Artist Info: General Magic

General Magic Biography by Sean Cooper

"Accidental electronica" duo General Magic is perhaps the strangest, least stylistically constrained project on the Austrian Mego label's roster.

Formed by label bosses Ramon Bauer and Andi Pieper around the same time they established Mego (GM's collaboration with Peter "Pita" Bauer, "Fridge Trax," was the first Mego release), GM released a pair of twelves on Mego, as well as a mini-LP (Live and Final Fridge) on Source before releasing the full-length CD Frantz in 1997. [read more...]