Published
Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 20:53
- The record that launched the key experimental label Mego 20 years ago, along with the Live And Final Fridge album, will get new life on Editions Mego in late May.
Vienna experimental institution Editions Mego will celebrate its roots with Fridge Trax Plus, a 20th anniversary reissue of General Magic & Pita's influential Fridge Trax material.
General Magic is Ramon Bauer and Andi Pieper, and Pita is Peter Rehberg—those three were the main figures behind Mego, which in 2006 gave way to the Editions Mego imprint that Rehberg runs himself. As its name suggests, the Fridge Trax project was built off of recordings from microphones placed inside refrigerators, which were then re-assembled into a range of rhythmic and ambient pieces. The Fridge Trax EP was Mego's very first release, all the way back in 1995, which established the label's experimental bona fides right from the start. About a year later the trio put out a live album, Live And Final Fridge, on Source.
Now, the EP (which got a digital issue back in 2007) and live album have been remastered and combined into Fridge Trax Plus, a nearly 80-minute release that will come on double vinyl and digital formats in late May. Tina Frank, who handled the original EP's artwork along with that of dozens of other Mego and Editions Mego releases since then, has handled the design of the reissue.
Stream "Shuffle Fridge" below.
Tracklist
A1 Deep Fridge
A2 Dope Fridge
B1 Funk Fridge
B2 Theme Fridge
B3 Thaw Fridge
B4 Spring Fridge
B5 Deeper Fridge
C1 Shuffle Fridge
C2 Phunk Fridge
C3 Cool Fridge
C4 Ding Fridge
D1 Raw Fridge
D2 Final Fridge
Editions Mego will release Fridge Trax Plus on May 25th, 2015.