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Mego
Founded1994
FounderPeter Rehberg aka Pita
Ramon Bauer
Andreas Pieper
Peter Meininger
GenreElectronic, glitch, noise, post-industrial
Country of originAustria
LocationVienna
Official websitehttp://www.editionsmego.com

Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The label has been superseded by a new company, Editions Mego, which was set up both to keep Mego albums in print and to issue new albums,[1] run by Peter Rehberg a.k.a. Pita.

Impact and critical acclaim

The label's efforts were awarded a distinction at the Ars Electronica 1999. In the jury's statement, Jim O'Rourke lauded the label's work as defining "a brand new punk computer music".[2]

Mego releases

Editions Mego releases

See also

References

  1. ^ Mego at Resident Advisor
  2. ^ "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 [decided] that the Distinction should be awarded to the Mego label as a whole." Eshun, Kodwo (1999), Music from the Bedroom Studios - Prix Ars Electronica 99 / Jury-Statement, Ars Electronica Archive, archived from the original on February 3, 2006, retrieved 2007-12-26

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