Mego
| Mego | |
|---|---|
| Active years | 1994 to 2005, editions Mego since 2006 |
| founder | Peter Rehberg, Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper, Peter Meininger |
| Seat | Vienna |
| Website | http://www.editionsmego.com/ |
| Label code | mego |
| Sub-label | Spectrum Spools, Sensate Focus, Recollection GRM, Old News, Ideologic Organ |
| Genre (s) | Glitch , ambient , noise |
Mego , launched in 2006 as editions mego , is a label for experimental, mainly electronic music and was founded in 1995. The label is based in Vienna and briefly had an agency in Berlin .
history
Mego was founded in 1994 and was inspired by the fast-paced and international strategy of the techno and rave scene to which all three belonged at the time. The first release was the founder's own maxi called “General Magic & Pita”, the Fridge Trax EP , which only used the sounds of refrigerators. The record was a small success, as was the directly following Maxi Die Mondlandung , which was based on the original broadcast of the 1969 moon landing.
It had spread among Viennese musicians that Mego was now a label for experimental electronic music in the city and a portfolio was set up: within a short period of time, publications by Stützpunkt Wien 12 , DJ DSL , Sluta Leta , but also by Fennesz appeared and Farmers Manual , the latter two acts that have long been closely associated with the label.
In the period from 1995 to 2005, Mego had around 75 releases before the label was dissolved in June 2005. A successor label , editions mego , which continued the old catalog numbering, was started in 2006. Editions Mego ensured that old publications remained available and that new publications were made possible.
Mego-artists were Fennesz (see Endless Summer ), Merzbow , Jim O'Rourke , Radian , Farmers Manual, Stephen O'Malley as well as Russell Haswell , KTL , Chra (Christina Nemec) and others. As a sub-label temporarily existed the net label "false", on the 60 other works by Mego artists, as well as other musicians such as Сон , Merzbow or Kim Cascone appeared.
reception
In 1999 the label itself and in 2003 one of its releases received a Prix Ars Electronica award in the “Digital Music” category. The Wire magazine described Mego in 2003 as "one of the most important and influential labels for electronic music in the past decade". John S called editions mego 2009 in Rock-A-Rolla the “most vital label of experimental electronics and digital music of the present”.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Edwin Pouncey: The rise of Mego. In: The Wire , 231, 2003, pp. 42-49
- ↑ a b John S: editions mego , In: Rock-A-Rolla # 19, 2009, p. 34
- ↑ Online entry on discogs
- ↑ Statement of the jury 2003 ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Statement of the jury 1999 ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "One of the most important and influential electronic music labels of the last decade" , Edwin Pouncey: The rise of Mego , p. 42.
