digital layering of wobbly detuned klang & assorted electronic treatments) ...

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emego 174 / daniel menche
marriage of metals
lp

release date 29.04.2013

in its history throughout millennia it is fair to say the gamelan has never had an encounter quite like this. 'marriage of metals' is a devastating extension of the harmonic properties found in the instruments of indonesia.

menche was granted access to a remarkable gamelan studio where he was given full privilege to record any and all of these rare and ancient gongs. most notably the gigantic “gong ageng” that’s contains the deepest of deep of acoustic bass. daniel menche took the raw source material from this gamelan gong session and launches into a heavily processed yet surprisingly sympathetic 21st century take on this unique instrument. 'marriage of metals' comprises two side long works where the purity of the sound source exists amongst the entire din. metallic rhythms bounce alongside synthetic pops swaying from reality to fantasy, from pure acoustic tonality to fuzzed out distorted clatter. a distant feedback squall is teased amongst the foreground creating a clamorous din.

equal parts curious, engaging and groundbreaking. menche, like philip corner before him extends the language of the gamelan into brave new worlds. out of the extensive discography of daniel menche “marriage of metals” stands out as his most elegant and graceful recordings yet still staying within the grit and grime of his sonic garden.

this recording would not exist without the generosity of the venerable showers of beauty gamelan ensemble located at lewis and clark college, portland oregon.

artwork for marriage of metals was created from renowned artist/musician: faith coloccia.

$27.51

new to stock as of
may 14th, 2013

editions mego (austria) #emego 172 lp

coh “retro-2038” double long playing record set

retrotech overture
bugs build a house
time to time
on wings of gravity
aniki
disco discrete
vainio
method as fun

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emego 172 / coh
retro-2038
2lp

release date 13.05.2013

the second coh release on editions mego is a true delight to behold, inviting as it does an exploration of electronic sound in minimalism, futuristic pop and the uncharted territories inbetween. ranging from digital updates of giorgio moroder's pulse experiments to menacing lingering lf tones, with occasionally scattered outbursts of jovial noise and glimpses of tonal interstellar disco, retro-2038 precisely engraves each of its components with a melodic line and a rhythmical pattern, often beatless.

the album as whole is a work of profound playfulness, at once whimsical and deeply seductive. it opens a crisp crystalline cosmos of its own, rich with unknown objects dancing through ominous orbital auras and smooth gravitatonal fields. like a cyber-organic spacecraft moving through dark matter, retro-2038 looks back with a warmth as it heads towards its future with abiding optimism.

after all, the future can't wait.

$20.01

new to stock as of
march 15th, 2013

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
musique-concrète
field-recordings

editions mego (austria) #emego 171 lp

jim haynes “the wires cracked” long playing record

oscar (4:45)
x-ray (13:49)
november (17:49)

april 2013 release ; ... three impeccably-assembled, noisy musique concrète pieces from bay-area stalwart jim haynes, continuing on in his exploration of ruddy-hued timbres & all manner of entropic / decay-oriented electric systems ...

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emego 171 / jim haynes
the wires cracked
lp

release date 16.04.2013

about 'the wires cracked':

the recordings for "the wires cracked" were completed in a frenzied two week period in october of 2012. i had mentioned in discussing a previous album’s construction that i prefer to forget how i build any particular electro-acoustic amalgam. this is so that i don’t get too precious with them, so that i could refine them further, so that the sounds themselves speak beyond their aggregate parts. with the album being relatively fresh in my mind, i can still recall various components to "the wires cracked" -- the desolate howl of a metal screen activated by a desert wind, the hissing air compression from the cooling apparatus for a laser at the slac national accelerator laboratory operated by stanford university, and the tremolo rhythms from a thin wire that still get me thinking fondly of günter schickert -- but much of the caustic drone, thrumming reverberation, and tactile grit thoroughly escapes me. that's probably for the best, since these various parts speak to an existential rupturing, the collapse of the self, the aftershocks of dark energy, and a belief in the hope for renewal.

about jim haynes:

describing his work through the pithy phrase, "i rust things," jim haynes is an artist who has developed a vocabulary of decay that he has applied to photography, video, installation, and sound. haynes' sound work draws from shortwave radio static, electric field disturbances, controlled feedback manipulation, and numerous textural scrapings, manifesting broken minimalism of magnetic drones and volatile tactility. this engineering of disparate materials and media seeks to evince the unpredictability of decay, to manifest its potential for a rough hewn beauty, and to bear witness to its inevitability.

he has exhibited internationally at electric works (san francisco), the san francisco museum of modern art , the berkeley art museum, the exploratorium (san francisco), westspace (melbourne, australia), jack straw productions (seattle), eyedrum (atlanta), diapason (new york), and the lab (san francisco). haynes has published his work through the helen scarsdale agency, 23five incorporated, intransitive, observatoire, and elevator bath. he has collaborated with steven stapleton (nurse with wound), m.s. waldron (irr. app. (ext.)), keith evans, allison holt, and loren chasse. haynes is one of the directors for 23five incorporated and is the sole occupant at the helen scarsdale agency.

$20.01

new to stock as of
april 12th, 2013

threads:
live-electronic
machine-music
beat-research

best of 2013 !!!

editions mego (austria) #emego 169 lp

ensemble skalectrik “trainwrekz” long playing record

wrekwahn
wrektoo
wrekfree
wrekfore
wreksank
wreksikz (for louis johnstone)

april 2013 release ; ... awesome, sproingy set of “discrete” electronic music from contemporary hero nick “ekoplekz” edwards, performed “live” whilst hovering over frankenstein’s maze of dimming, battery-powered led lights as they denote individual tempi via flickering / voltage-starvation ...

... this dude is quickly becoming one of my favorite producers ; this stuff channels the history of the form from the bbc radiophonic workshop through suicide through the scientist in a single stroke, all while retaining an unspoken individualism that makes this stand out so far ahead of the pack ... highly recommended !!!

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emego 169 / ensemble skalectrik
trainwrekz
lp

release date 29.04.2013

cover artwork: olivier rossel @ pxp

ensemble skalectrik is a side-project of nick ‘ekoplekz’ edwards. previous emissions include the self-released psycho-geographical abstraction of “snuff mill tapes” and a homage to maurizio bianchi via feral tapes. focusing entirely on spontaneous composition and one-take improvisation, ensemble skalectrik represents the most raw, extreme performance-based electronic music in edwards’ repertoire.

on ”trainwrekz”, edwards has dusted-off his turntables, grabbed a stack of old vinyl (mainly sound effects and easy listening albums), added a selection of sound-shaping devices (filters, equalizers, loop-pedals) and proceeded to record a series of delirious, derailed sonic sketches that sound like nothing else in his rapidly expanding discography.

ranging from the portentous pile-up of ”wrekwahn”, the oppressive atmospherics of “wrekfore” and the serene ornithological drift of “wreksikz”, these half-dozen pieces document the emergence of a highly personalized form of turntablism that incorporates elements of chance, drone, dub, hauntology, musique concrete and free improvisation.

performed and recorded in three sessions during the month of november, 2012. additional production and mix jan.2013 active participants: alesis nano compressor, basf chrome cassette (x2), belcat delay, chance, danelectro ‘reel echo’, ekdahl ‘moisturizer’, electrix ‘eq killer’, electro-harmonix ’the worm’, muza fd900 ‘m ambience’, nick edwards, rocktek 6 band eq, stanton str8-30 direct drive turntable (x2), yamaha mt3x cassette multitrack and a selection of vinyl lp records.

$15.51

new to stock as of
may 14th, 2013

editions mego (austria) #emego 167 cd

cindytalk “a life is everywhere” compact disc

time to fall (8:12)
my drift is a ghost (5:08)
to a dying star (6:13)
interruptum (8:11)
as if we had once been (3:47)
on a pure plane (6:28)

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emego 167 / cindytalk
a life is everywhere
cd

release date 13.05.2013

'a life is everywhere' is an ecstatic mix of rhythm, noise, drone, texture and melody. simultaneously heartfelt and not for the faint hearted.

within their self contained world cindytalk continue the unique trajectory that has purveyed their career starting in 1982. this instalment further explores the fearsome terrain that was initiated with previous editions mego releases such as 'the crackle of my soul' and 'hold everything dear'. throughout the 6 tracks on offer the standard fair of music is run through serious level processes leaving, taking rhythm and sound to extreme limits whilst always retaining trace elements of their core. ringing bells are interrupted by artefacts from shredded sound matter, euphoric chords are swamped by chopped rhythms which succumb to an endless storm of electronic bliss. utopia has never been so bold.

the unique positioning of cindytalk's output over a 30+year period is a testament to the will to explore. unfettered by trend, taste and desire. this is unadulterated expression, a future music for those willing to confront the future as a viable option.

$20.01

new to stock as of
april 17th, 2013

threads:
guitar-themed
electro-acoustic-improvisation
minimalism-drones
harsh-noise

best of 2013 !!!

editions mego (austria) #emego 166 lp

alan licht “four years older” long playing record

four years later (15:36)
four years earlier (19:30)

april 2013 release ; ... with the doors to the coruscative electronic music temple opened by bill orcutt in years prior, this set of heavily effected electric guitar pieces by alan licht’s arrival here on emego makes a bit more sense ...

... consisting of two side-length pieces performed live in the studio, the general tone varies between the purely textural / blown out & the melodically sublime (listen to the sound-sample ; echoes of alan’s “cover” of the minutemen’s “polarity” before taking off into a hail of sawed-off fuzz-freakout soloing) ...

... a gorgeous record ; one that manages to buck all of the reigning tropes ...

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emego 166 / alan licht
four years older
lp

release date 15.04.2013

alan licht solo electric guitar

four years later recorded december 14, 2012 at echo canyon west
engineering: ted young
technical assistance: bentley anderson

four years earlier recorded live december 7, 2008 at the electric possible, washington d.c.

all selections played as heard, no overdubs

a new set by the coolest chap in new york city documenting the before-and-after development of a solo electric guitar piece that alan licht has been playing out for the last four years. revered for his work in the blue humans and text of light, and a key figure in his generation's pantheon of experimental solo guitar players (such as jim o’rourke and oren ambarchi), ‘four years older’ is his debut editions mego release, representing another peak in a career of mining the rich seams of minimalism, noise and avant-garde in general that stretches back more than two decades.

as it says on the box side a was recorded four years later than the side b (and vice versa). if that wasn’t enough it's been four years since his last solo lp, 'ymca', on family vineyard.

'four years older' sees a move away from the loop-based pieces of recent releases. on 'four years later' in particular the guitar's fingerboard is actually touched more than on any other solo piece of the last ten years, although the instrument is pushed to sound more like a suitcase synth, a church organ, a hornet's nest, and a malfunctioning playstation than a guitar per se.

as alan points out:

'four years earlier' was the debut of the piece; it was in three sections, the latter two of which appear here. the first section was identical to the first section of 'four years later'. i scrapped the second two parts after a couple of subsequent performances and developed it into a six-part piece, and then a seven part piece in this studio version. in concert the piece lasts at least 30 minutes, i've shortened it on 'four years later' with an eye towards top 40 radio play. :)

the intial ‘four years earlier’ session is a blistering electronic nailstorm that would not feel out of place on one of russell haswell’s legendary ‘live salvage’ sets. ‘four years later’ is equally relentless but lets in some light with an ecstatic mid section that ascends toward the spiritual.

at the end of the day the final result is music which is both corrosive and lyrical, a feeling which is reflected in stephen o’malley’s eye melting artwork.

$20.01

new to stock as of
april 12th, 2013

threads:
digital-musics
minimalism-drones
modern-composition
machine-music

editions mego (austria) #emego 164 lp

evol “proper headshrinker” long playing record

proper headshrinker 1 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 2 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 3 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 4 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 5 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 6 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 7 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 8 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 9 (3:00)
proper headshrinker 10 (3:00)

april 2013 release ; ... existing largely for the past decade as a duo consisting of original architect roc jiménez de cisneros & stephen sharp, evol has issued a huge amount of work (for labels like entr’acte, mego, presto!?, and roc’s own alku) ; almost all of it adhering to their “computer music for hooligans” ethos ...

... “proper headshrinker” presents a decalogue of like-timed, possibly automatically-generated stabs of even-energy pans & rubbery, cyclical pitch shifts & filter-matrices, all originating from somewhere in the ether between maryanne amacher & joey beltram’s “mentasm” ...

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emego 164 / evol
proper headshrinker
lp

release date 29.04.2013

recorded by stephen sharp and roc jiménez de cisneros in alloa, july 2012.
mastered by russell haswell in suffolk.
cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin.

think about it this way: previously we thought that our universe was like a spherical balloon. in the new picture, it's like a balloon producing balloons, producing balloons.

(andrei linde, theoretical physicist and father of eternal chaotic inflation theory)

ever since stephen sharp and roc jiménez de cisneros embarked on the deconstructive process they refer to as rave synthesis, the goal was to come up with odd relatives of well established sounds in techno culture by constantly messing with the original recipes, expanding the tropes, and hinting at novel paths for contemporary psychedelia. almost three years after the influential 'rave slime', their fifth long player takes the idea one step further.

the content of 'proper headshrinker' was first presented in public as part of the group exhibition 'recurrence, repetition, hypnosis and ritual', curated by paul purgas at färgfabriken, stockholm, 6/12/12 – 13/01/13. in the show, right next to the speakers playing these tracks, the sentence "like a balloon producing balloons, producing balloons" was printed on the wall in pantone 805 fluorescent red, the same colour used on the cover of the album. as it turns out, the title of the exhibition almost feels like the perfect tagline for "proper headshrinker". the ten tracks in the album are unlikely techno anthems, stripped down hoovers, and deformed supersaws driven by extremely simple cyclic patterns. ten pieces of identical length that focus on continuity, neighbourhood, and iteration, but also on sameness, insideness and outsideness.

sharp and jiménez de cisneros have used key words such as "slime", "stretching", "sonic play-doh", "squeezing" or "folding" to illustrate the notion of homeomorphism (a metaphor borrowed from topology) in relation to the structural developments and the way in which tone bends in their rave synthesis tracks. in 'proper headshrinker', though, this continuous deformation is much more oblique, since the only source of variation in these monolithic structures comes from subtle phase modulations. the resulting straightforward brutality demands deep listening and, as usual, proper playback volume.

$20.01

new to stock as of
march 15th, 2013

threads:
digital-musics
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed

editions mego (austria) #emego 162 lp

locust “you'll be safe forever” long playing record

fall for me (4:37)
i hear a quiet voice (0:28)
strobes (4:37)
the worn gift (1:39)
just want you (4:16)
remember (1:35)
oh yeah (2:23)
do not fear (5:05)
more like prayer than science (2:22)
the washer woman (4:59)
the flower lady (3:20)
subie (3:38)
corporal genesis (6:59)

april 2013 release ; ... first new work in 12 years by mark van hoen utilizing his “locust” moniker, heard here working with new collaborator louis sherman on what is essentially a return to the project’s pop-electronic prime ...

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emego 162 / locust
you'll be safe forever
lp

release date 01.04.2013

all titles composed, produced & performed by louis sherman & mark van hoen
voices by jennifer restivo & found sources
recorded at woodstock electric ny 2012
front cover: amanda charchian
design: stephen o’malley

you'll be safe forever marks the first release from locust in 12 years. mark van hoen, who made a string of influential releases as locust on r&s records in the 1990’s, all but retired the alias at the end of that decade. in may 2012, van hoen was invited to perform a live set on wfmu radio. in order to make the set more spontaneous and add a further dimension, he asked friend and fellow musician louis sherman to collaborate. while improvising new material in sherman’s brooklyn rehearsal studio, it swiftly became obvious that the material sounded like locust. inspired by joint explorations with found sound sources and ambient textures, and sharing a pan-dimensional immersion in the length and breadth of analogue and digital recording, the duo performed a series of tracks live. this material, combined with previously recorded tape tracks dating back to 2006 form the bulk of the album. the melancholic depths of electronic music explored in those improvisations, expanded further through subsequent sessions at van hoen’s woodstock, ny studio, have resulted in this latest entry in locust’s impressive discography.

the record showcases prime examples of van hoen's compulsively hypnotic beats and abstracted pop vocals—already hallmarks of his collected work since 1993—manipulating a global variety of samples in celemony’s melodyne software to weave a unique sonic tapestry, as inviting as it is intricate. paired with sherman's evocative synth improvisations—an immediately visceral element new to locust — these collaborators have crafted a shattered landscape that bridges two persectives of progressive movement in electronic music under a single name. sherman, an american from baltimore, comes to the band armed with a vast knowledge of the history of electronic music. this, combined with londoner mark van hoen’s known musical pedigree maps the complete topography of a landscpape — its shadow and light, depth and height, mesmerizing complexity and ethereal simplicity — with a break-beating heart and alchemical ear.

$15.51

new to stock as of
april 12th, 2013

threads:
digital-musics
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed

editions mego (austria) #emego 162 cd

locust “you'll be safe forever” compact disc

fall for me (4:37)
i hear a quiet voice (0:28)
strobes (4:37)
the worn gift (1:39)
just want you (4:16)
remember (1:35)
oh yeah (2:23)
do not fear (5:05)
more like prayer than science (2:22)
the washer woman (4:59)
the flower lady (3:20)
subie (3:38)
corporal genesis (6:59)

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emego 162 / locust
you'll be safe forever
cd

release date 01.04.2013

all titles composed, produced & performed by louis sherman & mark van hoen
voices by jennifer restivo & found sources
recorded at woodstock electric ny 2012
front cover: amanda charchian
design: stephen o’malley

you'll be safe forever marks the first release from locust in 12 years. mark van hoen, who made a string of influential releases as locust on r&s records in the 1990’s, all but retired the alias at the end of that decade. in may 2012, van hoen was invited to perform a live set on wfmu radio. in order to make the set more spontaneous and add a further dimension, he asked friend and fellow musician louis sherman to collaborate. while improvising new material in sherman’s brooklyn rehearsal studio, it swiftly became obvious that the material sounded like locust. inspired by joint explorations with found sound sources and ambient textures, and sharing a pan-dimensional immersion in the length and breadth of analogue and digital recording, the duo performed a series of tracks live. this material, combined with previously recorded tape tracks dating back to 2006 form the bulk of the album. the melancholic depths of electronic music explored in those improvisations, expanded further through subsequent sessions at van hoen’s woodstock, ny studio, have resulted in this latest entry in locust’s impressive discography.

the record showcases prime examples of van hoen's compulsively hypnotic beats and abstracted pop vocals—already hallmarks of his collected work since 1993—manipulating a global variety of samples in celemony’s melodyne software to weave a unique sonic tapestry, as inviting as it is intricate. paired with sherman's evocative synth improvisations—an immediately visceral element new to locust — these collaborators have crafted a shattered landscape that bridges two persectives of progressive movement in electronic music under a single name. sherman, an american from baltimore, comes to the band armed with a vast knowledge of the history of electronic music. this, combined with londoner mark van hoen’s known musical pedigree maps the complete topography of a landscpape — its shadow and light, depth and height, mesmerizing complexity and ethereal simplicity — with a break-beating heart and alchemical ear.

$20.01

new to stock as of
march 15th, 2013

threads:
musique-concrète
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
modern-composition
analogue-synth
digital-musics

best of 2013 !!!

editions mego (austria) #emego 161 lp

giuseppe ielasi / kassel jaeger “parallel b/w grayscale” long playing record

parallel (18:04)
grayscale (18:24)

march 2013 release ; ... superb set of collaborative works between giuseppe ielasi & françois “kassel jaeger” bonnet, borne from a pair of “sound gathering” sessions focused on analogue & digital techniques (respectively) with timbres from both schools-of-thought expertly interwoven into a complex whole that ebbs & breathes with a palpably organic feel ...

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emego 161 / giuseppe ielasi, kassel jaeger
parallel / grayscale
lp

release date 18.03.2013

parallel / grayscale is the first collaborative work between giuseppe ielasi and kassel jaeger.

it has been composed from two different improvisation sessions. the first one took place in paris, in october 2011. the second happened in oreno, in june 2012, after the first concert ielasi & jaeger performed together.

the first session was a pure analog devices improvisation whereas the second one was more laptop-oriented. these two moments have been melt together, forming two different subtracts of the same material.

gratitude to fabio carboni and sara serighelli from o', milano.

$20.01

new to stock as of
march 15th, 2013

threads:
digital-musics
electro-acoustic-composition
minimalism-drones
guitar-themed
experimental-instruments
musique-concrète
modern-psych

best of 2013 !!!

editions mego (austria) #emego 160 lp

main “ablation” long playing record

i (10:04)
ii (13:03)
iii (13:54)
iv (9:03)

april 2013 release ; ... the welcome return of robert hampson’s main, on ice for a good decade, but arriving here in a new configuration as a collaborative project with stephan mathieu ...

... those in thrall with the project’s mid-late-90’s run of impeccable guitar-drone records will find much to convulse over here ; the huge swaths of gauzy, treated-string arcing & gradually swirling automations are still resplendent, albeit cut with traces of robert’s contemporary-era sensibilities as a multiple-commission-ee of the grm ...

... i couldn’t imagine a more thoroughly & elegantly executed melding of musique concrète & drone-psych styles ; easily one of my favorites this year thusfar ... highly recommended !!!

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emego 160 / main
ablation
lp

release date 15.04.2013

recorded at thirst, grm studio 116b and schwebung
mixed at thirst

robert hampson:
analogue electronics, concrète sounds, guitar, piano-treatments

stephan mathieu:
farfisa vip 233, ebowed phonoharp, radio, percussion-treatment

frames by grebo gray
layout by david coppenhall

cut and mastered by rashad becker @ dubplates and mastering

there has been a recent surge in activity from robert hampson, with all manner of solo recordings and performances popping up. its only logical that he reactivates his beloved main project. as we all know, main laid the foundations during the 1990s for much of love of abstract guitar treatments in electronic music throughout the 2000s.

hampson has teamed up with stephan mathieu to create a stunning new album. on ‘ablation’, mathieu adds extra tonal colour and an obscure rhythmic palette to hampson’s exacting treatments and detailed use of layered concrète sounds to create an emotionally charged and fascinating work.

old fans of main will not be disappointed, and neither will new followers of experimental audio.

packaged with images by grebo gray with layout by dave coppenhall, and expertly mastered and cut by rashad becker, ‘ablation’ is a highlight for the spring 2013 season.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 160 cd

main “ablation” compact disc

i (10:04)
ii (13:03)
iii (13:54)
iv (9:03)

editions mego press release...

emego 160 / main
ablation
cd

release date 15.04.2013

recorded at thirst, grm studio 116b and schwebung
mixed at thirst

robert hampson:
analogue electronics, concrète sounds, guitar, piano-treatments

stephan mathieu:
farfisa vip 233, ebowed phonoharp, radio, percussion-treatment

frames by grebo gray
layout by david coppenhall

cut and mastered by rashad becker @ dubplates and mastering

there has been a recent surge in activity from robert hampson, with all manner of solo recordings and performances popping up. its only logical that he reactivates his beloved main project. as we all know, main laid the foundations during the 1990s for much of love of abstract guitar treatments in electronic music throughout the 2000s.

hampson has teamed up with stephan mathieu to create a stunning new album. on ‘ablation’, mathieu adds extra tonal colour and an obscure rhythmic palette to hampson’s exacting treatments and detailed use of layered concrète sounds to create an emotionally charged and fascinating work.

old fans of main will not be disappointed, and neither will new followers of experimental audio.

packaged with images by grebo gray with layout by dave coppenhall, and expertly mastered and cut by rashad becker, ‘ablation’ is a highlight for the spring 2013 season.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 159 lp

raglani “real colors of the physical world” long playing record and seven inch single record set

fog of interruption
(tongue / men for wire / brutality of the eye / march)
terrain of antiquity
(ferry across marginalia / hollis albion / mild power descending / fireflies of arcadia)
the exploded view
trampoline dream

november 2012 release ; ... impeccable collection of long-form electronic pop music from one of the genre’s finest living purveyors, giuseppe “joseph” raglani ...

... two side-length constructs consisting of expertly wrought fragments of pulsing electronic sound (there’s no denying joe’s innate knack for wresting bubbling, yet somehow “catchy” patterns from his spaghetti-nest of patch-cabling) issued with a bonus “demo” single showing two shorter numbers (one constructed solely of makenoise dpo timbres in a cycling, stereo-field maze) ...

... comes in an eye-popping (incidentally ; have you every attempted to locate your eyes after they’ve popped out ? it’s damn near impossible) jacket w/ art c/o the infallible jeremy “ghost ice” kannapel ; highly recommended !!!

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emego 159 / raglani
real colors of the physical world
lp + 7"

release date 28.11.2012

sounds : joseph raglani
speech : melissa meinzer
mastered & cut by rashad becker
art: jeremy kanappell

real colors of the physical world is a title whose parameters of reference may at first seem obvious, but a moments consideration renders it strange. the physical world, as opposed to the phenomenal, is, as we are able to suppose through the insights of science, an invisible place, if it is even enough to count as a place. what, then, are the qualities being named here? by way of an answer, it is worth recalling that musique concrete has not only an historical but a conceptual priority over kosmiche musik. the concrete in the cosmic: electronic music concerned itself from the beginning with getting past the emotional, historical, and religious themes that had defined traditional composition in order to head straight into the very matter of sound. for the concrete composers, this meant literal experimentation, stretching, analyzing, and recombining the properties and limits of auditory material and its perception.

the kosmiche musicians conserved those approaches through metaphor as much as technique. the continuity between them involves a vocabulary of fundamental concerns: space, time, shapes, speed .... electronic music arguably allowed for music to become actively self-reflexive, even ontological, for the first time. its natural epic form has always been the cosmogony. the kosmiche focus on space travel and cybernetic futures has its roots in the earlier electro-acoustic renderings of a universe whose deepest origins are electrical and sonic. two tacit, convergent metaphors structure the conceptual explorations of both approaches: that \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ "electronic composition \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" accurately describes the activity of the human nervous system; and that cosmic evolution may be legitimately qualified as an act of modular synthesis. but much electronic music today has lost sight of the ambition to map that convergence, giving way instead to an emphasis on superficial prettiness, period nostalgia, the merely pleasant stupor of the new age; or else to a vacuous static of technical fiddling.

raglani has never abandoned the grand vision that distinguished his ancestors, and this is his most determinedly comprehensive piece of work. it revisits the promise in the electronic synthesis of sound, implicit from its beginning, to construct a plastic image of the imperceptible dynamics beneath the surface of the world. this is a drama realized at constantly telescoping scales, in all directions. if the disintegration of a divine voice into the skittering communications of machines, or the transformation of a densely alien jungle into the promise of personal redemption, can count as objects of experience, they can do so only here, through the condensation of sound. but this hectic, exotically diffuse rendering has more in common with the world as we know it than does the placid stability of actual things; inner life has its own geometry, its own physics. the cosmic in the concrete: real colors remain within.

raglani has been making electronic music since he saw otomo yoshihide perform while under the influence of severe fever. this is his first full length album under his own name since 2006’s of sirens born.

- michael ferrer

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editions mego (austria) #emego 158 lp

billy roisz “walking the monkey” long playing record

spinning in ecstasy (5:59)
walking the monkey (8:31)
feeding the monsters (7:48)
blue hairy tongues (7:01)
wave your hand to sleepy land (5:39)
under the influence (6:45)

november 2012 release ; ... debut solo album from billy roisz, a long-term fixture on the viennese experimental music scene (albeit largely as an audio-visual artist) encompassing a multitude of approaches to noisy, aggregate electro-acoustic sound ...

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emego 158 / billy roisz
walking the monkey
lp

release date 26.11.2012

billy roisz - electric bass guitar, electronics, kluppe, audible video devices

all music recorded at:
garnisongasse 7, vienna - march 2012 (by dieter kovacic)
v'elak gala / brut konzerthaus, vienna - february 2012 (by vinzenz schwab)
liebig zwölfe, berlin - june 2012 (by allegra solitude)

mixed by billy roisz and dieter kovacic
mastered by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin

artwork by billy roisz

billy roisz is one of the best-known figures on the austrian experimental scene.

active for over a decade as a video- and sound artist she has collaborated with dieb13, angélica castelló, burkhard stangl, silvia fässler, martin brandlmayr, toshimaru nakamura, mario de vega, erikm and ilpo väisänen. her ability to translate experimental music into visual imagery is particularly noteworthy, revealing tactics borrowed from minimal and conceptual art.

"walking the monkey" is her solo debut album in which she gathered an arsenal of instruments and unstruments such as bass, audible video devices, kluppe, jealous heart, kakophonator, transducer radio and pick ups to create an intense, noisy yet varied musical journey.

the title resembles the nature of billy roisz' music on this 6 track lp. whether it's her, walking the musical monkey, or the monkey trying to escape in different directions, being conducted back on track again - it's her dramaturgical mastery and great musical sensibility that creates an absorbing listening experience.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 157 lp

russell haswell “factual” long playing record

black metal instrumental intro demo
urban no!se
killer snakehead
record shop day
rave nihilation
sheffield

october 2012 release ; ... awesome set of nihilistic synthesis & aleatoric club tracks from long-time uk agitator russell haswell, focusing on “real-time, one-take, analogue / digital modular synthesis” ...

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emego 157 / russell haswell
factual
release date 15.10.2012

mastered and cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, august 2012

it has been a busy last few years for russell haswell, with releases popping up in all sorts of places such as ideal, no fun, warp, warners and more recently downwards. returning to his spiritual home, factual is haswell’s 5th release for editions mego since 2009. following on from 2011’s acid no!se synthesis (a real-time exploration of phase scope image generation: oscillographics), this new set of tracks takes his use of real-time, one-take, analogue / digital modular synthesis to new levels and extremes.

as with most of haswell’s work, it is what it says on the box, so black metal instrumental intro demo, is exactly that. or at least should be. a one-man- band flashback, recalling his personal exposure and experiences at early black metal concerts in uk and europe!

urban no!se and record shop day, are fine sand-blasts of style-smashing experimental noise we have come to expect and love of haswell, whereas killer snakehead and rave nihilation are further investigations into the extremities of techno and its logical interplay with japanese noise. in addition, complex waveforms, chaos oscillators and man eating fish, are all dealt with.

finally, to end the album, sheffield, is a short salvaged live session recorded by peter rehberg at channing hall (a haven of religious liberalism and tolerance), sheffield, march 24th 2012.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 156 lp

bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “gó a nótt” long playing record

gó a nótt 1 (23:29)
gó a nótt 2 (21:19)

october 2012 release ; ... bleak forecasts from the grim scandinavian north, the ninth (yearly) transmission from the frozen cave inhabited by helgi thorsson, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, and bj nilsen ...

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emego 156 / bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa
gó a nótt

release date 15.10.2012

made in iceland and germany
cover images made by franz graf

last winter we got snowed in, luckily we were at the studio, so with no food or drinks, we had to take our minds off the fact that we’ll have to spend the time locked in until the snow melted, so we decided to work on new recordings influenced by the situation. the snow is all up over the window, it might be even up over the top of the house, and from time to time we had the feeling that we may have been asleep for a week, for all we know.. we couldn't even tell what day it was, or whether we had slept one night, or two nights, or even longer. looking out at the windows was like looking at a detuned tv set, reflecting just flickering green lights from the electronic equipment, sometimes vanishing and re-appearing in the blink of an eye. the only attempt of contact from the outside were by pointing powerful microphones through the masses of snow, trying to monitor any or little activity, whooshing noises, static bursts, buzzing melodies even voices. as we doctored the tapes of our recordings we seemed to have created weaknesses in space and we developed a total, complete darkness finding ourselves out of this world, traveling without moving, into the flickering green light.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 155 lp

hecker “ﯽزاسرمیش” long playing record

15:54
16:40

november 2012 release ; ... farsi-language entrant in this series of simultaneously-released / similarly-titled text-based works from florian hecker, realized during his tenure as visiting artist at mit (you’ll find the german & english-language versions below) ...

ps. to answer your question, yes, the music is quite different across all three “localizations” of the piece...

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emego 155 / hecker
ﯽزاسرمیش
lp

release date 27.11.2012

editions mego is happy to announce the release of 'chimerization', three vinyl editions of a text - sound piece hecker produced on the occasion of documenta (13) in kassel, germany.

for 'chimerization' hecker invited the iranian writer and philosopher reza negarestani, to contribute an experimental libretto, “the snake, the goat and the ladder (a board game for playing chimera)” a script that has been recited by a group of speakers and recorded by hecker in anechoic and sound-attenuated chambers - rooms designed to minimize the reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves.

hecker characterizes ‘chimerization’ as a concept derived from psychoacoustic investigations on difficult-to-define areas between language and non-language, a process focusing on the decomposition of sound and synthesizing incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, in order to obtain a narration beyond immediate comprehension, which may be deciphered through repeated, ‘active’ listening.

'chimerization' is released in the following languages - english (emego 153), german (emego 154), the mother tongue of the artist and farsi (emego 155), the orginal language of the writer.

german voices: andreas huyssen, anna kohler, guerino mazzola
farsi voices: arash afraz, maryam vaziri pashkam, mahsa rouhi
english voices: gabriel catren, sugata bose, joan jonas

all voices recorded by florian hecker at the sensory communication group, research laboratory of electronics, massachusetts institute of technology, except: andreas huyssen recorded at hearing science laboratory, city university of new york; guerino mazzola recorded at orfield labs, minneapolis. gabriel catren recorded by olivier pasquet at ircam, paris.

the three vinyl editions of 'chimerization' have been designed by norm, zurich and cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 154 lp

hecker “chimärisation” long playing record

16:12
16:12

november 2012 release ; ... german-language version ...

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emego 154 / hecker
chimärisation
lp

release date 27.11.2012

editions mego is happy to announce the release of 'chimerization', three vinyl editions of a text - sound piece hecker produced on the occasion of documenta (13) in kassel, germany.

for 'chimerization' hecker invited the iranian writer and philosopher reza negarestani, to contribute an experimental libretto, “the snake, the goat and the ladder (a board game for playing chimera)” a script that has been recited by a group of speakers and recorded by hecker in anechoic and sound-attenuated chambers - rooms designed to minimize the reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves.

hecker characterizes ‘chimerization’ as a concept derived from psychoacoustic investigations on difficult-to-define areas between language and non-language, a process focusing on the decomposition of sound and synthesizing incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, in order to obtain a narration beyond immediate comprehension, which may be deciphered through repeated, ‘active’ listening.

'chimerization' is released in the following languages - english (emego 153), german (emego 154), the mother tongue of the artist and farsi (emego 155), the orginal language of the writer.

german voices: andreas huyssen, anna kohler, guerino mazzola
farsi voices: arash afraz, maryam vaziri pashkam, mahsa rouhi
english voices: gabriel catren, sugata bose, joan jonas

all voices recorded by florian hecker at the sensory communication group, research laboratory of electronics, massachusetts institute of technology, except: andreas huyssen recorded at hearing science laboratory, city university of new york; guerino mazzola recorded at orfield labs, minneapolis. gabriel catren recorded by olivier pasquet at ircam, paris.

the three vinyl editions of 'chimerization' have been designed by norm, zurich and cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 153 lp

hecker “chimerization” long playing record

16:48
16:35

november 2012 release ; ... english-language issue ...

editions mego press release...

emego 153 / hecker
chimerization
lp

release date 27.11.2012

editions mego is happy to announce the release of 'chimerization', three vinyl editions of a text - sound piece hecker produced on the occasion of documenta (13) in kassel, germany.

for 'chimerization' hecker invited the iranian writer and philosopher reza negarestani, to contribute an experimental libretto, “the snake, the goat and the ladder (a board game for playing chimera)” a script that has been recited by a group of speakers and recorded by hecker in anechoic and sound-attenuated chambers - rooms designed to minimize the reflections of either sound or electromagnetic waves.

hecker characterizes ‘chimerization’ as a concept derived from psychoacoustic investigations on difficult-to-define areas between language and non-language, a process focusing on the decomposition of sound and synthesizing incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, in order to obtain a narration beyond immediate comprehension, which may be deciphered through repeated, ‘active’ listening.

'chimerization' is released in the following languages - english (emego 153), german (emego 154), the mother tongue of the artist and farsi (emego 155), the orginal language of the writer.

german voices: andreas huyssen, anna kohler, guerino mazzola
farsi voices: arash afraz, maryam vaziri pashkam, mahsa rouhi
english voices: gabriel catren, sugata bose, joan jonas

all voices recorded by florian hecker at the sensory communication group, research laboratory of electronics, massachusetts institute of technology, except: andreas huyssen recorded at hearing science laboratory, city university of new york; guerino mazzola recorded at orfield labs, minneapolis. gabriel catren recorded by olivier pasquet at ircam, paris.

the three vinyl editions of 'chimerization' have been designed by norm, zurich and cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 152 lp

lorenzo senni “quantum jelly” long playing record

xmonsterx (13:30)
windows of vulnerability (5:31)
makebelieve (8:39)
digital ? tzunami (6:31)
powerage xion4 (4:03)

october 2012 release ; ... arguably the first person to cash in on this contemporary extended zeitgeist in re-casting “awful” dance-music tropes into powerful, hypnotizing minimal-mantra exercises is presto!? records’ lorenzo senni, who does exactly that ...

... casting the beyond-cliché “sawtooth animator” circuit’s strangehold on contempory prog- & psy-trance into a series of extended whippoorwill lacings that offer only buildup, no release ...

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emego 152 / lorenzo senni
quantum jelly

release date 08.10.2012

written & produced by lorenzo senni

all recordings direct real-time 2 channel digital recordings. using a computer controlled jp8000 roland digital - analog modeled s-source - synthesizer as the only instrument.

all tracks are one-take recordings. there are no over-dubs. small edits have been made to correct midi errors.

cover: anne de vries "steps of recursion"
typesetting and layout by lorenzo senni

‘quantum jelly’ is the cracking new release in senni’s ever busy schedule.

a record deeply influenced by his love of 90’s trance / hard-trance music and a growing interest of the musical structures and sound archetypes of this genres. taking the most obvious characteristics of this kind of music (spoon fed with supersaws, build-ups of several minutes and over-the-top-instant-gratification melodies) senni worls with these in relation to his own background in experimental and noise culture. creating tracks with just one simple idea and forcing it into a typical "non-build-up", a sonic spiral of repetitive and percussive arpeggiated melodies.

using the idea of the "buildup" as a starting point to make a non-uplifting track that implicitly preserves its emotional tension and drama.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 151 ep

fennesz “fa 2012” twelve inch single record

fa 2012 (9:06)
fa (mark fell remix) (12:06)

october 2012 release ; ... kind of an amazing “return” (both to editions mego -the current-day incarnation of his ancient ancestral home - and to “form” - respecting his roots as a producer of anthemic electronic tracks) from mr. christian fennesz, in the form of ::

1). a “hooj” thumpy club track (replete with all of the gauze & grit you’d expect over a stuttery kick) coupled with ::2). a remix by arguably the best-equipped contemporary producer to put a wrench in this particular mechanism (mark fell, who keeps the thump / pump, subbing in stuttering hi-hats & clicky percussion ... then oddly dubbing in a martin luther king speech [most wtf!?lolsauce moment of any 12” i’ve heard this year) ...

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emego 151 / fennesz
fa 2012
12"

release date 01.10.2012

mastered and cut by rashad becker at dubplates and mastering, berlin, july 2012
layout by tina frank

special 12” featuring new versions of the track fa, taken from the debut fennesz solo album ‘hotel paral.lel’ (1997). 15 years after its initial release, christian fennesz gives this throbbing monster of a track a new seeing to, extending it and adding more of that magic he is so well known for. the album was always an exercise in exploring alternate means of hearing club based music. this new version carries that concept further.

this is backed by a cracking new mix by the ever productive mark fell, adding his unique beat structures, and even a mlk sample, which lends his contemporary rhythmic landscape a odd nostalgic twist.

this 12” can be seen as a warm up for the new fennesz album, which is currently scheduled for 2013 release.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 150 lp

emeralds “just to feel anything” long playing record

before your eyes (4:05)
adrenochrome (6:11)
through & through (4:40)
everything is inverted (6:35)
the loser keeps america clean (3:40)
just to feel anything (8:53)
search for me in the wasteland (8:12)

november 2012 release ; ... the follow-up to “does it look like i’m here?” sees the trio of john “outer space” elliott, steve hauschildt, and mark mcguire carrying on in their exploration of the “cosmic” variant on the classic “power trio” format of synth-synth-guitar, albeit working for the first time with an outside producer, “freelance audio engineer” andrew “drew” veres, to yield something perhaps a bit more fleshed-out, polished ... produced ...

... having been present when emeralds absolutely laid waste to the crowd at the no fun fest back in may of 2008 (whilst my interest in the band had long since been piqued at this stage, the performance in question absolutely sealed my belief that they were already major stylists , having arisen out of the ashes of the post-wolf eyes “bro noise” axis, which, at that particular moment in time, had already expanded & contracted, before opening up out of the “pure” power electronics / pedal noise realm ... to deep, ambient immersion ... before basically turning to “dance music” [quotes in place to signify inclusion of the various splinter-belief-systems that had sprouted up from the mid-90’s on, all under the vague machination(s) of the dance music “scene”] for inspiration, seemingly across the board) ... thinking back to that fateful night, i can easily see the atom of where the band would end up now, over 4 years later ...

... while, yes, the production values have been bumped up, significantly (one would argue that, given the amount of time & stress these guys, individually, have put into fussing w/ their signal chains that hi-fi would be the way to go forward w/r/t all this) so has their collective compositional process (manifesting itself here as a series of pieces that don’t necessarily arrive fully formed as vamps, but as nested, multi-layered & formally developed “songs”) ; much of this, in an alternate / parallel / bizarro universe could pass as “radio-ready” fare, still attuned & not the least bit resisant to real-life soundtrack-applications ranging from night driving, boat fishing, or drug taking ...

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emego 150 / emeralds
just to feel anything
lp

release date 05.11.2012

written, recorded and mixed in june 2012 at tangerine sound in akron, ohio.
recorded by andrew veres.
mixed by andrew veres and emeralds.
mastered by james plotkin.
vinyl cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, august 2012.

artwork and typography by mark fell.
front cover photograph by mark mcguire.
back cover photograph by steve hauschildt.
layout assistance by michael pollard.

emeralds is mark mcguire, steve hauschildt and john elliott.

thanks to russell brill, mark fell, peter rehberg, jamie stillman and ben vehorn

special thanks to andrew veres

just to feel anything, the new album by emeralds, surpasses all expectations, just as its predecessor, does it look like i’m here, did in 2010. this expertly recorded new album sees the band deliver plenty of their distinctive aesthetic for old fans to enjoy while offering a new range of fresh, exciting ideas for newcomers.

'before your eyes' begins the record with a steady build-up, which bleeds into humid layers of synthesizer pads and warm guitar. the track sets the tone perfectly for 'adrenochrome', a fast-paced excursion into new territory for the band. the calm after the storm appears in the form of 'through & through', with its contemplative strokes and heart-wrenching atmospherics. 'everything is inverted' is an energetic rush of monolithic guitar leads, pulsing drum machine, and driving sequences.

still, it's on the second half of just to feel anything, a triptych of tracks, where emeralds adroitly demonstrate why they are a cut above their contemporaries. 'the loser keeps america clean' kicks off the b-side by diving into the deepest fathoms of their experimental oeuvre. as the final bursts of static dissipate we are led into the opening chords of the eponymous 'just to feel anything' a new zenith in emeralds' repertoire. the album closer, 'search for me in the wasteland' sees mounting layers of brightly strummed guitar chords blossom into a storm of color and expertly crafted textures-- a truly majestic end to an immense album.

with just to feel anything, emeralds shine a laser-sharp light into the future, while preserving their uniquely intelligent historical perspective. the long-awaited next chapter in the emeralds discography is finally here, emerging as a sophisticated progression in both sound and structure.

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emeralds “just to feel anything” compact disc

before your eyes (4:05)
adrenochrome (6:11)
through & through (4:40)
everything is inverted (6:35)
the loser keeps america clean (3:40)
just to feel anything (8:53)
search for me in the wasteland (8:12)

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emego 150 / emeralds
just to feel anything

cd

release date 05.11.2012

written, recorded and mixed in june 2012 at tangerine sound in akron, ohio.
recorded by andrew veres.
mixed by andrew veres and emeralds.
mastered by james plotkin.
vinyl cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, august 2012.

artwork and typography by mark fell.
front cover photograph by mark mcguire.
back cover photograph by steve hauschildt.
layout assistance by michael pollard.

emeralds is mark mcguire, steve hauschildt and john elliott.

thanks to russell brill, mark fell, peter rehberg, jamie stillman and ben vehorn

special thanks to andrew veres

just to feel anything, the new album by emeralds, surpasses all expectations, just as its predecessor, does it look like i’m here, did in 2010. this expertly recorded new album sees the band deliver plenty of their distinctive aesthetic for old fans to enjoy while offering a new range of fresh, exciting ideas for newcomers.

'before your eyes' begins the record with a steady build-up, which bleeds into humid layers of synthesizer pads and warm guitar. the track sets the tone perfectly for 'adrenochrome', a fast-paced excursion into new territory for the band. the calm after the storm appears in the form of 'through & through', with its contemplative strokes and heart-wrenching atmospherics. 'everything is inverted' is an energetic rush of monolithic guitar leads, pulsing drum machine, and driving sequences.

still, it's on the second half of just to feel anything, a triptych of tracks, where emeralds adroitly demonstrate why they are a cut above their contemporaries. 'the loser keeps america clean' kicks off the b-side by diving into the deepest fathoms of their experimental oeuvre. as the final bursts of static dissipate we are led into the opening chords of the eponymous 'just to feel anything' a new zenith in emeralds' repertoire. the album closer, 'search for me in the wasteland' sees mounting layers of brightly strummed guitar chords blossom into a storm of color and expertly crafted textures-- a truly majestic end to an immense album.

with just to feel anything, emeralds shine a laser-sharp light into the future, while preserving their uniquely intelligent historical perspective. the long-awaited next chapter in the emeralds discography is finally here, emerging as a sophisticated progression in both sound and structure.

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kassel jaeger “deltas” long playing record

campo del cielo (17:30)
deltas (7:17)
a guest + a host (12:29)

september 2012 release ; ... following up a pair of discs for giuseppe ielasi’s senufo editions, here’s the editions mego debut from françois bonnet’s kassel jaeger project ...

... françois’ subtle musique concrète is a remarkable thing ; paying homage to the history of the form (and who would know it better, considering he’s been holding it down as the liaison / archivist @ the grm for the past few years) while keeping a foot grounded in contemporary forms (noise, instrumental drone practice, phonography) ...

... the decidedly slow creep of the three pieces here harkens back to jim o’rourke’s early tape music (jim’s a good reference point here ; someone in thrall of the formative tape music of the 60’s & 70’s, capturing that energy while imbuing it with contemporary sensibilities) ; the minutes-long creep of formal elements from background to focus is as elegantly done here as anything from luc ferrari’s canon, yet the tone here is much earthier, hinging on more of a scientific / research-oriented framework ... excellent work.

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emego 149 / kassel jaeger
deltas
lp

release date 10.09.2012

mastered with robert hampson at 116 bunker, paris, may 2012
cut by rashad becker at dubplates and mastering, berlin, july 2012
layout by stephen o’malley

kassel jaeger is a swiss-french artist based in paris, france.
he’s a member of the grm (groupe de recherches musicales).
‘deltas’ is his fifth album, and first on vinyl

campo del cielo (2012)

commissioned by espace mendes france for a performance at the planetarium in poitiers, france, diffused on a 8 channel system.

the sound material is exclusively derived and processed from stones recordings. the first part, aerolite (flying stone) is mainly based on « aerial » field recording of stone manipulations. the second part, baetylus (sacred stone) is made with electromagnetic capture of meteorite resonances. this meteorite was part of the campo del cielo site.

deltas (2012)

whenever the volume of water is so great as to counteract and almost neutralize the force of tides and currents, and in all cases where the latter agents have not sufficient power to remove to a distance the whole of the sediment periodically brought down by rivers, deltas are produced.

a guest + a host (2011)

commissioned for ina-grm’s retro/actif at la gaîté lyrique, paris, france. originally displayed on 16 channels, this work is exclusively composed with non-processed and original sounds made with the legendary coupigny modular synth housed in the groupe de recherches musicales’ studios. this work is structured as three dialectical parts : electricity + crystals = spectrum.

a guest + host = ghost (m. duchamp)

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editions mego (austria) #emego 148.2 lp

robert hampson “suspended cadences” long playing record

suspended cadences (three) (20:01)
suspended cadences (four) (19:59)

october 2012 release ; ... first in a pair of lp’s from main’s robert hampson, showcasing his electro-acoustic work ...

... altogether a bit busier & noisier than its “signaux” counterpart, the two pieces here stem from “live in the studio” improvisations on processed guitar & analogue synthesizer that recall roland kayn’s epic swarms of electronic light, slowly shifting across ancient sands ...

... killer stuff, not too far removed from the elegant ”small symphonies” robert was unleashing during his main days ... highly recommended !!!

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emego 148.2 / robert hampson
suspended cadences
lp

release date 01.10.2012

improvised analogue electronics system and guitar recordings
recorded and mixed at thirst

sleeve photography: grebo gray
layout: david coppenhall

mastered by rashad becker @ dubplates and mastering
dmm cut at optimal

suspended cadences (released simultaneously, but sold separately as signaux) is a series of live improvisations for analogue electronics and guitar lasting a duration of 20 minutes each.

each performance is given a number and it can be based either in concert or the studio. two variations of the same theme are presented here. (three) is a majestic uplifting high velocity stormer of a set, which shows hampson’s improvising skills coming into full force. if (three) is the the ‘upper’ then (four) could be seen as the ‘downer’, with its far more concentrated and inward looking affair. another worthy addition to his recent very busy canon of work. no computer manipulations are used in the performances. a computer is only utilized as a recording device in the studio environment to record a direct to stereo mix. the concert performances will not be recorded at any time.

this vinyl album features the first two studio based performance titled (three) and (four). previous concert performances have been:

suspended cadences (one) performed at instants chavirés, paris, october 27th 2011
suspended cadences (two) performed at le batofar, paris, december 8th 2011

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editions mego (austria) #emego 148.1 lp

robert hampson “signaux” long playing record

signaux 1 (17:56)
signaux 2 (18:02)

october 2012 release ; ... first in a pair of lp’s from main’s robert hampson, showcasing his electro-acoustic work ...

... this one offers two pieces of impeccable analogue synthesizer mapping(s), composed for a multi-channel performance at a planetarium in poitiers last year ; on par with such keening high-frequency blasts of analogia as guy reibel’s “granulations-sillages” & pierre henry’s “mise en musique” this takes a decidedly less “whiz-bang” approach to the form, favoring a subtler, slow unveil of automated analogue stems ...

... awesome record, miles beyond the vast majority of what’s repped as “next-level” synthesizer baptism(s) these days (in terms of pure timbral vastness & tightly controlled evolution) ... highly recommended !!!

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emego 148.1 / robert hampson
signaux
lp

release date 01.10.2012

analogue electronics system recordings
recorded and mixed at thirst

sleeve photography: grebo gray
layout: david coppenhall

mastered by rashad becker @ dubplates and mastering
dmm cut at optimal

after the répercussions cd+dvd, robert hampson returns with 2 vinyl lps released simultaneously, but sold separately. on signaux hampson sets up a rich tapestry of needle like high frequencies and subtle bass spreads, expertly woven into two side long pieces.

signaux 1 is a 2 channel mix of a 8 channel diffusion at planétarium ecm mendes france, poitiers in 2012. whereas signaux 2 is a new composition, made specifically for this release. no computer manipulations are used. a computer is only utilized as a recording and editing device for the compositions.

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thought broadcast “emergency stairway” long playing record

conflict dub (4:02)
orgone theater (2:16)
03.18.2012 (2:37)
breaking test (5:13)
riot (2:35)
03.10.2012 (3:12)
portrait heads (3:45)
silver action (2:35)
beyond self immolation (4:05)
emergency stairway (5:26)

september 2012 release ; ... remember that weird ravi binning tape that mondanile put out last year that i was ... ravi’ng (ugh) about ? same guy, only now going as “thought broadcast” with a single on phaserprone under his belt ... and now a full-length on editions mego (proper ... not spectrum spools ; interesting to see some of the current u.s. “scene” players injecting directly into the mothership) ...

... the tone here is ultra lo-fi (ground hum-laden, cassette-mastered) metallic echo-line beats ... reminiscent of early m.b., but also the dub-infused antics from this heat’s reign at cold storage (the studio-as-instrument methodology is clearly in use) & gristle-oriented italian library juice like zanagoria ...

dark, mechanical configurations that are cold, bleak, hopeless ... perfect.

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emego 147 / thought broadcast
emergency stairway
lp

release date 10.09.2012

all tracks: ravi binning, 03-04, 2012, northern california, usa

emergency stairway could have been thought broadcast's debut vinyl full length. in fact, when commissioned in early 2012, only one 7 inch and two super limited tapes were in existence, until some other label snapped to the finish with an even older commission. so, lets say an almost debut. confused? well, yes, that's probably the point. ravi binning's thought broadcast project oozes out a dank and confused audio experience isolated way beyond the city limits.

a glance at the titles suggest a routing in the primeval real industrial mind set, hooked up to classic dub sensibility. listening to these fascinating recordings one gets the impression something happened in the room that you are probably not supposed to know about, hinting to a twisted form of aktionism.

beyond the analogue grime (these tracks were delivered to label as cassettes, then carefully transferred and mastered at dubplates and mastering in berlin) lays some real treats with orgone theater and portrait heads fitting neatly beside v.o.a. era cabs in your local disko.

simply put, a beautiful record.

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harry pussy “let's build a pussy” double long playing record set

part one
part two
part three
part four

august 2012 release ; ... very interesting to see this particular side (given that not a one of the “proper” harry pussy records are available on vinyl) - originally issued in this exact formation (double-lp) in 1998 in a micro-run by the blackbean & placenta tape club’s father-imprint as the band’s final release - as it’s neither their most challenging / transgressive nor their most reviled (interpretative characteristics that would define their output somewhat) ...

... it is, however, their most conceptual ; literally derived entirely from the first half-second of audio heard in the sound-sample (... but one of the endless catalogue of grunts, war whoops, and hollers summoned by adris during the band’s heyday) ; stretched, then stretched again, finally “frozen” via a desktop port of ircam’s super phase vocoder algorithm into an hour-long surge of barely-moving (as if adris, trapped under ice, can only realistically move an eyelash a few microns every minute) “intelligent” granular gristle that’s 99.999% digital artifact, 0.001% human ...

... once it gets going, it’s not dissimilar from roland kayn’s massed spectral collusion(s) ; often resolving harmonically into pure intervals & overtones, rendered in buzzing periodic triangle waves, only barely perceivable as anything other than pure math ... as a pre-cursor to all of the post-internet / youtube warrior transformation-oriented ... (ugh) “sound art” of recent, it’s way more elegant & pure in its execution (every time some joker sends me a 4-disc cd-r box of their time-stretched verdi arias or britney spears hits, etc. ad infinitum ... i always think of this, the ultimate “break-up” record) ...

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emego 146 / harry pussy
let's build a pussy
2lp

release date 28.08.2012

bill orcutt: mouse
adris hoyos: mouth

originally released in 1998
cut by rashad becker at dubplates and mastering, berlin, june 2012

liner notes by alan licht

editions mego is happy to announce a vinyl reissue of the long out of print and impossibly rare final harry pussy album, the monumental ‘lets build a pussy’.

originally released in 1998 after the band broke up, this has always been an elusive release. “you cannot buy this anywhere and you will never find one!!!”, was what one writer exclaimed. consisting of an hour long piece of bill orcutt time-stretching a second of adris hoyos’ voice into a slow shifting drone. a piece of music you will love or hate, with not much for anything in between.

as alan licht states in his liner notes:

let’s build a pussy is a requiem, of sorts; adris’ opening one-second vocal noise has been variously termed a “yelp” or a “shout” but i prefer to think of it as bill and adris’ mutual last gasp, a band death rattle. put in a computer program, adris’ protracted utterance becomes, almost literally, “the ghost in the machine”—let’s build is something of a late 90s audio inheritor of 19th century spirit photography. paradoxically functioning as both harry pussy’s curtain call and final act, let’s build a pussy is an altogether unique past-tense statement from a band whose members were not immediately going on to solo careers or to other bands.

available only in this format.

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nick edwards “plekzationz” double long playing record set

chance meets causality uptown (16:24)
(no) escape from '79 (15:14)
inside the analog continuum (15:48)
a pedant's progress (15:39)

september 2012 release ; ... mr. edwards’ work as ekoplekz has eluded me thusfar (despite trying in earnest to track down physical evidence of it on many, many occasions) ... this newly recorded (spring 2012) quartet of side-length extrapolations is something of a revelation ; rooted in the “live electronic” tradition (word is ... he does the whole thing in-situ w/ a scant assortment of table-top electronics) inasmuch as the early-mid-80’s uk wave (cabaret voltaire, 23 skidoo, this heat ... def. frames of reference here) ...

... of all of the artists currently mining the darker back-alleys of club-footed electronic music’s sordid past(s), this is arguably the best example of a perceived “nostalgia” for a thing (sheffield, ca. 1973-78) being firmly supplanted (again, purely contemporarily) by a present-tech stab at the same approach(es) ... the timbral densities & grid-locked pulsing(s) of this music, as it’s presented here, could really only have been done over the past few years (speaking purely in terms of the advancement of portable audio-production solutions) ; edwards is a str8-magician at weaving through portals of form, yielding a narrative arc that’s both momentum-pushing and/or halting ...

... one of my favorite records of the year thusfar, without a doubt ; highly recommended !!!

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emego 145 / nick edwards
plekzationz
2lp

release date 04.09.2012

part 1: chance meets causality uptown
decomposed (in dub) at dromilly vale, march 2012

part 2: (no) escape from '79
escape velocity miscalculated at westerleigh works, march 2012

part 3: inside the analog continuum
gutter-broken at fountain square, april 2012

part 4: a pedant's progress
spontaneously combusted live in the zone, direct to 2-track tape, 25th april 2012

mastered and cut by rashad becker at dubplates and mastering, berlin, june 2012

initially inspired by industrial, dub reggae, krautrock, radiophonics and the nascent sounds emerging from techno, hip hop and ambient, nick edwards began recording experimental electronic music in his teens. using analogue synths and a basic home recording set-up, he unveiled his first (and until now, only) album under his own name on a self-released cassette in 1994.

then, following numerous obscure projects and collaborations under various guises, edwards eventually came to prominence as a music blogger, writing the influential gutterbreakz blog from 2003-2009. he then returned to music making with the critically acclaimed ekoplekz solo project, releasing work at a relentless pace across various labels, including punch drunk, mordant music, further, perc trax and public information.

for his debut emego release, edwards finally steps out from behind the ekoplekz mask, although (as the album title might suggest) the music contained within acts as both showcase for, and summary of, the sonic obsessions that have driven the ekoplekz sound over the past two and a half years.

working with primitive hardware and cassette four-track technology, edwards still draws strength from his formative influences (cabaret voltaire, king tubby, suicide, radiophonic workshop, etc) whilst striving to carve out his own defiantly raw, lo-fi, analogue identity.

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nick edwards “plekzationz” compact disc

chance meets causality uptown (16:24)
(no) escape from '79 (15:14)
inside the analog continuum (15:48)
a pedant's progress (15:39)

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emego 145 / nick edwards
plekzationz
cd

release date 04.09.2012

part 1: chance meets causality uptown
decomposed (in dub) at dromilly vale, march 2012

part 2: (no) escape from '79
escape velocity miscalculated at westerleigh works, march 2012

part 3: inside the analog continuum
gutter-broken at fountain square, april 2012

part 4: a pedant's progress
spontaneously combusted live in the zone, direct to 2-track tape, 25th april 2012

mastered and cut by rashad becker at dubplates and mastering, berlin, june 2012

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oren ambarchi “sagittarian domain” long playing record

sagittarian domain (1)
sagittarian domain (2)

august 2012 release ; ... a continuous, album-length motorik “chamber rock” suite from the remarkably prolific oren ambarchi, recalling nurse with wound’s recasting of brainticket ... maybe neu! covering taj mahal travelers (or, perhaps more accurately, the other way around) ...

... i’ve been consistently pleasantly surprised by oren’s recent work, which seems to come from less of an ascetic void, more from a youth spent listening to music (all music, not just the “hip stuff” ; hence the ace frehley cover on “audience”) voraciously, taking cues from a much wider net of 20th century sound ... bravo to him for being truer to his instincts ; in many ways this one shows his vision in a much more fully realized state than anything he’s done thusfar ...

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emego 144 / oren ambarchi
sagittarian domain
lp

release date 28.08.2012

oren ambarchi - guitars, moog bass, drums, percussion, voice
+
elizabeth welsh - violin
james rushford - viola
judith hamann - cello

recorded by lachlan carrick at sing sing, melbourne may 26, 2011
strings recorded by joe talia at chinatown, melbourne oct 11, 2011
strings arranged by james rushford
mixed by joe talia and oren ambarchi at chinatown march 7, 2012
mastered by lachlan carrick at moose, melbourne may 8, 2012
vinyl cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, june 2012
featured in benedict andrews' production of 'every breath', belvoir st theatre, sydney 2012
photography by shunichiro okada

for anyone who still associates oren ambarchi exclusively with the clipped, bass-heavy tones of solo electric guitar works such as suspension, this rhythmically churning one-man-band monster of an album-length piece might seem to come out of nowhere. however, listeners who have followed the breadth of his work for the last few years (solo and in projects with collaborators from jim o’rourke to stephen o’malley and keith rowe to keiji haino) will have noted how ambarchi has allowed increasingly clear traces of his enthusiasms as a music listener (for classic rock, minimal techno and 70’s fusion, among other areas) to surface in his performances and recordings, all the time filtering them through his signature long-form structures and psychoacoustic sonics.

recorded in a single inspired studio session, sagittarian domain displaces ambarchi’s trademark guitar sound from the centre of the mix, its presence felt only as an occasional ghostly reverberated shimmer. endlessly pulsating guitar and bass lines sit alongside electronic percussion and thundering motorik drumming (familiar from his work with keiji haino) at the core of the piece, locking into a voodoo groove like faust covering a 70’s cop show theme. the work is founded on hypnotic almost-repetition, the accents of the drum hits and interlocking bass and guitar lines shifting almost imperceptibly back and forwards over the beat as they undergo gradual transformations of timbre. cut-up and phase-shifted strings enter around the half-way mark like an abstracted memory of the eastern-tinged fusion of the mahavishnu orchestra’s classic visions of the emerald beyond, before returning for an extended, stark yet affecting come-down coda, equal parts gavin bryars and purple rain.

while sagittarian domain contains traces of a diversity of influences, it mines all of them to uncover something that is clearly an extension of ambarchi’s own investigations up to this point, exhibiting the same care for micro-detail and surrender to the physicality of sound that are present in all of his work, extending them in new ways to repetition, pulse and rhythm

- francis plagne

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oren ambarchi “sagittarian domain” compact disc

sagittarian domain (33:36)

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emego 144 / oren ambarchi
sagittarian domain
cd

release date 28.08.2012

oren ambarchi - guitars, moog bass, drums, percussion, voice
+
elizabeth welsh - violin
james rushford - viola
judith hamann - cello

recorded by lachlan carrick at sing sing, melbourne may 26, 2011
strings recorded by joe talia at chinatown, melbourne oct 11, 2011
strings arranged by james rushford
mixed by joe talia and oren ambarchi at chinatown march 7, 2012
mastered by lachlan carrick at moose, melbourne may 8, 2012
vinyl cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, june 2012
featured in benedict andrews' production of 'every breath', belvoir st theatre, sydney 2012
photography by shunichiro okada

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editions mego (austria) #emego 143 lp

mark fell “sentielle objectif actualité” double long playing record set

soa-1
soa-2
soa-3
soa-4 (1)
soa-4 (2)
soa-5
soa-6
soa-7

september 2012 release ; ... posited as a series of “reworkings” of the sensate focus materials, this actually nestles somewhere between said & the reckless beatings of “periodic” era mark, with the trill-oriented aleatoric midi-mappings coming closer to an apoplectic ear-smatter than anything “club-ready” ...

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emego 143 / mark fell
sentielle objectif actualité
2lp

release date 10.09.2012

this recording contains 7 remixes by mark fell of the first three 12” singles released on the record label sensate focus in 2012. these were called ‘10’, ‘5’ and ‘3.3...’. the first of these, ‘10’, was itself a reworking of materials from an earlier project by fell and terre thaemlitz, released on comatonse recordings in 2012.the 7 remixes were written and recorded in june 2012 at the upper lounge, chatham street (uk) using a macbook pro running digital performer, fm8 (featuring manipulated dx100 and tx81z presets), battery and razor; monitored and mixed with sennheiser hd 25 headphones. here hand claps are constructed from the roland tr707 clap, two copies of which are detuned and panned hard left and right, with an additional yamaha rx11 clap 2 panned centrally; kick drums have been constructed with the roland tr707 kick 1 pitched up with bass content attenuated, overdubbed with samples from vinyl derived, it is assumed, from the roland tr909. two hi hats are used: the yamaha rx11 closed hat 1, and a sample from bassmental's ‘2 daye revisit (kerri chandler remix)’, released on nite grooves, 1994.

recommended contextual materials include: ‘can you feel it (dubby dub marc kinchen remix)’ by chez damier, released on kms, 1992; ‘hard to get’ by choo ables, released on e-sa records, 1993.

additional dj notes for playback synchronisation: track 1 has a tempo of 137 beats per minute with a rhythmic loop of 30 units each lasting 109.49 milliseconds. track 2, 126 bpm with 31 units each lasting 119.05ms. track 3, 113 bpm with 17 units each lasting 88.5ms. track 4, 128 bpm with 60 units each lasting 117.19ms, with inserted pauses of between 4 and 80 units. track 5, 128 bpm with 16 units each lasting 117.19ms. track 6, 128 bpm with 64 units each lasting 117.19ms. track 7, 125 bpm with 31 units each lasting 120ms.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 143 cd

mark fell “sentielle objectif actualité” compact disc

soa-1 (7:43)
soa-2 (8:43)
soa-3 (6:37)
soa-4 (7:19)
soa-5 (8:27)
soa-6 (10:14)
soa-7 (5:14)

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emego 143 / mark fell
sentielle objectif actualité
cd

release date 10.09.2012

this recording contains 7 remixes by mark fell of the first three 12” singles released on the record label sensate focus in 2012. these were called ‘10’, ‘5’ and ‘3.3...’. the first of these, ‘10’, was itself a reworking of materials from an earlier project by fell and terre thaemlitz, released on comatonse recordings in 2012.the 7 remixes were written and recorded in june 2012 at the upper lounge, chatham street (uk) using a macbook pro running digital performer, fm8 (featuring manipulated dx100 and tx81z presets), battery and razor; monitored and mixed with sennheiser hd 25 headphones. here hand claps are constructed from the roland tr707 clap, two copies of which are detuned and panned hard left and right, with an additional yamaha rx11 clap 2 panned centrally; kick drums have been constructed with the roland tr707 kick 1 pitched up with bass content attenuated, overdubbed with samples from vinyl derived, it is assumed, from the roland tr909. two hi hats are used: the yamaha rx11 closed hat 1, and a sample from bassmental's ‘2 daye revisit (kerri chandler remix)’, released on nite grooves, 1994.

recommended contextual materials include: ‘can you feel it (dubby dub marc kinchen remix)’ by chez damier, released on kms, 1992; ‘hard to get’ by choo ables, released on e-sa records, 1993.

additional dj notes for playback synchronisation: track 1 has a tempo of 137 beats per minute with a rhythmic loop of 30 units each lasting 109.49 milliseconds. track 2, 126 bpm with 31 units each lasting 119.05ms. track 3, 113 bpm with 17 units each lasting 88.5ms. track 4, 128 bpm with 60 units each lasting 117.19ms, with inserted pauses of between 4 and 80 units. track 5, 128 bpm with 16 units each lasting 117.19ms. track 6, 128 bpm with 64 units each lasting 117.19ms. track 7, 125 bpm with 31 units each lasting 120ms.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 141 lp

fenn o’berg “in hell” double long playing record set

christian rocks
vampires of hondori
omuta elegy
concrete onions
it came from nagoya

april 2012 release ; ... while jim is still in self-exile in japan (exile perhaps begin too strong a word ... extended working vacation” more like it) the only chances for every-so-often reunion gigs of his fenn o’berg duo with fennesz & peter “pita” rehberg come when the other two visit him on the island(s) ...

... this last happened in late november, 2010, where the trio did a 5-date sortie, recordings of which the four sides of music herein are comprised ... the palette & instrumentation reman the same (peter :: largely virtual synths & assorted bleepy filigree ... christian :: gaseous pads & atmospheres ... jim on plundered & re-contextualized audio fragments) ; but the dynamic range & general formal senses are much wider, offering frequent moments of real transcendence (such as in the sound-sample there) that are light-years removed from the endless tongue-in-cheek referentiality (ok, there’s a giant boston sample in the middle of the a-side ; other than that we’re good) of the past ...

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emego 141 / fenn o'berg
in hell
2lp

release date 10.04.2012

performed by christian fennesz, jim o'rourke and peter rehberg at the following locations:

20 nov 2010, oita, oitaweb.tv beppu tower hall
19 nov 2010, hiroshima, club quatro
21 nov 2010, fukuoka, omuta fuji
24 nov 2010, kyoto, club metro
22 nov 2010, nagoya, club quatro

assembled by jim o'rourke at steamroom tokyo, 2011
cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, 2012
photograph by shunichiro okada

superb collection of fenn o’berg jams from their 2010 japan tour, in which they forged further west for some wild sets in beppu and omuta. while maintaining the sophistication of the in stereo sessions and tour, these recordings hark back to some classic 20th century fenn o’berg fare, complete with the odd cheeky samples.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 140 lp

anthony pateras “errors of the human body ost” double long playing record set

cellular cloud 1 (1:06)
burton (3:09)
easter gene (2:49)
research from unexpected places (2:18)
automatic 1 (2:07)
infectious (3:02)
river elbe (3:48)
personal delivery (1:55)
mouse house (3:12)
xij (6:09)
automatic 2 (3:15)
burtons lullaby (4:51)
milk & mice (3:25)
cellular cloud 2 (2:50)
sorry about your tail (1:59)
automatic 3 (2:39)
at least i knew who i was fucking (3:01)
fahrschein bitte (3:01)
burtons syndrome (3:54)
automatic 4 (3:07)
humans & mice (1:58)

march 2012 release ; ... really quite lovely score to eron sheehan’s “psychological thriller about one man’s quest for redemption from his own disturbing past, set within the mysterious world of genetic engineering” composed by anthony pateras ...

knowing anthony largely as an improvising pianist / synthesist & composer of percussion works up until this point, it’s quite astonishing to hear him in full bloom here ; he speaks the language of contemporary film-sound with aplomb, channeling eliot goldenthal & cliff martinez’ recent, largely electronic work through a series of short queues clearly intended for various functional roles throughout the film (there’s the “bugs on my skin” one, “sudden realization”, “significant development” ... even a straight up “club scene”) ... all rendered using a palette of tuned percussion, piano, analogue synth, and a smaller chamber group ...

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emego 140v / anthony pateras
errors of the human body ost
2lp

release date 06.03.2012

music performed by:
anthony pateras: piano/prepared piano/organs/electronics
anna mcmichael: violin
erkki veltheim: viola
judith hamann: cello
brock imison: basson
liam kinson: clarinet
andrew young: horn

speak percussion featuring eugene ughetti & matthias schack-arnott
elizabeth welsh: additional strings
all music composed by anthony pateras

all music recorded and mixed by lachlan carrick at sing sing studios, melbourne
except xij, constructed at gold tony love's audio hell, coburg, with drums performed by max kohane and recorded by casey rice

errors of the human body is a feature film shot at the max planck institute in dresden, germany. written and directed by eron sheean, it stars michael eklund, karoline herfurth, tómas lemarquis and rik mayall, with music by editions mego stalwart anthony pateras.

in the early 2000's sheean met pateras in melbourne, and they have worked together ever since, pateras scoring 3 of sheean's short films which have all been screened a numerous festivals worldwide. errors of the human body ost is the musical results of their first feature-length collaboration.

instrumentation includes strings, winds, brass and a broad arsenal of percussion performed by melbourne's magnificent speak percussion. pateras' distinct keyboards and electronics permeate throughout, evoking the film's key themes of isolation, scientific intrigue, ambiguous ethics and hallucinatory metamorphosis.

this album covers a lot of ground, incorporating elements of alien synthesis, lush textures, odd, layered rhythms and wild production. there is even a club track with tape-delayed string orchestra, contrabassoon and cowbell. no one can decide whether they like it.

quite possibly being the only record this year incorporating arp2600 and thumb piano, it features pateras' electronic language with contemporary experiments with orchestration, glued together with a determination to test the edges of the film music medium.

vinyl edition contains liner notes by anthony pateras.

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anthony pateras “errors of the human body ost” compact disc

cellular cloud 1 (0:57)
burton (3:09)
easter gene (2:49)
research from unexpected places (2:20)
automatic 1 (2:07)
infectious (3:02)
river elbe (3:32)
personal delivery (1:55)
mouse house (3:12)
xij (6:09)
automatic 2 (3:15)
burton's lullaby (4:41)
milk & mice (3:23)
cellular cloud 2 (2:51)
sorry about your tail (1:59)
automatic 3 (2:36)
at least i knew who i was fucking (3:01)
fahrschein bitte (3:01)
burton's syndrome (3:54)
automatic 4 (3:07)
humans & mice (1:58)

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emego 140 / anthony pateras
errors of the human body ost
cd

release date 06.03.2012

music performed by:
anthony pateras: piano/prepared piano/organs/electronics
anna mcmichael: violin
erkki veltheim: viola
judith hamann: cello
brock imison: basson
liam kinson: clarinet
andrew young: horn

speak percussion featuring eugene ughetti & matthias schack-arnott
elizabeth welsh: additional strings
all music composed by anthony pateras

all music recorded and mixed by lachlan carrick at sing sing studios, melbourne
except xij, constructed at gold tony love's audio hell, coburg, with drums performed by max kohane and recorded by casey rice

errors of the human body is a feature film shot at the max planck institute in dresden, germany. written and directed by eron sheean, it stars michael eklund, karoline herfurth, tómas lemarquis and rik mayall, with music by editions mego stalwart anthony pateras.

in the early 2000's sheean met pateras in melbourne, and they have worked together ever since, pateras scoring 3 of sheean's short films which have all been screened a numerous festivals worldwide. errors of the human body ost is the musical results of their first feature-length collaboration.

instrumentation includes strings, winds, brass and a broad arsenal of percussion performed by melbourne's magnificent speak percussion. pateras' distinct keyboards and electronics permeate throughout, evoking the film's key themes of isolation, scientific intrigue, ambiguous ethics and hallucinatory metamorphosis.

this album covers a lot of ground, incorporating elements of alien synthesis, lush textures, odd, layered rhythms and wild production. there is even a club track with tape-delayed string orchestra, contrabassoon and cowbell. no one can decide whether they like it.

quite possibly being the only record this year incorporating arp2600 and thumb piano, it features pateras' electronic language with contemporary experiments with orchestration, glued together with a determination to test the edges of the film music medium.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 139 lp

tyme. / tujiko noriko “gyu” double long playing record set

akete, akete (6:11)
gyungyun (3:47)
tropic pengugin (8:12)
heart koorasete (7:14)
vacation of god (7:13)
from a spring (2:21)
golden heart (4:43)
ten to sen (6:07)
slow motion (6:26)
unforgettable light (7:51)
world (5:59)

january 2012 release ; ... overtly digital (nicely produced, actually ; if you’re into that sort of thing ... kinda funny that this comes chronologically right after daniel menche’s prepared-piano scrape-a-thon ; gotta love emego) j-pop stylings from tujiko noriko & collaborator tatsuya “tyme.” yamada ...

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emego 139v / tyme. x tujiko
gyu
2lp

release date 17.01.2012

all songs produced and written by tyme. / tujiko noriko
except tracks 2, 8 written by p.p.a / tujiko noriko
mixed by tyme.

tujiko noriko returns to editions mego after a period of relative silence. this time in collaboration with tyme. (aka tatsuya yamada, member of mas).

this album was developed from songs that the duo made once a year at the end and beginning of new year, for a period of six years. these were sent to friends and people who asked. after six years there were six tracks they added five more the illustrations of kimura toshiko to complete the album.

a gaudy take on j-pop perhaps? these songs are bustling with a weird sense optimism thats not only fun but a little odd as well. the end and the start of a year, made by thinking of future, giving it a shiny sheen with just a dash of darkness. gyu is an onomatopoeia of - holding something tight, grabbing something. you know you like it really.

cd version released by nature bliss in japan. vinyl version is for the world.

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tyme. / tujiko noriko “gyu” compact disc

akete, akete (6:11)
gyungyun (3:47)
tropic pengugin (8:12)
heart koorasete (7:14)
vacation of god (7:13)
from a spring (2:21)
golden heart (4:43)
ten to sen (6:07)
slow motion (6:26)
unforgettable light (7:51)
world (5:59)

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emego 139 / tyme. x tujiko
gyu
cd

release date 17.01.2012

all songs produced and written by tyme. / tujiko noriko
except tracks 2, 8 written by p.p.a / tujiko noriko
mixed by tyme.

tujiko noriko returns to editions mego after a period of relative silence. this time in collaboration with tyme. (aka tatsuya yamada, member of mas).

this album was developed from songs that the duo made once a year at the end and beginning of new year, for a period of six years. these were sent to friends and people who asked. after six years there were six tracks they added five more the illustrations of kimura toshiko to complete the album.

a gaudy take on j-pop perhaps? these songs are bustling with a weird sense optimism thats not only fun but a little odd as well. the end and the start of a year, made by thinking of future, giving it a shiny sheen with just a dash of darkness. gyu is an onomatopoeia of - holding something tight, grabbing something. you know you like it really.

cd version released by nature bliss in japan. vinyl version is for the world.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 138 lp

daniel menche “guts” double long playing record set

guts one (19:55)
guts two (18:59)
guts three (19:05)
guts four (18:53)

december 2011 release ; ... an awesome, blast-heavy scrape-athon from pnw (that’s pacific noise walls) titan daniel menche, consisting of four long pieces of prepared-piano gouging, expertly assembled & ever so subtly electro-acoustically transformed into what’s essentially an acoustic power electronics record ...

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emego 138v / daniel menche
guts
2lp

daniel menche: abused and thrashed piano guts

recorded, mangled and mixed summer 2011
x-ray’s from a chihuahua dog named arrow
mastered in the analog domain at stereophonic mastering, portland oregon

more voraciously beastial soundwork coming from daniel menche, his time his chosen theme is the piano, in which he attacks, investigates and dissects with the precision of an autopsy surgeon, adding a whole new meaning to concept of prepared piano, or should we say unprepared piano for an all out assault.

guts lays out quite possibly some of the finest slabs of menchian sonic mayhem to date. voraciously beastial soundwork coming from daniel menche. slightly different track sequence over cd and vinyl formats due to time constraints.

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daniel menche “guts” compact disc

guts 2 x 4 (10:32)
guts one (19:55)
guts two (18:59)
guts three (19:05)

january 2012 release ; cd version ... track-listing differs from the double lp ...

... an awesome, blast-heavy scrape-athon from pnw (that’s pacific noise walls) titan daniel menche, consisting of four long pieces of prepared-piano gouging, expertly assembled & ever so subtly electro-acoustically transformed into what’s essentially an acoustic power electronics record ...

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emego 138 / daniel menche
guts
cd

release date 10.01.2012

daniel menche: abused and thrashed piano guts

recorded, mangled and mixed summer 2011
x-ray’s from a chihuahua dog named arrow
mastered in the analog domain at stereophonic mastering, portland oregon

more voraciously beastial soundwork coming from daniel menche, his time his chosen theme is the piano, in which he attacks, investigates and dissects with the precision of an autopsy surgeon, adding a whole new meaning to concept of prepared piano, or should we say unprepared piano for an all out assault.

guts lays out quite possibly some of the finest slabs of menchian sonic mayhem to date. voraciously beastial soundwork coming from daniel menche. slightly different track sequence over cd and vinyl formats due to time constraints.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 137 lp

kevin drumm “relief” long playing record

relief (1)
relief (2)

november 2012 release ; ... long-awaited “return” from kevin drumm (to editions mego ; to mass-market issues of his music [after, for all but the most die-hard fans of his work, a frustrating run of micro-editioned self-release activity] ; perhaps even ... to “form”) offering a single album-length piece of his trademark laser-precisioned electronic gristle, fashioned from his own synthesizer, computer, and guitar timbres into a dense map of overlaid, spectrally finessed moire patterns ...

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emego 137 / kevin drumm
relief

release date 05.11.2012

recorded 2012 at worse than burning offal studio.

mastered at ninth circle studios by chris

cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, september 2012

once more chicago’s finest delivers another devastating slab of emotionally charged noise.

its been 10 years since the epic statement that was ‘sheer hellish miasma’. since then drumm has trawled through the depths of the global underground with a back breaking speed, adding many masterful releases to his oeuvre for labels the world over.

armed with his distinctive palate of audio tactics, drumm returns to editions mego to deliver ‘relief’, a 36 minute hypnotic roller coaster ride through the terrain of his unique vision. a haunted melody pinned to a bed of nails. a spinning ride through aural spaces. that's the kind of stuff we like round here.

extreme yet approachable, a music that demands repeated listens.

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mark van hoen “the revenant diary” three-sided double long playing record set

look into my eyes (4:22)
garabndl x (3:56)
don't look back (4:16)
i remember (5:50)
no distance (except the one between you and me) (3:37)
37/3d (6:20)
where were you (4:40)
why hide from me (2:49)
unknown host (4:16)
laughing stars at night (4:36)
holy me (9:36)

january 2012release ; ... editions mego debut from locust’s mark van hoen (at varying points a member of both seefeel & scala) ; a mixture of “sultry” electronic pop music & spry digital-music numbers ...

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emego 136v / mark van hoen
the revenant diary
3 sided 2lp

release date 10.01.2012

all titles composed by mark van hoen
recorded in brooklyn & woodstock ny usa 2011

all instruments & processing by mark van hoen with additional vocals by georgia belmont
cover art by stephen o'malley

“don’t look back”, repeats one of several voices within mark van hoen’s the revenant diary, his fifth solo album and first release on editions mego. surrounded by weighted beats, analogue synthesizer drones and granular dirt, the unidentified, siren-like female voice’s advice is as much seduction as warning. tellingly so, for as well as being both van hoen’s most ambitious and his most accessible work, the revenant diary is an eloquent meditation on the allures and dangers of memory, regret and nostalgia.

the album's foundation was shaped by a memory and a chance encounter. while remastering some of his early 90s releases and peel session tracks, van hoen – a founding member of seefeel, who also worked as locust and in seefeel offshoot scala and has collaborated with slowdive, robert fripp, edison woods & esben and the witch amongst others – happened upon a track he had recorded in 1982. attracted by its simplicity, he was inspired to record the basis of the revenant diary on 4-track tape, using a minimal set-up, reminiscent of his first early 80s musical adventures as a young teenager. the recollection of one of these – a 13 year old van hoen's experiment in reel-to-reel tape recording of an ineffectual pop song playing on the radio, which spuriously transformed it into a spooky amalgam of backwards church organ and unintelligible voices – provided an evocative inspiration.

the revenant diary pivots on this combination of complex reflection and simplified technology. a determinedly analogue affair, it brims over with van hoen’s signature sounds: immersively decayed drones, almost broken ambient surfaces and lulling rhythms, with granular crackle providing spectral grit. fragments of female vocals pepper the album, and notably dominate the 10-minute epic “holy me”, one of van hoen’s most complex compositions, in which non-verbal sounds rub delicately against each other in an otherworldly choral composition.

less song-based than his last solo work, the well-received where is the truth [city centre offices, 2010], its palette and structure are more descendants of the 1995 album truth is born of arguments, which utilised a similar combination of decayed atmosphere against a granular / glitch rhythmic structure. tracks like “laughing stars at night” and “unknown host” exude a powerful emotional undertow, as alluringly woozy as they are intensely contemplative. but this is no exercise in instagram-style disposable nostalgia. van hoen’s adroit juxtapositions of gauzy textures evoke the blurred luminescence of 16mm film and the rich, colour-saturated hues of rediscovered polaroid photos, as the cover artwork, designed by sunn o)))’s stephen o’malley, acknowledges. the revenant diary expertly renders displaced memory daze in lushly melodic, gently delirious electronic sound.

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mark van hoen “the revenant diary” compact disc

look into my eyes (4:22)
garabndl x (3:56)
don't look back (4:16)
i remember (5:50)
no distance (except the one between you and me) (3:37)
37/3d (6:20)
where were you (4:40)
why hide from me (2:49)
unknown host (4:16)
laughing stars at night (4:36)
holy me (9:36)

editions mego press release...

emego 136 / mark van hoen
the revenant diary
cd

release date 10.01.2012

all titles composed by mark van hoen
recorded in brooklyn & woodstock ny usa 2011

all instruments & processing by mark van hoen with additional vocals by georgia belmont
cover art by stephen o'malley

“don’t look back”, repeats one of several voices within mark van hoen’s the revenant diary, his fifth solo album and first release on editions mego. surrounded by weighted beats, analogue synthesizer drones and granular dirt, the unidentified, siren-like female voice’s advice is as much seduction as warning. tellingly so, for as well as being both van hoen’s most ambitious and his most accessible work, the revenant diary is an eloquent meditation on the allures and dangers of memory, regret and nostalgia.

the album's foundation was shaped by a memory and a chance encounter. while remastering some of his early 90s releases and peel session tracks, van hoen – a founding member of seefeel, who also worked as locust and in seefeel offshoot scala and has collaborated with slowdive, robert fripp, edison woods & esben and the witch amongst others – happened upon a track he had recorded in 1982. attracted by its simplicity, he was inspired to record the basis of the revenant diary on 4-track tape, using a minimal set-up, reminiscent of his first early 80s musical adventures as a young teenager. the recollection of one of these – a 13 year old van hoen's experiment in reel-to-reel tape recording of an ineffectual pop song playing on the radio, which spuriously transformed it into a spooky amalgam of backwards church organ and unintelligible voices – provided an evocative inspiration.

the revenant diary pivots on this combination of complex reflection and simplified technology. a determinedly analogue affair, it brims over with van hoen’s signature sounds: immersively decayed drones, almost broken ambient surfaces and lulling rhythms, with granular crackle providing spectral grit. fragments of female vocals pepper the album, and notably dominate the 10-minute epic “holy me”, one of van hoen’s most complex compositions, in which non-verbal sounds rub delicately against each other in an otherworldly choral composition.

less song-based than his last solo work, the well-received where is the truth [city centre offices, 2010], its palette and structure are more descendants of the 1995 album truth is born of arguments, which utilised a similar combination of decayed atmosphere against a granular / glitch rhythmic structure. tracks like “laughing stars at night” and “unknown host” exude a powerful emotional undertow, as alluringly woozy as they are intensely contemplative. but this is no exercise in instagram-style disposable nostalgia. van hoen’s adroit juxtapositions of gauzy textures evoke the blurred luminescence of 16mm film and the rich, colour-saturated hues of rediscovered polaroid photos, as the cover artwork, designed by sunn o)))’s stephen o’malley, acknowledges. the revenant diary expertly renders displaced memory daze in lushly melodic, gently delirious electronic sound.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 134 cd

russell haswell “acid no!se synthesis” compact disc

lissajous square (0:33)
logo #2 (ts) (1:00)
call (1:04)
pulsar anthem (4:43)
shapeshifter (5:25)
acid no!se #6 (ws+ts) (3:01)
a.n.s. #1 (10:33)
void (2:13)
a.n.s. #2 (12:15)
no!se pulsar (3:37)
acid wind (4:05)
acid no!se medley (11:17)
perc klonk carrier (1:13)
brainfloss (1:24)
scm vs modular (3:42)
acid verb 17062010 (6:03)
phase ender (0:52)

october 2011 release ; ... killer, proper “studio” album from polymath russell haswell (makes a nice pair with the “in it (immersive live salvage)” lp from earlier this year) following up on last year’s “value + bonus” set for no fun ...

... what starts as a series of muted test-tones (presumably in place to generate lovely lissajous patterns on a scope) quickly turns vicious (ala the bit in the sound-sample to your left) ; a great mix of fidelities, from computer / pulsar synthesis to some gnarly modular ...

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emego 134 / russell haswell
acid no!se synthesis
cd

comes with a 16 pp booklet with text and 15 vector oscillograms.

improvisation on either modular synthesiser, computer or electronics and pedals. recorded and simultaneously monitored on stereo / phase scope (visual) and speakers or headphones (auditory).

performed, recorded (direct to hd - 2 channel - no overdub, no midi), edited, compiled and mastered by russell haswell in suffolk, 2010 - 2011

for multi-sensory experience (seeing sound, in this case, lissajous patterns), connect a stereo / phase scope (oscilloscope x-y view or software equivalent) to your audio player...

recommended reading:
oscilloscope at work. alfred haas, ralph watson hallows (wireless world / iliffe & sons ltd. 1956)
audio metering. eddy bøgh brixen (focal press. 2011)

this isnt what you think it is.

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mark fell “periodic orbits of a dynamic system related to a knot” long playing record

this side (23:16)
that side (23:16)

november 2011 release ; ... stood, rather dumbfounded (fresh off a plane from europe, still fully jetlagged & dis-oriented) while mark laid waste to a particularly unruly set of week-night dance-club patrons a few weeks back, pealing off an impeccable set of this exact music, deafeningly loud on a proper club p.a. ...

it was probably my single favorite set of music i’ve heard this year (it’s been a hell of a year !!!) ; its restorative powers were myriad (maybe i’m thinking of the mojitos at the middlesex) ... while the mms stereo can offer nowhere near the levels of “bumpin’ bass™” as said, the “home game” is just as good ...

damn, these records are gratifying ...

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emego 133 / mark fell
periodic orbits of a dynamic system related to a knot
lp

total running time 46m 32s

the music here came about in various ways – one section is an outtake from my recent multistablity album and is reworked here, another began as a quadraphonic piece composed for and performed at “supersimetria: new languages in computer music” (curated by anna ramos and roc jiménez de cisneros in barcelona 2011), others were taken from live versions of previously released and unreleased tracks. the idea was to bring these together in an ‘almost-live-album’ format. the album features three presets taken from yamaha’s four operator frequency modulation synthesisers of the late 1980’s — jazzorg, latelybass and rich strg #3 — modified to produce numerous descendants. the project was entirely written, mixed, and edited with midi. no audio recordings were present, with the following exceptions: the sound of a mac mini failing to mount a dvd, recorded with the internal microphone on a macbook pro (this provided a rhythmic template for the patterns that follow it) ; and a short section of pi saw flute played by jan hendrickse. the project was written in transit during a house and studio move, and exclusively produced using the internal speakers on a macbook pro. due to time constraints, the mastering session with lupo at dubplates and mastering was unattended.

the cover image is of my partner’s arm after cutting the pampas grass in our front garden in preparation for the house’s new occupier.

thanks to paul emery for early advice and comments about the structure of this album, jan hendrickse for pi saw flute, lupo at dubplates and mastering, and finally peter rehberg for his support of this project.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 129 lp

russell haswell / florian hecker “kanal gendyn” long playing record and digital versatile disc set

kanal gendyn stereo [a] (29:53)
kanal gendyn stereo [b] (33:00)
dvd :: kanal gendyn 4.0 (62:53)

october 2011 release ; ... deluxe issue of hecker & haswell’s score to peter fischli & david weiss’ 1992 film “kanal,” recorded live to 4-channels at the musterraum, munich in january of 2004 ...

... over an hour (incredibly ; the apparent lack of deep bass tones has allowed engineer par excellence rashad becker to cut over an hour of music onto a single lp ; which, incidentally, sounds amazing) of buzzing, de-centered upic granules that pause not for a second in their bee-like quest for micro-cosmic societal acceptance ...

... comes in a nice glossy sleeve ; oh, and look, there’s a dvd of the 4.0 mix tucked inside (2 channels each of russell & florian’s individual signals ; kind of a nice touch) ...

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emego 129 / russell haswell & florian hecker
kanal gendyn
lp+dvd

recorded and produced by russell haswell & florian hecker, 2004–2011

stereo version mixed by haswell & hecker @ ccmix (centre de création musicale iannis xenakis), paris, march 2004

digitally mastered by russell haswell @ haswell studio, suffolk, england, july 2011

dvd authored by gop , köln, september 2011

editions mego is happy to announce the release of 'kanal gendyn', a vinyl and dvd set by russell haswell & florian hecker. this is the first full length release by the artists following their highly acclaimed albums, 'blackest ever black (electroacoustic upic recordings)' (warner classics, 2007), and 'upic warp tracks' (warp, 2008), in addition to their remix's of popol vuh, and voice crack.

in the late 90s, early 2000s, it became common for bands, or solo artists to perform live - often alternative - soundtracks to feature films or silent classics. critical of obvious instrumentation and the combination with known classic film, the artists russell haswell & florian hecker chose to create a real-time soundtrack, to an unscored film, 'kanal video' (1992, 60 min.) by the swiss artist duo peter fischli & david weiss.

core to kanal gendyn is haswell & hecker's ongoing research on the legacies of polymath iannis xenakis (1922–2001) and in particular his concept of the dynamic stochastic synthesis, an abstract sound synthesis procedure that creates 'sound out of nothing'.

in an interview with peter hoffmann, the artists recall:

this video, which consists of an hour long ‘ride’ through the zurich sewage system, with a remotely controlled maintenance vehicle equipped with a video camera to survey the sewers for eventual irregularities of defects — struck us both as an ideal piece to be projected in a ‘nightclub’ or music venue with a gendyn only performance. we found twisted relations with such an hour long ‘tunnel vision’. once with the seemingly endless amount of computer generated video projections used as visuals accompanying raves and techno parties during the 1990’s — and also to the accounts of visual hallucinations induced by mescaline as described by heinrich klüver in the 1920’s — with the so called ‘form constants’ — where he mentions amongst others, ‘tunnel like’ patterns. the particularities of gendyn, with its ever changing and meandering waveforms appeared to us as an ideal counterpart.

kanal gendyn was performed on the occasion of the event ‘musterraum 9. dual presentation — peter fischli & david weiss — russell haswell & florian hecker’ at musterraum, munich, 30.01.2004. originally constructed as an experimental building, ‘musterraum’ — german for sample or reference room — was a freestanding cube with a base area of 10 12 meters. built as a test and reference space for the planning and construction of the adjacent pinakothek der moderne.

two stereo feeds were crossed for quadraphonic (4.0) diffusion using a l&b f12 / b12 loudspeaker system. performed concurrently to the peter fischli & david weiss, ‘kanal video’ (1992, 60 min.) screened on three facing walls.

kanal gendyn is released as stereo vinyl lp + 4.0 dts 24 bit / 48 khz dvd (audio only) set. the cover features 10 stills from the original fischli & weiss video, included inside is a 30 x 30 cm 170 gramm paper insert with a further, full-page still, plus extensive sleeve notes by musicologist and software developer peter hoffmann, and everything was designed by norm, zurich.

its also worth noting that, with a running time of over an hour, this is one of the longest single lp releases you will come across! cut by rashad 'the master' becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, september 2011

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bill orcutt “how the thing sings” compact disc

no true vine (1:12)
the visible bosom (6:03)
lost they book (2:39)
how the thing sings (4:13)
till i get satisfied (3:29)
heaven is closed to me now (3:30)
a line from ol'man river (13:45)

september 2011 release ; cd version ...

i’m glad bill stayed with emego ; despite the apparent disconnect between his work & that of ... pretty much everyone else on the label, there’s an undeniable irreverence that somehow ties in ... whatever it is that he does with the general “personality” of peter’s whole universe ... to wit ::

... anyways ; much like the “way down south” set (of which, i’m told, we have the last extant copies ; pick one up for your teenage nephew as a graduation present - he won’t mind at all) this begins as a conversation already-in-progress, continues unabated (with only scant breaks for catching-of-breath, etc) for entire side-lengths in a manner that is both exhilarating and quite impressive from a stamina-perspective ... in particular, “a line from ol'man river” builds from a grain of sand into a continent-spanning desert utilizing only that most basic building block :: the great idea, singularly executed ...

this music will be playing in my heaven, whether i’m deathless or not ... highly recommended !!!

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emego 128 / bill orcutt
how the thing sings
cd

recorded spring 2011 in the liviing room, san francisco.
cut at 45 rpm at d+m, berlin, august 2011

yet another essential cracking new set of songs from bill orcutt, showcasing a further development of his unique visceral acoustic style.

the language that orcutt uses looks familiar at first glance, but cut deeper and its myriad of twisted audio thats both full on and drenched in melancholy, usually in the same gasping breath.

while a lot of it is the classic face melting style, some quieter segments counter balance on the title track as well the epic closet ‘a line from ol’man river’ and ‘heaven is closed to me now’

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angel “26000” long playing record

before the rush (13:45)
in (5:05)
dark matter leak (6:32)
out (3:22)
paradigm shift (19:22)

september 2011 release ; new music from the duo of panasonic’s ilpo väisänen & dirk “schneider tm” dresselhaus, with guests oren ambarchi, bj nilsen, and hildur gudnadottir ...

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emego 127v / angel
26000
lp

release date 27.09.2011

angel is ilpo väisänen (pan sonic) and dirk dresselhaus (schneider tm) who play time-transcending freeform sound, weightlessness and gravity of electromagnetic signals together since 1999.

the 5 tracks describe the last period of a 26000 years long cycle that leads to a new situation on this planet.

26000 was recorded between 2008 and 2010 at construction site studios in berlin & ilpo's cottage in karttula, finland and features guest appearences by hildur gudnadottir, bj nilsen and oren ambarchi.

the repertoire of the instruments is very wide: glassbowls, metal objects, pieces of wood, grass, birds, dragonflies, lake echo, smoking box and the regular electronic equipment as well as acoustic instruments.

hildur plays cello & the halldorophon (a kind of cello that feeds itself back).
oren plays percussion & guitar.
benny did field recordings and processing.

all mixed by angel at dirk's newly built studio called zone and mastered by rashad becker in berlin.

it's all good in the tummy, bwoys, because the black sabbath parts were totally ac/dc.

nothing is wider than empty things

(francis bacon)

...

time is the accident of accidents

(epi kuros)

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angel “26000” compact disc

before the rush (13:45)
in (5:05)
dark matter leak (6:32)
out (3:22)
paradigm shift (19:22)

september 2011 release ; cd version ...

new music from the duo of panasonic’s ilpo väisänen & dirk “schneider tm” dresselhaus, with guests oren ambarchi, bj nilsen, and hildur gudnadottir ...

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emego 127 / angel
26000
cd

release date 27.09.2011

angel is ilpo väisänen (pan sonic) and dirk dresselhaus (schneider tm) who play time-transcending freeform sound, weightlessness and gravity of electromagnetic signals together since 1999.

the 5 tracks describe the last period of a 26000 years long cycle that leads to a new situation on this planet.

26000 was recorded between 2008 and 2010 at construction site studios in berlin & ilpo's cottage in karttula, finland and features guest appearences by hildur gudnadottir, bj nilsen and oren ambarchi.

the repertoire of the instruments is very wide: glassbowls, metal objects, pieces of wood, grass, birds, dragonflies, lake echo, smoking box and the regular electronic equipment as well as acoustic instruments.

hildur plays cello & the halldorophon (a kind of cello that feeds itself back).
oren plays percussion & guitar.
benny did field recordings and processing.

all mixed by angel at dirk's newly built studio called zone and mastered by rashad becker in berlin.

it's all good in the tummy, bwoys, because the black sabbath parts were totally ac/dc.

nothing is wider than empty things

(francis bacon)

...

time is the accident of accidents

(epi kuros)

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editions mego (austria) #emego 126 lp

yasunao tone “mp3 deviation #8” long playing record

mp3 deviation #8 (1) (15:30)
mp3 deviation #8 (2) (14:06)

october 2011 release ; first in a two-part issue (note that the vinyl & cd versions of “mp3 deviation” contain completely different, albeit similarly batshit music) covering new work by yasunao tone & a team at the university of york having to do with the manipulation of “corrupted sound files” as they’re being interpreted by the mp3 decoding / encoding engines ...

the sound ? why, yes, it’s all completely disorienting, mile-a-minute cutups of arbitrary source material fed through custom software that accentuates the “errors” in the data stream, yielding a constant barrage of gnarly algorithmic nonsense that’s the audio equivalent to a simultaneous 8-lane highway pileup ....

... this lp covers a concert given in new york on august 1st of this year (i.e. two months ago) ; completely incredible ...

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emego 126 / yasunao tone
mp3 deviation #8
lp

release date 18.10.2011

the mp3 deviation album contains pieces that are results of the collaborative research by a team of the new aesthetics in computer music (nacm) and myself, led by tony myatt at music research center at the university of york in uk in 2009. my idea was to develop new software based on the disruption of the mp3. primarily i thought the mp3 as reproducing device could have created very new sound by intervention between its main elements, the compression encoder and decoder. it turned out that result was not satisfactory. however, we found that if the sound file had been corrupted in the mp3, the corruptions generated 21 error messages, which could be utilized to assign various 21 lengths of samples automatically. combining with different play back speeds, it could produce unpredictable and unknowable sound. that is a main pillar of the software. we, also, added some other elements such as flipping stereo channels and phase inversing alternately with a certain length of frequency ranges, which resulted different timbres and pitches. i performed several times at the mrc and i was certain that this software would be a perfect tool for performances. i have tentatively performed the piece in public in kyoto, may 2009 and in new york, in may 2010. i also performed it successfully with totally different sound sources when i was invited for the morning line in vienna in june 2011.

side a. mp3 deviation #8
performed and recorded by yasunao tone august 1, 2011 in new york city.

track 2. mp3 deviation #8
performed and recorded by yasunao tone august 1, 2011 in new york city.

the original sound sources made by yasunao tone.
producer, yasunao tone
executive producer, peter rehberg
cover design, tina frank
photogrpahy, tina frank, florian voggeneder
digital mastering, russell haswell

thanks for the support by nacm, tony myatt, mark fell, peter worth, thom blake, oliver larkin, peter rehberg, tina frank and russell haswell.

the new aesthetics in computer music research project funded by the arts and humanities research council uk.

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yasunao tone “mp3 deviations #6+7” compact disc

mp3 deviation #6 (30:36)
mp3 deviation #7 (22:15)

october 2011 release ; ... completely separate cd issue of yasunao tone’s “mp3 deviations,” covering a pair of concerts given in new york on june 2nd & july 3rd of this year ...

... as much as i prefer hearing purely digital music cut to actual speaker-reproduceable waveforms via the vinyl master / cut process, it’s nice to torture the entirely analogue mms stereo with this particular 1/0 stream (full of gnarly dc offsets & immediate all-in to all-out transients that are physically impossible to be accurately performed upon by our lovely pre / power-amp combo, even at a relatively slow 44.1k) ...

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emego 125 / yasunao tone
mp3 deviations #6+7
cd

release date 18.10.2011

the original sound sources made by yasunao tone.
producer, yasunao tone
executive producer, peter rehberg
cover design, tina frank
photogrpahy, tina frank, florian voggeneder
digital mastering, russell haswell

thanks for the support by nacm, tony myatt, mark fell, peter worth, thom blake, oliver larkin, peter rehberg, tina frank and russell haswell.

the new aesthetics in computer music research project funded by the arts and humanities research council uk.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 124 lp

mika vainio “life (...it eats you up)” double long playing record set

in silence a scream takes a heart (13:12)
throat (2:30)
mining (5:18)
napoleon (1:39)
open up and bleed (8:51)
crashed (6:10)
and give us our daily humiliation (5:24)
cage (1:20)
conquering the solitude (5:05)
a ravenous edge (8:59)

july 2011 release ; man, judging by the cover it looks like vainio got fucked up ... i hope he’s >ok !!!

anyways, neat turn-of-events (musically speaking) from one of my all-time favorite musicians ; this almost black-metal-leaning (true, that’s like saying “jonestown-leaning” these days ... it’s either trve kvlt bm or it’s not) set of guitar-centric pieces retains the dynamic push-pull of his electric / electronically-sourced work (listen to the sound-sample to your left ... wait for it ... bloosh) ; the beats are slown to a halt & bathed in a nasty slap-back that provokes violent thought ... killer record !!!

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emego 124v / mika vainio
life (...it eats you up)
2lp

release date 26.07.2011

all tracks written by mika vainio, except open up and bleed by iggy pop / james williamson

whereas previous works by mika vainio have utilised guitar, life (… it eats you up) is the first to use the instrument as its primary sound source. a fascinating, sometimes disturbing and deeply personal work this new 10 track set bears all the hallmarks (exacting attention to detail of tone, rhythm and texture) of vainio's previous works with some stunning surprises, such as his cover version of the stooges' 'open up and bleed'.

tracks such as ‘mining’ hark bark to the banging beat excesses of pan sonic, with ‘crashed’ and ‘and give us our daily humiliation’ and the opening ‘in silence a scream takes a heart’ reveal a new intensity to vainio’s work and is yet another superb addition to his brilliant catalogue.

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mika vainio “life (...it eats you up)” compact disc

in silence a scream takes a heart (13:12)
throat (2:30)
mining (5:18)
napoleon (1:39)
open up and bleed (8:51)
crashed (6:10)
and give us our daily humiliation (5:24)
cage (1:20)
conquering the solitude (5:05)
a ravenous edge (8:59)

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emego 124 / mika vainio
life (...it eats you up)
cd

release date 26.07.2011

all tracks written by mika vainio, except open up and bleed by iggy pop / james williamson

whereas previous works by mika vainio have utilised guitar, life (… it eats you up) is the first to use the instrument as its primary sound source. a fascinating, sometimes disturbing and deeply personal work this new 10 track set bears all the hallmarks (exacting attention to detail of tone, rhythm and texture) of vainio's previous works with some stunning surprises, such as his cover version of the stooges' 'open up and bleed'.

tracks such as ‘mining’ hark bark to the banging beat excesses of pan sonic, with ‘crashed’ and ‘and give us our daily humiliation’ and the opening ‘in silence a scream takes a heart’ reveal a new intensity to vainio’s work and is yet another superb addition to his brilliant catalogue.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 123 lp

mark mcguire “get lost” long playing record

get lost (5:03)
when you're somewhere (4:02)
alma (3:20)
another dead end (4:31)
alma (reprise) / chances are (3:42)
firefly constellations (19:56)

september 2011 release ; ... love peter’s “write the press release while completely pissed” style (“its game of 2 sides of courrse, with side one chocabloc a short hits “ wft does that even mean) but regardless, yes, this does see mark taking a more “produced” approach to bedroom guitar histrionics, with said cut with more fleshed-out layerings of electric-guitar sound (as opposed to doing everything in real-time, which i believe has been his modus up until now) ...

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emego 123v / mark mcguire
get lost
lp

electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, and guitar-synthesizer recorded digitally between june 2010 and july 2011 in westlake, ohio and portland, oregon

mixed at hardbodies, july 2011 by mark mcguire
photography and art by mark mcguire 2011
layout by julian gulyas

this album is dedicated to my family, friends, and the spirit of the summer night sky

and yet another killer album from the ever productive mark mcguire. it just keeps getring better, as he delivers another fine set of tunes in his perfected style. a few more electronic elements than usual and even some voices., but still the unique blend feell good riffs, electric and acoustic loops and melodies that just stick in the head.

its game of 2 sides of courrse, with side one chocabloc a short hits with side two stretcning to one side long jam of blissed out mcguire ambience. awesome.

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mark mcguire “get lost” compact disc

get lost (5:05)
when you're somewhere (4:04)
alma (3:22)
another dead end (4:33)
alma (reprise) / chances are (3:44)
firefly constellations (19:56)

september 2011 release ; cd version ...

... love peter’s “write the press release while completely pissed” style (“its game of 2 sides of courrse, with side one chocabloc a short hits “ wft does that even mean) but regardless, yes, this does see mark taking a more “produced” approach to bedroom guitar histrionics, with said cut with more fleshed-out layerings of electric-guitar sound (as opposed to doing everything in real-time, which i believe has been his modus up until now) ...

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emego 123 / mark mcguire
get lost
cd

electric and acoustic guitar, vocals, and guitar-synthesizer recorded digitally between june 2010 and july 2011 in westlake, ohio and portland, oregon

mixed at hardbodies, july 2011 by mark mcguire
mastered and cut by helmut erler @ dubplates & mastering, berlin.
photography and art by mark mcguire 2011
layout by julian gulyas

this album is dedicated to my family, friends, and the spirit of the summer night sky

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cindytalk “hold everything dear” double long playing record set

how soon now... (5:01)
on the tip of my tongue (1:21)
in dust to delight (6:38)
fly away over here (9:14)
hanging in the air (8:27)
waking the snow (1:25)
from rokko-san (6:01)
fallen obi (1:42)
those that tremble as if they were mad (6:13)
floating clouds (8:47)
i see you uncovered (1:42)
...until we disappear (7:29)

july 2011 release ; ... third in a trilogy of new albums from scottish musician gordon “cindytalk” sharp, incorporating his trademark mixture of smeared, gauzy drones & piano timbres ...

... these have been a wonderful surprise amidst the more ... infuriating music in the contemporary (e)mego catalogue ; this one inhibits the range while stretching out the form(s) ; lovely stuff !!!

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emego 122v / cindytalk
hold everything dear
2lp

all tracks written and recorded by gordon sharp and matt kinnison between 2006–2011 at roi vert, okamoto (japan), 13th floor and space eko (london), southend (essex)

mastered at piethopraxis, june 2011
cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, june 2011
design/images: david coppenhall
assembled at sixism (maggi smith/david coppenhall)
for matt kinnison and john berger

hold everything dear is the third installment in the new cindytalk sound which started with 2007’s the crackle of my soul, and then last years up here in the clouds. its the first in the trilogy to feature musicians other than gordon sharp namely the late matt kinnison, to whom the album is dedicated.

inspired by the john berger book of the same name, this latest release is whole new set of parameters which push the sound on the previous two works to an extreme point of abstraction, and in some places near silent passages and haunted melodic segments.

and what a mysterious journey this ends up being with increased use of piano and found/field recordings giving all the tracks a blurry soundtrack appeal to the point where the definitions between the tracks are no longer clearly defined. it harks back to the odder parts of in this world and the wind is strong albums from the early 1990s.

superbly packaged with new david coppenhall artwork in a gatefold vinyl sleeve.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 122 cd

cindytalk “hold everything dear” compact disc

how soon now... (5:01)
on the tip of my tongue (1:21)
in dust to delight (6:38)
fly away over here (9:14)
waking the snow (1:25)
from rokko-san (6:01)
hanging in the air (8:27)
fallen obi (1:42)
those that tremble as if they were mad (6:13)
floating clouds (8:47)
i see you uncovered (1:42)
...until we disappear (7:29)

editions mego press release...

emego 122 / cindytalk
hold everything dear
cd

all tracks written and recorded by gordon sharp and matt kinnison between 2006–2011 at roi vert, okamoto (japan), 13th floor and space eko (london), southend (essex)

mastered at piethopraxis, june 2011
cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, june 2011
design/images: david coppenhall
assembled at sixism (maggi smith/david coppenhall)
for matt kinnison and john berger

hold everything dear is the third installment in the new cindytalk sound which started with 2007’s the crackle of my soul, and then last years up here in the clouds. its the first in the trilogy to feature musicians other than gordon sharp namely the late matt kinnison, to whom the album is dedicated.

inspired by the john berger book of the same name, this latest release is whole new set of parameters which push the sound on the previous two works to an extreme point of abstraction, and in some places near silent passages and haunted melodic segments.

and what a mysterious journey this ends up being with increased use of piano and found/field recordings giving all the tracks a blurry soundtrack appeal to the point where the definitions between the tracks are no longer clearly defined. it harks back to the odder parts of in this world and the wind is strong albums from the early 1990s.

superbly packaged with new david coppenhall artwork in a 4-panel digipack.

$29.01

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digital-musics
concert-recordings
live-electronic
machine-music
electro-acoustic-improvisation

best of 2011 !!!

editions mego (austria) #emego 121 lp

thomas lehn / marcus schmickler “live double séance [antaa kalojen uida]” long playing record and digital versatile disc set

live double séance (1) (23:24)
live double séance (2) (23:24)
live double séance (dvd) (46:48)

july 2011 release ; ... you wouldn’t expect anything less than a full-on, bang, drag-out sound-war from these two veteran electro-acoustic improvisors, active as a unit for nigh on 12 years, perfecting a shared vocabulary of analogue & digital electronic music timbres that they’ve essentially built from scratch through a rigorous performance schedule that’s shown them the greater part of the western world ...

here, we’re treated to a single live set sans editing, studio “makeup” or any sort of post-event manipulation of any kind ; even the concert’s initial multi-channel staging has been preserved on a dts 5.1 dvd (included in its own slipcase, slipped inside the lp sleeve) ; its of course a mind-fuck to hear this music whiz around, but it works just fine as a stereo recording (the lp is ... you know what i’m going to say here ... rashad becker’s a genius) highlighting the high level(s) of shared-mind interplay presented by two of the world’s most accomplished real-time electronic musicians ...

editions mego press release...

emego 121 / thomas lehn / marcus schmickler
live double séance [antaa kalojen uida]
lp+dvd

thomas lehn: analogue synthesizer
marcus schmickler: computer

live recording of a 6 channel loudspeaker concert of improvised electronic music, november 14th 2010 at äänen lumo festival for new sounds at myllysali, suomenlinna island, helsinki.

no editing, no mixing has been applied to this recording.
all spatialization was part of the live performance.
contains stereo vinyl lp and dts 5.1 surround sound dvd (audio only)
dvd playable on standard dvd players and home computers.

artwork: soma
recorded by teemu korpipää
mastered at piethopraxis tonstudio, köln, march 26th 2011
dvd authoring at gop, köln
vinyl cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, june 2011

the analogue-digital electronic duo of marcus schmickler and thomas lehn has been working since its first meeting in december 1998 during the german premiere of the music in movement electronic orchestra (aka mimeo) in cologne. since they have been extensively touring in europe, the usa and japan and performed at experimental intermedia / nyc, mills / oakland, bard college, lampo / chicago, princeton university, festival wittener tage fuer neue kammermusik, amplify / tokyo, cca / glasgow, darmstadt and many other known presenters of contemporary and electronic music. they released several highly acclaimed productions on labels such as erstwhile records and a-musik.

editions mego is thrilled to release their fourth duo album "live double séance [antaa kalojen uida]", a lp vinyl with an attached dts 5.1 surround sound dvd. its the first 'live' recording of a concert that took place in helsinki's äänen lumo festival for new sounds on november 14th 2010. the concert was projected on a six channel system. a stunning, well paced and concentrated performance in which modern computer techniques collide with complex analogue synth playing.

a dynamic tour de force from these legends of modern electronic music housed in a dazzling stephen o’malley cover.

other recordings by thomas lehn / marcus schmickler:
bart cd (erstwhile records, erst 012, 2000)
kölner kranz lp (a-musik, a31, 2009)
navigation im hypertext cd (a-musik. a34. 2009)

forthcoming shows:
15.10.2011 kontraste, krems, austria
32 channel live diffusion.
cologne electronic music meets diffusion acousmatique parisienne.

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best of 2012 !!!

editions mego (austria) #emego 120 lp

ktl “v” double long playing record set

phill 1 (12:11)
study a (9:28)
tony (14:00)
phill 2 (15:07)
last spring: a prequel (20:51)

may 2012 release ; ... fifth full-length from the “kindertotenlieder” duo of peter “pita” rehberg & sunn o)))’s stephen o’malley (their first in over three years) ...

... stemming from their last yearsworth’ of commissions from storied experimental-music institutions like the grm, ems stockholm, and centre d’art passerelle, the tone overall deviates heavily from the sturm & drang guitar-blast / digital-corrosion tactics of yore, getting much closer to a fully fleshed-out ensemble sound that’s light years beyond anything they’ve done thusfar, hinting at the chamber compositions of sunn o)))’s “monoliths & dimensions” and/or the historical electronic & concrète approaches of their creative geographies ... highly recommended !!!

editions mego press release...

emego 120v / ktl
v
2lp

release date 08.05.2012

produced by ktl

phill 2 orchestrated by jóhann jóhannsson.
performed by city of prague philharmonic, conducted by richard hein

artwork by mark fell
photo by estelle hanania

stephen o’malley: guitar, bass, modular synthesiser, computer, contact mics
peter rehberg: modular synthesiser, computer

recorded september 2010 - october 2011 at

ems, stockholm
tinitus, bergen
ina grm, studio 116, paris
smecky, prague
centre d’art passerelle, brest
twisted, wien

mixed at twisted, wien, may 2011 - january 2012

well, that took longer than expected. finally the 5th ktl studio album is ready for release.

whereas their previous album iv was recorded and made in a relative short period in a more traditional rock environment, v turns full circle, takes its time and tackles the complex working processes of the european avant garde.

rooting themselves in such legendary electronic music studios such as ems in stockholm and grm in paris, o’malley and rehberg have delivered a rich set of sound experiments far removed from harsh metal / noise blizzards of their early albums.

they took a step further by inviting icelandic composer jóhann jóhannsson to orchestrate phill 2, resulting in a towering storm monumental classicism. finally, ‘last spring: a prequel’ turns the whole album on its head with abstract alien textures of the gisèle vienne installation of the same name., with text by dennis cooper spoken with devout intensity by long term vienne collaborator jonathan capdevielle.

with full colour artwork by mark fell, v is ktl’s most sophisticated work to date.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 120 cd

ktl “v” compact disc

phill 1 (12:12)
study a (9:28)
tony (14:02)
phill 2 (15:09)
last spring: a prequel (20:46)

editions mego press release...

emego 120v / ktl
v
cd

release date 08.05.2012

produced by ktl

phill 2 orchestrated by jóhann jóhannsson.
performed by city of prague philharmonic, conducted by richard hein

artwork by mark fell
photo by estelle hanania

stephen o’malley: guitar, bass, modular synthesiser, computer, contact mics
peter rehberg: modular synthesiser, computer

recorded september 2010 - october 2011 at

ems, stockholm
tinitus, bergen
ina grm, studio 116, paris
smecky, prague
centre d’art passerelle, brest
twisted, wien

mixed at twisted, wien, may 2011 - january 2012

well, that took longer than expected. finally the 5th ktl studio album is ready for release.

whereas their previous album iv was recorded and made in a relative short period in a more traditional rock environment, v turns full circle, takes its time and tackles the complex working processes of the european avant garde.

rooting themselves in such legendary electronic music studios such as ems in stockholm and grm in paris, o’malley and rehberg have delivered a rich set of sound experiments far removed from harsh metal / noise blizzards of their early albums.

they took a step further by inviting icelandic composer jóhann jóhannsson to orchestrate phill 2, resulting in a towering storm monumental classicism. finally, ‘last spring: a prequel’ turns the whole album on its head with abstract alien textures of the gisèle vienne installation of the same name., with text by dennis cooper spoken with devout intensity by long term vienne collaborator jonathan capdevielle.

with full colour artwork by mark fell, v is ktl’s most sophisticated work to date.

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bedroom
lo-fi

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editions mego (austria) #emego 119 cd

bill orcutt “a new way to pay old debts” compact disc

lip rich (4:46)
sad news from korea (l. hopkins) (2:50)
pocket underground (1:40)
too late to fly (6:49)
my reckless parts (3:34)
street peaches (2:11)
a new way to pay old debts (6:11)
cold ground (4:36)
high waisted (3:23)
big ass nails (3:07)
all the creatures of the ocean are alive (2:42)
more salt (3:29)
chicken wing (4:22)
poor black math (1:25)

january 2011 release ; in an impressive, albeit seemingly a-logical coup, emego’s peter rehberg has organized a “reissue” of one of the more pertinent titles here @ mms over the past few years, bill orcutt’s “a new way to pay old debts” ... about which ::

... nicely timed follow-up to the “high-waisted b/w big ass nails” single (which we had for about a minute back in june before it was termbo’ed & all copies immediately left the station amidst a flurry of profanity & virtual / non-actionable threats) ...

sticking to his trusted “4-string kay,” harry pussy’s bill orcutt here lets loose a pan-trajectorial spray of freedom-inflected guitar histrionics, captured gloriously in a room-tone / blown-amp fidelity (word on the street is that he’s got one of those “elmore james style” dearmond soap-bar pickups) that lends that perfect “bedroom-guitar” flair i’m always yammering about ...

best thing about this music (and there’s really a lot to love here) is that it never descends into cod-raga styles or straight bailey-esque free-plonk ; bill’s out on his own here, as comfortable channeling mississippi fred mcdowell-style monochord delta formations (replete with the odd grunt) as arto lindsay / rudolph grey style wanton abandon ... even at its wild & wooliest (listen to the sound-sample) there’s always a harmonic logic at the core of bill’s playing ; definitely not a straight “noise guitar” outing but rather something approaching the true coltrane “sheets of sound” ethos ...

low-run, self-released, vinyl-only ; reasonably priced. hands down the solo guitar (or, hell, any instrument) side of the year... highly recommended !!!

... this is coupled with the alluded-to “high waisted b/w big ass nails” e.p. & adds a quartet of contemporaneous recordings making their tangible debut here ; if you missed this music in its initial vinyl incarnation, consider this version the de facto bringer-up-to-speed ...

editions mego press release...

emego 119 / bill orcutt
a new way to pay old debts
cd

tracks 1-8 were originally released as a 12” lp record ‘a new way to pay old debts’ (pal-002. 2009)
tracks 9 & 10 appeared on a 7” single (pal.001, 2009).
tracks 11-14 are previously unissued.

everything recorded may & june 2009 at 24th & york, san francisco.

bill orcutt: 4 string kay, voice

total running time 51:35

and now for something completley different .....

editions mego is suitably chuffed to announce a cd reissue of bill orcutt’s acoustic hardcore blues stormer ‘a new way to pay old debts’, previously released on palilalia in 2009. for many one of the highlights of recent years with its unique visionary take of solo guitar playing.

at the heart of orcutt’s sound is a vintage acoustic kay guitar equipped with a dearmond pickup. after the neck was broken and subsequently repaired, the guitar was downtuned so as to withstand the tension of the strings, and played with the a and d strings removed.

this all lends itsellf to an intense set of raw, blues-influenced songs that sound heavier than most of the guitar records in your collection put together !!

in addition to the orginal album this cd reissue contain 2 tracks from the high waisted 7” (also previously released on palialia), as well as 4 unreleassed tracks.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 116 lp

mark fell “manitutshu” double long playing record set

acids in the… thin razor, attack noise hat, linn (2:29)
acids in the… primes version (0:51)
manitutshu (a new algorithm)… latelybass and newelectro, attack pulse hat (5:42)
acids in the… razor experiment (0:51)
manitutshu... parameter set 2, linn hi tom, jazzorg, vortex study performance overdub, and synthesis reminiscent of duet emmo (6:23)
acids in the… stochastic energy pause with thin razor, attack noise hat, linn (1:47)
manitutshu... first algorithm test (3:41)
occultation… razor simple acid pause version with lfo to cutoff (1:47)
materialisation epic razor chord and latelybass version with found voice (3:26)
occultation of... mat steel extended remix (14:57)

may 2011 release ; ... love the whole pretext here ; personally, if ni were to market a product that produced music that sounded anywhere near this interesting (on a rhythmic, yes, but mostly timbral scale) i’d consider upgrading my komplete set for the first time since it began gathering dust in the mms “software ghetto” ::

... anyways, mark’s recent flurry of activity continues here, with a series of pieces recorded just two months back (good job on the concept-to-market follow-through peter !!!) merging the a-rhythmic chatter of “ul8” ‘s best moments with a kind of “product demo” sensibility that’s fairly prescient given the contempoary reality of “that new shiny bit of kit that will jump-start my career” (any of you that are friends with richie devine on facebook know that there’s just an insane amount of this sort of thing being launched every week ; very little of it seems not to pander to a 1998 “clicks ‘n’ cuts” aesthetic that you’d think we’d have all moved on from by now) ...

comes in a b/w double-wide sleeve w/ a 6-panel fold-out poster (see below ; via mms “hand model” gm) ...

editions mego press release...

emego 116 / mark fell
manitutshu
2 x 12" vinyl

release date 27.05.2011

total running time: 42 minutes
45rpm

in january 2011 mark was invited by erik wiegand (aka errorsmith) to make some presets for his new software synthesizer which he was building for native instruments. after developing about 40 sounds*, mark decided to rework his ul8 project by extending the pattern generating systems used in its construction, which he then connected to the sounds produced in erik's synthesizer. the result is this double 12" single, featuring 9 tracks and a remix from mark's friend and colleague mat steel.

the project ships with an a1 full colour poster. recorded rotherham (uk) and sheffield (uk) march 2011. mastered by lupo at dubplates and mastering (de) march 2011.

* unfortunately ni rejected all of mark's presets and none were used for the final distribution.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 115 lp

russell haswell “in it (immersive live salvage)” long playing record and digital versatile disc set

budapest, march 29, 2010, part 1 (uhj)
zurich, march 24, 2010, part 2 (uhj)
berlin, april 1, 2010, part 2 (uhj)
encore from bologna, march 27, 2010 (uhj)
encore from nantes, march 21, 2010 (uhj)
encore from luxembourg, april 8, 2010 (uhj)
london, april 10, 2010, part 4 (uhj)
hamburg, april 6, 2010, part 3 (uhj)
encore from hamburg, april 6, 2010 (uhj)
milan, march 25, 2010, part 1 (5.1)
leeds, march 17, 2010, part 2 (5.1)
encore from brighton, march 18, 2010 (5.1)
birmingham, march 12, 2010, part 2 (5.1)
amsterdam, april 8, 2010, part 2 (5.1)
brussels, april 9, 2010, part 2 (5.1)
encore from manchester, march 11, 2010 (5.1)
geneva, march 23, 2010, part 3 (5.1)
lyon, march 22, 2010, part 3 (5.1)

march 2011 release ; killer combo-pack, presenting a series of extracts from russell haswell’s opening sets during autechre’s “oversteps” tour presented in either “c-format” stereo (the lp) or ambisonically-derived 5.1 multi-channel (the dvd ; audio-only) ...

this is a complete aside from his more known computer-music & field recording work, with all sounds sourced to an array of small electronics laced with light-sensors & various contact mic’s ... i.e. in & of the “cracked everyday electronics” mould & quite hectic / brazen / amazing ...

editions mego press release...

emego 115 / russell haswell
in it (immersive live salvage)
5.1 dvd (dolby digital + dts, 'audio only') + uhj lp

approximate total time (dvd + lp) = 1:28:38.31

uhj vinyl lp cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, january 2011
5.1 dvd encoded & authored by ian robinson & sophie elder at ascent 142, london, january 2011

a 5.1 surround dvd (dolby digital + dts, ‘audio only’) + ambisonic uhj vinyl lp (stereo compatible) set.

following an invitation from autechre to support them on their 2010 european 'overstepper' tour (30 concerts, 15 countries), russell haswell filled a pelicase with a contact mic, crystal mic, electronics w/ light sensors, fx pedals, sos whistle, various multi-color headlamps w/ flashing modes, and boarded the tour bus.

each night, while performing his solo free improvisation, haswell also recorded as many gigs as possible with a surround recorder. selections from these live recordings are presented in surround on this unique package containing a uhj lp* and 5.1 dvd, housed in a 12" sleeve.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 114 lp

coh “iiron” double long playing record set

war end war (10:10)
red square (6:31)
soii noir (6:15)
slowup [quadrate für jah) (6:47)
fist of glory (5:34)
all lights are fire (6:35)
satsugaii (6:05)

february 2011 release ; ... lol @ “death to false metal” (especially in this context !!! much of this sounds like the soundtrack to the part of that timur bekmambetov film where like the helicopter totally goes bccccccbloosh and kills that guy) but otherwise a welcome return to pavlov’s roots, merging recordings of his own bedroom guitar musings ca. the late-80’s with contemporary digital production & cut-up techniques ...

editions mego press release...

emego 114v / coh
iiron
2 x 12" vinyl

release date: 11.ii.11
all music by ivan pavlov / coh

written and recorded 2010 except war end war: written 1988 / recorded 2010

electric guitars recorded may 2009 at the studios of music research centre, univ. of york, england with professional assistance and generous support from tony myatt, pete, oli and theo.

acoustic pieces in red square, war end war and satsugaii composed and recorded in the ussr between 1988-1990, extracted from a cassette tape with kind help of andrej "d.a.o." kolesov.

it would be too easy to simply call iiron the coh metal album, as it goes way beyond that. true, this album of classic pavlov stompers contains more than its fair share of guitars both acoustic and electric, yet it still maintains that sense of power and purpose through electronic music which stands out as the coh ‘raison d’être’. coming 11 years after iron, which also tackled the sound of rock with alarming results, the new album features not only recent guitar tracks recorded at music research centre at york university, but also recordings made during soviet era russia, which refer to pavlov's underground music activities in the early 80-ies when making or even consuming of "metal music" was forbidden.

iiron is a powerful, well executed electronic rock record, with just a dash a humour to keep it from becoming pompous, as so much of that kind of music can be sometimes.

packaged in a 4 panel digipack for cd, and lavish gatefold for the vinyl, with stunning artwork by stephen o’malley.

in memoriam:
satoshi kon
peter christopherson

hail to world peace and death to false metal

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coh “iiron” compact disc

red square (6:31)
war end war (10:10)
soii noir (6:15)
slowup [quadrate für jah] (6:47)
fist of glory (5:34)
all lights are fire (6:35)
satsugaii (6:05)

january 2011 release ; ... lol @ “death to false metal” (especially in this context !!! much of this sounds like the soundtrack to the part of that timur bekmambetov film where like the helicopter totally goes bccccccbloosh and kills that guy) but otherwise a welcome return to pavlov’s roots, merging recordings of his own bedroom guitar musings ca. the late-80’s with contemporary digital production & cut-up techniques ...

editions mego press release...

emego 114 / coh
iiron
cd

release date: 11.ii.11
all music by ivan pavlov / coh

written and recorded 2010 except war end war: written 1988 / recorded 2010

electric guitars recorded may 2009 at the studios of music research centre, univ. of york, england with professional assistance and generous support from tony myatt, pete, oli and theo.

acoustic pieces in red square, war end war and satsugaii composed and recorded in the ussr between 1988-1990, extracted from a cassette tape with kind help of andrej "d.a.o." kolesov.

it would be too easy to simply call iiron the coh metal album, as it goes way beyond that. true, this album of classic pavlov stompers contains more than its fair share of guitars both acoustic and electric, yet it still maintains that sense of power and purpose through electronic music which stands out as the coh ‘raison d’être’. coming 11 years after iron, which also tackled the sound of rock with alarming results, the new album features not only recent guitar tracks recorded at music research centre at york university, but also recordings made during soviet era russia, which refer to pavlov's underground music activities in the early 80-ies when making or even consuming of "metal music" was forbidden.

iiron is a powerful, well executed electronic rock record, with just a dash a humour to keep it from becoming pompous, as so much of that kind of music can be sometimes.

packaged in a 4 panel digipack for cd, and lavish gatefold for the vinyl, with stunning artwork by stephen o’malley.

in memoriam:
satoshi kon
peter christopherson

hail to world peace and death to false metal

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best of 2011 !!!

editions mego (austria) #emego 113 lp

marcus schmickler “palace of marvels (queered pitch)” double long playing record set

new methodical limits of ascension (4:44)
cursive phasing (2:26)
risset brain hammer (8:37)
smooth hang (gliding) (3:24)
mystery bouffe (13:41)
charm/anticharm (2:35)
hypercubist pareto dist (2:24)
sheps infinity (4:06)
mass ornament (7:05)
quasi-segregative (2:47)
dicordance axis (1:59)
palace of marvels (11:02)

november 2010 release ; vinyl edition ... aside from the d&m cut, you need this for the full-length version of “mystery bouffe” ; i’ve never felt more inclined to hide in a closet with a flickering candle than i did after getting through that particular 14-minute morass of temporal standstill ...

editions mego press release...

emego 113v / marcus schmickler
palace of marvels (queered pitch)
2lp

composed by marcus schmickler
recorded and mastered at piethopraxis, köln. january-august 2010
cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, october 14th 2010
artwork by tim berresheim

marcus schmickler's new release following his acclaimed 'altars of science' is a must have for those interested in the rising field of contemporary computer music. it reconfirms schmickler's interest in the liaison of sound, phenomenology and cognitive sciences. schmickler therefore utilizes a new interpretation of 1960's discovery, the shepard-tone, discovered by roger shepard, which creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually rises or descends in pitch yet ultimately seems to get no higher or lower. the phenomenon first got imposed to the music world by james tenney in his piece "for ann rising". similarly, schmickler has a musical take on the subject by creating arpeggios, short sequences of tones creating an akin effect.

schmickler's interest in the field got fired by ernst gombrich's essays on "art and illusion" questioning the very foundations of our understanding of the history of the image and it's representation of our world. adequately schmickler's work ever since can be seen as a play within an anthropology of music. here in terms of it's very fundamental parameters rhythm, sound and pitch, as well as music practice wit it's socio-economic implications.

beyond that, the title palace of marvels was found at french intellectual jacques attali, who, in his critically acclaimed book, "noise: the political economy of music", cites one of leibniz's little known but "extraordinary" texts, "drôle de pensée touchant nouvelle sorte de représentation," in which the philosopher describes the "palace of marvels." the palace of marvels is leibniz's idealization of a perfect political organization, which is built in such a way that the master of the house is able to hear and see everything that is being said and done in the premises without himself being perceived by his subjects. leibniz's vision of disciplinary society not only predates foucault's subsequent versions of surveillance mechanism, the panopticon, but it also conceptualizes a more effective and absolute form of power through eavesdropping, censorship, and recording, as well as surveillance through visual means. listening in on, ordering, transmitting, and recording noise are at the heart of the modern state.

the idea for the material was originally conceived for a collaborative installation-piece together with arts-collective interpallazo. the technical application was realized with the kind assistance of prof. dr. alberto de campo.vinyl edition features an extended version of ‘mystery bouffe’.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 113 cd

marcus schmickler “palace of marvels (queered pitch)” compact disc

new methodical limits of ascension (4:44)
cursive phasing (2:26)
risset brain hammer (8:37)
smooth hang (gliding) (3:27)
mystery bouffe (8:32)
charm / anticharm (2:35)
hypercubist pareto dist (2:24)
sheps infinity (4:07)
quasi-segregative (2:47)
discordance axis (2:00)
mass ornament (7:08)
palace of marvels (11:10)

november 2010 release ; marcus schmickler’s totemic meditation on the life’s work of roger shepard is both fine piece of academic discourse (he’s clearly done his research / crunching re: “the numbers”) & a real cortical-massager of an auditory illusion (i could feel the individual ciliae dancing in fibonnaci-count aggregates for pretty much the entire duration) ...

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emego 113 / marcus schmickler
palace of marvels (queered pitch)
cd

composed by marcus schmickler
recorded and mastered at piethopraxis, köln. january-august 2010
artwork by tim berresheim

marcus schmickler's new release following his acclaimed 'altars of science' is a must have for those interested in the rising field of contemporary computer music. it reconfirms schmickler's interest in the liaison of sound, phenomenology and cognitive sciences. schmickler therefore utilizes a new interpretation of 1960's discovery, the shepard-tone, discovered by roger shepard, which creates the auditory illusion of a tone that continually rises or descends in pitch yet ultimately seems to get no higher or lower. the phenomenon first got imposed to the music world by james tenney in his piece "for ann rising". similarly, schmickler has a musical take on the subject by creating arpeggios, short sequences of tones creating an akin effect.

schmickler's interest in the field got fired by ernst gombrich's essays on "art and illusion" questioning the very foundations of our understanding of the history of the image and it's representation of our world. adequately schmickler's work ever since can be seen as a play within an anthropology of music. here in terms of it's very fundamental parameters rhythm, sound and pitch, as well as music practice wit it's socio-economic implications.

beyond that, the title palace of marvels was found at french intellectual jacques attali, who, in his critically acclaimed book, "noise: the political economy of music", cites one of leibniz's little known but "extraordinary" texts, "drôle de pensée touchant nouvelle sorte de représentation," in which the philosopher describes the "palace of marvels." the palace of marvels is leibniz's idealization of a perfect political organization, which is built in such a way that the master of the house is able to hear and see everything that is being said and done in the premises without himself being perceived by his subjects. leibniz's vision of disciplinary society not only predates foucault's subsequent versions of surveillance mechanism, the panopticon, but it also conceptualizes a more effective and absolute form of power through eavesdropping, censorship, and recording, as well as surveillance through visual means. listening in on, ordering, transmitting, and recording noise are at the heart of the modern state.

the idea for the material was originally conceived for a collaborative installation-piece together with arts-collective interpallazo. the technical application was realized with the kind assistance of prof. dr. alberto de campo.

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cindytalk “the poetry of decay (crackle of my soul • up here in the clouds)” double long playing record and seven inch single record set

signalling through the flames ()
of ghosts and buildings (4:29)
maglev (5:30)
troubled aria (2:50)
our shadow
remembered (3:41)
feathers burn (2:22)
one hundred years tomorrow (5:31)
if we meet
we meet in silence (3:46)
debris of a smile (7:28)
the eighth sea (7:47)
we are without words (6:39)
i walk until i fall (3:17)
switched to lunar (3:17)
hollow stare (6:25)
the anarchist window (4:46)
multiple landings (8:44)
up here in the clouds (2:06)
transgender warrior (6:00)
guts of london (5:59)

october 2010 release ; ... both the “crackle of my soul” & “up here in the clouds” sets on vinyl, along with the “transgender warrior b/w guts of london” single (in it’s own sleeve, tucked inside the gatefold) ...

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emego 112 / cindytalk
the poetry of decay
2lp + 7"

special 2lp + 7” vinyl set compiling both the crackle of my soul & up here in the clouds albums

those that fall
those that fly
those that see
those that seek
those that live
those that die

recordings by gordon sharp 2001 - 2010 at belmont shore (ca), mid-levels (hk) & kobe (japan) the mid-levels (hk) but mainly at roi vert, okamoto japan.

cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, august 2010

cindytalk have been active since 1982. 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.

up here in the clouds is the second installment in the new cindytalk sound which started last years the crackle of my soul. whereas crackle was more of a blistering burner, clouds has a fresher cooler sound to it, with longer tracks that slowly evolve in great patches of aural beauty. the sound that gordon sharp and co create now is a unique blend of cracked electronics, near awkward ambient textures that always seem to flow smoothly like the most natural of sounds around, building up a great set of modern electronic music which closes with the child like melody of the title track.

the 7” coupling of transgender warrior and guts of london is analogue to their debut appearance as a 7” released by klanggalerie in 2003 (gg62).

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mark fell “ul8” compact disc

the occultation of 3c 273 [i] (5:37)
the occultation of 3c 273 [ii] (7:26)
the occultation of 3c 273 [iii] (3:05)
the occultation of 3c 273 [iv] (1:51)
the occultation of 3c 273 [v] (3:11)
vortex studies [i] (8:00)
vortex studies [ii] (2:39)
vortex studies [iii] (3:42)
vortex studies [iv] (1:22)
vortex studies [v] (2:53)
vortex studies [vi] (0:33)
vortex studies [vii] (3:39)
acids in the style of rian treanor [i] (1:06)
acids in the style of rian treanor [ii] (2:06)
acids in the style of rian treanor [iii] (2:44)
acids in the style of rian treanor [iv] (2:30)
acids in the style of rian treanor [v] (2:02)
acids in the style of rian treanor [vii] (1:56)
acids in the style of rian treanor [viii] (5:06)
death of a loved one (3:34)

november 2010 release ; four suites of discrete electronic pieces, each aiming to “replicate the simple monosynth and drum machine equation” ... love how this (along with the 4 or 5 other discs that have seemingly been released all at once) music hints at new-wave / minimal-synth / proto-techno energies, yet stays as alien & rhythmically unresolved as hecker & farmers manual’s best output ...

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emego 111 / mark fell
ul8
cd

written and recorded in whitby, york and rotherham (uk) during summer 2010 by mark fell.

mastered at dubplates and mastering berlin in 2010 by lupo.
packaged in 4 panel digipack with silver foil print

middle sized member of the ul range, the ul8, a three unit system, embodies the good looks and high performance associated with celestion designed products. utilising the hd1000 pressured dome tweeter and an 8 inch mid/bass driver, which together a similar sized a.b.r. combine to give an overall frequency response of 30 hz to 28 khz. the mid / bass drivers large magnet system perfectly controls the excursions of the specially processed bextrene cone assembly with its 1.5 inch voice coil. designed to a precise specification, the ul8 achieves highly realistic ‘music’ reproduction.

this project takes its name from the celestion ul8 speaker. my older brother bought a pair of these when i was starting comprehensive school, and between his 10cc and supertramp records i first encountered electronically synthesized sound at high volumes. i soon noticed a pattern emerging in my musical tastes which excluded guitars or drums. instead i favoured almost exclusively the electronic textures and rhythms of the human league, fad gadget and other synthesiser based music of that period. i was quite curious about this prejudice and would try to work out why kraftwerk sounded so much better than a rock band of the time.

so began my interest in the texture of synthetic sound - there was something much more beautiful (and perhaps more emotionally charged) about a sustained square wave than any guitar solo. i began search out and replay sections of music which dropped to a single sound - these, for some reason, were the best. this interest increased when, a few months later, my parent's next door neighbour (a technician in the electronics department at sheffield university) let me borrow his analogue synthesiser on semi-permanent loan. and, following that, i managed to convince my dad to buy me a cheap second hand boss dr55 drum machine.

many years later mat steel and i used the ul8 speakers, now relegated to an attic in a rented house, to work on early abandoned 12" projects (circa 1993). finally my brother gave in to demand and let me have the speakers which now sit in my front room. although these are of little use in a studio context, they still provide an adequate and often rewarding listening experience. the tracks here replicate the simple monosynth and drum machine equation; and have, to a large extent, been made with and for the ul8.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 110.2 lp

fenn o’berg “live in japan • part two” long playing record

kyoto 2 (17:38)
nagoya 2 (18:08)

october 2010 release ; ... second in the pair :: the opening pulse-chime into reckless pointillist abandon is a goddamn beautiful thing :: so much so i’m going to put up the majority of that whole stretch as the sound-sample as it’ll do more than my words ever will to assuage you into gripping this (& the other) fine side(s) ...

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emego110.2 / fenn o'berg
live in japan part two
lp

kyoto 2 recorded 27.10.2009 at club metro, kyoto.
nagoya 2 recorded 26.10.2009 at club quattro, nagoya

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editions mego (austria) #emego 110.1 lp

fenn o’berg “live in japan • part one” long playing record

kyoto 1 (16:57)
tokyo 1 (20:01)

october 2010 release ; ... first in a necessary (if spartan) pair of lps, here covering a pair of late 2009 concerts given by jim o’rourke, peter “pita” rehberg, and christian fennesz on jim’s chosen home turf ...

this simultaneously hits most of my pleasure-centers while making me feel a twinge of nostalgia for the by-gone days in which setting up a computer in front of an audience was considered a renegade act, as opposed to the de facto norm it’s become for any kind of electronic music performance (in increasingly excuse-oriented steps away from any sort of real-time component) ... hearing these guys fly by the seat of their collective pair of pants, even this late in their communal game, is a real treat ...

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emego110.1 / fenn o'berg
live in japan part one
lp

kyoto 1 recorded 27.10.2009 at club metro, kyoto.
tokyo 1 recorded 24.10.2009 at superdeluxe, tokyo

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editions mego (austria) #emego 109 lp

emeralds “what happened” double long playing record set

alive in a sea of information (7:59)
up in the air (3:59)
damaged kids (14:58)
living room (18:40)
disappearing ink (13:31)

october 2010 release ; (e)mego’s vinyl treatment of the band’s early 2009 statement, about which ::

... the long-awaited follow-up to emeralds’ breakthrough album “solar bridge” ... the aforementioned disc was certainly the sleeper-hit of 2008 ; here the band regroup, seemingly unfazed by their sudden notoriety & offer up five new pieces ... notably, mark mcguire’s guitar playing is far more front-and-center than on previous outings (at least after the first few pieces) , and while the synth-arrays of john elliot & steve hauschildt do drone on, there’s more of an ebb & flow to their dovetailing patterns than any straight all-on stasis (plus there’s a bit of drone-singing involved, and that’s always nice) ...

... the music is served well by the d&m cut & general p.v. upgrade ; comes in a handsome euro-gatefold sleeve (much better to pore over the intricacies of the band’s apropos collage-art) ...

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emego 109v / emeralds
what happened
2lp

emeralds are john elliott, steve hauschildt, and mark mcguire.
mastered by james plotikin. cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin.

after the runaway success of their 'does it look like i'm here?' album editions mego is chuffed to release these vintage synth-guitar improvisation jams recorded straight to tape 2007-2008. previously released as a cd by no fun this is now the definitive vinyl edition of this material, and serves as archival insight into the development of their sound over the last years.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 108 cd

bruce gilbert “the shivering man” compact disc

angel food (10:43)
the shivering man (5:34)
net in the feather (5:51)
there are (6:14)
hommage (2:34)
eline cout ii (4:46)
epitaph for henran brenlar (5:08)
the shivering man (video) (5:34)

may 2011 release ; new issue of bruce gilbert’s 1986 second album, continuing forward from the themes mapped out via 1984’s “this way” ...

the first track’s a good 10-minutes of stereo-echo gated shimmer, broken up into four sections ; the second a rising swell of plundered classical into a decades-pre oval-ian flutter, the third (sounds like) a wash of gated bagpipes ... then misted voices into industrial klang, more scha-pulse, a proper “minimal synth” number (replete with vocals), finally a rather filmic drum machine pulse-out ...

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emego 108 / bruce gilbert
the shivering man
cd

release date 09.05.2011

all titles bruce gilbert except eline cout ii: gilbert / conway and epitaph for henran brenlar: gilbert / lewis
engineered by john fryer. recorded @ blackwing studios
remastered by russell haswell @ haswell studio, suffolk
dance-work conceived & choreographed by angela conway
performed by michael clark, julie hood & ian longmuir first broadcast by channel 4 tv - alter image : series 2 on 5th may 1987
new artwork by dave coppenhall

the shivering man, originally released in 1986 on mute (stumm 39), was bruce gilbert’s second solo album. following on from his 1984 masterpiece this way (recently reissued as emego 102), it further explores gilbert's investigations into the grey border where abstract noise and rhythm co-exist with obscure melodies and song structures.

the sound is further expanded with guest vocal appearances by angela conway and fellow wire traveller graham lewis.

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 net in the feather, there are and eline cout ii 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.

as a bonus a short angela conway video featuring michael clark originally broadcast in 1987 on channel 4, has been included.

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mark mcguire “living with yourself” compact disc

the vast structure of recollection (7:59)
around the old neighbourhood (2:27)
clouds rolling in (4:00)
brain storm (for erin) (6:20)
two different people (3:22)
moving apart (2:33)
clear the cobwebs (4:40)
brothers (for matt) (10:16)

october 2010 release ; ... a most unusual release for (e)mego, sure, but given emeralds’ dominance of markets both foreign & domestic over the past few years, it makes perfect sense for the various members’ solo transgressions to also find a home therein (see john’s curation of sub-label spectrum spools as well) ...

... much of this follows mark’s impeccable command of laminar trajectories, applied to the multi-echo “bedroom” guitar spec ; i.e. followers of said will be in familiar territory for all but the closing track, wherein mark not only works some heavily emotive found-audio materials, but some high-test drum-kit bash (courtesy of old-school cleveland chum nate scheible, who’s played with mark a bunch of times dating back to 2007, even providing emeralds’ in-house imprint wagon with a solo guitar disc of his own) ...

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emego 107 / mark mcguire
living with yourself
cd

electric and acoustic guitar recorded february - september 2009 cleveland and westlake, ohio by mark mcguire.
percussion on "brothers" performed and recorded november 2008 at zombie proof studios, cleveland, ohio by nate scheible. tape samples recorded 1991 - 1998 by mark mcguire sr., jr. edited and arranged by mark mcguire 2009. mastered by james plotkin, july 2010. cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, july 22nd 2010. layout by mike pollard and mark mcguire.

mark mcguire operates chiefly as guitarist in the legendary emeralds., however he also has racked up an impressive set of solo releases over the last few years (albeit mainly in small to micro print runs).

living with yourself is his new album and we at editions mego hope to meet any demand which may arise from this fine selection of modern crafted guitar tunes. focusing on his family, early friendships and the problems that inevitably develop through years of knowing someone, it takes mcguire’s sound even further out, and contains some his most accomplished songs to date.

the opening track is fine example of mcguire’s magic technique of taking a lone acoustic guitar then transforming the track into bliss-out electro wash looping off into the distance. and tracks like ‘clouds rolling in’ and ‘brain storm’ take off where such mcguire classics as ‘the marfa lights’ (which incidentally is planned for a future reissue) left off. while connoisseurs of his sound will find all they desire in here, many superb surprises await around every corner. these are songs that cruise, bubble and rise to the top.

available as lp vinyl and cd in digipack.

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cindytalk “up here in the clouds” compact disc

the eighth sea (7:47)
we are without words (6:39)
i walk until i fall (3:17)
guts of london (5:59)
switched to lunar (3:17)
hollow stare (6:25)
the anarchist window (4:46)
multiple landings (8:44)
up here in the clouds (2:06)

august 2010 release ; ... second set of contemporary material(s) from gordon sharp, working at a particularly fruitful axis of industrial-era & “classic” musique concrète sensibilities ...

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emego 106 / cindytalk
up here in the clouds
cd

recordings by gordon sharp 2003 - 2010 at the mid-levels (hk) but mainly at roi vert, okamoto japan.
mastered at piethopraxis, june 2010
artwork by david coppenhall

up here in the clouds is the second installment in the new cindytalk sound which started with last year’s the crackle of my soul. whereas crackle was more of a blistering burner, clouds has a fresher cooler sound to it, with longer tracks that slowly evolve in great patches of aural beauty. the sound that gordon sharp and co create now is a unique blend of cracked electronics, near awkward ambient textures that always seem to flow smoothly like the most natural of sounds around, building up a great set of modern electronic music which closes with the child like melody of the title track.

superbly packaged with new david coppenhall artwork in a 4-panel digipack.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 105 ep

cindytalk / robert hampson “five mountains of fire b/w antarctica ends here” ten inch single record

cindytak - five mountains of fire (9:40)
robert hamspson - antarctica ends here (9:36)

2010 release ; ... lovely split 10”, with a piece each by gordon “cindytalk” sharp & main’s robert hampson ...

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emego 105 / cindytalk / robert hampson
five mountains of fire / antarctica ends here
10"

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).

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editions mego (austria) #emego 104x ep

oneohtrix point never / antony / fennesz “returnal” seven inch single record

antony: returnal (3:57)
fennesz: returnal (4:56)

august 2010 release ; neat little single, offering a “cover” of “returnal” ‘s title track by antony (performed to accompaniment by dan himself on baby grand) f/w a remix of said (all muddled up w/ the original) by christian fennesz ...

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emego 104x / oneohtrix point never
returnal (antony & fennesz versions)
7"

returnal
voice by antony
piano by daniel lopatin
recorded at lofish, new york, may 2010
engineered and mixed by alex nizich

returnal
remixed by christian fennesz, june 2010

artwork by stephen o'malley
cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, june 2010

hot on the heels of the acclaimed oneohtrix point never ‘returnal’ album come these fabulous versions of the title track. antony swings the mood and strips the track of its delayed harmonised vocals and creates poignant ballad with dan opn on piano. fennesz on the other hand sprinkles some his world famous majestic stardust over the proceedings. all packaged in dazzling artwork by stephen o’malley.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 104 lp

oneohtrix point never “returnal” long playing record

nil admirari
describing bodies
stress waves
returnal
pelham island road
where does time go
ouroboros
preyouandi

june 2010 release ; ah, it warms the cockles of my heart to see dan go global with this, his editions mego debut (not his the social registry debut, his kompakt debut, or his warp debut, but mego ; wise choice) ...

... and in fact the opening track here does a bang-up job of paying homage not just to the label’s influential 90s output (it’s a screeching, digital pile-up with seemingly hand-played drum machine rhythms ; on par with an early farmers manual side) but to the rest of the “noise underground” from which he rose (& with which always seemed a little out-of-sorts) ... that the album immediately dials it back a few notches into the familiar upper-harmonizer pads & floating, auto-arpeggiated chillage with which dan’s more formally associated is telling, and by the end of the first side we’re hearing some straight blade-runner-styled electro-balladeering that ought to lift dan up out of the cold & into the radio spotlight ...

a trilogy of synth-trancers open up the b-side ; in all honesty this sounds like dan’s most fully realized work in this area, with endless layer(ing)s of subtle, floating sawtooth melancholy fleshing out the audio strata in increasingly detailed ways ... and then the garbled, echo-percussion jam at the end seals the deal, linking hassell’s whole “fourth-world” ethos with dan’s trademark soporific/lulling pitch-altered vox-box rocking ...

visually, the record’s another gap-bridger, with stephen o’malley’s layout explicitly bridging the gap between tina frank’s 90s work for the label & dan’s whole greyed-out helical scan matrix ; endless prism-clips rendered in spot varnish coating a full four panels of a “heavy” gatefold ... best thing from dan yet ; if you’ve only managed to grip any of the small-run / regional / provincial issues of his music, consider this the upgraed ... highly recommended !!!

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emego 104v
oneohtrix point never: returnal lp gatefold
release date: 18.06.2010

all music by daniel lopatin
recorded and mixed at ridge valley digital, massachusetts july - august 09 & february 10

instrumentation:
akai ax-60, roland juno-60, roland msq-700, korg electribe es-1, voice

recorded using a personal computer
mastered by james plotkin
tape-op & additional engineering by al carlson
vinyl cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin
design by stephen o'malley
photography by yelena avenesova

‘returnal’ is the fourth album from daniel lopatin’s oneohtrix point never project, after ‘betrayed in the octagon’ (deception island, 2007), ‘zones without people’ (arbor, 2009) and ‘russian mind’ (no fun, 2009). all 3 albums being superbly compiled on the ‘rifts’ double cd set (no fun, 2009).

it sees lopatin fine tune his craft for creation of deep atmospheres and texture even further. starting off with the mind blowing triptych of ‘nil admiari’ / ’describing bodies’ / ’stress waves’, which fires off into a noise/rhythm excess before entering a zone of relative calm building to the melancholy of the final part. this set the tone perfectly for the albums title track, a stunning out of this world ballad featuring lopatin's near desperate vocal delivery, ending what could be seen as one of his most chilling and thought provoking sides to date.

the atmosphere is slightly lifted as the darkened sun comes up over the ruins on ‘pelham island road’ and ‘where does time go’, with the album closing with edgy broken beats and fourth world possible landscapes of ‘preyouandi’, which fades into the distance with echoes of the ‘returnal’ chorus, closing the loop.

what's burnt into memory here is lopatin’s love affair with the long, slow path back home... the cycle... the hypnotic sector... the ghost in the machine... and whether people are making dance music or hip hop or space head music or metal, the ouroboros is present in every sector -- as it was in bach's study, and in the elephant songs of the ituri forests.

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oneohtrix point never “returnal” compact disc

nil admirari
describing bodies
stress waves
returnal
pelham island road
where does time go
ouroboros
preyouandi

june 2010 release ; ah, it warms the cockles of my heart to see dan go global with this, his editions mego debut (not his the social registry debut, his kompakt debut, or his warp debut, but mego ; wise choice) ...

... and in fact the opening track here does a bang-up job of paying homage not just to the label’s influential 90s output (it’s a screeching, digital pile-up with seemingly hand-played drum machine rhythms ; on par with an early farmers manual side) but to the rest of the “noise underground” from which he rose (& with which always seemed a little out-of-sorts) ... that the album immediately dials it back a few notches into the familiar upper-harmonizer pads & floating, auto-arpeggiated chillage with which dan’s more formally associated is telling, and by the end of the first side we’re hearing some straight blade-runner-styled electro-balladeering that ought to lift dan up out of the cold & into the radio spotlight ...

a trilogy of synth-trancers harken the second half of the record ; in all honesty this sounds like dan’s most fully realized work in this area, with endless layer(ing)s of subtle, floating sawtooth melancholy fleshing out the audio strata in increasingly detailed ways ... and then the garbled, echo-percussion jam at the end seals the deal, linking hassell’s whole “fourth-world” ethos with dan’s trademark soporific/lulling pitch-altered vox-box rocking ...

visually, the record’s another gap-bridger, with stephen o’malley’s layout explicitly bridging the gap between tina frank’s 90s work for the label & dan’s whole greyed-out helical scan matrix ; endless prism-clips rendered in spot varnish coating a full four panels of a “heavy” gatefold ... best thing from dan yet ; if you’ve only managed to grip any of the small-run / regional / provincial issues of his music, consider this the upgraed ... highly recommended !!!

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emego 104 / oneohtrix point never
returnal
cd

all music by daniel lopatin
recorded and mixed at ridge valley digital, massachusetts july - august 09 & february 10

instrumentation:
akai ax-60, roland juno-60, roland msq-700, korg electribe es-1, voice

recorded using a personal computer
mastered by james plotkin
tape-op & additional engineering by al carlson
vinyl cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin
design by stephen o'malley
photography by yelena avenesova

‘returnal’ is the fourth album from daniel lopatin’s oneohtrix point never project, after ‘betrayed in the octagon’ (deception island, 2007), ‘zones without people’ (arbor, 2009) and ‘russian mind’ (no fun, 2009). all 3 albums being superbly compiled on the ‘rifts’ double cd set (no fun, 2009).

it sees lopatin fine tune his craft for creation of deep atmospheres and texture even further. starting off with the mind blowing triptych of ‘nil admiari’ / ’describing bodies’ / ’stress waves’, which fires off into a noise/rhythm excess before entering a zone of relative calm building to the melancholy of the final part. this set the tone perfectly for the albums title track, a stunning out of this world ballad featuring lopatin's near desperate vocal delivery, ending what could be seen as one of his most chilling and thought provoking sides to date.

the atmosphere is slightly lifted as the darkened sun comes up over the ruins on ‘pelham island road’ and ‘where does time go’, with the album closing with edgy broken beats and fourth world possible landscapes of ‘preyouandi’, which fades into the distance with echoes of the ‘returnal’ chorus, closing the loop.

what's burnt into memory here is lopatin’s love affair with the long, slow path back home... the cycle... the hypnotic sector... the ghost in the machine... and whether people are making dance music or hip hop or space head music or metal, the ouroboros is present in every sector -- as it was in bach's study, and in the elephant songs of the ituri forests.

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fenn o’berg “in stereo” compact disc

part ii (9:09)
part iv (8:32)
part v (13:23)
part i (7:04)
part vii (9:18)
part vi (8:22)

march 2010 release ; ... ostensibly a “comeback” album (albeit their first as a studio-unit, captured in hoppy kamiyama’s gok sound ; not a euro-festival stage as is the case with all of their prior output) from the premier pre-intel / pre- “macbook” stalwarts, riding a decidedly more somber / less overtly “humourous” take on a-synchronous digital-music group-sound ...

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emego 103 / fenn o'berg
in stereo
cd

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.

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bruce gilbert “this way” compact disc

work for "do you me? i did" parts 1,2 (20:10)
work for "do you me? i did" parts 3 (10:23)
here visit (5:53)
u,mu,u (3:13)

2009 release ; ... 25th anniversary reissue of bruce gilbert’s first solo record, recorded between sessions with dome & wire ...

four long pieces ; the first a frozen / hothy take on the kind(s) of angelicism(s) laid out by andrew chalk et.al in decades to come, the second an almost proto mo’ wax take on down-tempo gating, the third a chiming amplified strings venture that reminds of remko scha’s “machine guitars”, and the last a blast of polyrhythmic gating & fx that’s all too brief ...

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emego 102 / bruce gilbert
this way
cd

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.

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emeralds “does it look like i'm here?” compact disc

candy shoppe (4:44)
the cycle of abuse (4:57)
double helix (3:01)
science center (4:38)
genetic (12:06)
goes by (4:10)
does it look like i'm here? (7:28)
summerdata (4:47)
shade (4:25)
it doesn't arrive (3:33)
now you see me (3:28)
access granted (4:04)

may 2010 release ; after much speculation & fanpire mongering, emeralds here “arrive” with their third “proper” album, released on peter “pita” rehberg’s editions mego ...

a few changes are afoot :: gone are the side-length slow burners, replaced here by a suite of remarkably succint pop numbers, taking the band’s trademark synth / guitar / synth attack into new realms ... also, notably, the production values are through the roof, capturing each stray oscillation and phantom guitar echo in amazing detail ... all things lending to what is undoubtedly the band’s towering recorded achievement thusfar ; finely honed & poised for international superstardom (they’re set to tour japan with fenn’o’berg this summer) ; highly recommended !!!

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emego 101 / emeralds
does it look like i'm here?
cd

release date: 24.05.2010

emeralds are john elliott, steve hauschildt, and mark mcguire
recorded july - august 2009 and january - march 2010 in cleveland, ohio
mastered by james plotkin
vinyl cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin
art by emeralds
cover photo by jen gomez
layout by mike pollard and jen gomez

‘does it look like i’m here?’ is the third official album by emeralds (after "solar bridge" on hanson, and the self-titled lp on their own wagon and gneiss things imprints, as well as countless small edition tapes and cdrs on a host of labels) and once again it presents another radical new direction for this cleveland trio.

it sees the group moving from playing single oscillator analog synthesizers to really complex analog and analog/digital hybrid as well a great deal of guitar synthesizers, not to mention fine tuning their skills as brilliant tunesmiths. simply put, the results are outstanding.

comprising of a number of tracks from their recent ultra limited 7” vinyl series on wagon, as well new compositions exclusive to this release. this fine selection of tunes surpass anything they have achieved in their 5 year career. perfect melodies intertwined with ripping sequences and a guitar sound that floats perfectly throughout. although most tracks cover new ground in that they follow a shortened ‘pop format’, more long form cuts such as the towering ‘genetic’ and the title track will give fans of their earlier work something to grab onto, or totally let themselves go depending on the state of mind.

having spent all their lives in the relative isolation of cleveland means their music has developed into a vital, stunning unique hybrid that may have not been able to blossom in more active urban centres.

‘does it look like i’m here?’ heralds a turning point for all those involved and is perfect vivid soundtrack to emerge out of the recent harsh grey winter. fresh, shiny and totally essential.

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russell haswell “wild tracks” compact disc

exceptionally loud propane gas cannon bird scarer (6:00)
jamaican blowhole (5:03)
ant colony (featuring eurofighter typhoon f2 flyby) (10:00)
wasp-war (featuring apache ah mk1 duet) (10:43)
helicopter trip (edit) (12:05)
a horde of flies feast on a rotting pheasant carcass (extract) (6:30)
electroswat (playlist re-edit) (3:14)
local gamekeepers shooting a few fields away (2:00)
missing/hitting beer can target (1:00)
rocket launch (0:10)
high force from above (2:42)
summerhill force from inside gibson's cave (3:02)
trappers bait digital caller (3:00)
falling snow #4
+20db (extract) (4:50)
dramatic whining wind (3:39)

october 2009 release ; a fine mix of raw field recordings & batshit electrical-field interference studies (listen to the sound-sample for the latter there) from russell haswell ...

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emego 099 / russell haswell
wild tracks
cd

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!

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mika vainio / lucio capece “trahnie” compact disc

ujeilus (3:23)
juurake (5:32)
escapes (6:05)
hondonada (7:25)
valontuo (6:10)
hobojungle (3:18)
ahuyenta temores (9:00)
sahalaitainen (6:19)
tolmavuo (3:06)
sigilo (3:38)
manana (5:19)

march 2009 release ; eminently noisy collaboration between panasonic’s mika vainio & free-improviser lucio capece, with plenty of mika’s raw electricity-wave synthesis (listen to the sound-sample for a taste) ...

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emego 098
lucio capece & mika vainio: trahnie cd
release date: 02.03.2009

11 tracks
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.

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cindytalk “the crackle of my soul” compact disc

signalling through the flames (6:11)
of ghosts and buildings (4:29)
maglev (5:30)
troubled aria (2:50)
our shadow
remembered (3:41)
feathers burn (2:22)
one hundred years tomorrow (5:31)
transgender warrior (6:00)
if we meet
we meet in silence (3:46)
debris of a smile (7:28)

november 2009 release ; “comeback” set from gordon sharp’s cindytalk (after a good 15-year hiatus) involving spectrally separated layer(ing)s of field recordings, computer-processed tones & granularly smeared vocals ...

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emego 097 / cindytalk
the crackle of my soul
cd

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

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editions mego (austria) #emego 096 cd

bruce gilbert “oblivio agitatum” compact disc

oblivio agitatum (4:39)
zeros (25:57)
isopyre (3:58)

october 2009 release ; contemporary work from wire’s bruce gilbert, consisting of three shifting miniatures, cast in a haze of low-end electronics & distant modal figur(in)es ...

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emego 096 / bruce gilbert
oblivio agitatum
cd

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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 095 ep

hecker “3 track 12”” long playing record

(5'12") (5:12)
(2'40" + 0'48") (3:28)
(23'32") (23:32)

june 2010 release ; “accessible” work from florian hecker, consisting of two rhythmic pieces (the second being almost ... “bluesy” ... listen to the sound-sample for evidence) followed by a side-length svp smear (the stuff of nightmares, perhaps) all executed & cut to the highest perceivable spec ... highly recommended !!!

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emego 095 / hecker
3 track
12"

edition of 500

written and produced by florian hecker
cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin, april 2010.
cover: florian pumhösl, modernology 15, 2007, courtesy galerie daniel buchholz
typesetting by tina frank
3 track 12” features pieces produced on occasion of a comme des garçons homme plus fashion show held in paris, january 2009.

this could be seen as some of hecker’s most accessible work to a date, and a fine addition to any serious electronic music collection.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 093 cd

angel “hedonism” compact disc

holding loose
unknown dawn
hatch
adrenaline strike
dropping the ego
highrise 1
unsymmetric distance
spectral gate
mirrorworld
hornet

december 2008 release ; second emego release (actually a reissue of the first pre-emego album) from panasonic’s ilpo väisänen & schneider tm’s dirk dresselhaus ...

unlike their later recordings, this is an entirely electronic outing (notably cellist hildur gudnadóttir is absent) ; ilpo’s wall of amplified voltage is omnipresent throughout. my favorite of the duo/trio’s records ...

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emego 093
angel: hedonism cd
release date: 09.12.2008
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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 092 cd

peter rehberg “work for gv • 2004-2008” compact disc

murder version
ml6
slow investigation
black holes
pia
ml3
boxes & angels
final jerk

november 2008 release ; a collection of peter “pita” rehberg’s solo (read: not-ktl) work for gisèle vienne & dennis cooper’s recent productions ... far more gestural & reserved than anything i’ve heard from him thusfar, with genuine snatches of musique concrète (listen to the sound-sample) lining the driving, pulse-oriented harsh-noise he’s more known for ...

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emego 092
peter rehberg: work for gv 2004-2008 cd
release date: 31.10.2008
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 cooperaction 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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 091 cd

prurient “arrowhead” compact disc

sternum (12:05)
ribcage (14:31)
lungs (4:08)

july 2008 release ; the editions mego debut (spurred into actuality through kevin drumm’s influence, no doubt) from dom “prurient” fernow (with kris “northern cross” lapke guesting) ...

three tracks, all recorded back in 2004-2005 ; “sternum” offers an incessant, almost subliminally sliding high feedback arc with ghost drum/voice accompaniment ... “ribcage” wades in more familiar waters, with a full-on vocal-led power electronics blast ... and “lungs” offers a thick rising bolt of destroyed tribal drumming (listen to the sound-sample) ...

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emego 091
prurient: arrowhead cd
release date: 28.07.2008

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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 089 cd

ktl “iv” compact disc

paraug
paratrooper
wicked way
benbbet
eternal winter
natural trouble

january 2009 release ; 4th album from stephen o’malley & peter rehberg’s kindertotenlieder...

this time around, the duo decamped to hoppy kamiyama’s gok sound studio, enlisting jim o’rourke for production duties as well as boris’ drummer atsuo (on the occasional thud / gong-blast) ; unsurprisingly this led to arguably the band’s most “accessible” outing, with the disparate digital-sound / guitar elements far less distant / misted than in prior outings ... hell, there’s even a regular “pulse” to some of this stuff (listen to the sound-sample) ; greatly removed from the beat-less vapor-trail of room-tone spectralia evident on the first three ...

a nice one, definitely ; can’t say for certain how i rank it amongst the shelf-load of ktl produkt until i give it a few more spins, but it fits the mood of this particularly cold / frost-bitten morning just fine ...

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emego 089
ktl iv cd
release date: 09.01.2009
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
design by soma

stephen o'malley: guitar
peter rehberg: computer & synthesizer
atsuo: drums on 2 and gong on 6

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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 088 cd

kevin drumm / daniel menche “gauntlet” compact disc

gauntlet (28:47)

long-awaited new material from kevin drumm, a single piece jointly composed with prolific northwest noise/tribal-percussion producer daniel menche...

“gauntlet” starts off with a lone bit of post-hardcore guitar riffing, then builds slowly via concurrent layers of drum-kit/cymbal splash & further direct-pedal guitar tones... before of course heating up into an impressive shitstorm of hundreds of layers of said ingredients, laying out halfway through into a gorgeous void of subterranean electronics & variable-tempo gating, finally conking out into a few minute of kevin’s trademark doepfer comparator/slew chop...

this is miles away from each composer’s solo work... closer to the sound of a coupla 80s sst records being fed simultaneously through some sort of sentient auto-composition framework... some of the direct-to-4-track-mic-input guitar tones remind me of spanish black metal, but otherwise this is on its own path entirely. nothing short of totally impressive, and due to the short-sharp-shock of it; something that doesn’t overstay its welcome. highly recommended.

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emego 088
kevin drumm & daniel menche: gauntlet cd

release date: 24.07.2007

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 savoury 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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editions mego (austria) #emego 087 cd

angel “kalmukia” compact disc

bones in the sand
kalmukia - the discovery
wiring, invasion
effect of discovery, test
alarm, catastrophy
aftermath: the mutation

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angel: kalmukia cd

release date: 21.01.2008
4 tracks
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 gu nadóttir (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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 085 cd

ktl “ii” compact disc

game (10:51)
theme (27:15)
abattoir (21:07)
snow 2 (12:10)

may 2007 release; the second batch of grelp from mssrs. rehberg (pita), o’malley (ginnungagap) composed to accompany a dennis cooper theater piece entitled “kindertotenlieder” (literally; “songs on the death of children”) - i’m actually feeling this selection a bit more than the first one - now that i know what to expect ... some nice moog/guitar drone bias buildup in spots, and as always pita’s trademark black-hot granular noise fizz...

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emego 085
ktl ktl 2 cd

release date: 07.05.2007

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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 084 cd

ktl “ktl” compact disc

estranged (24:46)
forest floor 1 (08:31)
forest floor 2 (13:43)
forest floor 3 (09:28)
forest floor 4 (08:16)
snow (13:02)

october 2006 release; the debut album from the duo of peter “pita” rehberg and stephen o’malley. what does it sound like? guess... (...) yes, that’s pretty close actually. high-gain guitar-monolithery vs. hard-disck skribble.

there’s much common ground between the aesthetics of these two, nice to see them out for a play-date...

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emego 084
ktl cd

release date: 06.10.2006

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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 083 cd

philipp quehenberger “phantom in paradise” compact disc

wives with knives
loner goner
varad
far away places
ozerea 1
puss in boots
that's that
cup of coffee
verdammst!

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emego 083
philipp quehenberger: phantom in paradise cd

release date: 02.04.2007

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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editions mego (austria) #emego 082 cd

marcus schmickler “altars” compact disc and digital versatile disc audio set

hybrid cd-audio (stereo) / dvd-audio (5.1) disc !!!

cd side : altars of science 1-8 (stereo mix) (38:50)

altars of science (1) (5:55)
altars of science (2) (5:03)
altars of science (3) (5:11)
altars of science (4) (5:00)
altars of science (5) (5:10)
altars of science (6) (4:38)
altars of science (7) (4:31)
altars of science (8) (3:17)

dvd side : altars of science 1-8 (multi channel mix) (38:50)

altars of science (1) (5:55)
altars of science (2) (5:03)
altars of science (3) (5:11)
altars of science (4) (5:00)
altars of science (5) (5:10)
altars of science (6) (4:38)
altars of science (7) (4:31)
altars of science (8) (3:17)

october 2007 release; a hybrid cd-audio / dvd-audio disc release (i was wondering when someone would release one of these !!!) from marcus schmickler.

hot on the heels of the r/s disc on erstwhile (with which this shares much common tonal language) marcus is again at work in the digital domain with spectral synthesis methods (which, for the most part, sound like an updated version of of the upic system recently put to task by hecker & haswell); these pieces absolutely leap out of your speakers in a dizzying array of frequency-band shapes & colors... rarely staying still for more than a few seconds before plotting their next trajectory...

loud, brash stuff; completely state of the art - just what we’ve come to expect/love from marcus as of recent. followers of recent developments in computer music will need to hear this...

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emego 082
marcus schmickler: altars of science dvd+, super jewel box (audio only!)
release date: 22.10.2007

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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editions mego (austria) #emego 080 cd

anthony pateras / robin fox “flux compendium” compact disc

apocalypse now & then (02:33)
aphasia (04:01)
freckle cream (03:26)
$2.50 (02:45)
throat in three parts (02:21)
perilymph (13:35)
olfactophobia (06:09)
protoplasm (07:20)
flex & belch (00:42)

i caught a solo “laser” set of robin’s earlier this year in melbourne, and i have to say that it was one of the highlights of my entire oz/nz trip - really incredible mix of full-blown-out rectified-wave digital histrionics and a ridiculous psychedelic lightshow...

this is the mego debut (well... editions mego, excuse me...) of robin’s long-running duo with fellow malabar/mallowmar anthony pateras. just a ridiculous amount of chops on display - robin’s digital-detritus and anthony’s analogue-synth & voice-chop.

one of my favorite records right now... glad to see the mego spec still in operation after a questionable few years there!

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emego 080
anthony pateras & robin fox: flux compendium cd

release date: 13.01.2006

total time: 42:50

robin fox - computer, programming & controllers
anthony pateras - voice, synthi a, mixing desk, electronics & objects

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
installation by natasha anderson
layout by implant

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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 078 cd

tujiko noriko “solo” compact disc

magic (4:23)
sun! (6:20)
ending kiss (5:44)
let me see your face (5:11)
saigo no chikyu (4:49)
gift (4:57)
no error in my memory (5:21)
spot (5:39)
in a chinese restaurant (8:18)

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emego 078
tujiko noriko: solo cd

release date: 05.02.2007

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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editions mego (austria) #emego 077 cd

quintetavant “en concert à la salle des fêtes” compact disc

11:47
17:57
6:34
2:34

excellent live-concert musique concrète from the leading lights of the french scene: lionel marchetti, jérôme noetinger, jean pallandre, marc pichelin, and laurent sassi. very little contemporary music comes this close to the spirit/sound of the early-mid ina-grm era...

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emego 077
quintetavant: en concert à la salle des fêtes cd

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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editions mego (austria) #emego 053 lp

kevin drumm “sheer hellish miasma” double long playing record set

hitting the pavement (19:56)
inferno part one (?)
inferno part two (9:50)
cloudy (5:19)
impotent hummer (13:01)
turning point (3:33)

november 2010 release ; re-remastered version (rachad becker has done a bang-up / sympathetic job on the mother-cut) of what many consider to be kevin drumm’s defining album ; 2002’s “sheer hellish miasma.”

with all that’s happened in music in the intervening years this still sounds like a flock of mutagen-addled locusts organizing a dawn raid on all that is sacred ... if anything, the sonic power of this music has grown logarithmically, threatening to break out of the 1/0 stream that binds it to the compact disc itself and expand into some un-knowable form.

in my mind this is one of the defining moments in the school of electro-acoustic noise “composition” that enjoys so much (even if still marginal) success these days; go back to the blueprint here and see how little has changed, and in fact how much regression has taken place ...highly recommended !!!

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emego 053v / kevin drumm
sheer hellish miasma
2lp

cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin 27th september 2010 by rashad becker
originally released 2002 on cd (mego)
reissued 2007 on cd (editions mego)
at last, kevin drumm’s classic 2002 album sees a full vinyl release.

crank it!

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editions mego (austria) #emego 050 cd

jim o’rourke “i’m happy, and i’m singing, and a 1,2,3,4” double compact disc set

i'm happy (11:13)
and i'm singing (8:11)
and a 1,2,3,4 (21:19)
lets take it again from the top (4:09)
getting the vapors (39:01)
he who laughs (17:57)

may 2009 release ; reissue of this classic slice of 90s/00s “laptop” music, augmented with a full bonus disc of era recordings (including the neon gallery brösarp “he who laughs” lp) ...

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emego 050
jim o'rourke: i'm happy, and i'm singing, and a 1,2,3,4 double cd
release date: 08.05.2009

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'

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editions mego (austria) #emego 047 cd

tujiko noriko “shojo toshi+” compact disc

endless end
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)

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emego 047

tujiko noriko: shojo toshi+ cd

release date: 15.05.2006

total time: 01:11:20

all tracks written and performed by tujiko noriko

tracks 01-10 taken from 'shojo toshi' cd (mego 047)
tracks 11-15 taken from 'i forgot the title' 12" vinyl (mego 057)

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').

‘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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fennesz “endless summer” double long playing record set

made in hongkong
endless summer
ohne sonne
a year in a minute
caecilia
got to move on
endless
shisheido
before i leave
badminton girl
47 blues
happy audio (forever)

october 2010 release ; ... expanded, double-vinyl version of perhaps christian fennesz’ most-loved album-release, 2001’s “endless summer” ...

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emego 135v / fennesz
endless summer
2lp

artwork by tina frank.
cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin september 2010
contains ‘ohne sonne’ and ’47 blues’ previously only available on the japenese cd versions.
as well as an new extended version of ‘happy audio’ exclusive to this release.

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fennesz “endless summer” compact disc

made in hongkong (4:23)
endless summer (8:30)
a year in a minute (6:00)
caecilia (3:51)
got to move on (3:48)
shisheido (2:56)
before i leave (4:07)
happy audio (10:52)
badminton girl (4:06)
endless (2:02)

october 2010 release ; ... expanded version of perhaps christian fennesz’ most-loved album-release, 2001’s “endless summer” ...

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emego 135 / fennesz
endless summer
cd

artwork by tina frank.
cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin september 2010
as well as an new extended version of ‘happy audio’ exclusive to this release.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 031-054 cd

fenn o’berg “the magic sound of fenn o’berg • the return of fenn o’berg” double compact disc set

shinjuku baby pt. 1 (6:51)
steam powered oscillation (0:53)
horst und snail mit markus (3:53)
gürtel eins (6:55)
escape from hamburg (2:34)
shinjuku baby pt. 2 (12:41)
gürtel zwei (4:34)
fenn o’berg theme (10:27)
(5,6m of) fenn o’berg (5:33)
floating my boat (5:36)
a viennese tragedy (14:28)
riding again (11:38)
we will diffuse you (10:16)
adidas sun tanned avant man (3:54)

may 2009 release ; ... handy double-disc pack containing newly remastered (at the capable hands of marcus schmickler, no less) takes on the first two fenn o’berg full-lengths ...

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emego 3154 / fenn o'berg
magic & return
2cd

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.

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editions mego (austria) #emego 029 cd

pita “get out” compact disc

1 (3:08)
2 (2:06)
3 (11:18)
ce3 (7:29)
4 (1:40)
5 (4:22)
6 (3:38)
7 (1:06)
8 (1:52)
9 (8:54)
pe2 (2:03)
tr1 (2:44)

may 2008 reissue of pita’s second & (imho) best album ; gloriously remastered by marcus schmickler during the summer of 2007 to reveal even further layers of detail / grit. housed in a digipak replicating the original tina frank spec, booklet w/ new liners by david keenan. if any one album stands out above the miasma of late 90s/early 00s digital-noise scrape, it’s this one ... highly recommended, especially if you’ve never given it due course ...

brilliant late 90s harsh digital collage from peter “pita” rehberg; in my mind the finest thing he’s done...

a huge wall of surging, backwards chord changes (plundered from god-knows-where...) run through every fuzz / distortion / overdrive pedal / plugin simultaneously. unlike much disassociative “laptop” music, this has a palpable emotional heft to it... excellent stuff.

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emego 029
pita: get out cd
release date: 12.05.2008

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.

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fennesz “hotel paral.lel” compact disc

sz (5:36)
nebenraum (4:22)
zeug (1:12)
blok m (4:18)
santora (5:09)
dheli plaza (6:18)
fa (4:37)
traxdata (4:11)
gr-500 (1:16)
szabo (5:27)
uds (3:37)
herbert missing (0:35)
super feedbacker (2:25)
aus (3:59)
5 (7:01)
video - aus (dir: tina frank/skot)

reissue of this classic fennesz side w/two bonus tracks; one from the ludicrously hard-to-source syntactic 7” single, the other tina frank’s video for “aus.” ten years on, this still sounds like liquid gold ...

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emego 016

fennesz: hotel paral.lel cd
release date: 24.09.2007

15 audio tracks: 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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editions mego (austria) #emego 013 lp

russell haswell “second live salvage” double long playing record set

2000, museu de cièmcies, valencia. (08:12.14)
2002, färgfabriken, stockholm. (10:53.82)
2002, schirn kunsthalle, frankfurt. (16:02.84)
2004, engine rooms, brighton. (18:37.59)
2006, point éphémère, paris. (5:08.62)
+ 'bonus recording', russell haswell & toshiji mikawa: 2007, ikki, kita kyushu. (10:12.81)

june 2008 release ; the second collection of live sorties & room-tone blasts from gescom / hecker & haswell member russell haswell ... blistering shards-of-sound ranging from straight-up harsh noise walls (including a piece done in collaboration w/incapacitants’ toshiji mikawa - listen to the sound-sample) to woozy, granular smear & some rather fierce stutter/click reminiscient of label-mate/owner/ally pita ...

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emego 013
russell haswell: second live salvage 2x12" vinyl
release date: 30.06.2008

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.

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keith fullerton whitman “occlusions” long playing record

occlusion (rue de bitche) (18:17)
occlusion (weteringschans) (17:47)

june 2012 release ; ... impressively quick hit on this one :: a high-spec lp (pressed at 45rpm, fyi) of two concerts given a week apart (at the cable# festival in nantes ... then sonic acts in amsterdam) just 4 short months ago ...

... “occlusion” has steadily been building in intensity & complexity ; starting as a studio-based experiment (the first recordings of which, made over a year ago, make up my side of the split lp w/ eli keszler on nna tapes) in generative “free” rhythms & exerted machine-control, it has blossomed into a master rule-set for performing entirely “live” electronic music ... these two iterations (both performed in quad, yet presented here in all of their room-toned glory via the two built-in mics of a $99 zoom h1 handy recorder) are easily amongst my favorite of the two-odd-dozen given thusfar ; the recordings just happened to turn out beautifully & were each the perfect length for an lp-side, so here we go ...

... a couple of things to clarify (for those that have asked) ; the “titling” system in place simply reflects the street on which each set was performed (i thought about scrapping this whole mechanism after performing at “ateliers du bitche” on, you guessed it “bitch street” ... but opted to stay the course ; que sera cetera) ... also, the seemingly arbitrary pacing is actually the most intricate part of the piece ; largely hinging on a given audience’s reaction to the music as it starts, continuing in a quiet, sparse way, building subtly until an understanding between listener & performer is reached ... an avoidance of the cliché’d “ramp” and or “triangle” form-arcs is also a goal (personally speaking, i can’t deal with the slow rise into “significance” and/or the slow retreat from said ... mainly as i’ve burnt out on it after 2 decades of “drone” performances) ; the constant misappropriation of forward momentum being something of a source of joy ...

... anyways ; it warrants stating that i’m happier with this particular music than i have been about anything i’ve made in a very long time ; perhaps i’m finally zero-ing in on what it is that i look for in music these days (in many ways this is a stab at finally breaking free from genre conventions & just focusing on sound) ; i’ll understand completely if it’s not your kind of thing (i can definitely see those that enjoyed the “generators” pieces solely for their repetitive melody sequences not getting much out of this rather difficult, un-resolving music) ... it helps to consider it as a concatenation of several conflicting approaches to the real-time assembly electronic sound, albeit compressed together at an atomic level into something that’s constantly shifting, churning, self-destructing, then begging to be re-built within any given 10-second stretch ...

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demego 026 / keith fullerton whitman
occlusions
lp (cut at 45 rpm)

release date 19.06.2012

occlusion (rue de bitche)

recorded on february 18th, 2012 at les ateliers de bitche, nantes, france.
performed on a 4.2 quad array, captured in stereo from the performer's perspective
on a zoom h1 handy recorder (auto level :: off)

occlusion (weteringschans)

recorded on february 25th, 2012 at paradiso, amsterdam, the netherlands.
performed on a 4.2 quad array, captured in stereo from the performer's perspective
on a zoom h1 handy recorder (auto level :: on)

occlusion is a loose framework for a multi-channel, freely improvised piece of live electronic music, performed without the aid or consent of pre-recorded or even pre-arranged materials of any kind. a given realization will last between 10 and 30 minutes ; time is elastic. every effort has been made to avoid divisible rhythms (although mistakes are occasionally made) ... still, i consider it a "kind" of dance music.

these two realizations, recorded a week apart at festivals in france and the netherlands during february 2012, capture the piece (much like those on the “generators” lp) in two entirely different iterations, in states of (a) a mildly inebriated bliss & (b) an arbitrarily triggered blind rage. both recordings were made at 24-bit, 96khz through the absolute cheapest means available to the consumer to do so. they sound fantastic.

“occlusions” is a companion piece to “generators” in that they share the same tool-set ... however, it is the free jazz yang to generator's minimalist yin. it is not recommended to those seeking meter, melody, cleanliness, or a clearly outlined organizational sense.

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merzbow / lasse marhaug “mer mar” long playing record

mar (20:32)
mer (19:38)

march 2012 release ; ... excellent, collaborative, studio album from the duo of masami “merzbow” akita & lasse marhaug ...

... while the a-side delivers the full-frontal blister of cracked electronics & hyper-extended gain-staging(s) you’d hope / wish / expect, i have to admit the b-side’s retreat into more gestural, “improv” modes (highly reminiscent of masami’s earliest days / recordings, as typified by the tapes issued on his “lowest music and arts” in the early 80’s) is the real stunner here, offering a slow, palpable build into the assorted electronic rage(s) ...

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demego 025 / merzbow marhaug
mer mar
lp

release date 13.03.2012

recorded at studio gok sound, tokyo april 7 2010 by hamamoto yohei.
produced by masami akita and lasse marhaug.
cut by rashad becker at dubplates & mastering, berlin

cover design by lasse marhaug.

masami akita and lasse marhaug have been working together since the mid 90ies. the first release on marhaug's (now deleted) label jazzassin records in 1995 was the "first rock" split single. in 2001 merzbow and jazzkammer (marhaug's project with john hegre) released a live album. later, akita and marhaug executed several live collaborations, but often with other artists such as hair stylistics and jim o'rourke.

in 2010 they finally got together to record as duo. recorded at gok sound studios in tokyo the results can now be heard as "mer mar".

made using a combination of scrap metal screeching; analogue synths; and enough effect pedals to give you overweight with most airline companies, ‘mer mar’ is a tour de force for both of these noise veterans, hinting to some classic 80s merzbow jams such as material action.

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keith fullerton whitman “generators (white vinyl)” long playing record

issue generator (for eliane radigue) (17:34)
high zero generator (17:34)

february 2012 release ; well, would you look at that ...

this lp was originally intended for release on our in-house “no” label (r.i.p. ; don’t even get me started ... in short, if i offer to put out a record for you, remind me of my track-record w/r/t running labels) ... even went as far as commissioning a series of illustrations from graham lambkin to be used as the artwork (amazingly, he ended up hand-bubble-lettering the entirety of the thanks & liner notes ; detail below) ... but then life, travel, business, and pessimism all reigned supreme & the project was shelved (alongside three other perfectly fine “no’s” ; apologies to von himmel, benjamin nelson & brandon terzakis, & nasturtium) pending that figurative “rainy day” in which i would so happen to have $3-$4k just lying around ...

during a particularly inspiring stretch at the end of 2011 (yes, the whole grm / quai branly / kontraste / c.a.m.p. basement leg) i ran into editions mego’s peter rehberg (who was also in krems presenting a joint grm commission with stephen o’malley) ; ended up going to vienna with nick cain for a day to hang out with peter & his lovely wife isabelle, ate a fine schnitzel, shopped for toys & chocolate, & generally just lounged around, talking records & shop ...

peter brought up the fact that, way back in the hrvåtski days (pre-hrvatski), i had given him a demo for mego proper ; this came as a shock as i’ve always prided myself on the fact that i’ve never solicited anyone with a demo in my life ... but sure enough, a few weeks later, he emailed me a photo a crusty mid-90’s branded cd-r with the text “hrvåtski mego demo” written in sharpie, then we-transfer-ed me the audio (here’s all five tracks ; best keep a hand on your volume-knob !!!) ::

... kinda glad in retrospect this didn’t hit the shelves in ‘98 as it’s not my best work, but peter’s assertion :: “so you got side a of your mego album” was just what i needed to hear ...

... flash forward a few months ; had the bright idea (in mid-december, 2011) to hand over the aborted “no” lp to peter - a professional - and what a wise choice that turned out to be ... 2 months to the day, i sit here in cambridge holding so many copies of a deluxe euro-spec lp, recorded in brooklyn & baltimore on september 23rd & 22nd, 2010 (respectively) ; mastered on october 1st, 2010 here @ mimaroglu ; drawn by graham during november 2010 ... then slept on for over a year, but scanned, laid out, mastered for vinyl, cut, plated, tested, pressed, printed, assembled, shrink wrapped, boxed, consolidated, transported, shipped, then received ... in 62 days :: insane ...

... despite the “rush job” schedule, this came out perfectly ; it covers the final two performances of “generator” (the best, most successful two, but also two completely different approaches) & works best at modest (the a-side) & extremely batshit loud (the b-side) volumes ... enjoy.

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demego 024 / keith fullerton whitman
generators
lp

release date 21.02.2012

over the course of a year, keith fullerton whitman performed a piece of live electronic music a few dozen times entitled "generator." the debut was given in san francisco at root strata's "on land" festival at cafe du nord on september 19th, 2009 … over the months that followed stagings took place in venues ranging from flooded basements to festival stages in baltimore, boston, brooklyn, chicago, easthampton, iowa city, jamaica plain, northampton, raleigh, saint louis, san francisco, somerville, & washington d.c.

this lp covers the final two performances of the piece over two consecutive evenings ; the opening solo set from the final night of the "high zero" festival in baltimore at the theater project, september 26th, 2010, then the performance during the "for eliane" night of the "propensity of sound" festival dedicated to eliane radigue's work at issue project room, brooklyn, september 27th, 2010. these recordings show the piece in two different iterations, taking two different trajectories entirely. they're considered the definitive versions of the piece.

composed for, and realized with a scalable selection of digital & analogue modular synthesis equipment, "generator" was at attempt to wrest a viable performance-based music out what had until then been a solitary set of sound-design tools. the piece grew out of a frustration with the limitlessness of computer-based real-time synthesis & algorithmic / generative systems vs. their utter failure as performance solutions. it hinges heavily on the ideology of the "playthroughs" system (in that the subtle tuning inconsistencies of a physical instrument - the electric guitar - could be amplified & multiplied) through the use of multiple layerings of different topologies of oscillator, yielding an unstable array of modal canons that drift in & out of "tune," causing all manner of inter-voice beating & assorted psycho-acoustic effects.

keith fullerton whitman is a musician based in cambridge, ma, usa. previous releases include "generator" (root strata #62, 2010), "live generators (1)" (protracted view #041, 2010), "live generators (1.5)" (agents of chaos #7028, 2010) & "chicago generators" (hyperdelic #7 , 2010)

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dieb13 / mats gustafsson / martin siewert “(fake) the facts” long playing record

fact (15:23)
rat (7:32)
zoom (21:31)

november 2011 release ; ... exceedingly noisy trio improvisations by recent vienna transplant mats gustafsson (sax, electronics), dieter “dieb13” kovacic (turntable), and martin siewert (guitar, electronics) ...

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demego 023 / dieb13 / gustafsson / siewert
(fake) the facts
lp

release date 22.11.2011

dieb13: turntables, cigar box
mats gustafsson: soprano, slide and tenor sax, live electronics
martin siewert: guitars, ring stinger, electronics

recorded at garnisongasse 7 / vienna, march 2011 and rhiz / vienna, april 2011
mixed by dieter kovacic and martin siewert
mastered by martin siewert
cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, september 2011
cover art by dieter kovacic and billy roisz

after the runaway success of the akita / gustafsson / o’rourke lp , ‘one bird two bird’ (demego 022), swedish sax legend mast gustafsson returns to editions mego with another storming collaboration. now resident in vienna he teamed up with experimental artists dieb13 and martin siewert for a live and studio session. (fake) the facts is the result.

a dense fog of sound coming from all directions, but whereas the general impetus is a full on attack the trio do find restraint to create a deeper dynamic and open the spaces between the walls of noise.

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philipp quehenberger “uffuff” twelve inch single record

uffuff (5:39)
new beat (patrick pulsinger "out of the box" remix) (7:34)
hey gert (elin remix) (5:00)
keep talking (altroy remix) (7:16)

july 2011 release ; ... str8 dance-music from mr. quehenberger & friends ...

something of an early mego-scene reunion (i actually have a copy of the stützpunkt wien 12 record hard-filed) ; pulsinger remix via the sound-sample ...

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demego 020 / philipp quehenberger
uffuff
12"

mastered & cut by rashad becker at d+m, berlin, june 2011
pre-master by falm

new gear from the pq corner!

12” with 1 new quehenberger orginal (uffuff) and a trio of near remixes from his lastest album hazard (released as laton 047 in 2009).

patrick pulsinger tackles new beat, in his unique future funk sound. a welcome return of elin (who hasn’t been on a mego record since 1995, check mego 003). he slurps out a version of hey gert, making it into an slamming slowed down twister of a track. this leaves the pumping exccess of altroy’s (minimal soul) keep talking remix.

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peterlicker “nicht” long playing record

always right (6:18)
tunnel 47053 (7:45)
raised on rock (5:18)
c-slide (11:25)
schleim (8:04)

march 2011 release ; ... some heavy, electronic-rock gesticulating from this newly reformed faction of peter “pita” rehberg’s teenage transgression-unit ...

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demego 019 / peterlicker
nicht
lp

recorded, edited and mixed in wien iii, viii, ix, xi & korneuburg, austria 04-12.2010.
final mix in komitat vas, hungary 01.2011.
cut at dubplates & mastering 02.2011.

f. hergovich: vocals
p. rehberg: electronics, edits.
c. schachinger: guitar.
g. weissegger: bass, electronics, edits, production.

photos: ingo pertramer.
layout: stephen o’malley
well, here it is!

the moment you have all been waiting for.... the arrival of the debut album release by peterlicker. despite following on in that terrible tradition of butthole surfers and throbbing gristle of stupid band names, peterlicker (newly reformed after 20 years of inactivity) have, against all odds, come up with a serious slab of modern electronic rock.

nicht comprises of five well crafted selections recorded over the summer of 2010. having got their previous noise free fall style out of their system on the limited cassette ‘last slave’ (demego 013), the forgotten sons of the viennese underground have stepped, dare we say it, into almost accessible song like structures.

however, this is no lightweights wet dream, and still pulls some heavy punches. with the sequenced pulse of ‘always right’ sitting tight with the near poetic ‘tunnel 47053’, the real-rock stomper of ‘c-slide’, and not forgetting the manic psychedelia of ‘schleim’.

its a classic, basically.

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evil madness “super great love” long playing record

divine sensual love fantasy (2:40)
sexy feeling all year long (3:53)
exciting night games (2:40)
isabelle adjani (5:26)
café eindhoven (2:21)
bruoubillinn (5:32)
maxim's goldfinger (11:15)
hunk of a man (4:52)
stundin okkar (4:04)

february 2011 release ; ... not sure how to wrap my head around this set of cheesy contemporary euro-disco from jóhann jóhannsson, bj nilsen, and both components of stilluppsteypa ...

but then again i don’t have to ; moving on ...

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demego018 / evil madness
super great love
lp

evil madness are:
bj nilsen
jóhann jóhannsson
helgi thórsson
sigtryggur berg sigmarsson
pétur eyvindsson

cover artwork by helgi thórsson
recorded and mixed 2007 - 2010
cut at dubplates & mastering, december 2010.
this album is dedicated to franz graf

evil madness has been described as the traveling wilburys of icelandic electronic music. behind the name stand men like petur eyvindsson, johann johannsson, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, helgi thorsson and bj nilsen (who is not "quite" icelandic but was born in a country "very" near iceland).

this album, "super great love", presented by editions mego will be their 4th album since the time their formation in 2006. now for those of you reading who know the music of evil madness will know for sure that this band does what ever they damn well pleases when it comes to making the music. with "super great love" they want to get people in the "good" mood for the fresh new year and present them with some upbeat icelandic "disko" tunes.

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evil madness “super great love” compact disc

divine sensual love fantasy (2:40)
sexy feeling all year long (3:53)
exciting night games (2:40)
isabelle adjani (5:26)
café eindhoven (2:21)
bruoubillinn (5:32)
maxim's goldfinger (11:15)
hunk of a man (4:52)
stundin okkar (4:04)

april 2011 release ; ... not sure how to wrap my head around this set of cheesy contemporary euro-disco from jóhann jóhannsson, bj nilsen, and both components of stilluppsteypa ...

but then again i don’t have to ; moving on ...

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demego018c / evil madness
super great love
cd

evil madness are:
bj nilsen
jóhann jóhannsson
helgi thórsson
sigtryggur berg sigmarsson
pétur eyvindsson

cover artwork by helgi thórsson
recorded and mixed 2007 - 2010
this album is dedicated to franz graf

evil madness has been described as the traveling wilburys of icelandic electronic music. behind the name stand men like petur eyvindsson, johann johannsson, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, helgi thorsson and bj nilsen (who is not "quite" icelandic but was born in a country "very" near iceland).

this album, "super great love", presented by editions mego will be their 4th album since the time their formation in 2006. now for those of you reading who know the music of evil madness will know for sure that this band does what ever they damn well pleases when it comes to making the music. with "super great love" they want to get people in the "good" mood for the fresh new year and present them with some upbeat icelandic "disko" tunes.

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thymolphthalein “ni maître, ni marteau” long playing record

meta-tingue (1:17)
soaked george (3:29)
off the wall (3:22)
mosquito squash (3:13)
l.b.o.k (0:53)
streetcar slugfuck (2:49)
ayala (3:28)
jean psycho (3:10)
quince (3:04)
lips (2:17)
pierre willy (4:25)
greatest hits (2:53)
pim (4:04)

january 2011 release ; excellent set of electro-acoustic improv from this franco-australien quintet, featuring jérôme noetinger, will guthrie, natasha anderson, anthony pateras, and clayton thomas ...

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ni maître, ni marteau
lp

natasha anderson: contrabass recorder and electronics
will guthrie: percussion and electronicsjérôme noetinger: tape machines and electronicsclayton thomas: double bass and preparationsanthony pateras: prepared piano and analogue synthesizer

all music by thymolphthalein, performed live at swr2 new jazz meeting, gare du nord, basel, 15th november, 2009
cut at dubplates & mastering, berlin, december 3rd, 2010. 45 rpm

please note: due to the extreme dynamic frequency range this record was cut at 45rpm at a lower level. play loud!

design by shehab at implant, melbourne

a key ingredient in disappearing ink, thymolphthalein describes the working method of this brilliant french-australian quintet

leader anthony pateras conceived a detailed hour long structural premise for the group’s first tour in 2009, creating a masterful pastiche of richly dynamic, timbrally devastating explorations for electro-acoustic ensemble, melded by his own distinctive prepared piano and analogue electronics.

natasha anderson combines buzzing slabs of electro-acoustic sound with fractured acoustic gestures, sculpting exquisite perceptual explorations with recorders and electronics, producing a poetic and uncanny otherness.

will guthrie expertly fuses the drumkit with an array of homemade electro-acoustic devices to produce a fluid cataclysm of sonic richness, melded by his searing technical prowess and faultless ear.

jérôme noetinger is the live concréte maestro, electro-acoustically manipulating his bandmates with expert timing and breathtaking invention, scrambling proceedings with the occasional ring-modulated depth charge.

clayton thomas’ thoughtful and virtuosic prepared double bass playing has taken europe by storm since moving there from sydney in 2007 – part groove cannon, part kinetic sculpture, all parts bad bass skills.

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robin fox “handful of automations” long playing record

time blister (5:37)
voltaic pile (4:17)
boundary layer skin friction (5:00)
vampira (4:42)
godspeed (6:08)
a handful of automation (3:43)
500 feet per second (3:38)
s.o.s 2 (3:18)
black (requiem) (3:10)
melophobia (final edit) (3:54)

june 2010 release ; incredible set of next-level computer-music jockeying from melbournite robin fox, whose knowledge on the matter could easily fill many pantheon-sized structures ... here digital audio signals are synthesized, modified, and twisted in every conceivable way ; a smorgasbord of approaches & executions (if you will) paralleled only by label-mate florian hecker’s more clinical algorithm-ings ...

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demego012v / robin fox
a handful of automation
lp
edition of 300

cover image: robin fox, proof of concept #6
mastered by casey rice at classickxs

first solo audio only release by melbourne based sound and laser artist robin fox and first solo release since the mind melting 'backscatter' dvd on synaesthesia (2005). taking time out from his duo with anthony pateras, ‘a handful of automaton’ showcases fox’s unique and highly individual take on the usually misunderstood extreme computer music genre, and is a pleasurably disorientating ride. alongside chaos trips such as ‘boundary layer skin friction’ and the stunning title track, sit beautifully scored examples of electronic concentration such as ‘godspeed' and the closing ‘melophobia (final edit)’. this album is must for connoisseurs of high grade computer usage, and is released as a vinyl lp as well as a c50 cassette featuring 2 bonus cuts. cover features images from fox's photographic collection 'proof of concept' a series that has grown out of his legendary laser performances.

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robin fox “handful of automations” c50 cassette

time blister (5:37)
voltaic pile (4:17)
s.o.s. 1 (2:55)
boundary layer skin friction (5:00)
vampira (4:42)
proto-needle (2:26)
godspeed (6:08)
a handful of automation (3:43)
500 feet per second (3:38)
s.o.s 2 (3:18)
black (requiem) (3:10)
melophobia (final edit) (3:54)

june 2010 release ; cassette version of robin fox’ debut solo album, somehow turning this air-tight display of virtuosic in-situ computer music “chops” into a slightly more rounded-off, pleasurable affair ...

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demego012c / robin fox
a handful of automation
cassette

edition of 200

cover image: robin fox, proof of concept #6
mastered by casey rice at classickxs

first solo audio only release by melbourne based sound and laser artist robin fox and first solo release since the mind melting 'backscatter' dvd on synaesthesia (2005). taking time out from his duo with anthony pateras, ‘a handful of automaton’ showcases fox’s unique and highly individual take on the usually misunderstood extreme computer music genre, and is a pleasurably disorientating ride. alongside chaos trips such as ‘boundary layer skin friction’ and the stunning title track, sit beautifully scored examples of electronic concentration such as ‘godspeed' and the closing ‘melophobia (final edit)’. this album is must for connoisseurs of high grade computer usage, and is released as a vinyl lp as well as a c50 cassette featuring 2 bonus cuts. cover features images from fox's photographic collection 'proof of concept' a series that has grown out of his legendary laser performances.

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sister iodine “flame desastre” compact disc

you / lacerate (4:52)
lava junkie (3:28)
total sumatra shoot (1:43)
terminal pain (3:59)
black trauma delice (1:35)
you doped (6:06)
nalpalmee (5:49)
k (6:02)
porn saccage (1:00)
trope (3:07)
chromata vein (7:51)
you burned (3:00)

november 2009 release ; (d)emego debut from the parisian trio of erik minkkinen, nicolas sakamoto-mazet, and lionel fernandez, oft sold as “the french sonic youth” albeit far more electronic / aggressive than their domestic peers ...

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demego 009 / sister iodine
flame desastre
cd

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

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daniel menche “kataract {alpha mix}” long playing record

kataract {alpha mix} a (17:06)
kataract {alpha mix} b (17:29)

april 2010 release ; lovely set of pieces from pnw composer / outdoorsman daniel menche, sourced purely to “waterfall recordings” ...

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demego008v / daniel menche
kataract {alpha mix}
lp

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.

this vinyl edition differs from the previous cd edition and features the original alpha mix of kataract.

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bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “man from deep river” compact disc

man from deep river part 1 (24:08)
man from deep river part 2 (13:32)
man from deep river part 3 (32:23)

january 2009 release ; travelogue-lineage electro-acoustic pieces, “based on a found tape from 1975” from benny nilsen, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, and helgi thorsson ...

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demego 007
bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa: man from deep river cd
release date: 26.01.2009

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.

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anthony pateras / robin fox “end of daze” compact disc

prelude
apollonian gasket
you're all answers
whipped silk
rupture
a simple death
lung butter blues
hyperpole

december 2008 release ; third outing by this australian electro-acoustic improv duo, after the pair’s 2003 synaesthesia-label debut (anyone heard from mark recently ? anyone ?) “coagulate” & 2006’s “flux compendium” (also emego) ...

this is high-aktion, bleep-heavy music ; on par with thom lehn & markus schmickler’s duo work (there’s a similar focus on hemming the analogue/digital synthesis dichotomy) yet somehow even more active ... sure, there’s the occasion electrical force-field and/or drone element, but the music rarely stays in one place for more than a second, preferring the kind of pacing that has even the most adhd-addled listener struggling to keep up ...

awesome, really, and highly recommended !!!

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demego 006
anthony pateras & robin fox: end of daze cd
release date: 28.12.2008
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.

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ibitsu “foolproof betters fools bettering foolproof ...” compact disc

foolproof betters fools bettering foolproof .... (24:46)

november 2008 release ; super-minimal computer music, frequencies highlighted in the ultra-low and ear-bleedingly-high ranges ... could be sachiko m, could be jim o’rourke, could be the promising start of a younger japanese composer’s career ; your call ...

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demego 005
ibitsu: foolproof betters fools bettering foolproof.... cd
release date: 28.11.2008
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.

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z’ev / pita “z’ev vs pita • colchester arts centre” compact disc

untitled (1)
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untitled (11)

august 2008 release ; continuous live set pitting pita’s digital sound processes / tools againt z’ev’s battery (npi) of exotic / barbaric percussion instruments ... some nasty overblown granular drones & resonant scrap-metal tangle abound ; one of z’ev’s better collaborations in his recent rejuvenative phase ...

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demego 004
z'ev vs pita cd
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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stephen o’malley / attilla csihar “6ºf skyquake” compact disc

6ºf skyquake (33:42)

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demego 003
stephen o'malley & attila csihar: 6°fskyquake cd

release date: 08.01.2008
1 track
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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gert-jan prins “break before make” compact disc

cryish2
timpanilowfdbck
drn upish
flirtcatastph
groove&flowdispersion
ringflirtsinterlude
ritmokickcercando
drnindustriaagitato
intro elastico
timpani basso ritmo
drummohey
rockassymmetrico
voceevocando
longraspgroove

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demego 002
gert-jan prins: break before make cd

release date: 04.01.2008
14 tracks
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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silvia fässler / billy roisz “skylla” compact disc

silly (0:20)
pink umbrella (8:01)
megrim (4:14)
broomgroom (5:13)
kirre (2:35)
skylla (5:00)
schwarzschild (4:37)
rusty spoon (8:40)
syne (8:33)
astra (1:40)
jimijohnnyfreddy (4:15)

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demego 001
silvia fässler & billy roisz: skylla cd

release date: 08.01.2008
11 tracks
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.
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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