Mego was an experimental electronic music

independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

based in Vienna, Austria. The label has been superseded by a new company, Editions Mego, which was set up both to keep Mego albums in print and to issue new albums, run by Peter Rehberg a.k.a. Pita.

Impact and critical acclaim

The label's efforts were awarded a distinction at the

Ars Electronica Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in the ...

1999. In the jury's statement, Jim O'Rourke lauded the label's work as defining "a brand new punk computer music"."Rather than splitting the prize between the two Mego entries: Christian Fennesz's ''Hotel Parall.lel'' and Pita's ''Seven Tons for Free Remaster Version 1.2'', the Jury ecidedthat the Distinction should be awarded to the Mego label as a whole."

Mego releases

* MEGO 001 General Magic +

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: Fridge Trax 12" (05.1995) * MEGO 002 General Magic / Elin: Die Mondlandung 12" (05.1995) * MEGO 003 Stützpunkt Wien 12: UFO Beobachtungen 93-95 2x12" (05.1995) (released on CD by Or, 01.1998) * MEGO 004 Fennesz: Instrument 12" (10.1995) (tracks appear on Fennesz: Field Recordings, released by Touch 09.2002) * MEGO 005 DJ DSL: I L.O.V.E. You 12" (10.1995) * MEGO 006 Sluta Leta: Fan Club 12" (11.1995) * MEGO 007 The Mego Jacket (08.1995) * MEGO 008

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: No Backup CD+ (05.1996) * MEGO 009

: Seven Tons For Free CD (06.1996) (released in Japan by Digital Narcis, 01.1999) * MEGO 010 General Magic: Frantz CD (06.1997) (released in Japan by Digital Narcis, 06.2003) * MEGO 011 Potuznik: Amore Motore (...Autobahn) CD (04.1998) * MEGO 012

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: Live Salvage 1997-2000 CD (04.2001) * MEGO 013 not released * MEGO 014 Hecker: IT ISO161975 CD (07.1998) * MEGO 015 Pure: The End Of Vinyl 3"CD" (03.1999) * MEGO 015v Pure: The End Of Vinyl 12" Picture Disc (04.2001) * MEGO 016 Fennesz: Hotel Paral.lel CD (09.1997) * MEGO 017

: fm 12" (08.1996) * MEGO 018 Evol: Principio 3" CD (04.1999) * MEGO 019 Goem: Dertig CM 12" (03.1999) * MEGO 020 Fennesz: Plays 7" (11.1998) (released a CDS by Moikai, 02.1999) * MEGO 020t Fennesz: Plays T-shirt (12.1998) * MEGO 021 gcttcatt: ampErase CD+ (10.2001) * MEGO 022

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/Azuma/ Haswell/Sakaibara: Ich Schnitt Mich In Den Finger 12" (05.1997) * MEGO 023 SKOT presents The Mego Videos 96-98 VHS/PAL (05.1999) * MEGO 023t SKOT T-shirt (01.1999) * MEGO 024 Hecker: *iso , chall CD (02.2000) * MEGO 025 Fuckhead: The Male Comedy (...oder der Traum vom kleinen Glück) CD (10.1998) * MEGO 026 Fanclub Erdberg/DJ DSL: Anton Polster Du Bist Leiwand 7" (10.1997) * MEGO 026CD Fanclub Erdberg/DJ DSL: Anton Polster Du Bist Leiwand CDS (10.1997) * MEGO 027 Zbigniew Karkowski: it 3"CD (06.2000) * MEGO 028 Nachtstrom: 17 Songs After Midnight LP (07.1999) * MEGO 029

: Get Out CD (10.1999) (released on vinyl by Moikai, 09.2000) * MEGO 030 Pure: Noonbugs CD (09.2002) * MEGO 031 Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg: The Magic Sound Of Fenn O'Berg CD (12.1999) * MEGO 032 General Magic: Rechenkönig CD (10.2000) * MEGO 033 IBM: The Oval Recording LP+7" (01.2001) * MEGO 034 Francisco López: untitled #92 LP (06.2000) * MEGO 035 Fennesz: Endless Summer CD (06.2001) (released in Japan by P-Vine, 09.2003) * MEGO 035v Fennesz: Endless Summer LP (06.2001) * MEGO 035t Fennesz: Endless Summer T-shirt (09.2001) * MEGO 036 not released * MEGO 037 Ilpo Väisänen: Asuma CD (01.2001) * MEGO 038 Evol: Magia Potagia CD (03.2005) * MEGO 039 Uli Troyer: NOK 3"CD (09.2000) * MEGO 040 Merzbow: A Taste Of.. CD (05.2002) * MEGO 041 ddkern: gern 12" (01.2002) * MEGO 042 Dr. Nachtstrom: Leidenschaft CD (02.2002) * MEGO 043 Skot vs. Hecker VHS/PAL (04.2000) * MEGO 044 Hecker: Sun Pandämonium CD (02.2003) * MEGO 045 Alexandre Navarro: Horizons 2018 CD (01.2003) * MEGO 047 Tujiko Noriko: Shojo Toshi CD (05.2001) (see also eMEGO 047) * MEGO 777

: rla DVD-ROM (03.2003) * MEGO 049

: Get Down LP (06.2002) * MEGO 049t

: Get Down T-shirt (09.2002) * MEGO 050 Jim O'Rourke: I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And a 1,2,3,4 CD (12.2001) (released in Japan by P-Vine, 09.2002) * MEGO 050v Jim O'Rourke: I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And a 1,2,3,4 LP (01.2002) * MEGO 051 Massimo: Hey babe, let me see your USB and I'll show you my FireWire 3"CD (11.2001) * MEGO 052 2002 - 125ccm / 2-stroke race kart (03.2003) * MEGO 053 Kevin Drumm: Sheer Hellish Miasma CD (05.2002) * MEGO 054 Fennesz/ O'Rourke/ Rehberg: The Return Of Fenn O'Berg CD (07.2002) (released in Japan by P-Vine, 09.2002) * MEGO 054v Fennesz/ Jim O'Rourke/ Rehberg: The Return Of Fenn O'Berg LP (07.2002) * MEGO 055 COH: Mask Of Birth CD (08.2002) * MEGO 056 DACM: ShowroomDummies CD (06.2002) * MEGO 057 Tujiko Noriko: I Forgot The Title 12" (06.2002) * MEGO 058 Ilsa Gold: Regretten? Rien! DoCD (10.2003) * MEGO 059 quintetAvant: Floppy Nails LP (12.2002) * MEGO 060 Yasunao Tone & Hecker: Palimpsest CD (10.2004) * MEGO 061 Mego presents: Playback Device Confusion Volume One featuring Aleph Empire shaped 3"CD (12.2002) * MEGO 062 Tujiko Noriko: Hard Ni Sasete (Make Me Hard) CD (10.2002) * MEGO 063 Massimo: Hello Dirty CD (10.2002) MEGO 064 Hecker: 2 Track 12" (03.2003) (released in collaboration with Synaesthesia, SYN 004) * MEGO 065 not released * MEGO 066 BulBul: Drabule 12" (07.2004) * MEGO 067 COH: Electric Electric 12" (09.2003) * MEGO 068 not released * MEGO 069

& Hecker: Revision single sided 12" (06.2005) * MEGO 070 Fritz Ostermayer: Kitsch Concrète CD (08.2003) * MEGO 071 Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori: Phantom Orchard CD (05.2004) * MEGO 072

Gert-Jan Prins Gert-Jan Prins (born 1961, IJmuiden) is a Dutch musician active in free improvisation. Initially a free jazz percussionist, Prins now focuses on producing and manipulating sound, especially white noise, white and pink noise, using a collection of ...

: Risk 3"CD (03.2004) * MEGO 073 Sluta Leta: Semi Peterson CD (11.2003) * MEGO 074 Rob Mazurek: Sweet & Vicious Like Frankenstein CD (01.2004) * MEGO 075 Vega/ Vainio/Väisänen (VVV): Resurrection River CD (05.2005) * MEGO 076 COH: 0397POST-POP DoCD (01.2005) * MEGO 077 see eMEGO 077 * MEGO 078 not released * MEGO 079

dieb13 Dieb13 is the performing name of Dieter Kovačič, a Viennese-based avant-garde musician. He has also performed under the names Takeshi Fumimoto, Echelon, Dieter Bohlen, and dieb14. After appearing on several compilations documenting the burgeoni ...

vs. Takeshi Fumimoto 12" picture vinyl (06.2005) * MR 001 Radian: tg11 CD (03.2000) (released in collaboration with Rhiz) * HEC2 Hecker: PV Trecks CD (03.2004)

Editions Mego releases

* eMEGO 080

Anthony Pateras Anthony Peter Pateras (born 1979) is an Australian-born composer, pianist and electronic musician. He has released several solo albums and collaborated with other artists. Pateras has performed and recorded in Australia, North America and Euro ...

& Robin Fox: Flux Compendium CD (01.2006) * eMEGO 081 Hecker: Electronic Music Soundtrack for "The Disenchanted Forest x 1001" by Angela Bulloch DoCD (02.2006) * eMEGO 047 Tujiko Noriko: 少女都市+ (Shojo Toshi+) CD (05.2006) * eMEGO 077 quintetAvant: En Concert à la Salle des Fêtes CD (07.2006) * eMEGO 084 KTL CD (10.2006) * eMEGO 020 Fennesz: Plays 10" vinyl (11.2006) * eMEGO 035 Fennesz: Endless Summer CD (12.2006) * eMEGO 078 Tujiko Noriko: Solo CD (02.2007) * eMEGO 053

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: Sheer Hellish Miasma CD (03.2007) * eMEGO 083 Philipp Quehenberger: Phantom In Paradise CD (04.2007) * eMEGO 085 KTL: 2 CD (05.2007) * eMEGO 088

Daniel Menche Daniel Menche (born December 4, 1969) is an American experimental musician and multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. Since 1989 he has recorded many albums that are categorized as electro-acoustic, noise music, dark ambient music, abst ...

: Gauntlet CD (07.2007) * eMEGO 085.5 KTL: Eine eiserne Faust in einem Samthandschuh CDR (09.2007) * eMEGO 016 Fennesz: Hotel Paral.lel CD (09.2007) * eMEGO 001 General Magic &

: Fridge Trax DigitalDownload * eMEGO 082

Marcus Schmickler Marcus Schmickler (born November 15, 1968, in Cologne) is a German composer, musician, and producer. He is also known under the pseudonym Pluramon. Background In 1968 he was born as the son of an industrial salesman and a baker's daughter in C ...

: Altars Of Science DVD+ (10.2007) * eMEGO 086 KTL: Live In Krems LP (12.2007) * DeMEGO 003

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: 6°FSKYQUAKE CD (01.2008) * DeMEGO 002

: Break Before Make CD (01.2008) * DeMEGO 001 Silvia Fässler &

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: Skylla CD (01.2008) * eMEGO 087 Angel: Kalmukia CD (01.2008) * eMEGO 085.5 KTL: IKKI CDR (02.2008) * eMEGO 090 Popol Vuh:

Mika Vainio Mika Tapio Vainio (May 15, 1963 – April 12, 2017) was a Finnish electronic musician. He was best known as a member of Pan Sonic. In addition to his real name, he recorded under the aliases Ø, Kentolevi, Philus, and Tekonivel. He has worked wi ...

/ Haswell & Hecker Remixes 12" (03.2008) * eMEGO 029

: Get Out CD (05.2008) * eMEGO 013

: Second Live Salvage 2LP (06.2008) * eMEGO 091

Prurient Ian Dominick Fernow is an American experimental musician, poet and multimedia artist. He is best known for extreme music released under the stage name Prurient, as well as numerous other aliases including Vatican Shadow and Rainforest Spiritual ...

: Arrowhead CD (07.2008) * DeMEGO 004 Z'EV vs.

PITA Pita ( or ) or pitta (British English), is a family of yeast-leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and neighboring areas. It includes the widely known version with an interior pocket, als ...

: Colchester CD (08.2008) * eMEGO 089.5 KTL IV PARIS DEMOS CDR (09.2008) * eMEGO 092 Peter Rehberg: Work For GV 2004-2008 CD (10.2008) * DeMEGO 005 ibitsu: foolproof betters fools bettering foolproof... CD (11.2008) * eMEGO 093 Angel: Hedonism CD (12.2008) * DeMEGO 006

& Robin Fox: End Of Daze CD (12.2008) * eMEGO 089 KTL IV CD (01.2009) * DeMEGO 007

BJ Nilsen Benny Jonas Nilsen (born 1975), alias BJ Nilsen, BJNilsen, and Hazard, is a Swedish sound artist based in Amsterdam. His work primarily focuses on the sounds of nature and how they affect humans. Recent work has explored the urban acoustic real ...

& Stilluppsteypa: Man From Deep River CD (01.2009) * eMEGO 098

Lucio Capece Lucio is an Italian and Spanish male given name derived from the Latin name ''Lucius''. In Portuguese, the given name is accented Lúcio. Lucio is also an Italian surname. Given name * Lúcio (Lucimar Ferreira da Silva) (born 1978), Brazilian f ...

: Trahnie CD (03.2009) * eMEGO 094 Hecker: Acid In The Style Of David Tudor CD (05.2009) * eMEGO 050 Jim O'Rourke: I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, a 1,2,3,4 Double CD (05.2009) * eMEGO 3154 Fenn O'Berg: Magic & Return Double CD (07.2009) * eMEGO 096 Bruce Gilbert: Oblivio Agitatum CD (10.2009) * eMEGO 099

: Wild Tracks CD (10.2009) * eMEGO 097 Cindytalk: The Crackle Of My Soul CD (11.2009) * DeMEGO 009 Sister Iodine: Flame Desastre CD (11.2009) * eMEGO 102 Bruce Gilbert: This Way (25th Anniversary Reissue) CD (12.2009) * DeMEGO 008

: Kataract CD (12.2009) * EMEGO 241 Yasunao Tone AI Deviation #1, #2 CD (2017)

References

External links

Official site of Editions Mego
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mego (Label) Austrian independent record labels 1994 establishments in Austria 2005 disestablishments in Austria Record labels established in 1994 Record labels disestablished in 2005 Electronic music record labels Experimental music record labels Free improvisation

Impact and critical acclaim

Mego releases

Editions Mego releases

See also

References

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