Peter Rehberg has passed away

[thirdform]

totally shocked. huge influence on me. Some of the worst news to wake up to.

 

[Dusty]

Terrible news, he leaves behind an incredible contribution to music.

KTL played very loud for the rest of the morning.

 

[thirdform]

All good wishes and consolations to @john eden - who knew him in person, this must be very tough for him.

 

[Leo]

such sad news, mego releases were some of the first ones I bought when I started exploring electronic music. condolences, John.

 

[chava]

Mego blew Warp away in the 90s already. General Magic was my favourite electronic act back then. RIP

 

[john eden]

Thanks all. Twitter thread here with some memories. More to come. -

 

[version]

Sad news. Similar story to Leo re: Mego -- eMego being an integral part of exploring electronic stuff early on. I got into it through dubstep, quickly lost interest then stumbled across people like Actress and OPN which led to Mego, the first Pita album, Russell Haswell, Mark Fell, Hecker etc.

 

[version]

That third track off Get Out with the Morricone sample still puts me on my arse,

 

[Leo]

Wow John, had no idea you had that history with him. What a great relationship to have.

 

[john eden]

Thanks everyone it has all been quite painful but also brought back so many great memories:

You Don't Have To Rob A Bank: The Roots Of Peter Rehberg | The Quietus

Peter Rehberg and I met at school in the mid-1980s. He was born exactly a year and a day before me, and was in the year above me Verulam School, the single sex comprehensive we endured in commuter belt Hertfordshire. My musical tastes had matured from the stadium synthpop of Howard Jones to Soft...

thequietus.com

 

[Dusty]

We briefly had weekend jobs at Tescos together and I remember vividly Peter getting bollocked because he had spent about an hour dropping Marmite jars on a concrete floor because he liked how they sounded.

I have no words.

 

[polystyle]

Mego helped out on the first Pan Sonic perf. @ nyc 's Swiss Institute some ages ago ,
and ol ' Shampoo Boy were label mates for a moment there.
Gone waaay too fast , rest well Peter

 

[polystyle]

Thanks everyone it has all been quite painful but also brought back so many great memories:

You Don't Have To Rob A Bank: The Roots Of Peter Rehberg | The Quietus

Peter Rehberg and I met at school in the mid-1980s. He was born exactly a year and a day before me, and was in the year above me Verulam School, the single sex comprehensive we endured in commuter belt Hertfordshire. My musical tastes had matured from the stadium synthpop of Howard Jones to Soft...

thequietus.com

Thanks John
Many touchstones , many nights ;
Jim Thirwell ( lived in Bk ever since), Daniel Miller, Konrad Becker aka monoton across miles of sounds
Too soon , too soon

 

[thirdform]

some of the most psychedelic 4 dimensional noise ive ever heard. Yes, it bludgens you, but it's also totally serious and without wanting to come across as wanky, 'intellectual.' I was driving through the aegean coast with the family a few years ago and when they started having one of their routine petty squabbles I put this on the headphones and when A Vienese Tragedy came on I immediately felt like I was hallucinating, despite being stone cold sober. It's rare that music can ever do that to me now. Xenakis is the only composer who has also done that, a feeling of expanding out of the body and becoming pure sonic data. Innovator

Fenn O'Berg - Magic & Return

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[Dusty]

Walking on the ground you broke: Rob Young remembers Peter Rehberg - The Wire

Rob Young pays tribute to the Mego man, laptop pioneer and bon viveur, who died on 22 July 2021

www.thewire.co.uk

 

[version]

The Wire have lifted the paywall on a few Rehberg/Mego articles (for the time being?),

Rob Young on Vienna's 1990s electronic music underground, issue 162 August 1997
Edwin Pouncey on the rise of Mego, issue 231 May 2003
Peter Rehberg's Epiphanies column, issue 277 March 2007
Peter Rehberg's Invisible Jukebox, issue 281 July 2007

@WashYourHands That Epiphanies column's on Cabaret Voltaire.

 

[john eden]

Thanks for that @version - I hadn’t read the Epiphanies for some reason. The Doublevision VHS was one of the things he delighted in showing me.

 

[Murphy]

Thank you @version , diving in

 

[john eden]

 

[john eden]

My Quietus thing got quoted in the New York Times, which was cool.

I also contributed a short recording of some words for the memorial event in Vienna. Gutted not to be able to be there in person. Ah well.