Recording of Fridge Trax
In 1994,Bauer,Pieper and Rehberg had the idea of creating music from recordings of refrigerators. [3] After collecting enough recordings by placing microphones in refrigerators of various sizes,they traveled to Berlin. There,in Andi Pieper's studio,the four tracks of Fridge Trax were composed in a single session in October 1994. [4] The Mego label was created in order to release these recordings. [3] The cover art for Fridge Trax was created by Tina Frank,who went on to design the visuals for many of Mego's releases over the following years. [1]
In June 1995,a delegation from the Mego label consisting of Rehberg,Bauer,and Tina Frank attended the Sónar festival in Barcelona to promote the label's first three records,which were presented in pizza boxes. [5]
Recording of Live and Final Fridge
On July 10 1995,at the Interference festival held as part of Berlin's Love Parade,the trio performed their Fridge Trax live during a session played between 6 and 7 a.m. [6] The first six tracks on Live and Final Fridge are from this performance. Three further tracks were recorded in September 1995 in Berlin (Thaw Fridge),and finally in October 1995 in Vienna (Raw Fridge and Final Fridge). [4] The album Live and Final Fridge was released in 1996 on the German label Source Records.
Following these collaborations,the musicians soon released their first solo albums:Pita's Seven Tons for Free (1996),and General Magic's Frantz (1997).
