mego - S/D

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

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

Whatever you say, champ.

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

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

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

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

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

thanks to hstencil for recommending it too.

9.9/10

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

Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (brilliant)

and

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

get out is either blue or red.

http://rla.web.fm/

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

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

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

also destroy that EVOL 3" CD. Yawn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Liking the Quehenberger album. Yay neo-industrial clunkiness.

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

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

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

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

Also -- can someone please explain this?

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

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

did anyone hear the new fennoberg album?

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

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

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

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

any thoughts on russell haswell's recent stuff?

bbbut that would involve actually meeting another ILXor in person!

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

whereas I on the other hand...

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's an amazing lineup.

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

Jeally

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

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

check the Max Eilbacher album, he rules

RIP Peter Rehberg :(

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

Awful news. Just 53.

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

Heartbreaking

oh no. way too soon, awful :/

rip

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

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

3am fridge trax yes come on

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

— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) January 26, 2022

Heard of that guy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

all great recs

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

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

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