Named after a child’s mispronunciation (or is that misconception) of music, Mewgatz make delicate yet damaging electronica. Based out of an abandoned electro graveyard in Bristol and armed with an arsenal of home-made instruments, from modified 80s Casios to keytars and kids toys, Mewgatz makes schizophrenic and chaotic yet beautifully subtle and fragile music.
The guerrilla art-form of circuit-bending involves taking an electronic noise making device and intentionally buggering about with its circuitry. Finding, and soldering in short-circuits which create new sounds that were never before thought possible or even desirable from the instrument.
With a background of training in traditional melody, Mewgatz was inspired by these unpredictable sounds and quickly started melding the harsh mechanical exteriors into weird and wonderful organic electronic monologues.
Paying homage to his fascination with original keyboard presets and demo songs, Mewgatz fuses glitching preset bossanova beats with delicate guitar chord progressions and tender untrained vocals. Schizophrenically remixing the likes of “Greensleves” and “Wake me up before you go go” until they’re bent out of all recognition into lo-fi electronic ballads drenched in raw, vulnerable emotion. A personal quest to find that fleeting moment where, in the void between human fragility and robotic malfunction, unpredictability and stability can collide.
"Tender mechanics and loft-space constellations...as unloved mini-robots put out tiny feelers into the cosmos, Mewgatz feeds them with crystallised quizzical melodies" - Plan B
Mewgatz has played with: Efterklang, Why?, Peter and the Wolf (USA), Richard James (Gorky's Zygotic Mynci), Eugene McGuiness, Lonely Ghosts, Foxes!, Trev McWilliam, My Device, and many more...
Mewgatz - Love Songs and Car Boot Electronica
CD and Download
Tracks: Photocopy / A_Part / Transatlantic Fibreoptics / Arm Control / Linkup / Restrain / Aquarium / Dwarved / Difference / Function / G.P.S. / £3 Disco / Style 19 / Moscow Waltz
Due out June 2009 on OIB Records
Pre-order on-line soon from www.oibrecords.com
The debut 14 track album from the critically acclaimed circuit-board meddling Mewgatz, featuring the forthcoming single Photocopy.
All album artwork, including a 16 page album interpretation comic book, done by the seminal Chicargo cartoonist Jeffrey Brown, author of Clumsy, Little Things and Funny Misshapen Body.
OUT NOW
Mewgatz – Underfelt EP
10” Vinyl
Tracks: A_Part / Arm Control / Speak & Spell / Aquarium / Difference / Serca
Released 26th March 2007 on OIB Records
Order on-line from www.oibrecords.com
The songs on this EP were constructed around the brain of a £3 Yamaha keyboard and an 80's keytar. The ‘Underfelt’ EP has been generously described as "30 minutes of dark and harrowing basement pop" which pleases us greatly. Underfelt pays homage our my fascination with original keyboard presets and demo songs. The tracks fuse glitching preset bossanova beats with delicate guitar chord progressions and tender untrained vocals, schizophrenically remixing popular contemporary tracks until they’re bent out of all recognition. These are lo-fidelity electronic ballads drenched in raw, passionate, and vulnerable emotion. We hope you enjoy it. Message us if you do.
So it turns out, someone is actually crazy enough to let us play a gig! I know, we're not sure what they are thinking either, maybe they hate the people that come to their night? or maybe they can smell the future and it's wearing a lab coat and goggles... Friday 9th Oct Prince Albert we're on about 9pm - £4 in.
Hello, Winter records is launching a new theme-based compilation (vol 3) and invites you to a musical composition. The best tracks will be selected in order to be part of the new cd.
So, for our third compilation we want you to use the 5 musical notes of "Close encounters of the third kind". These are : sol (4) la (4) fa (4) fa (3) do (4).
Those notes can be the main theme of the track or not. We must here it once at least. You can whisper it, sing it, play it with any instrument you want. You can decline it.
The deadline is mid-july.
We can't wait to listen to your propositions and choose the most interesting ones.
mewgatz, i listen to you new tune now and pseudo is blown away, this is suposupo amazing, i love i love. it is nice we friend on label because this is so so lovely hellfuckyeah. i so impress! we have to say hello one day. look forward it playing in whole new record.
peace mewgatz, pseudo x play more million gigs please it need poooosh into world.
MEHO PLAZA NOPSE REMIX EP (CASSETTE) OUT NOW ON ICK ICK RECORDS !!! 6 tracks___ available on cassette from ick ick records... will be available digitally soon, from better looking records... vinyl is in the works too from sp1records...........
WINTER RECORDS prépare sa Compilation Vol. 02 qui sera consacrée aux Reprises.
Le principe est simple. Il vous suffit de choisir un Album Vinyle pouvant faire l'objet d'un Sleeveface (www. sleeveface. com) et de reprendre un des morceaux du disque. Les meilleurs tandems (Cover + Sleeveface) seront sélectionnés et intégrés à la Compilation.
Ça vaut le coup d'essayer !
Une Exposition présentant les Photos sera également organisée lors du lancement du disque en Janvier 2009 (deadline pour envoyer vos Covers et Sleevefaces : mi-décembre).
N'hésitez pas à en parler à vos amis et contactez nous pour plus d'information : winterrecords@gmail.com http://www. myspace. com/winterrec
WINTER RECORDS propose ses Compilations par abonnement : 3 disques par an pour 15 euros seulement [chèque à l'ordre de Winter Records, c/o Jean-Pierre Isnardi, 30 rue Maynard, 31000 Toulouse]
Groupes WR Vol. 01 : HENNING – PAS DE PRINTEMPS POUR MARNIE – ECHO – NEWTONE – RAY VASCO & THE CROCODILES – PETER PANTIES – CIGOGNE – MINIMAL – FREDERIC JEAN & HYPERCLEAN – INTERNATIONAL HYPER RYTHMIQUE – LASSIE – LAURE BRIARD CHANTE LA FRANCE – HELEN – RAY VALENTINE -- Winter Records winterrecords@gmail.com
Record launch party for Agaskodo's second album Psycho Goulash at CATCH on Thursday September the 18th...
Live music from Agaskodo Teliverek, Le Couteau Jaune, Wang Wang Gou & DJ sets from Neon Skullz, Loves Tru Flavour, Barely Legal & Shintaro Taketani...
Entry is free, arrive early for stinky Hungarian sausage..
Psycho Goulash will be released on September the 29th & is available from our new digital distributer IODA, physical copies can be ordered at the ADAADAT SHOP, or through CARGO RECORDS.
Check out the latest review from Plan B magazine here.
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