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Bristol, England, UK (1993 – present)
There is more than one artist with this name:
1) Mesh are a synthpop/ebm group, hailing from Bristol, England, UK consisting of Mark Hockings and Richard Silverthorn. Neil Taylor was in Mesh from their conception in 1993 until 2005. Their music is described by their official website as “somewhere between synthpop and EBM”.
Mesh were discovered largely as a result of Future Music releasing their first three demo songs on a compilation. Holding a large amount of distaste for major label business, the trio chose to form their own label titled Tolerance Records, which released their first EP “Fragile” in 1993. Soon after circulation, the band signed to Memento Materia and re-released the EP. Mesh followed “Fragile” with the album “In This Place Forever”, which included the popular single “You Didn’t Want Me.”
1999 saw the release of “The Point At Which It Falls Apart”, which the official bio cites as “certainly the best work that the band had produced to date. It is a rich and emotional album, and shows the threesome taking their music to a new level.”
In 2000, Mesh signed distribution agreements with Metropolis Records in order to pursue US appeal, an arrangement which ultimately fizzled out. In 2002 the band switched labels yet again to release “Who Watches Over Me?” on Columbia (a Sony subsidiary).
In 2006 Mesh signed to the German label Königskinder after leaving Columbia. To date neither “Who Watches Over Me?” or “We Collide” have been released on an American label.
In April 2006, the album “We Collide” was released in Europe to generally positive reviews and good chart positions in Germany. In 2007 the band released the DVD “The World’s a Big Place”, with live performances and interviews from their “We Collide” Tour.
1) Mesh are a synthpop/ebm group, hailing from Bristol, England, UK consisting of Mark Hockings and Richard Silverthorn. Neil Taylor was in Mesh from their conception in 1993 until 2005. Their music is described by their official website as “somewhere between synthpop and EBM”.
Mesh were discovered largely as a result of Future Music releasing their first three demo songs on a compilation. Holding a large amount of distaste for major label business, the trio chose to form their own label titled Tolerance Records, which released their first EP “Fragile” in 1993. Soon after circulation, the band signed to Memento Materia and re-released the EP. Mesh followed “Fragile” with the album “In This Place Forever”, which included the popular single “You Didn’t Want Me.”
1999 saw the release of “The Point At Which It Falls Apart”, which the official bio cites as “certainly the best work that the band had produced to date. It is a rich and emotional album, and shows the threesome taking their music to a new level.”
In 2000, Mesh signed distribution agreements with Metropolis Records in order to pursue US appeal, an arrangement which ultimately fizzled out. In 2002 the band switched labels yet again to release “Who Watches Over Me?” on Columbia (a Sony subsidiary).
In 2006 Mesh signed to the German label Königskinder after leaving Columbia. To date neither “Who Watches Over Me?” or “We Collide” have been released on an American label.
In April 2006, the album “We Collide” was released in Europe to generally positive reviews and good chart positions in Germany. In 2007 the band released the DVD “The World’s a Big Place”, with live performances and interviews from their “We Collide” Tour.
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Keznor wrote:
The new album is pure awesomeness!
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NicEBoY_fReAk wrote:
DM is approved by the masses as 'synthpop gods' and every synthpop band that get fame nowdays will be compared with DM (like every industrial rock band will be compared with NIN). That's normal. Yes, they have a little bit in a common. Just synthpop genre and that's all.
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FaithHealer_ wrote:
abfdrumz,I don't know and I don't care if you are a DM fan and how much you know about their music or about music in general,but,I see you responded.For some reason,people like comparing a lot of electronic bands to DM,even when they really have nothing in common. Nothing wrong with thinking Mesh sound DM alike,just don't argue,cause' it's ridiculous.
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abfdrumz wrote:
Mesh *doesn't* have something to do with DM? "Inconceivable!" I'd suggest that (a) these students are among very few to surpass their teachers, and (b) it doesn't speak any less of them to acknowledge their debt. If nothing else, converting even 1% of DM fans to the cause of Meshy goodness would let Mark and Rich fill the clubs to the four walls well outside of Europe. Music-biz cynicism aside, I have to believe that it's more than doable.
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rutama wrote:
I must admit I'm not too thrilled by the new album yet. The music is a little too loud an too dense, maybe that's the effect DaimonX mentioned. The lyrics are rather short and the choruses are repeated too often, so some tracks seem a bit stretched. I miss haunting songs like "To be alive" or "No place like home" although "Who says?" could fit into this category. Maybe it gets better by time.
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DeadlyFred wrote:
This is good stuff.
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getherthanthou wrote:
First listen to "A Perfect Solution" today and another top notch album from the boys, Everything I Made and Who Says? rocking my world at the moment. Can't wait for the London gig!!!
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limpicatto wrote:
"Who says?" is awesome. Mesh gets better and better.
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FaithHealer_ wrote:
Mesh has something to do with DM? Absolut nonsense!
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DaimonX wrote:
I read about the mastering below and I disagree because the album sounds a bit overcompressed to a musician's ear. I know it is hard not to maximize it to the last bit ... .... but many pro's demand a return to a dynamic range of 14. Read about here: www.dynamicrange.de Thee major problem it may sound well on cd, but worse on mp3 & co.
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DaimonX wrote:
I love mesh since 1997/98 and supported them a lot via my past online magazine scope-x. I really think that their popularity is poorer against DM because they hit the ears only one decade later as DM and at that time Grunge was everywhere and hard to overwhelm. Today they are miles better than DM. "Who says" is an awesome song.
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NicEBoY_fReAk wrote:
'Who Says?' indeed the best song on new album, the should release it as a single. And Mesh is not DM clone, that's ridiculous.
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BrokenRazorwire wrote:
Im their great & devoted fan since 2004 when I first heard WWOM. It was even before I started listening to DM! I believe Mesh are better than DM in many aspects. At least I love them even more than DM.. & I hate when smb says that these guys are clones of Depeche!!!
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abfdrumz wrote:
Fantastic. Once again these guys make a beeline for my musical pleasure center like nobody else.
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chetkaya wrote:
new album is great! high-class mastering / so much professionalism in every single sound
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Scarab_Bonku wrote:
Only Better - one of the best single of 2009 :)
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Argentum99 wrote:
Nice job!)
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Eugetic wrote:
2009 is not best, but very good! Thank you guys! I love your music!
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chertele wrote:
best synth release in this year
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Znork wrote:
The perfect solution - awesome.
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Columbia Club, Berlin, Germany
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Mesh - ''A perfect solution'' Tour 2009
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Mesh
FZW, Dortmund, Germany
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effigyx, H_C_Eden, CartmanSPC and 21 other people added Mesh to their libraries. 7 hours ago
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abs_zero added Mesh to the lineup of Mesh (and Red Flag) at Downtime. Friday morning
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engelsche wrote about Mesh in mesh & informatik & janosch moldau. Thursday evening
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engelsche wrote about Mesh – Friends Like These in mesh & informatik & janosch moldau. Thursday evening
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ascaris_ann tagged Mesh with ‘synthpop’. Thursday evening
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shiavchik, Mill-E, rbarrenger and 9 other people added Mesh to their libraries. Thursday evening
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Nsk93 connected Mesh to the group BærBM. Wednesday morning
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pavels79 wrote about Mesh in My Favourite Albums of 2009 (so far). Tuesday afternoon
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