History
Founded in 1994 by Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper and Peter Meininger, before Meininger left to be replaced by Peter Rehberg who records on the label under the name Pita. The label has released records by artists such as Fennesz, Hecker, Russell Haswell, Francisco López, Farmers Manual, Merzbow, Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Rob Mazurek, Fuckhead, Vega/Vainio/Väisänen, Radian and many others. In December 2005 the company was closed, however in January 2006 Peter Rehberg founded Editions Mego, to carry on maintaining the back catalogue as well as releasing new works.
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