Editions Mego (2025)

06/06/2025

EMEGO 037 Ilpo Väisänen: Asuma
Out today and shipping!

LP& Digital, avalaible on Bandcamp and in your record stores.
https://ilpovaeisaenen.bandcamp.com/album/asuma-2025-remaster?label=502986885

Editions Mego are proud to reissue the 2001 release Asuma by Finnish
artist Ilpo Väisänen. Originally released on CD this is the first ever
vinyl issue, remastered by Rashad Becker. 2001 is a landmark year for
the artist following a wave of success from the notable outfit
Väisänen formed alongside Mika Vanio, Pan Sonic (as they were now
known then). Following a string of highly acclaimed and influential
releases such as “Vakio”, “Kulma”, “A’ and “Aaltopiiri” Pan Sonic had
toured the globe extensively leaving a trail of blown expectations and
rumours of all manner of objects in venues cracking or falling apart
due to the immense sound the duo concocted with their unique
instruments.

Taking a break from the ecstatic cacophony of Pan Sonic, Väisänen
retreated to work on a solo release which conjured the spirits of the
former outfit whilst simultaneously carving out a more personal take
on these new electronic forms.

Asuma is a precise study of drones, rhythms, clicks, ambience and
gentle confusion. Whilst inhabiting a zone of abstraction the results
also move in a natural field as Väisänen’s native Finland permeates
these recordings as much as the idea of experimentation itself.

Remastered and cut by Rashad Becker, Berlin, 2024
Photos by Ilpo Väisänen
Design by Tina Frank

Väisänen
Sonic

30/04/2025

Celebrating 30 years of Editions Mego
Berlin, 30th & 31st May 2025 at Volksbühne and silent green

Two nights of immersive performances by some of the label’s most daring artists.

* May 30th Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

General Magic & Tina Frank
Grand River presents All Above with Marco Ciceri (lights) and Andert Tysma (piano)
Haswell & Hecker – UPIC Diffusion Session #24
Oswald Berthold DJ (farmersmanual, fals.ch)

* May 31st silent green

Finlay Shakespeare
Klara Lewis
KMRU
Nik Colk Void & Norbert Möslang
Thomas Brinkmann
Tujiko Noriko

Film and video works:

Jerk by Gisèle Vienne (2021, 60 minutes)
Liminal States by Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir (2025, 15 minutes)
Ok but No by Georg Gatsas & Joji Koyama (2024, 11 minutes. Music: NPVR)
Video installation by Tina Frank: The Mego Archives

Sound installation: Editions Mego 1995 - 2025 at Kuppelhalle from 14:00 to 22:00 (free entrance)

Tickets:
http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
https://www.silent-green.net

Design by Tina Frank

Grand River © Maria Louceiro
General Magic © Heidi Specker
Tina Frank © eSeL.at - Lorenz Seidler
Haswell & Hecker © Tommi Grönlund
Oswald Berthold © Eva Hellsberg
Tujiko Noriko © Chloé Fabre
KMRU © Glauco Canalis
Klara Lewis © Unknown
Norbert Möslang © Georg Gatsas
Nik Colk Void © MB
Finlay Shakespeare © Finlay Shakespeare
Thomas Brinkmann © Dasha Birukova
Liminal States © Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
Ok but No © Georg Gatsas
Jerk © Gisèle Vienne

11/04/2025

EMEGO 037 Ilpo Väisänen: Asuma
LP & Digital available for pre-order via Bandcamp.
Release date: June 6th, 2025

https://ilpovaeisaenen.bandcamp.com/album/asuma-2025-remaster?label=502986885

Editions Mego are proud to reissue the 2001 release Asuma by Finnish
artist Ilpo Väisänen. Originally released on CD this is the first ever
vinyl issue, remastered by Rashad Becker. 2001 is a landmark year for
the artist following a wave of success from the notable outfit
Väisänen formed alongside Mika Vanio, Pan Sonic (as they were now
known then). Following a string of highly acclaimed and influential
releases such as “Vakio”, “Kulma”, “A’ and “Aaltopiiri” Pan Sonic had
toured the globe extensively leaving a trail of blown expectations and
rumours of all manner of objects in venues cracking or falling apart
due to the immense sound the duo concocted with their unique
instruments.

Taking a break from the ecstatic cacophony of Pan Sonic, Väisänen
retreated to work on a solo release which conjured the spirits of the
former outfit whilst simultaneously carving out a more personal take
on these new electronic forms.

Asuma is a precise study of drones, rhythms, clicks, ambience and
gentle confusion. Whilst inhabiting a zone of abstraction the results
also move in a natural field as Väisänen’s native Finland permeates
these recordings as much as the idea of experimentation itself.

Remastered and cut by Rashad Becker, Berlin, 2024
Photos by Ilpo Väisänen
Design by Tina Frank

Editions Mego
Tina Frank

handle with care manufacturing

04/04/2025

EMEGO 318 Hüma Utku: Dracones
Out today and shipping!

LP & Digital, available on Bandcamp, at your record stores and on all digital platforms.

https://humautku.bandcamp.com/album/dracones?label=502986885

"Hüma Utku has done something remarkable in tracing her own such journey on Dracones. It’s innovative for the unpredictability of its sounds and the honesty with which she mediates such a deeply felt period of her life. It’s not for the incurious. Dracones embraces the shadows and the dissonance and is gripping for it.”
Adriane Pontecorvo, PopMatters, 03.04.2025

All tracks composed, performed and recorded by Hüma Utku
Buchla 100, vocals, cello, electric guitar performed by Hüma Utku
‘’A World Between Worlds’’ features the ‘Lyraei’ built, played and recorded by Mihalis Shammas
Buchla 100 recorded in EMS Stockholm 2022-2023

Mixed by Enyang Urbiks
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
Cover Artwork by Marco Ciceri
Design by Tina Frank
Portrait by Kasia Kim-Zacharko

Album release concert at silent green, Berlin, April 26th 2025

Hüma Utku
Editions Mego
handle with care manufacturing

28/03/2025

Celebrating 30 years of Editions Mego
Berlin, 30th & 31st May 2025 at Volksbühne and silent green

Full programme and tickets:
http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/
https://www.silent-green.net

With:

Finlay Shakespeare
General Magic & Tina Frank
Georg Gatsas& Koyama
Gisèle Vienne
Grand River with Marco Ciceri (light design) and Andert Tysma (acoustic piano)
Haswell & Hecker
Klara Lewis
KMRU
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir
Nik Colk Void & Norbert Möslang
Oswald Berthold
Thomas Brinkmann
Tujiko Noriko

Design by Tina Frank

21/03/2025

EMEGO 317 Rivet: Peck Glamour
Out today and shipping!

LP & Digital, avalaible on Bandcamp, at your record stores and on all digital platforms.

https://rivetadam.bandcamp.com/album/peck-glamour?label=502986885

Rivet’s new album for Editions Mego is an uplifting and joyous affair coming in the wake of tragedy and
disenchantment. It is yet another rebirth from an artist willing to take a step back and reprise the current situation he is in.
Mika Hallbäck has a long credible history in the Swedish underground. First recognised
for his industrial techno works under the Grovskopa moniker he worked privately on more experimental
works that eventually came out as On Feather and Wire, an album released on Editions Mego in 2020.
After much acclaim for this bold new direction that blended electronic abstraction, pop and industrial
forms into a heavy synthetic trip two tragedies struck in 2021.

Peck Glamour sees Rivet return to the reawakened Editions Mego with an album of optimism
inspired by reconciliation with loss and further explorations of new mental/sonic realms.
Full of tracks brimming with the excitement of exploration, it’s the results of a
mind informed by punk, industrial, techno, dancefloor, disappointment, trauma and rebirth.
Here the synthetic and authentic is viewed simply as the same means of human rationale and expression.

Written and produced by Mika Hallbäck
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, Schwebung Mastering 2024
Mixed by Alexander Salomonsen
Double bass on ‘We left before we came’ by Gregory Vartian-Foss
Design by Nik Colk Void
Photo by Dimitrios Bizios

06/03/2025

EMEGO 318 Hüma Utku: Dracones
Second single "Ayaz'" is out and avalaible on all digital platforms.
Album release: April 4th, 2025

https://humautku.bandcamp.com/album/dracones?label=502986885

This new work by the Istanbul sound artist is a sonic journal of an expedition into uncharted territory, one which occupies self and domesticity. Inspired by Utku’s experience of matrescence, Dracones explores the themes of familial demonology, metamorphosis and homecoming as well as human relationship to the experience of love woven layers of euphoria, alienation and consumption.

‘Comfort of The Shadows’ moves from within to without, what was once hidden is now exposed. Utku’s ability to conjure the visual in the sonic is at the forefront as howling electronics give a distinct impression of movement. Video by Marco Ciceri explores the forgotten state of fetal existence—an intimate journey into the earliest moments of life. In a world where perception is primal, reduced to the most fundamental inputs: light and vital energy. The experience is alien yet universal, a return to a time before the self can be remembered or formed. The piece evokes the sensation of being without yet truly being, offering a glimpse into the forgotten interiority of our earliest experience."

All tracks composed, performed and recorded by Hüma Utku
Mixed by Enyang Urbiks
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
Cover Artwork by Marco Ciceri
Design by Tina Frank

Hüma Utku

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01/03/2025

EMEGO 317 Rivet: Peck Glamour
Second single “Sacrosanct” is out and available on all digital platforms.
Peck Glamour Listening Party on Bandcamp: March 20, 2025
Album release: March 21, 2025

https://rivetadam.bandcamp.com/album/peck-glamour?label=502986885

Rivet’s new album for Editions Mego is an uplifting and joyous affair coming in the wake of tragedy and
disenchantment. It is yet another rebirth from an artist willing to take a step back and reprise the current
situation he is in. Mika Hallbäck has a long credible history in the Swedish underground. First recognised
for his industrial techno works under the Grovskopa moniker he worked privately on more experimental
works that eventually came out as On Feather and Wire, an album released on Editions Mego in 2020.
After much acclaim for this bold new direction that blended electronic abstraction, pop and industrial
forms into a heavy synthetic trip two tragedies struck in 2021.
Peck Glamour sees Rivet return to the reawakened Editions Mego with an album of optimism
inspired by reconciliation with loss and further explorations of new mental/sonic realms.
Full of tracks brimming with the excitement of exploration, it’s the results of a
mind informed by punk, industrial, techno, dancefloor, disappointment, trauma and rebirth.
Here the synthetic and authentic is viewed simply as the same means of human rationale and expression.

Written and produced by Mika Hallbäck
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu, Schwebung Mastering 2024
Mixed by Alexander Salomonsen
Double bass on ‘We left before we came’ by Gregory Vartian-Foss
Design by Nik Colk Void
Photo by Dimitrios Bizios

21/02/2025

EMEGO 316 Haswell & Hecker: UPIC Diffusion Session #23
Out today and shipping!

LP & Digital, available on Bandcamp, at your record stores and on all digital platforms.

https://haswellhecker.bandcamp.com/album/upic-diffusion-session-23?label=502986885

Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker have both a long history with Mego/Editions Mego. Individual releases
have peppered the Mego catalogue since Haswell’s Live Salvage 1997→2000 cd release (MEGO 012) in
2001 and the debut Hecker release IT ISO161975 (MEGO 014) in 1998.
The individual exploration of sonic phenomena by these two practitioners has resulted in both being highly
regarded for their uncompromising approach to sound as matter.
Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker came together as a collaborative duo with the now-legendary record
Blackest Ever Black, somewhat inexplicably, on the classical imprint of Warner Brothers.

In 2025, Hecker and Haswell return with a new album featuring the two-channel edit produced initially for
their UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23, performed as a live diffusion across 8-channels at the X100
Festival, Berlin, 2023, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Xenakis' birth.
This record furthers the duo's exploration of Xenakis's UPIC system (a computer music system that generates sound from visual input) as the sole instrument.

Throughout UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23 frequency clusters move and morph in the most unusual
manner, shifting and stretching into shapes that hint at some kind of magical process. What starts out
deceptively simple soon unravels into a large array of sonic mayhem. Symbolic jet planes are shredded by a
swarm of insects, a metal bowl howls into the void, a tiny tin toy crawls into a thicket with the resolute aura
of a black hole. A burning geyser of laser forms liquid shrapnel. This is sound as an alchemical process, a
constant chimerical flow into the netherworld and is the net result of the decades long radical investigations
by the two artists involved. UPIC DIFFUSION SESSION #23 is a direct, rich and rewarding listen for those
willing to invest time into the outer limits.

Source material recorded at CCMIX (Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis)
Written and produced by Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker
Mastered by Russell Haswell
Designed by Norm, Zürich
Photography © Lisa Wasmann and Atonal, Berlin
Published by Mute Song

06/02/2025

EMEGO 318 Hüma Utku: Dracones
First single “Comfort of the Shadows”.
LP & Digital available for pre-order via Bandcamp.
Release date: April 4th, 2025

https://humautku.bandcamp.com/album/dracones?label=502986885

This new work by the Istanbul sound artist is a sonic journal of an expedition into uncharted territory, one which occupies self and domesticity. Inspired by Utku’s experience of matrescence, Dracones explores the themes of familial demonology, metamorphosis and homecoming as well as human relationship to the experience of love woven layers of euphoria, alienation and consumption.

‘Comfort of The Shadows’ moves from within to without, what was once hidden is now exposed. Utku’s ability to conjure the visual in the sonic is at the forefront as howling electronics give a distinct impression of movement. Video by Marco Ciceri explores the forgotten state of fetal existence—an intimate journey into the earliest moments of life. In a world where perception is primal, reduced to the most fundamental inputs: light and vital energy. The experience is alien yet universal, a return to a time before the self can be remembered or formed. The piece evokes the sensation of being without yet truly being, offering a glimpse into the forgotten interiority of our earliest experience."

All tracks composed, performed and recorded by Hüma Utku
Mixed by Enyang Urbiks
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
Cover Artwork by Marco Ciceri
Design by Tina Frank

Hüma Utku

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