**Edition of 500 copies, incl. printed inner sleeves, silver pantone print. Feat liner notes from Jim O'Rourke and Chris Clepper.** Released originally in 1999, Get Out stands as a foundational achievement for Pita (Peter Rehberg), emerging at the cusp of digital experimental music’s flowering. The album’s twelve tracks are constructed with an uncompromising attitude, blending furious bursts of noise, minimalistic passages, and digital abstraction in ways that continually redefine the boundaries of electronic sound. Across the multi-part “Get Out” sequence, Rehberg exploits the potential for both torment and beauty in synthetic composition: glitch-laden surfaces rupture into melodic fragments, yielding sonic spaces that are simultaneously alien and intimate. Critically, Get Out has endured as both a touchstone and a reference for the genre. Its deft manipulation of laptop electronics paved the way for both harsher improvisational styles and the more harmonious dimensions explored by contemporaries like Christian Fennesz. Yet Rehberg’s vision, tightly honed over decades and through collaborations with artists such as Jim O’Rourke and Steven O’Malley, remains singularly focused; he oscillates between entropy and control, using melody as both a grounding element and a point of rupture.
The album’s reissues, including the 2008 expanded CD and the recent vinyl edition, confirm its enduring relevance and Rehberg’s pivotal role in electronic music. The packaging typically favors minimalism, foregrounding sound above all, and the sequencing preserves a relentless sense of progression. AllMusic and Boomkat have celebrated Get Out for its capacity to maintain intrigue through unpredictable sonic shifts, balancing moments of abrasive intensity with glimmers of digitally-induced serenity. In essence, Get Out is a testament to Peter Rehberg’s lifelong fidelity to transformative electronic practice. It stands as a record that resists easy classification, favoring instead a continuous challenge to both listener and practitioner—a work that, decades on, continues to inspire engagement and evolution within the field.
Feat liner notes from Jim O'Rourke and Chris Clepper.