NPVR is the avant garde duo made up of the late Peter Rehberg and Nik Void. Editions Mego is proud to present their second and final release. No this is not some kind of Beatles synthetic AI that raises the dead reconstructed recordings but rather a new album made by the humans and their machines. 

The initial meeting of Rehberg and Void was in London in 2016 and despite or due to their mutual awkwardness found solace and compatibility in the fact that they both had a similar electronic modular set up, along with matching cases to transport all. The idea to collaborate was an obvious and organic process as a means to connect their individual gear together and observe the outcome. The fruits of these initial experiments, recorded in London, resulted in the playful experimentation of their acclaimed 2017 release 33 33 (eMego 251).

Now in 2024 Editions Mego presents the logically titled follow up, 33 34. These sessions were recorded six months after the initial recordings at Peter’s home in Vienna. This was planned out as a mirror city release to the original London recordings. With Peter having access to his full studio set up this time around we encounter a rich audio landscape which organically folds together a variety of musical genres blurring any distinction between these forms so the resulting music hovers as a new cloud of sound. Any musical form, be it industrial, electro-acoustic, ambient, drone and techno all coexist and melt into the other as the ensuing result unveils a hypnotic swarm of divergent sounds (music). When active there were no lines or contexts with NPVR, either between sound or genre within these recordings or live where NPVR were at home playing at a techno club one night and an avant garde venue the next.

The initial session of these recordings was edited by Rehberg and sent to Void to further develop.
Over time the final versions were agreed on and then shelved as other outside projects took over. The awkwardness had been surmounted and the two had become close friends. NPVR performed at a range of venues such as Tresor, Sutton House, Corsica, Blitz, Paris GRM #Focus2, LEV Festival and Rigas Skanumezs Festival. Following Rehberg’s untimely passing Void had difficulty listening back to the sessions but eventually thought it fit to complete and release this album, of which even the artwork (like 33 33, an image from Zurich photographer, Georg Gatsas) had been decided upon prior to Rehberg parting ways. 

There is an unmistakable joy to these recordings. One encounters an enthralling exploration of their chosen machines which conveys the excitement of what can be randomly conjured when people speak through such devices. There is no grand statement or argument here, just the sheer thrill of creation and the recorded results of random encounters. The art of collaboration was always a mainstay of Rehberg’s practice from the advent of the MEGO adventure. Rehberg & Bauer was an initial collaboration with former business partner Ramon Bauer. Even at this stage one can hear a relaxed sense of delight in the sheer discovery of sound.

A mix made for the Wire magazine following the release of 33 33 hints at the freedom that comes with endless urge for exploration and discovery. Abstract tracks from Z'EV. Jérôme Noetinger and Jung An Tagen are included alongside British stalwarts The Fall and New Order. There were no lines between pop / academic / underground or mainstream in Rehberg’s world. All of it sat at the same table. It is just matter in the atmosphere, like the diverse exploration found in these recordings that comprise 33 34.

33 34

Raw to the Core

NPVR 'Raw to the Core' (EMEGO312)

1. Nina Harker – Ramier 
2. Astrid Sonne – Stuck in Pause 
3. Roy Werner – Rainbow Metal Chime in the Sun 
4. weareforests – your song ! the radish 
5. PERIMETER O – A position 
6. Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree – Curl To Me 
7. William Basinski – Watermusic 
8. PERIMETER O – Shimmers 
9. weareforests – sub_divisions 
10. Roy Werner – Music for Five Dreams (with Cole Pulice) 
11. A murder of crows, Tartu, december 2023 
12. Staś Czekalski - Koniec lata 
13. Nina Harker – ë 
14.  Astrid Sonne – Withdrawal

wabi-sabi 31.01.24

A recording of my talk at CTM 2024. 

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yqoEqU5AsDZ3GPV16lYXzTWJiCxFJ7oGzotM4oprxjY/edit?usp=sharing

This talk explores the perils and wonders of working with mediaeval music in our times, its transhistoricity and alterity – including 13th-century compositions as time-dilating black holes, possessed synthesisers exploring the boundaries of divine determinism and catastrophic polyphony traversing the wartime reality. Heinali is a Ukrainian music composer and sound artist whose core practice reimagines Early music with a modular synthesiser, exploring intersections of the Providence and Contingency, the past and the present, technology and the sacred.

And I Feel Dread, And I Feel Love - Reimagining Early Music at the End of Times

On this episode of F.B.I. Pathology Report, we're auditory exploring the case of Harold Shipman (January 14, 1946 - January 13, 2004), commonly known as "Dr. Death".
Shipman was an English general practitioner & medical doctor who was sentenced to life imprisonment, for approximately murdering at least 215 people, and possibly as many as 260. All his victims had been his patients, a span between/from 1975 to 1998. The key moment of the insertion of the so-called "factor X" of his inspiration for his sadistic killing spree & modus operandi, experts believe that was the moment when he closely observed the  procedure of his dying mother being administered morphine by a doctor, to ease her suffering. He commited suicide in his prison cell, 4 years after his conviction.

Lussuria is an ambient industrial project led by Jim Mroz. Active since 2007, the music of Lussuria shows a multitude of ways to build moods and evoke states of anxiety and threat. Most of the music is created by means of building intricate multi-layered forms and loops, an experimental collage of elements from various origins. In Lussuria, you can hear a multitude of sources, such as metallic textures, slow power drone structures, and trance rhythms. The atmosphere created can be contemplative, uplifting, and ethereal, as well as crude and direct. 
Through several albums and releases on Hospital Productions and compilation appearances on labels such as LIES, Pole Group, and Self Abuse. In addition to worldwide performances, Lussuria has been established as an acclaimed act in the electronic music world. Additionally, Jim has also been a contributor to acclaimed Prurient albums Rainbow Mirror and Frozen Niagara Falls (Profound Lore)
To date, Lussuria has performed at noted events and venues such as Berghain (Germany), Rewire Festival (Holland), Wroclaw Industrial Festival (Poland), Nitsa (Spain), CDMX Earthquake Fundraiser (Mexico), and the 20th anniversary of Hospital Productions in Brooklyn and Los Angeles (USA). In addition successful tours throughout the United States and Europe were completed.

https://lussuria.bandcamp.com/?from=search&search_item_id=2409969908&search_item_type=b&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=3168018390&search_page_no=0&search_rank=1&logged_in_menubar=true


https://www.discogs.com/artist/1541485-Lussuria-2

F.B.I. Pathology Report 010 w/ Morgan Hall & Lussuria (11.02.24)

Live performance from KC Grad.

Cover is a detail from the poster made by @steviewhisper.

Live at KC Grad 16/02/2024

B ICU: braun.aar invites Hunt - 21/02/2024

Silhouettes above rubbles
Tuming into pillars
Monotonous mannequins
Walk away with stamps

Grains of a copy, of a shade
Cloning fragments of tedium
Clustered roots, source-clumsy
Growing into visage

Mumbled echoes from the mist, through the tunnels of revival. The graininess interplay with a subdued mellifluence. A haze of longing sighs and reverberations - threshold between the lane, where distant voices yield to light.   

Night Foundation, the electronic solo project of visual/sound artist Richard Vergez and the founder of the label - Noir Age, explores existential soundscapes, utilizing analogue hardware including vintage synthesizers, found percussion, tape effects, and manipulated wind instruments. 'Change Your Mind' holds the resilience and heralds the breath of new horizon.

Change Your Mind

Night Foundation - Counting the Days

Limited edition tape cassette & digital release 

A
A1. Nancy Pancakes
A2. Spittin
A3. Better To Be Early Than Too Early
A4. Groobed Down
A5. Sass (feat. Iz-Z)
A6. Wonder Warf 

B
B1. Hexel
B2. Here is Here
B3. J'adore
B4. Same Side
B5. Civil Death

@marshall-applewhite

Artwork by Alek Leaf www.instagram.com/alekleaf

MIN.A 005
2024

Marshall Applewhite - Secret Recipe (MIN.A 005) Snippets

Session #1 - d. towärds

"On the second-to-last episode of the Unrealistic Expectations Show of the season, we have one of Lisbon's hidden gems, DJ CVLT. Born in the U.K. and raised between Lisbon, Porto, and New York in a family of jazz musicians. His mix isn't different from what you can expect to hear at his No IDOLS night's residency, around Lisbon or everywhere in the last decade. A well-curated selection of records, without rules, and for the culture."

Follow dj CVLT: https://www.instagram.com/djcvlt/

Unrealistic Expectations x LYL Radio w/ CVLT - 18 Apr 2024

@stacksofvoices

Stacks ‘Want’ album out May 15th 2024

Music and lyrics by Jan Matthé & Sis Matthé
Written and recorded in St. Lauri, Antwerp
Mixed by Stacks and Yves De Mey
Mastered by Wouter Brandenburg in Amsterdam
All rights reserved ℗ + ©️ Knekelhuis 2024

Stacks - In Mazes

Oleh Shpudeiko is a music composer and sound artist who records as Heinali. He specialises in electronic music and is interested in reimagining early music in modular synthesis. Oleh writes music for games, films, choreography performances, creates sound art installations and performs live shows.

Amongst his works is award-winning music for the video game BOUND by Plastic/Sony Santa Monica, the 2020 album MADRIGALS shortlisted for the Shevchenko National Prize, and compositions and sound art installations commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) and Museum of Odesa Modern Art (MSIO).

He has a long history of live performances, including appearances at venues and festivals such as NEXT in Bratislava, Unsound in Krakow; Berlin’s Berliner Dom, in collaboration with the Alter Ratio vocal ensemble; Kyiv’s Plivka and Mystetskyi Arsenal and Ukraine’s Next Sound festival.

And I Feel Dread, And I Feel Love - Reimagining Early Music at the End of Times

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