CLUB TELEX
electronic avantgarde excursions
Wednesday, 8 November 2000
Yo-Talo, Kauppakatu 10, Tampere, Finland
9 pm - 3 am
Tickets 40 FIM
Age limit 18
Live:
Skot (Mego, Austria)
Hecker (Mego, Austria)
Fennesz / Rehberg / Vainio (Mego, Austria / Pan sonic, Finland)
DJs :
Stimulus Progression (Helsinki)
Kauko Lampi (Op:l Bastards, Helsinki)
mini (Club Telex, Tampere)
pHinn (Club Telex, Tampere)
About Club Telex:
Club Telex is a monthly event in Tampere, Finland, which is dedicated to
experimental and avantgardistic electronic music and its different
subgenres, from ambient to techno. Not only live music, Club Telex also
offers experimental short films from the most respected Finnish and
international directors, alongside other eye candy, DJ music and
intellectual stimulation.
Telex takes place at the legendary Yo-Talo, the traditional Student
Union
club of Tampere. So far Club Telex has presented live performances from
such luminaries and rising stars of Finnish electronic and experimental
music as the internationally acclaimed Pan sonic, Nu Science, Op:l
Bastards, Ektroverde, Virtal?hde, Anton Nikkil? & Alexei Borisov
(Russia),
Nemesis, Ever Had, Unidentified Sound Objects, Kukka, O Samuli A, Mr.
Velcro Fastener, Pluxus (Sweden), Mono Junk and Ovuca. As the guest DJs
have been heard I-f (Viewlexx, The Hague, Holland), GM4 (Function
Recordings) and Marko Laine (Mind Records).
Artists:
This time Club Telex presents the Austrian experimental record label
Mego,
as a "kick-off" party to Helsinki's Avanto Festival
(www.avantofestival.com).
Austrian record label/artist collective Mego began
life during the end of 1994, founded by Ramon
Bauer, Peter Meininger and Andreas Pieper. Ramon and
Peter had previously been involved
with the label Mainframe (one of Austria's first
techno labels with releases by Ilsa Gold, Kirlian
and Elin amongst others). Andi is a Berlin based
producer who maintains the Mego Berlin
studio. By 1995 Pita (Peter Rehberg) joined the crew
and Peter Meininger left. The Mego Wien
office is based in Meidling, a traditional workers
district of Vienna.
Mego likes to see itself as a platform for all kinds
of information and communication carried via
modern electronic media, whether it be a compact disc,
MiniDisc, DVD, Internet, video, live PA
or a vinyl record release. This is why extreme effort
is put into packaging and artwork, as well as
a glorious disregard for being pigeonholed into any
one genre. It is Mego's aim that their
releases and ideas should be collected and experienced
for many years to come and not be
seen as some fodder for hopeless fashion victimized
disc jockeys.
Mego opened its own Internet mail order shop called
M.DOS in 1997. This features not only
Mego releases but other labels worth of
investigation. Since June 1999 Falsch - an Internet only
label - is online. "hyper music, on purpose" ... is
the mission. Also in 1999 the Prix Ars
Electronica 99 Award of Distinction for Digital Musics
goes to the "record label Mego",
represented by Peter Rehberg and Christian Fennesz. In
January 2000 Mego started their own
booking agency MdBs.
Unlike most electronic based labels Mego does make the
effort to leave the cosy confines of the
studio and play out live. With numerous performances
(either as individual acts or as a full on
Mego "all nighter" in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg,
Berlin (Interference), Karlsruhe (ZKM), Paris,
Z?rich, Barcelona (Sonar), London (LMC), Holland
Festival 98, Stockholm, New York, LA,
Chicago, Tokyo (ICC), Sydney and Melbourne
(WhatisMsic?/BigDayOut 2000) as well many
outings in Vienna (Phonotaktik95+99, Hyperstrings,
Word up, Wien Modern, Volksoper, etc..)
and throughout austria (Ars Electronica 97+99,
Konfrontationen 98, Musikprotokoll 98).
Peter "Pita" Rehberg has been DJing at various
locations in Viennese underground for almost
a decade. He started the use of Pita moniker in early
nineties as a DJ playing
ambient/experimetal sounds in so called chillout
rooms. Although Pita's vastly interested in DJ
culture he prefers to bring in the non-dance elements
he learnt at school when he was a fan of
noise music (if the sound fits the hole, let it
live). This period of social activity bore the fruits which
led to the setting up of the Mego label, and the
serious start to recording his own music. Pita's
current activities are running the Mego label and MDOS
mail order, and the irregular Johnny
YesNo nights, recording, and still DJing but now being
more interested in the sonic possibilities
of the CD glitch rather than the vinyl scratch or tape
collage. Pita has a greater interest for the
process rather than the result, which then has to be
processed in public, thus creating another
result.
Christian Fennesz started his career as the
singer/guitarist/songwriter in the group Maische,
one of the more interesting bands to occupy the
Viennese underground during the late eighties.
Incorporating into their sound techniques like free
form improvisation and instrumental rock in a
time when such practices were generally not accepted
by the rock audiences. With their demise
in 1993, Fennesz rethought his approach to return in
1995 with the 12" EP "Instrument" on the
Austrian electronic label Mego. Having freed himself
of the constrictive band format he was able
freely experiment with new electronic means and a
whole new audience. Since then Fennesz has
released an EP on Syntactic records. A full length CD
for Mego entitled "Hotel Paral.lel" was
released in 1997. Fennesz has also performed numerous
times (both solo and in collaboration)
at various festivals (Phonotaktik, Hyperstrings,
Sonar, ARS Electronica, Konfrontation, LMC,
Musikprotokoll...) Recently he has been touring and
recorded an album as Fenn O?Berg, with
Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke, as well as work for
Tanz Hotel dance company.
Mika Vainio is the other half of electronic act act
Pan sonic (who visited Club Telex September
1999) with Ilpo V?is?nen. Vainio performs at
Telex as an ensemble with
Pita Rehberg and Fennesz.
Florian Hecker is an independent composer in the fields of computer
music
and digital production.
Involved in various sonic projects simultaneously,
such as recording for labels like Mego and Or, his
current activities also include audio publishing and
interconnection in new formats, e.g. mp3 via the
fals.ch web project, cd_slopper, and visual
abstraction with Skot.
Mathias Gmachl (of Farmers Manual) and Tina Frank
(responsible for Mego's graphic design)
founded the video band Skot in 1997. 2 years later
Dr. Voltmer of Epy joined the formation.
"Playing and working with recorded visual material on
the basis of live sampling and live
constructing new forms of visual media", is their
aim. Audience on their gigs have responded to
the signal entering through their guts by keeping
their eyes closed shut and fingers in their ears.
Skot define themselves as a visual band. Known for
video productions, Skot have lately grown
famous for quite lot of live video presentations from
San Francisco to Tokyo.
[source: Mego press info @ www.mego.at]
Alongside music, Club Telex also presents selected videos from the Mego
camp.
WWW:
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/flyers/telex/
e. rautio, also known as pHinn
* the webmaster of pHinnWeb - the old skool, the nu skool *
* and the pHuture skool of Finnish electronic music *
* trerra@uta.fi |
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb *
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