Browse by Label: EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)

Artist:	FASSLER & BILLY ROISZ, SILVIA
Title:	Skylla
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DEMEGO 001CD

Silvia Fässler: computer, electronics, guitar; Billy Roisz: computer, turntable. This is the long-awaited debut collaboration between these long time associates of Viennese subculture; Silvia in various curatorial roles and Billy as video artist. 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. Instruments used include the Kluppe Looper and Lloopp.

Artist:	PRINS, GERT-JAN
Title:	Break Before Make
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DEMEGO 002CD

This is Amsterdam-based Gert-Jan Prins' first full-length release. Break Before Make is an arsenal of customized electronics, timpani and voice. Like its predecessor Risk, this record investigates the sonic possibilities to be found in electronic devices and circuits. However, this is no noodling experimental stuff but a compact set of finely-crafted sonics. Short, sharp shocks with a bit of timpani thrown in. Besides his solo-project, current projects include MIMEO, Synchronator and The Flirts. He has collaborated with Pita, Thomas Lehn, Lee Ranaldo, Anne la Berge, Fennesz, Vacuum Boys, Marcus Schmickler, Giuseppe Ielasi, Carlos Giffoni and many more.

Artist:	O'MALLEY & ATTILA CSIHAR, STEPHEN
Title:	6°Fskyquake
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DEMEGO 003CD

Debut collaborative release by Stephen O'Malley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.): HP 200CD & Travis Bean/Fender Twin Reverb; and Attila Csihar: vocals. 6°Fskyquake is an audio composition designed in 2001 but explored in conjunction with the American sculptor Banks Violette's solo shows in the summer of 2007. Actually, two shows at two different galleries, Barbara Gladstone & Team, running simultaneously. The interaction of sound and Violette's work revisited concepts touched in prior collaborations: of loss, absence, residual energy of a missed evocative experience. The composition was captured at a recording session during the installation process at Team gallery, and later transfered to Gladstone as a recorded playback to the public. Designed for three 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 and perceptual mass, gravity induced by heightened sonic action and standing sub-bass pressure. The contribution of lyrics, text and vocals by Hungarian black metal vocalist Attila Csihar were inspired by his journeys inside imperial Tokyo, bringing an emotional and 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.

Artist:	Z'EV VS PITA
Title:	Colchester
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DEMEGO 004CD

This is the debut collaborative release by Z'EV and Pita, recorded live. Both of these artists barely need any introduction: Z'EV is basically the high-guru of industrial music and Pita (Peter Rehberg) is the Austrian co-director of the Editions Mego label. These two heavyweights of experimental music have been associates for two decades. This creative collaboration called Colchester came about after a meeting in 2004, which led to a monthly file exchange program in 2005. Instead of releasing results immediately, they 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 mesmerizing and intense collision of Z'EV's acoustic percussion work and Pita's computer manipulation. This is one absolutely thunderous, continuous track, split into 11 parts. Recorded at the Colchester Arts Centre in 2006, mixed by Z'EV in London in 2008. Mastered at Piethopraxis in Cologne. Designed by SOMA. Limited edition of 500 copies.

Artist:	IBITSU
Title:	Foolproof Betters Fools Bettering Foolproof...
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DEMEGO 005CD

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 2008. 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 as playback on the correct speaker systems. This is not a soundtrack to any other activity but listening. Total time: 24'46. Limited to 500 copies.

Artist:	PATERAS & ROBIN FOX, ANTHONY
Title:	End of Daze
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DEMEGO 006CD

Melbourne-based electroacoustic improv duo Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox return with their second release for the Editions Mego label. This is a shredding album filled with 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 electroacoustic music -- their messy, over-the top contact-miked beginnings now formed into a powerful and futuristic meta-language borrowing from the early electronic masters, with bizarre sound poetry, vintage synth festishism, the eternal patch tweak and good old fashioned Melbourne experimentalist brutality fueled 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. Robin Fox: computer, controllers, ARP 2500, and programming. Anthony Pateras: computer, Doepfer A-100, voice, and Revox B-77.

Artist:	NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA, BJ
Title:	Man From Deep River
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DEMEGO 007CD

A collaborative release between Icelandic experimental duo Stilluppsteypa (Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Helgi Thorsson) and Sweden-born BJNilsen. Based on a found tape from 1975 which served as guidance for the compositions, Man From Deep River opens up a new development in these artists' sound. Melodic passages with sweeping electronics and analog synthesizers mix with field recordings and disturbed voices, creating a multifaceted piece. BJNilsen 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. Stilluppsteypa's electronic abstractions engage absurd theatrics that mar the pristine surface of minimalism. These lovable Nordic heroes are back with more intense listening and shining, isolationist compositions. Man From Deep River quickly develops between two lonely, desperate individuals, and the savage natives around him who turn against their own mountain god. This "illness" is caused by several deeply depressing circumstances and by the intense difficulty of other sickening situations. The musical expression of this story is described by Stilluppsteypa as "an environment of high tension, but also with moments of temporary insanity and auditory hallucinations."

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:	FENNESZ
Title:	Hotel Paral.lel
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 016CD

Hotel Paral.lel, originally released in September 1997 by Mego, was Christian Fennesz's debut solo album. This 2007 remastered reissue includes a bonus track from a 1996 7", and a video. Following up from the EP Instrument, it was an investigation into the sonic possibilities 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 into the future. In addition to the original 14 tracks, two extra titles are included: "5," originally released in 1996 as a 7" single on Syntactic, which was released only in an edition of 100, and the acclaimed video made by Tina Frank/Skot for the track "Aus."

Artist:	FENNESZ
Title:	Plays
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	10"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 020EP

Christian Fennesz lives and works in Paris and Vienna. Plays was originally released as a 7" vinyl by Mego in 1998 and a CD single by Moikai in 1999. It is seen by many as the "turning point" between early Fennesz electronic abstract works such as the Instrument 12" and Hotel Paral.lel CD, and the more guitar-based works such as Endless Summer and Venice. The two tracks, "Paint It Black" and "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)," were initially released as cover versions of songs by The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys, respectively. Since then, via the relevant mechanical and publishing rights, the world has ruled that these tracks are so far removed from the original, that these are, indeed, homages written by Christian Fennesz himself.

Artist:	PITA
Title:	Get Out
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 029CD

Get Out was originally released in 1999 on the Mego label and was Pita's (Peter Rehberg) second full-length release. Out-of-print for over half a decade, this new edition is remastered and packaged in a 6 panel digipack and includes three extra tracks which appeared on the split 12" with Kevin Drumm released by BOXmedia in 2000. Get Out was the follow-up to the award-winning Seven Tons For Free, and its harsh use of available computing devices made it popular both in and outside electronic music circles of the time, especially the 11-minute anthemic third 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." Both restive and restless, orchestral and abrasive, Get Out is the high water mark of laptop noise experimentation and it will absolutely scramble your brain.

Artist:	FENNESZ
Title:	Endless Summer
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 035CD

This reissue of Christian Fennesz's breakthrough classic Endless Summer has been remixed, remastered, and re-released with two extra tracks. Originally released in 2001 by Mego, Endless Summer brought his name and music towards the first steps of mainstream recognition with its micro sounds and warm guitar, harkening the dreamy serenity and quick-fading sentimentality of a California sunset. Following on from the more experimental Hotel Paral.lell and the Beach Boys homaged Plays single, Endless Summer brought the guitars more to the front, the electronics shimmered more, and the melodies shined more brightly. It went on to be a classic of its time, topping many end of year polls. This new definitive edition is newly mixed by Fennesz, resulting in a more open-sounding version of the tracks, especially the marimba driven "Caecilia" and the hypnotic "Before I Leave," and the towering "Happy Audio." It is also re-mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye, and has beautifully photographed artwork by Jon Wozencroft. In addition to the original 8 tracks, it contains 2 extra titles: "Badminton Girl," originally released in 2001 as part of the Split Series #15 12" with Main on Fat Cat Records, now out of print, and "Endless," which is previously unreleased until now. 2007 Pitchfork rating: 9.4!

Artist:	TUJIKO, NORIKO
Title:	Shojo Toshi+
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 047CD

2006 reissued/remastered version of this 2001 international debut album, with new artwork and bonus tracks. 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 a label dealing exclusively in "laptop music," whatever that is). Despite this, the overall reaction was very positive, although Brainwashed decided to declare the whole thing "Bullshit bullshit BULLSHIT!!!" and that Noriko didn't actually exist. Well, sorry to break the news, but she does, and she has since made albums for Mego, Tomlab and Room40 as well as collaborations with Aoki Tokomasa, Port Radium and Lionel Fernandez, 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." These are beautifully abstracted pop songs and arrangements intertwined with shards and splinters of 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 remastered by Marcus Schmickler (Pluramon). It contains, as a bonus, the tracks previously released on the long out-of-print I Forgot The Title 12" vinyl, and has new artwork.

Artist:	O'ROURKE, JIM
Title:	I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And A 1, 2, 3, 4
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 050CD

Recorded between 1997-1999 in NY, Osaka, Tokyo, Toronto and Malmö. Originally released on Mego in 2001, Jim O'Rourke's I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And A 1,2,3,4 is now reissued with a bonus disc featuring unreleased material from the same period, sourced from Jim's vast archive, as well as new artwork. Jim O'Rourke needs no introduction, being well-known as a performer, producer and all-round top chap, as well as a member of various pop and rock combos for more than two decades (Gastr Del Sol, The Red Krayola, Sonic Youth, etc). I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And A 1,2,3,4 was cited by many common folk at the time as Jim's ultimate laptop record or his Powerbook album. Nowadays, people prefer the simple term "computer" when referring to the instrument used for the creation of this milestone album. Equal parts schizoid pop, cracked minimalism, concrète drama and melancholic contemplation, this is a highly personal release. Given the nature of this warm beast, it appeals 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), including a bonus disc featuring unreleased material as well as new artwork. This album will not be available as a download. File under: "handsome."

Artist:	DRUMM, KEVIN
Title:	Sheer Hellish Miasma
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 053CD

Originally released in 2002, now reissued with a bonus track. Utilizing guitar, tapes, mics, pedals, analog synthesizer and some computer assistance, Chicago's own Kevin Drumm concocted a sonic beast with Sheer Hellish Miasma. One is taken on an intense journey of storming feedback, open audio onslaught and somewhat savaged sonics. The extreme end of anarchic electronics and possibly a hint of musical violence is present throughout much of the disc. An essential release capturing Drumm at his most ferocious and most inventive. It's an exhilarating, visceral test of endurance brimming with demonic humor and a tour of Drumm's ever-expanding sonic palette. For seasoned noise veterans, Sheer Hellish Miasma offers a bracing soundscape filled with exquisitely abrasive textures and more than enough hidden detail to warrant repeated listening -- a distinct voice in the increasingly same-sounding world of abstract electronic noise. For everyone else, Drumm's journey through the noisy underworld is likely to inspire fear or, in an optimistic case, fearful admiration. This reissue comes with an additional track, "Impotent Hummer," taken from the same period -- a 13-minute drone piece that draws the listener into the forthcoming blizzard. In total? A din of arms, the fierce swell of damaged drone and the shriek of subtle shifting sonic slaughter ... for the seasoned, a bountiful sonic feast awaits, for the meek it's intense and rewarding -- noise rarely sounds this exhilarating. Revised artwork by Stephen O'Malley. Re-mastered at Piethopraxis, Köln, December 2006.

Artist:	QUINTETAVANT
Title:	En Concert à la Salle des Fêtes
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 077CD

QuintetAvant is comprised of members Lionel Marchetti, Jérome Noetinger, Jean Pallandre, Marc Pichelin and Laurent Sassi, five leading lights of the French improvised, electronic, electroacoustic scene. This recording sees them combine electronic tape, analogue synths and a united love for strange sonorities. Like its predecessor, the vinyl-only release Floppy Nails on Mego, 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, the results are all the more inspired. Interlocking, overlapping, stretching, snapping, bending, morphing and panning, along with vast dynamics: calm and restrained through to hyperactive and fierce. The best band currently active in France? Maybe.

Artist:	TUJIKO, NORIKO
Title:	Solo
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 078CD

This is Osaka's Tujiko Noriko's third-full length release for Editions Mego. While still maintaining her trademark version of experimental Japanese pop, on Solo the edges have been polished with some of Noriko's most accomplished works. In part due to the mixing skills of Gerhard Potuznik and Tyme (from Mas). One could even say a work of great maturity. Noriko herself best describes the record this way: "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."

Artist:	PATERAS & ROBIN FOX, ANTHONY
Title:	Flux Compendium
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 080CD

This is the second release by the Melbourne-based electroacoustic improv duo Anthony Pateras & Robin Fox, and their first for the new Editions Mego label. 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 on 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 a more concréte punk miniature aesthetic, Flux Compendium is a gripping ride.

Artist:	SCHMICKLER, MARCUS
Title:	Altars of Science
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD/DVD_AUDIO
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 082CD

The work of Cologne-based Marcus Schmickler has over the years crossed the boundaries between classical and pop, improvisation and techno. He is 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 field 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, it is an essential addition to any serious collection of 21st century audio. This special dual sided DVD+ format disc contains two versions of the same piece; one side has a stereo mix playable on all CD playing devices while the other side features the mind-blowing multi channel mix, playable on DVD players set up to 5.1.

Artist:	QUEHENBERGER, PHILIPP
Title:	Phantom In Paradise
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 083CD

This is Vienna-based Phillip Quehenberger's long awaited full-length debut, after the 12" EP Q.B.B.Q on Cheap in 2002. Phantom in Paradise seems to be immune to 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, hypnotic maelstroms and darkly gleaming pop. 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!," this is dance-heavy pop-eclecticism.

Artist:	KTL
Title:	KTL
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 084CD

KTL is a collaboration between Stephen O'Malley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.) and Peter Rehberg (Pita, etc.). This is a six-part collision amongst the increasingly fading presences between the light and the dark, with some pieces recorded in a resistance fortress in southern France during a thunderstorm -- while others were recorded in a winter garden drenched in sunlight. The collaboration came about as the two were working on a theatre production 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. File under: digital analog black metal. Stephen O'Malley: strings, FX, amps; Peter Rehberg: oscillators, applications, drives. KTL is a threatening new collaboration taking in parallel worlds of Extreme Computer Music and Black Metal.

Artist:	KTL
Title:	2
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 085CD

This is the second full-length release by KTL, the formidable collaboration between Stephen O'Malley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.) and Peter Rehberg (Pita, etc.). Devastatingly beautiful four-part follow up to the highly 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 emotionally. As with the first CD, elements appeared in the finished version of the theatre piece Kindertotenlieder by Gisele Vienne and Dennis Cooper, which premiered in Brest, France, March 2007. 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.

Artist:	ANGEL
Title:	Kalmukia
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 087CD

Angel is Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic), Hildur Guğnadóttir (Lost In Hildurness) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM), and this is their third release. Angel was originally formed as the duo of Väisänen and Dresselhaus in 1999, releasing two live albums: in 2002 an eponymously-titled album on the French Bip_Hop label and in 2006 a recording of a drone piece played at the Club Transmediale Festival in Berlin in 2005. Kalmukia is a vast epic, sprawling through guitar riffs spanning deep electronic canyons overlooked by a melancholic grey sky. A journey leading to discovery and a final mutation. All players delicately playing off each other, creating a mesmerizing work that sounds like nothing they have done before yet still retaining the audio signatures they have become known for. Packaged in a notebook-style sleeve.

Artist:	DRUMM AND DANIEL MENCHE, KEVIN
Title:	Gauntlet
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 088CD

This is the first collaborative release between U.S. duo Kevin Drumm and Daniel Menche, recorded in the Fall of 2006 in Chicago at Uggae's Porta-toilet studio. One organ, one guitar, several fuzz boxes and two highly-regarded purveyors of American extreme sonics are the savory 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 a sizzling, scorching slab of essential audio. Heavy in iron and protein. A lean cut indeed, no fat included. Mixed and mastered at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, Oregon. Kevin Drumm: guitar and noise; Daniel Menche: organ and noise.

Artist:	KTL
Title:	IV
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 089CD

This is the long-awaited fourth album by KTL -- the ongoing duo of Stephen O'Malley (SunnO))), Khanate, etc.) and Peter Rehberg (Pita, etc.). 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 KTL (Editions Mego, 2006), 2 (Editions Mego, 2007) and KTL3 (Or, 2007) were blurred washes of fog and noise polished by ambient shine, IV is a more direct and demanding beast, referencing such diverse projects as: volume-era Swans, Red 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 and controls. IV is a stunning new direction and a 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 and synth and organ blasts from Rehberg. Atsuo, from Japanese top-rockers Boris, glues it together with his arrhythmic and punishing drumming. "Wicked Way" is a breezy, upbeat number, which, if the band were that way inclined, would be the album's single. "Benbbet," on the other hand, is a whole different ball game: a distant guitar loop is joined by slamming, no step beats, 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. IV was produced by Jim O'Rourke. Stephen O'Malley (guitar); Peter Rehberg (computer & synthesizer); Atsuo (drums on track 2 and gong on track 6).

Artist:	POPOL VUH
Title:	Nachts: Schnee/Aguirre I (Remixes)
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	12"
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EMEGO 090EP

Editions Mego is pleased to present two re-workings of classic Popol Vuh tracks. Mika Vainio takes "Nachts: Schnee" from the 1987 soundtrack Cobra Verde and delivers a skillfully-constructed ambient piece of beauty. Haswell & Hecker turn "Aguirre I" from the 1972 soundtrack Aguirre: The Wrath Of God into the first track to be played at the last rave on Earth. This release uses vintage digital delays and freeze effect units, in conjunction with digital compositional tools. Pressed on red vinyl. Last copies of this now deleted edition.

Artist:	PRURIENT
Title:	Arrowhead
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 091CD

Brooklyn noise herald and Hospital Productions label-head, Dominick Fernow presents his first release for the Editions Mego label. Fernow has been an active instigator in the power electronics and noise genre for well over a decade, with 100+ releases issued so far, usually limited and covering all known formats. Known in particular for his harrowing live performances where he uses his voice, amps, microphones, coins, tools, suitcases etc., to create a brain-bashing journey through mangled, negative sound. In this spirit, Arrowhead is comprised of three 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 two rows in front complained of high-pitched whistling in the air conditioning. Such is the power of Arrowhead. Recorded in the winter of 2004 in Providence, RI. Finalized in the winter of 2005 in New York City. Guest musician: Kris Lapke.

Artist:	REHBERG, PETER
Title:	Work For GV 2004-2008
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 092CD

Peter Rehberg (aka Pita) is a composer and performer of electronic audio works, and also the founder of the Editions Mego label. His 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 U.S. author, Dennis Cooper. This CD is a document of selected audio parts of all Gisèle Vienne productions made between 2004-2008, except for the epic Kindertotenlieder, whose audio material was presented on the various KTL releases in 2006 and 2007. 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 of "Meurtre" by Catherine Robbe-Grillet and Jonathan Capdevielle, which was released as a single-sided 12" vinyl in 2005, 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 grey zone where puppetry, literature, contemporary theatre and dance, visual art, and extreme computer music meet.

Artist:	ANGEL
Title:	Hedonism
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 093CD

This is technically the fourth release by Angel, but is in actuality the first recording produced by Dirk Dresselhaus and Ilpo Väsiänen as a duo -- a project which started in 1999. Five years in the making and started before Hildur Guğnadóttir joined forces, Hedonism is a collision of urban and rural settings. The opening five blistering tracks retain a full-on sci-fi punk feel, created 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 exercises manipulating various concrete sources, leading up to the final two pieces recorded at Ilpo's lakeside cottage in the wilds of northern Finland. Here, fragile field recordings of insects, fish eating mosquitos, and birds mesh with the duo's 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.

Artist:	HECKER
Title:	Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 094CD

This is Vienna-based Florian Hecker's first full-length studio (as opposed to collections and commissions for art installations) album since 2003, when the groundbreaking Sun Pandämonium was unleashed by Mego. Since then, he has collaborated on audio projects with Yasunao Tone, Russell Haswell (as Haswell & Hecker) and a forthcoming live collaboration with Richard James, as well as a myriad of sound installation works, individually and with numerous artists worldwide. As the title suggests, this album is referencing the parallel universes of modern 20th century composition and hedonistic rave culture. A challenging but ultimately rewarding set of electronic music compositions which push these two reference points into unknown areas. Set in apparent contrast is the sequence of six pieces, "Acid In The Style Of David Tudor," where hyperchaotic functions are inherently coupled to their sources of manipulation -- a Buchla modular synthesizer in combination with a Comdyna analog computer -- in opposition to the ASA pieces, fruit of a complex manipulation of distinct auditory patterns into a new acoustic whole. The closing "Ten" opens with an intense, head-related localization blur. Here, virtual binaural, stereophonic, biphonic and monaural sound reproduction coexist. All three approaches are displayed in contrasting dynamics, where non-linear waveforms and psychoacoustic illusions constantly push our perceptual and representational fabrics. Following the ideas of Robin Mackay, Hecker's work reinstanciates the genetic of-ness, once proposed by philosopher David Kaplan, cutting both genetic and cultural territories of hearing. This release also contains an extensive 12-page essay "Climate of Bass Hunter: Florian Hecker Acid In The Style Of David Tudor" by Robin Mackay, founding editor of Collapse, a journal of philosophical research and development. It is recommended to listen to this material on loudspeakers at high volume. Headphone use is not advised.

Artist:	CAPECE & MIKA VAINIO, LUCIO
Title:	Trahnie
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 098CD

Editions Mego issues the first album by duo Lucio Capece and Mika Vainio. At first glance, the two seem unlikely partners. Two standard-bearers at opposing poles of extremity, both sonically and geographically. Lucio from Argentina and rooted in the 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. Recorded over a 2-year period in Berlin (their common chosen home), Trahnie is 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." It's all here. Lucio Capece: soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, preparations, mixer-sax feedback, sruti box; Mika Vainio: electronics and treatments, electric guitar, cymbal.

Artist:	FENN O'BERG
Title:	Magic & Return
Label:	EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	EMEGO 3154CD

Editions Mego presents legendary supergroup Fenn O'Berg (Christian Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg) and the double CD reissue of The Magic Sound Of Fenn O'Berg and The Return Of Fenn O'Berg, originally released in 1999 and 2002. Fenn O'Berg 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 Of Fenn O'Berg. Although they were not the first group to utilize 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 polarized 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, it's worth considering that the technology at the time didn't offer the convenient "plug and play" of current operating systems and applications. This, of course, led to a 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 group's 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 polarizing 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 Fenn O'Berg. Since then, the trio has been on a constant pause, but are planning to resurface with a brand-new album in 2010. This reissue is repackaged with new artwork by Tina Frank, and contains two bonus tracks from the same period. This is unmatched improvised computer music that simply defined a whole genre.

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