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artist: solvent
title: solvent city
format: mlp/cd
art.no.: morr music 013
» info
hello, and welcome to solvent city. just pop on the monorail and we'll show
you around for a day. starting from the top floor of the suction records
tower, we see honorary citizen jason amm smiling down upon the city that he
has built. with some assistance from fellow luminaries lowfish and skanfrom,
solvent has constructed a warm and inviting cityscape, bathed in the
radiating glow of vintage synthesizers bordering the city's perimeter.
'some assembly required' is the theme song, accompanying us along the
highway to the city's industrial zone. here we see a team of canadian
snowrobots working around the clock to the track's motorik pulse. these
bouncy synth-pop melodies inspire great productivity in our robots.
as we approach the downtown core, we hear 'solvent city' booming from cars,
bars and beatboxes. it's a big hit with the city's youngsters, recently
bumping depeche mode out of the #1 position in the pop charts.
'a panel of experts' is a song for the suburbs. this is the lushest track in
town, with dusty home-organ beats and a choir of heartbroken synthesizers.
our citizens are not simple robots; we grow introspective with age, and we
have music to reflect this. let's stop the train here and spend some time to
learn about the people that make this city tick...
after returning from a busy day at the city.centre.offices, our robots head
over to the supermarket. here we find berlin immigrant skanfrom offering a
fine, remixed selection of 'frozen food', seasoned with majestic melodies
and otherwordly bleeps.
once at home, citizens will turn on their desktop tape players for a study
session in synth-pop architecture. 'built-in microphone', with its
octave-hopping basslines and perfectly formed microscopic melodies, is a
compulsory course, along with vince-clarke-101 and moog-history. solvent
city is well-known for its stunning attention to detail, and the citizens
make every effort to educate themselves in the fineries of classic
robot-pop.
concluding our monorail tour, we'll wind down with the icy beauty of
lowfish's take on 'a panel of experts'. this remix picks lost vocal snippets
out of the airwaves and places them in the frosty landscape of our city's
night sky.
beyond solvent city there's only barren land - littered with clicks, cuts,
and cold digital noise. make sure you stay within the city limits. this
train is headed downtown - please put on your dancing shoes. the night is
still young in 'solvent city'.
» tracklisting
a panel of experts* | some assembly required | solvent city | frozen food
(rmx) | that will be 49c* | built in microphone | not for sale | semisoft |
a panel of experts (rmx) [ the * marked tracks are not included in the vinyl
version ]
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artist: múm
title: please smile my noise bleed
cat.no.: morr music 020
format: lp/cd
» info
in a way it was only a matter of time before múm would end up on morr music.
anyone who has had the pleasure of listening to the icelandic quartet's
celebrated debut album "yesterday was dramatic, today is ok" knows that
múm's "eye shutting-bicycle beats, sounds and melodies" would feel suitably
at home with the morr.
this record came to be raw for múm, like raw carrot. in a way their
maschines wrote the musik themselves, while múm were playing around on a
mountain, lying down, standing up, running around. when they came back they
were surprised by their beauty. this is where things started looping and
feedbacking and even the old mountain radio swam in with a few random words
and murmurs. a very old distant friend joined in singing, but only for a
split second. when the songs had recorded themselves on tape, thomas sent
them out to all his nice guys who made new pieces out of them, each one
special in it being musik:
christian kleine's old mountain radio is playing a steady diet of old school
electro pop. 8 bit snare drums and a deep massaging subbass manage to puta
headnoddingly near-perfect groove into múm's delicacies.
styrofoam has the original múm melodies spinning out of control while
somewhere along the way a vocoder and a steady kickdrum manage to sneak in.
bernhard fleischmann makes a happy return with some splendid cut-up old
school hiphop action and the múm girls humming along gently.
phonem turns múm's clearcut melodies into shifting layers of grainy sound
and deep textures, only to be interrupted by an ever evolving broken beat.
arovane does what he does best. lush homemade synths and basement beats. two
step amx style so to speak.
i.s.a.n. contribute their dark and brooding cantena mix ? all deep analogue
bass and persistently ringing bells with the original melody making only the
vaguest of appearances.
» what is this múm?
múm is a musikal band of four. you could call them a quartet, but that would
maybe be stretching the truth. two years ago they crafted their debut album,
"yesterday was dramatic, today is ok", in a small sweaty room. a few good
folks were very happy with the record and urged them to do some more musik,
which was totally unnessecary because they had already planned on doing so.
and since then they have. they have worked with a lot of people, writers,
singers, dancers, experimetalfolks, sadlaptopfolks, priests and activists to
do all the things they could think of and some of it actually turned out
pretty good. but now they are back to making some musik on their lonesome.
» tracklisting
1. on the old mountain radio 5.15
2. please sing my spring reverb 5.16
3. please sing my spring reverb styromix 5.39
4. please sing my spring reverb i.s.a.n. catena mix 4.23
5. flow not so fast old mountain radio 1.27
6. please sing my spring reverb phonem mix 6.41
7. on the old mountain radio christian kleine mix 6.14
8. please sing my spring reverb amx 5.40
9. please sing my spring reverb b.fleischmann mix 5.29
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morr music - a number of small things ( a.n.o.s.t. 001)
artist: b. fleischmann
title: nico
format: 7"
cat.no.: a.n.o.s.t. 001
streetdate: now
for the first part in morr´s new seven inch series, bernard fleischmann
returns back to the old house and what a return it is. the man responsible
for kickstarting the morr music label with the seminal "poploops for
breakfast" lp, once again gets things going in style. "nico" is a dark and
cloudy track, with distortion building up gradually over chiming bells, with
crickle beats and noise seeping in through every crack inbetween and finally
taking over until there´s nothing left but a pulsating mass of sound. on the
flip there´s "hyvä päivä" that starts off with ear piercing test tones until
fleischmanns trademark lush drones take over, backed by a laidback hiphop
beat and topped with gently disturbing random pulses.
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morr music - a number of small things ( a.n.o.s.t. 002)
artist: other people´s children
title: on a clear day
format: 7"
cat.no.: a.n.o.s.t. 002
part two in morr music´s "a number of small things" single series comes
courtesy of other people´s children. opc are jason, nicole and cailan,
natives of melbourne australia and allround synthpop romantics.
having recently released their debut album "field of sadness" on library
records, the band once again line up their collection of old casios, drum
machines, dodgy microphones and their beloved and enduring mini-Korg to
construct two more frosty tunes.
"on a clear day" is a gorgeous chunk of electronic pop music, all rumbling
drums, layered synths and then there´s those signature ultra-deadpan vocals.
It´s the new sound from way back. "suicide common" is nothing more than a
lonely drum machine and some sparse synth drones to carry a poetic tale of
sorrow and regret. sometimes that´s all it takes.
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_ planned for 2001
15.10.2001 lali puna - rmx by two lone swordsmen & leboeg (a.n.o.s.t. 003)
15.10.2001 lali puna - scary world theory lp/cd (morr 023)
01.12.2001 phonem - ilisu lp/cd (morr 024)
_ and watch out for the christian kleine lp/cd on cco.
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morr music
c/o thomas morr
prenzlauer allee 216
10405 berlin
fon 0049-30-44052699
fax 0049-30-44044791
info@morrmusic.com
www.morrmusic.com
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