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

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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

Small Talk Deep Lies

Session #1 - d. towärds

Written and Produced by German Army.
Artwork by @nocturnerror.

AFN013 - A Flooded Need, 2024

An Era of Absolutes

side A

German Army - side A

B3 track by JT Whitfield, taken off his EP 'Birth of Compulsion'
Pre-order: https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/birth-of-compulsion

With an impressive discography tucked beneath his arms, JT Whitfield debuts on Strange Therapy. Confronting the relentless grip of human obsession and the struggle against its uncontrollable nature with his EP 'Birth of Compulsion'.

Taking over with a chaotic medley of sonic debris and unstoppable violence, like in guise thoughts and behavior that hide somewhere while feeding on you and your neurons. At times, it maintains a steady pace, but mostly it kicks, claps and shoots in a disordered frenzy. Backed by sputtering and droning electronics that come and go at the speed of escalators rotating their axis.
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Format: Cassette and digital
Release date: 22/05/2024
Mastered by Daniele Antezza at Dadub Studio

B3. JT Whitfield - Dragged Violently

@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

Part of the original soundtrack for A Thread choreography by Jean Abreu Dance. 
 
Viola by Benjamin Kaminski.
Recorded at Woodworm Studios and HHS.
Mastered by Lawrence English @158

Lament (A Thread OST)

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.

Lament (A Thread OST)

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