Peter Rehberg, Influential Electronic Musician And Label Head, Has Died At 53

Peter Rehberg, who recorded groundbreaking albums as Pita and under his own name, and who ran the influential electronic record label Editions Mego, died suddenly on July 22 in Berlin, at age 53. The cause was a heart attack, Isabelle Piechaczyk, his former partner, confirmed to NPR. His death was initially announced on Instagram by the Franco-Swiss composer François Bonnet, who has recorded for Editions Mego under the name Kassel Jaeger.

In 2014, Rehberg told an interviewer, "Many people at my age – I'm now 46 this year – complain, 'Oh, it's not as good as it used with Red Bull Academy on his history of running first , the trendsetting Viennese imprint he joined not long after its 1994 founding, and then its successor, , which he launched in 2006.