From Johan LOONES Sent Tue, Oct 19th 1999, 20:44
I just been listening to it and it's stunning but not too original... Only the quiet parts are really impressive. Track 9 shows much similarities even too track 2 from the Köhn² cd... Coincidence??? -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: p i e t r o <xxx@xxxxxxx.xx> Aan: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx <xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> Datum: dinsdag 19 oktober 1999 21:33 Onderwerp: (idm) Pita : Get Out : [mego] > >Fresh from the DEI press-sheets: >>> > >PITA >Get Out >MEGO029(B)CD / MEGO029(R)CD >[limited edition BLUE & RED cover art] > >Long awaited follow up to Prix Ars Electronica 99 winning debut "Seven >Tons For Free" (currently awaiting second repress on Digital Narics). "Get >Out" was constructed on the Twisted harddisc in various locations around >the world. A more varied, complex affair than its predecessor with a couple >of surpises thrown in for absolutely no reason at all. Half the edition is >available in red, the other in blue. Please make your choice. > >The Wire (October 1999)>> >With a hardcore attitude and approach to sonic manipulation that equals >peers like Autechre, Pan Sonic, and Merzbow, Vienna's Mego label has been >active at the cutting-edge of digital music culture for the past four >years. Hacking out their own, distinctive audio print, based around >abrasive tonalities, glitches and wrinkles, and skittering, abstract >structures, they operate across a variety of modern electronic media, >consistently pushing and interrogating the technology ñ searching out >spikes, cracks and creative spaces. The visceral grain of the sound and its >placement appear rigorously, obsessively worked. With Mego, you can >literally feel the quality, the difference. > >Both a treat and trauma for the ears, "Get Out" sees Mego founder Peter >Rehberg in solo mode, opening out a varied collection of simmering >sound-scapes. Nine (untitled) tracks, totalling 38-minutes, move you >through a devastating, shifting spoor, through opposing poles of extreme >noise / quiet, startles and jolts, addictive hooks, stasis-tracks, >stumbling trip-ups and snags, flickering, alien ambience - making full use >of dynamics and the stereo spectrum. Eleven-minutes long, Track 3 works >gorgeous chord-run hooks through dense shrouds of scouring splinter-noise. >Space opens up, narrows back down as the jagged texture-layers expand and >contract, tweaking bass and treble. Like the white-out of MBV's "You Made >Me Realise", it hits you as an awe-full, jaw-dropping revelation, stopping >dead in its tracks without warning. A brilliant, concise study in >sound-design, structure and tweaked expectations, on "Get Out" every second >seems vital, every sound placed and bristling with life. >( WIRE) > >(about 'Seven Tons For Free') > >"Peter Rehberg a.k.a. Pita's first album, "Seven Tons For Free" was a >monumental piece which was decisive in the direction that Mego took as a >label thereafter. Devoid of any element of ornamentation, the album >featured endless repetitions of high frequency digital noises. Quite unlike >"minimal techno", all the sounds in this piece were reduced to pulse >signals, distorted to unheard of extemes. These sounds could have been seen >as the ruins, or maybe the corpse of techno. Along with albums such as >Panasonic's "Vakio" and Ryoji Ikeda's "+/-", this album came to be known as >a manifesto-like masterpiece." >(Atsushi Sasaki) > >"..."buzzing" is the word for Pita's SEVEN TONS FOR FREE. The music is less >enslaved to rhythm, employing the same raindrop pitter-patter and piercing >frequencies as Ryoji Ikeda, infusing the patterns with a sense of natural >entropy. Short tracks, not a trace of predictability--or melody--and >stubbornly obtuse; Pita's formula sounds like a recipe for migranes but >plays out as a fascinating investigation of pulse waves and >electro-acoustics." (Magnet) >___________________________________________ >p i e t r o d a s a c c o a u d i o - n i m b u s >9745 lynngrove cr, windsor, ontario, n8r 1b8, canada >http://www.rain.org/~audio/grooves/ >grooves experimental electronics music mag > > >