![]() ![]() The Mego studio/office was a vivid place located in an old factory on the outskirts of Vienna. Listening to Frantz today, with decades of distance, there are some parts that might appear dated by modern standards, but the energy and the general magic of that period is well captured.Īll Frantz tracks were produced in Andi's studio in Berlin and at Mego Vienna. Real time audio processing with computers was barely a thing back then (before SuperCollider was released), but cheerful massaging of sound files yielded interesting results and the future looked bright. We even deliberately crashed our then so-called "Powerbooks" and scratched self-produced CD-Rs until they produced previously unheard sounds. At that time, we started to migrate our analogue gear to 64 MB RAM computers and used almost every other digital thing that yielded a sound by any means. Anyway, we were delighted with the prospect of having that General Magic "classic" remastered (by the exceptional Russell Haswell) and released for the first time on vinyl on Editions Mego.įrantz is a collection of tracks that we produced in 19 right after recording “Fridge Trax” (with Peter) and “Die Mondlandung” (which comes as a bonus track on this reissue). That came as a complete surprise for us, General Magic had not released any music or performed live for over 15 years. Peter approached us in October 2020 with the idea to do a vinyl reissue of Frantz, just in time for the 25 year anniversary of its release. We are humbled and proud to have played a role in those formative years of the label. His legacy will live on in his music and in the vast and rich Mego and eMego catalogues. We will forever miss Peter’s inspiring personality and his uncompromising creativity. Until his unexpected death in July 2021, he developed Editions Mego into the grown-up and much acclaimed outfit for which it is known today. ![]() ![]() It was Peter who continued producing and releasing music with the restarted label, now called Editions Mego. So we dropped out of music business and pursued different things. And that is what we did for the next 10 years until everything became too much with the label in somewhat rough waters. In those exciting days during the mid-1990s, together with the late Peter Rehberg, we founded a label called Mego to further explore the wonders of electronic music. Listening to the test pressings of the remastered Frantz album for the first time on vinyl, 25 years after the original release on the then still young Mego label in 1997, felt like uncovering an ancient artefact. and Peter (by Ramon Bauer & Andi Pieper, November 2021): ![]()
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