Mego was an

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based in

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. The label has been superseded by a new company, Editions Mego, which was set up both to keep Mego albums in print and to issue new albums, run by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 Peter Rehberg (29 June 1968 – 22 July 2021), also known as Pita, was a British-Austrian composer of electronic audio works. He was the head of Editions Mego, which he founded in 2006 as a successor to Mego. Early life Rehberg was born in To ...

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 +

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 ...

: 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 Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is an Austrian producer and guitarist active in electronic music since the 1990s, often credited simply by his last name. His work utilizes guitar and laptop computers to blend melody with treated samples ...

: 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

Farmers Manual Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in Vienna in the beginning of the 1990s. The core members of the collective are Mathias Gmachl, Stefan Possert, Oswald Berthold, Gert Brantner, and Nik Gaffney. Part of the very ...

No Backup ''No Backup'', released in May 1996, is the first album by Farmers Manual. A remastered 2nd edition was reprinted in August 1999. Track listing #"Macro Woeb" - 5:54 #"Biomagic I" - 6:45 #"Biomagic II" - 7:19 #"Perimeter 87" - 9:38 #"Nomad 137" - ...

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

Russell Haswell Russell Haswell (born 1970, Coventry) is an English multidisciplinary artist. He has exhibited conceptual and wall-based visual works, video art, public sculpture, as well as audio presentations in both art gallery and concert hall contexts. Ex ...

: 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

: 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

: Plays 7" (11.1998) (released a CDS by Moikai, 02.1999) * MEGO 020t

: Plays T-shirt (12.1998) * MEGO 021 gcttcatt: ampErase CD+ (10.2001) * MEGO 022

Masami Akita is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by , best known for a style of harsh, confrontational noise. Since 1980, Akita has released over 400 recordings and has collaborated with various artists. The name Merzbow comes from the German dada ...

/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

/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

: Endless Summer CD (06.2001) (released in Japan by

P-Vine P-Vine Records is an independent record label based in Tokyo, Japan. History It was started in 1976 by Blues Interactions, a firm founded in 1975 by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi, as a record label focused on black music. The label name c ...

, 09.2003) * MEGO 035v

: Endless Summer LP (06.2001) * MEGO 035t

: Endless Summer T-shirt (09.2001) * MEGO 036 not released * MEGO 037

Ilpo Väisänen Ilpo Väisänen (born 1963 in Kuopio) is a Finnish electronic musician. He is best known as a member of Pan Sonic. In addition to his real name, he has recorded under the aliases ''I-LP-O In Dub'', ''I-LP-ON'', ''Liima'' and ''Piiri''. Together w ...

: Asuma CD (01.2001) * MEGO 038 Evol: Magia Potagia CD (03.2005) * MEGO 039 Uli Troyer: NOK 3"CD (09.2000) * MEGO 040

Merzbow is a Japanese noise project started in 1979 by , best known for a style of harsh, confrontational noise. Since 1980, Akita has released over 400 recordings and has collaborated with various artists. The name Merzbow comes from the German dada ...

: 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 Alexandre Navarro is guitarist, sound maker and independent producer from Bordeaux and now living in Paris. Considered as "french master minimalist composer" He studied electroacoustic music, concrete music and electronic music at Conservatoire ...

: Horizons 2018 CD (01.2003) * MEGO 047

Tujiko Noriko is a Japanese musician, actor and director, from Osaka. She has released music on the Austrian label Mego and the German label Tomlab, among others. Much of her music is composed on a laptop and consists of layered samples, electronic beats, ...

: 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

O'Rourke O'Rourke ( ga, Ó Ruairc) is an Irish Gaelic clan based most prominently in what is today County Leitrim. The family were the historic rulers of Breifne and later West Breifne until the 17th century. The O'Rourke Clan Chieftain is at odds with t ...

/ Rehberg: The Return Of Fenn O'Berg CD (07.2002) (released in Japan by P-Vine, 09.2002) * MEGO 054v

/ 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

: 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 (b. 1935) is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Tokyo, Japan and working in New York City. He graduated from Chiba University in 1957 with a major in Japanese Literature. An important figure in postwar Japanese art during the sixties, he was acti ...

& Hecker: Palimpsest CD (10.2004) * MEGO 061 Mego presents: Playback Device Confusion Volume One featuring Aleph Empire shaped 3"CD (12.2002) * MEGO 062

: 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 Zeena Parkins (born 1956) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist active in experimental, free improvised, contemporary classical, and avant-jazz music; she is known for having "reinvented the harp". Parkins performs on standard harp ...

Ikue Mori (born 17 December 1953), also known as Ikue Ile, is a drummer, electronic musician, composer, and graphic designer. Mori was awarded a "Genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 2022. Biography Ikue Mori was born and raised in Japan. She sa ...

: 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 and pink noise, using a collection of custom-buil ...

: Risk 3"CD (03.2004) * MEGO 073 Sluta Leta: Semi Peterson CD (11.2003) * MEGO 074

Rob Mazurek Rob Mazurek (born 1965) is an American composer, cornetist, improviser and visual artist living in Chicago, Illinois. Biography Rob Mazurek is an American electro-acoustic composer, cornetist, improviser and visual artist living in Chicago, Illi ...

: Sweet & Vicious Like Frankenstein CD (01.2004) * MEGO 075

Vega Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This star is relatively close at only from the Sun, an ...

/ 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 The radian, denoted by the symbol rad, is the unit of angle in the International System of Units (SI) and is the standard unit of angular measure used in many areas of mathematics. The unit was formerly an SI supplementary unit (before that c ...

: 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 Robin Fox (born 1934) is an Anglo-American anthropologist who has written on the topics of incest avoidance, marriage systems, human and primate kinship systems, evolutionary anthropology, sociology and the history of ideas in the social scien ...

: 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

: 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

: Plays 10" vinyl (11.2006) * eMEGO 035

: Endless Summer CD (12.2006) * eMEGO 078

: Solo CD (02.2007) * eMEGO 053

Kevin Drumm Kevin Drumm (born 1970) is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States. Biography Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work ...

: 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

: Hotel Paral.lel CD (09.2007) * eMEGO 001

General Magic General Magic was an American software and electronics company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, and Marc Porat. Based in Mountain View, California, the company developed precursors to "USB, software modems, small touchscreens, touch ...

: 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

Stephen O'Malley Stephen O'Malley (sometimes referred to as SOMA; born July 15, 1974) is an American guitarist, producer, composer, and visual artist from Seattle, Washington, who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone doom, death/doom, and exper ...

Attila Csihar Attila Csihar (; born 29 March 1971), also sometimes known as Void, is a Hungarian extreme metal vocalist, best known for his vocal work in Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and American drone-doom project Sunn O))). Author Ian Christe descr ...

: 6°FSKYQUAKE CD (01.2008) * DeMEGO 002

: Break Before Make CD (01.2008) * DeMEGO 001 Silvia Fässler & Billy Roisz: Skylla CD (01.2008) * eMEGO 087 Angel: Kalmukia CD (01.2008) * eMEGO 085.5 KTL: IKKI CDR (02.2008) * eMEGO 090

Popol Vuh ''Popol Vuh'' (also ''Popol Wuj'' or ''Popul Vuh'' or ''Pop Vuj'') is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people, one of the Maya peoples, who inhabit Guatemala and the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Q ...

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 Z'EV (born Stefan Joel Weisser, February 8, 1951 – December 16, 2017) was an American poet, percussionist, and sound artist. After studying various world music traditions at CalArts, he began creating his own percussion sounds out of indust ...

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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

: Work For GV 2004-2008 CD (10.2008) * DeMEGO 005

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: foolproof betters fools bettering foolproof... CD (11.2008) * eMEGO 093 Angel: Hedonism CD (12.2008) * DeMEGO 006

: End Of Daze CD (12.2008) * eMEGO 089 KTL IV CD (01.2009) * DeMEGO 007 BJ Nilsen & 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 ...

: 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 Fenn O'Berg was an improvisational computer music trio made up of members Christian Fennesz, Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke. Their existence began with a surprise appearance at the Nickelsdorf Festival in 1997. This was followed by extensive int ...

: Magic & Return Double CD (07.2009) * eMEGO 096

Bruce Gilbert Bruce Clifford Gilbert (born 18 May 1946) is an English musician. One of the founding members of the influential and experimental art punk band Wire (band), Wire,Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 180-182 ...

: Oblivio Agitatum CD (10.2009) * eMEGO 099

: Wild Tracks CD (10.2009) * eMEGO 097

Cindytalk Cindytalk is an experimental music project, founded in 1982. Cindytalk operated as a group for many years, but more recently has been a solo project by Cinder (musician), Cinder (previously known as Gordon Sharp), a Scottish performer and the o ...

: The Crackle Of My Soul CD (11.2009) * DeMEGO 009 Sister Iodine: Flame Desastre CD (11.2009) * eMEGO 102

: This Way (25th Anniversary Reissue) CD (12.2009) * DeMEGO 008

: Kataract CD (12.2009) * EMEGO 241

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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