From Pietro Sent Tue, Oct 19th 1999, 20:32
Fresh from the DEI press-sheets: >> PITA=20 Get Out=20 MEGO029(B)CD / MEGO029(R)CD=20 [limited edition BLUE & RED cover art]=20 Long awaited follow up to Prix Ars Electronica 99 winning debut "Seven=20 Tons For Free" (currently awaiting second repress on Digital Narics). "Get= =20 Out" was constructed on the Twisted harddisc in various locations around=20 the world. A more varied, complex affair than its predecessor with a couple= =20 of surpises thrown in for absolutely no reason at all. Half the edition is= =20 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=20 peers like Autechre, Pan Sonic, and Merzbow, Vienna's Mego label has been=20 active at the cutting-edge of digital music culture for the past four=20 years. Hacking out their own, distinctive audio print, based around=20 abrasive tonalities, glitches and wrinkles, and skittering, abstract=20 structures, they operate across a variety of modern electronic media,=20 consistently pushing and interrogating the technology =F1 searching out=20 spikes, cracks and creative spaces. The visceral grain of the sound and its= =20 placement appear rigorously, obsessively worked. With Mego, you can=20 literally feel the quality, the difference. Both a treat and trauma for the ears, "Get Out" sees Mego founder Peter=20 Rehberg in solo mode, opening out a varied collection of simmering=20 sound-scapes. Nine (untitled) tracks, totalling 38-minutes, move you=20 through a devastating, shifting spoor, through opposing poles of extreme=20 noise / quiet, startles and jolts, addictive hooks, stasis-tracks,=20 stumbling trip-ups and snags, flickering, alien ambience - making full use= =20 of dynamics and the stereo spectrum. Eleven-minutes long, Track 3 works=20 gorgeous chord-run hooks through dense shrouds of scouring splinter-noise.= =20 Space opens up, narrows back down as the jagged texture-layers expand and=20 contract, tweaking bass and treble. Like the white-out of MBV's "You Made=20 Me Realise", it hits you as an awe-full, jaw-dropping revelation, stopping= =20 dead in its tracks without warning. A brilliant, concise study in=20 sound-design, structure and tweaked expectations, on "Get Out" every second= =20 seems vital, every sound placed and bristling with life.=20 ( WIRE) (about 'Seven Tons For Free') "Peter Rehberg a.k.a. Pita's first album, "Seven Tons For Free" was a=20 monumental piece which was decisive in the direction that Mego took as a=20 label thereafter. Devoid of any element of ornamentation, the album=20 featured endless repetitions of high frequency digital noises. Quite unlike= =20 "minimal techno", all the sounds in this piece were reduced to pulse=20 signals, distorted to unheard of extemes. These sounds could have been seen= =20 as the ruins, or maybe the corpse of techno. Along with albums such as=20 Panasonic's "Vakio" and Ryoji Ikeda's "+/-", this album came to be known as= =20 a manifesto-like masterpiece."=20 (Atsushi Sasaki) "..."buzzing" is the word for Pita's SEVEN TONS FOR FREE. The music is less= =20 enslaved to rhythm, employing the same raindrop pitter-patter and piercing= =20 frequencies as Ryoji Ikeda, infusing the patterns with a sense of natural=20 entropy. Short tracks, not a trace of predictability--or melody--and=20 stubbornly obtuse; Pita's formula sounds like a recipe for migranes but=20 plays out as a fascinating investigation of pulse waves and=20 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