Farmers Manual is an electronic music and visual art group, founded in Vienna in the beginning of the nineties. The core members of the collective are Mathias Gmachl, Stefan Possert, Oswald Berthold, Gert Brantner and Nik Gaffney. Part of the very lively viennese electronic music scene of the 90s, Farmers Manual were successfully crossing the boundaries between electronic music, live visuals, experimental graphic and web design.

Their CDs, published through avant-garde labels such as Mego

Mego (label)

Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The word 'Mego' is an acronym referring to "My Eyes Glaze Over", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn .-History:Founded in 1994 by Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper and Peter Meininger, before...

, Tray or OR, often contained multimedia content. Their most significant release might be RLA

RLA

RLA may refer to any of the following:* Residual Life Assessment, in power plant.* Railway Labor Act, an American law governing labour relations in the railway and airline industries....

 (which stands for "Recent Live Archive"), a DVD released on Mego in 2003, which contains the bands extensive backcatalogue of live concert recordings from 1995–2003, compressed in mp3 format - totalling 3 days and 20 hours of audio content and released under a Copyleft

Copyleft

Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...

 licence.

As visual artists, Farmers Manual have been included in numerous international festivals, such as FCMM (Montreal, 1999), Avanto (Helsinki, 2001), Art+Communication (Riga, 2006) http://rixc.lv/06/en/img14.html.

Selected discography

• (1995) Farmers Manual: Does Not Compute (12", Tray)

• (1996) Farmers Manual: No Backup
  No Backup
  No Backup, released in May 1996, is the first album by Farmers Manual. A remastered 2nd edition was reprinted in August 1999.-Track listing:#"Macro Woeb" - 5:54#"Biomagic I" - 6:45#"Biomagic II" - 7:19#"Perimeter 87" - 9:38#"Nomad 137" - 7:51...
  
  (CD+, Mego
  Mego (label)
  Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The word 'Mego' is an acronym referring to "My Eyes Glaze Over", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn .-History:Founded in 1994 by Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper and Peter Meininger, before...
  
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• (1996) Farmers Manual: FM (12", Mego
  Mego (label)
  Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The word 'Mego' is an acronym referring to "My Eyes Glaze Over", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn .-History:Founded in 1994 by Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper and Peter Meininger, before...
  
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• (1997) Farmers Manual: fsck
  Fsck (album)
  Fsck is the second full-length release by Farmers Manual, published in August 1997 on Tray . A 2nd edition was reprinted in 1999 on OR .-Album title:...
  
  (CD, Tray)

• (1998) Farmers Manual: Explorers We (CD, OR)

• (2000) CD_Slopper: SaskieWoxi (CD, OR)

• (2001) Gcttcatt: Amperase (CD+, Mego
  Mego (label)
  Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The word 'Mego' is an acronym referring to "My Eyes Glaze Over", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn .-History:Founded in 1994 by Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper and Peter Meininger, before...
  
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• (2002) pxp: while(p){print"."," "x$p++} (CD, Wavetrap)

Note: this album, by Farmers Manual member Oswald Berthold, was awarded an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...

 2002.

• (2003) Farmers Manual: RLA (DVD-Video/ROM, Mego
  Mego (label)
  Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The word 'Mego' is an acronym referring to "My Eyes Glaze Over", an expression attributed to futurologist Herman Kahn .-History:Founded in 1994 by Ramon Bauer, Andreas Pieper and Peter Meininger, before...
  
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External links

• Farmers Manual website

• Farmers Manual's Recent Live Archive of live recordings and associated paraphernalia.
• Farmers Manual discography on discogs.com
• Farmers Manual biography on mego.at