va - Meme

Another artifact for the brief craze for fetishistic near-silence, the Meme label produced albums of minimal music with entirely-white covers and tiny grey text hidden beneath the all-white disc. The label leapt out of the gate with some winning CDs by John Hudak, Kevin Drumm & Taku Sugimoto (whose work, of course, would become so minimal over subsequent years that his albums of almost-total-silence trod dangerously close to self-parody), Nerve Net Noise (about whose Meme album the Forced Exposure website once dared listeners: "Go on, test your will to live."), Richard Youngs, and Shifts. This compilation from 1997 was the label's debut release, and worked as a sort of Meme mission statement. It contains tracks by the wonderful Sukora, Ryoji Ikeda, Stillupstepya, CM von Hauswolff, Loren MazzaCane Connors, Marc Behrens, Jim O'Rourke, Ultrasound, Rehberg & Bauer, Tamaru (an underrated bassist whose albums of stately woofer-taxing fog are absolutely worth seeking out), *0, Climax Golden Twins and more.

va - Meme