Re: (idm) Pita : Get Out : [mego]

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???

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Datum: dinsdag 19 oktober 1999 21:33
Onderwerp: (idm) Pita : Get Out : [mego]


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>Fresh from the DEI press-sheets:
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>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)
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>(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)
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