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Artist:	HASWELL, RUSSELL
Title:	Second Live Salvage
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 013LP

This is the long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning Live Salvage 1997-2000 CD (MEGO 012CD, 2000). Hot on the heels of recent collaborative releases with Florian Hecker (as Haswell & Hecker) on Warner Classics, Warp Records and Editions Mego, Coventry, UK's Russell Haswell presents the second volume of his Live Salvage archive series. This series documents 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 LP set. As NME asserted of this series, "now you can experience the terror in your own home." The brilliant cover art is based on Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert (front) and Swans' Public Castration Is A Good Idea (back).

Artist:	HASWELL, RUSSELL
Title:	Wild Tracks
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 099CD

The UK's multidisciplinary artist Russell Haswell returns with a complete departure from his real-time computer-generated improvisations Live Salvage 1997-2000 (MEGO 012CD, 2001) and Second Live Salvage, (EMEGO 013LP, 2008). Wild Tracks is a collection of "deliberate recordings" made with other multimedia/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, to the entrance of a wasp nest in Suffolk, on a helicopter ride in St. Lucia, and two waterfalls in County Durham, and also including the sound of freshly-fallen snow, flies being electrocuted and contributions from various military tactical airlift planes, air defense fighters and attack helicopters. The recordings on Wild Tracks were realized using a variety of techniques, including using hydrophones to record falling snow, recording gamekeepers many fields away with a parabolic dish, as well as using binaural, "near-field" and "direct" recording devices. Editions Mego understands this to be the first commercially-released audio CD to be packaged in a KIDZBOX, containing a full-color A2 poster with photographs and detailed recording notes. Unlike any other release this season. WARNING: extreme dynamic levels. Listeners' experience may change during playback!

Artist:	HASWELL, RUSSELL
Title:	In It (Immersive Live Salvage)
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	LP/DVD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 115LP

A 5.1 Surround DVD (Dolby Digital + DTS, "audio only") + Ambisonic UHJ vinyl LP (an LP that can play surround when playing through an ambisonic encoder. It can also be played on a regular stereo). Following an invitation from Autechre to support them on their 2010 European "Overstepper" tour (30 concerts, 15 countries), UK experimental multidisciplinary artist 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. UHJ vinyl LP cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, January 2011.

Artist:	HASWELL, RUSSELL
Title:	ACID nO!se Synthesis
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 134CD

"Pure audio-visual abstraction" or "true synesthesia?" For his new studio album, UK experimental artist Russell Haswell tackles the complex world of analog modular synthesis, alongside his regular live kit of electronics and pedals, or computer. At the same time as recording, the artist also monitored his material visually with an X-Y oscilloscope, revealing the movement of the stereo signal and phase correlation (try it for yourself). However, this is no hipster noodling, but a whole album crammed full of tracks that explode hard. Brutal acid lines fight for room against insane noisescapes and face-melting electronics, severe dynamics, brain-floss, collision-edits, oscillographic pervery, as well as a smattering of genuine, dark, metallic oddness and grimey immersive voids! ACID nO!se Synthesis could be your most fulfilling multi-sensory experience from a piece of plastic this year. Comes with a 16-page booklet with text and 15 vector oscillograms. Improvisation on either modular synthesizer, 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 a 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: www.fluxhome.com/products/freewares/stereotool, www.audiofile-engineering.com/spectre. Recommended reading: Oscilloscope at work. Alfred Haas, Ralph Watson Hallows (Wireless World/Iliffe & Sons Ltd. 1956); Audio Metering. Eddy Bøgh Brixen (Focal Press. 2011).

Artist:	HASWELL, RUSSELL
Title:	Live Salvage 1997-2000
Label:	MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MEGO 012CD

Reissue of this 2001 release. "Solo debut (discounting, rightly so, the 'Adaptable Man' flexidisc) from OR Records' CEO, after a Merzbow collaboration (Akita/Azuma/Haswell/Sakabira, Ich Schnitt Mich In Den Finger, MEGO 022) and several compilation appearances (remix of Thurston Moore on Lo's Root, remix of Merzbow on the Blast First Scumtron CD). Merzbow comparison(s) aren't that far off really (Pita, on the other hand, can sound JUST like Merzbow). A collection of field recordings, live performances (yalping and all), processed and gutted, presented as a touring catalogue of sorts. Quite rowdy." -- Hrvatski.

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