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 The label has been superseded by a new company, Editions Mego, which was set up both to keep Mego albums in print and to issue new albums, run by Peter Rehberg a.k.a. Pita.

Impact and critical acclaim

The label's efforts were awarded a distinction at the

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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), also known as Arabic bread (, ), as Lebanese bread and as kmaj (from the Persian ''kumaj''), is a family of yeast- leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Levant ...

: 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 mononymously as Fennesz. His work utilizes guitar and laptop computers to blend melody with treated samp ...

: 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: No Backup 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. ...

: 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 Farmers Manual: 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 Masami Akita, best known for a style of harsh noise music. Since 1980, Akita has released over 500 recordings and collaborated with numerous artists. The name Merzbow comes from the German dada a ...

/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

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, 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: 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 Masami Akita, best known for a style of harsh noise music. Since 1980, Akita has released over 500 recordings and collaborated with numerous artists. The name Merzbow comes from the German dada a ...

: 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: 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 Farmers Manual: 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 () 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 Chief was at odds with the O'Reilly Chie ...

/ 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 was a Japanese multidisciplinary 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 1960s, he was active ...

& 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 har ...

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: Risk 3"CD (03.2004) * MEGO 073 Sluta Leta: Semi Peterson CD (11.2003) * MEGO 074 Rob Mazurek: Sweet & Vicious Like Frankenstein CD (01.2004) * MEGO 075

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/ 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 vs. Takeshi Fumimoto 12" picture vinyl (06.2005) * MR 001

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: tg11 CD (03.2000) (released in collaboration with Rhiz) * HEC2 Hecker: PV Trecks CD (03.2004)

Editions Mego releases

* eMEGO 080 Anthony Pateras &

Robin Fox Robin Fox (July 15, 1934 – January 18, 2024) was a British-American anthropologist who wrote on the topics of incest avoidance, marriage systems, human and primate kinship systems, evolutionary anthropology, sociology and the history of ide ...

: 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: 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 Kevin Drumm & Daniel Menche: 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, to ...

: Fridge Trax DigitalDownload * eMEGO 082 Marcus Schmickler: 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 metal, doom metal, and expe ...

Attila Csihar Attila Gábor 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 metal band Sunn O))). Author Ian Christe ...

: 6°FSKYQUAKE CD (01.2008) * DeMEGO 002 Gert-Jan Prins: 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

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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 w ...

/ 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 music, 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, Rain ...

: 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 indu ...

vs.

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: Colchester CD (08.2008) * eMEGO 089.5 KTL IV PARIS DEMOS CDR (09.2008) * eMEGO 092 Peter Rehberg: Work For GV 2004-2008 CD (10.2008) * DeMEGO 005 ibitsu: foolproof betters fools bettering foolproof... CD (11.2008) * eMEGO 093 Angel: Hedonism CD (12.2008) * DeMEGO 006 Anthony Pateras &

: 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 &

: 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 i ...

: 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,Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 180-182 he branched ...

: Oblivio Agitatum CD (10.2009) * eMEGO 099

: Wild Tracks CD (10.2009) * eMEGO 097 Cindytalk: 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 Daniel Menche: Kataract CD (12.2009) * EMEGO 241

AI Deviation #1, #2 CD (2017)

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Impact and critical acclaim

Mego releases

Editions Mego releases

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