Label: Midnight Shift
Catalog number: MNSXLP006
Artist name: Rivet
LP name: L+P-2
Date of physical release: 06 Oct 2023

A1. Tilt To Turn 1
A2. Tilt To Turn 3
B1. Ten Blind Doors
B2. Sarcoma
B3. Rōsh
C1. Le Kland
C2. Tilt To Turn 4
D1. Lilo's Lullaby
D2. Hukat (feat. L.T. Fisk)
Bandcamp only: Tilt To Turn (Live for Intonal Festival) 

L+P-2 is Rivet's second album following his acclaimed debut, On Feather and Wire, released on Editions Mego in 2020. The wheels were already in motion for a subsequent album on the same label, but tragedy struck. Peter "Pita" Rehberg, the legendary owner of Editions Mego, suddenly passed away at only 53 years old, leaving the experimental electronic music community in a state of pitch-black grief. Rivet was among the many deeply affected by this loss. The inspiration and support from Rehberg had propelled Rivet to create at a level he himself was uncertain he had mastered. For Rivet, Rehberg's death felt like the death of music.

However, that brooding sentiment was abruptly shattered when Rivet's beloved dog and companion, Lilo, was diagnosed with incurable cancer just a couple of months later. They were inseparable, and now they would be separated nonetheless. The only way Rivet could cope with this double blow was to compose—for Lilo, for Pita, for his own sanity. L+P-2 is the result.

While the album naturally emerges from a place of despair, it's remarkably comforting. Partly, this stems from Rivet's singular ability to make machines not only sound human but also act human—sincere and warm, yet flawed. In more than one track on L+P-2, you'll encounter a distinctive melody and a gnarly bassline dancing hand in hand with Rivet's eccentric and captivating drum patterns. Then, seemingly on a whim, the melody takes off on its own, leaving the faithful bassline behind—much like a dear friend that suddenly vanishes from your life without warning. Yet life goes on, and so does the music. But never unchanged. Never.

L+P-2 is an album of lamentation, yet also of resolve—a dedication to those who go through life losing more than their share because they always carry too much.

har jag hukat 
så länge 
att allt blivit skevt 
att allt blivit skört
//
have I hunched down 
for so long 
that everything has become askew 
that everything has become brittle


Written and produced by Mika Hallbäck Vuorenpää
Post-production and mixing by Oscar Mulero at Dead Souls Studio Gijón
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Vocals, lyrics and piano on track 9 by Johan & Leonard Andersson
Photo by Sandra Hallbäck Svensson
Artwork by Takashi Makabe
Tracks 1,2,7 commissioned by Intonal Festival 2021 for the 'Tilt To Turn' dance piece with Frédéric Gies (available on Youtube)
Track 10 recorded live at Kornheddinge Kvarn in april 2021 and mastered by Måns Öjbrandt Wikenmo
Running order by Björn Jumme and Andreas Andersson

L+P-2

Bandcamp

MNSXLP006 - Rivet - L+P-2

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EDITIONS MEGO/MIDNIGHT SHIFT/SANDWELL DISTRICT

Rivet’s debut album On Feather and Wire – released 20 years into his career at the end of 2020 on the revered Editions Mego label – surprised and delighted with its punk spirit, industrial pulse, sensual atmospherics, and body music flavor, gave us a better sense of what the Malmö favorite is capable of. Hinted at by his work as the body music enthusiast behind Kess Kill record label and the years honing his production skills, first as Grovskopa and then as Rivet, his current sound has a sophisticated slink and a surprisingly accessible twist of pop, while still recognizable in its dance music lineage.

Winter 2023 saw Rivet’s second album ‘L+P-2′ dropped on Midnight Shift Records, with RA calling it, “A touching and occasionally searing portrait of grief through the lens of post-punk techno.” It came with accompanying remixes by artists Hodge, Nik Void, Hüma Utku as well as other friends and affiliates.
In 2023, he worked with electronic musician and composer Luis Pestana and double-bassist Gregory Vartian-Foss for a special SHAPE+/INTONAL commission and performance.

Always working, Rivet's third album ‘Peck Glamour’, due on Editions MEGO in march 2025, recognizes his dancefloor roots. But his other big release for 2025 will be as a producer and mixer of Sandwell District’s new album ‘End Beginnings’ due the same month.

Enquiries: info<[at]>mnshift.net.
Not accepting demos.

Label from Singapore.

Technostructuralist.

I've been playing other people's music from the early 1990s and occasionally making some of my own.