Lost in thought and forgot this was playing. Nice.

I love it when you turn on the radio.

Recorded live at home studio.

Gear used: Technics ST-S1L, Akai S3000XL, Korg ESX-1, LM 1229, DL-301A, Yamaha DX7, Alesis Quadraverb Plus, Mackie CR-1604, Akai GXC-725D.

June 2022.

ABCN — Radio

Wherever you go, there you are.

Recorded live at home studio.

Gear used: Akai S3000XL, Yamaha DX7, Roland TR-606, x0xb0x, LM 1229, DL-301A, Alesis Quadraverb Plus, Mackie CR-1604, Akai GXC-725D.

Tape: TDK-D.

August 2022.

ABCN — Flow

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)

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Ease

Smxs

Nutter

this is a bandcamp friday release and will be available on may/3rd.

limited edition of 85 copies on recycled vinyl with 30x30 insert, available strictly on bandcamp friday, no digital. / no repress

sublabel of mindcolormusic, devoted to breaks oriented idm and jungle

artwork by: geometric love
re-interpretation by mass roman

bandcamp

mental concept 151515 - jerry - 12" snippets - out july 15th

Impression

Nomade (2024 05 21 Eu)

Digital Download, Limited Edition Cassette and CDr available here: https://tinyurl.com/y5ju8h8d

JUNGLE GYM RECORDS presents "Unit", a brand new offering from Berlin's Florian Kupfer. Sinking deeper than ever before, "Unit" is Kupfer on the brink, an existential psychosis of memory structures and mental decay. Like water-flow down towering industrial frameworks, brain channels erode, a neuro-static mist of confusion and degradation, a void of both body and soul. With labotomatic precision Kupfer dissects and perfects the innermost workings of his distinctive sound... exclusively from JUNGLE GYM.

@kupfer

[JGT60] "Unit" - Florian Kupfer (Previews)

Experimental ambient electronica from Minsk, Belarus. Vintage gear, mostly. Open for release proposals. More records on request.

Follow https://t.me/abcn37 for ambient reposts.

WAV 96/32 on request.

Gear used: Roland SH-101, Roland Juno-106, Yamaha DX7, Yamaha TG33, Roland TR-606, Akai S3000XL, Korg M1, TOM 1501, Alisa 1377, Polyvox, Roland D50, Roland XP-50, Roland MC-505, Korg ESX-1, Korg EMX-1, x0xb0x, Technics ST-S1L, Horizont Okean-209, Korg Monotron Delay, Shure SM58, 3x LM 1229, DL-301A, Alesis Quadraverb Plus, Alesis Midiverb 2, Alesis Microverb, Yamaha SPX990, Mackie CR-1604, Alesis 3630, RNLA7239, Tascam Portastudio 424 MK3, Akai GXC-725D.

Recorded on TDK D and BASF FE tape.

ABCN — Flow

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