Peter Rehberg

Electronic artist/label chief BORN 1968

Peter Rehberg cut an unpretentious figure in the sometimes-abstruse realm of experimental electronica. The Hertfordshire-raised son of an Austrian father, he settled in Vienna and, as Pita, began releasing his intricately textured music on local imprint Mego in the mid-’90s. Taking the label’s reins after a 2005 relaunch as Editions Mego, Rehberg would oversee revered albums by the likes of Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi, and abetted by Franco-Swiss composer François J Bonnet, also exhumed key works by 1950s French electro-acoustic laboratory Groupe De Recherches Musicales. Rehberg remained creatively active, not least as KTL alongside Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, and as one third of Mego ‘supergroup’ Fenn O’Berg. He passed away after suffering a heart attack. “He was one of the most kind, loyal and reliable people I have ever known”, wrote Bonnet in a tribute. “I owe him so much. So do many of us.”