Artist
– Mewgatz
Title
– Underfelt
Catalogue
# - OIB002
Formats
Available –
Limited 10”
Release
Date – 23rd
July 2007
Songs:
•
a_part
• arm control
• speak & spell
• aquarium
• difference
• serca
Mewgatz,
named after a child’s mispronunciation (or is that misconception)
of music, is the twisted brain-child of Ed McGregor.
Spending
the better part of his formative years in a Velux windowed, floral carpeted
attic in the midlands with a collection of old abandoned keyboards,
Mewgatz quickly turned his electronic graveyard into a sanctuary where
he mastered the warped art of circuit-bending.
This
guerrilla art-form involves taking an electronic noise making device
such as a keyboard or a Furby and intentionally buggering about with
its circuitry, shorting out specific points on the circuit-board, and
creating sounds that were never before thought possible or even desirable.
Mewgatz’s
debut release ‘Underfelt’ is delicate yet damaging electronica
of the highest order. Constructed around the brain of a £3 Yamaha
keyboard and an 80’s keytar, it’s dark and harrowing basement
pop. 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 popular contemporary tracks until they’re bent out of
all recognition. These are lo-fidelity electronic ballads drenched in
raw, passionate, and vulnerable emotion.
With
soldering-iron raised firmly towards the heavens Mewgatz is on a quest
for melodic chaos, to find that fleeing moment in the void between human
fragility and robotic malfunction were unpredictability and stability
collide.
Up-coming
Releases:
Mewgatz
full-length digi-pak CD due Summer '08
