Goodiepal - EMEGO 211

More slight of hand by the Goodiepal! A couple of appropriate questions that might spring to mind are: is this 14 LP album even on Editions Mego at all? and does it actually contain 14 LPs? The answers are: it's hard to tell and kind of. In his spoken intro, Goodiepal explicitly says that the album is on Editions Mego... but despite the title, which is just a Mego catalog number, this set does not appear on the label's discography. Any fan knows that Goodiepal enjoys obfuscation. When he was asked directly whether or not EMEGO 211 was actually on the Mego label, he responded something like "You should probably ask Peter Rehberg". Which isn't an answer.

EMEGO 211 was originally released for free online in 2016 via Wikipedia, of all places. As you may have noticed, Wikipedia tends not to release vinyl records. Goodiepal says that anyone is allowed to put this music out on record as long as they send him and his mother a copy. The files from Wikipedia were labeled as LPs 1 through 14, with LPs 3 and 4 missing because (as he says in his intro) he wanted Mego boss Peter Rehberg to upload those somewhere else. Were those missing sides the "Morendo Morendo" triple LP that Mego did release? That wouldn't make sense, because only two LPs are missing from EMEGO 211, not three. Did Rehberg upload those missing sides... and if so, where?

EMEGO 211 has been removed from Wikipedia (when? why? I don't know!), so I've done a lot of detective work to figure out what all this stuff is (please let me know in the comments whether I got anything wrong, I'm sure that I did), re-tagged everything and am now offering it to you here. Trainspotters and OCD record collector types, proceed at your own risk. Even though the set was released as file, you'll notice vinyl surface noise throughout the set, no doubt added afterwards to make this sound like a record rip.

I've been able to figure out with at least 51% certainty that a few of these albums were actually released on small-edition vinyl LPs with the same catalog number, though none of those seem to be on Mego. Other albums with the EMEGO 211 catalog number seem to have been released separately but they do not appear in this set and don't seem to be on Editions Mego. Other sides might be exclusive to this set, but maybe they aren't. What you get here is lots of talking with abstract ambience (LP 1 "Tilbage Til Havet"), DJ sets (LP 2), live performances (LP 13, "Red Man K's Bedrifter, Live Chapel Hill 2002"... which, interestingly, was released by Mego in 2013 as a 3-sided LP. The catalog number for that one is EMEGO 179. Discogs notes that no digital version of this album exists, and yet here it is), opera (LP 6 "Vintern & vers"), two 20-minute takes on his song "My Robotic Skills Have Failed" by the Spanish group Evol (LP 8), strange lo-fi syntheiszer music (LP 10, "Sun Jammer Baba Jogan") film soundtracks (LP 9) and lots more indescribable nonsense. The 14th LP appears to be a reissue of Goodiepal's very first demo cassette from 1991, which was also reissued as a standalone LP by Alku. Is it really the same music? The track times don't match, so let's go with "maybe".

disc 1 Tilbage Til Havet
disc 2 Søsterhøj Mysteriet & Hessdalen
disc 5
disc 6
disc 7 Slet Dig Selv & Helt Opløst Mand
disc 8 Den Med Sif
disc 9
disc 10
disc 11
disc 12
disc 13 Red Man K's Bedrifter - Goodiepal Live, Chapel Hill 2002
disc 14 Havet