Browse by Label: MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Tridecoder
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 002CD

Originally released in October 1999, the debut release by Lali Puna has garnered rave reviews from the press and
       industry luminaries, such as Radiohead. Tridecoder features 9 tracks of some of the finest electronic-pop
       and set the foundation for the band that would go on to record two more albums. Led on vocals by Valerie
       Trebeljahr, the rest of the band consists of members from The Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio and
       Console.

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Salamander
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 003CD

1999 release. ISAN's equipment must be inhabited by proper salamanders, pattering constantly over circuits,
       stumbling over wires. Robin and Toe, the two mates operating this "Integrated Services Analogue Network"
       (ISAN), appreciate the salamander's help and dedicated this whole album to their little friend. A couple of years ago,
       they both met in Leicester, discovered a common interest in "using dodgy old keyboards to make a dodgy old noise" and
       started recording together. Mixing the simple beauty of melodies generated with analog keyboards and the bumpy, quirky
       rhythms old drum machines create when you switch them on, ISAN produce some of the most irresistible pop anthems the
       whole family can hum along to.

Artist:	HERRMANN & KLEINE
Title:	Kickboard Girl EP
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	MORR 007EP

Repressed. "Kickboard Girl" features tinkling beats with an almost anthem-like approach. It beats like the movement of arms and legs in water, and then the synthesizer whispers. "Kickboard Girl (Take Care At The Corner)" covers the peaceful silence with tiny buds of sound before "May In Fall" triggers the euphoric pulse of an old, long-forgotten breakbeat extravaganza you thought you'd never feel again. The rest of the tracks are new melodies that will take your soul prisoner.

Artist:	KLEINE, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Valis
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MORR 011CD

2002 release. First things first: Christian Kleine, Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist and software crack, prefers
       music as a means of communication. Following two 7"s, remixes for Bomb The Bass and Múm, forays into the
       great unknown with Herrmann & Kleine as well as his debut album Beyond Repair on allied label City Centre
       Offices, for Valis Kleine has now rediscovered his love for analog instruments -- a move that shouldn't really
       come as too much of a surprise considering his diverse musical background. As a subtle homage to heroes from Eno
       to Boards of Canada, from Seefeel to Pan American, on Valis, Kleine exploits his extended
       range of instruments to refine delicately layered beats, to breathe a little soul into chilly electronics and coalesce
       melancholic fragility with persistent melodies, folky electronica gliding past us like a wintery landscape. But
       definition doesn't suit Kleine, his work defies any categorization according to genres or arrangements. Though
       computer-programmed, Valis does not address our head or legs, but unfolds its hidden warmth only in our hearts.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey: A Morr Music Compilation
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MORR 012CD

Repress of this year 2000 release, the first Morr Music compilation. Music without the world could possibly not survive,
       a sonic field trip of people who'd stay together forever, spend hours on the phone, exchanging soundfiles and ideas. Here,
        Berlin is as important as Cologne, Munich, Toronto, Southend-On-Sea, Vienna and Leipzig. ISAN are remixing The
       Notwist and vice versa. Bernhard Fleischmann gives Blond a treat, Flowchart works on a Lali
       Puna track, Tied & Tickled Trio is de-jazzing Kandis. The participant list reads like the who's who of
       electronic scouts. But, the remixes are only one aspect. The double-CD also features new, unreleased tracks from old and
       new Morr people. There's Manufracture, who has a brother called Phonem, Herrmann & Kleine, Christian
       Kleine, Arovane and Solvent. Other artists include: Kevin & Paul, Styrofoam, E*Vax,
        Phonem, Wechsel Garland, Hessen, Schneider TM and Micha Acher.

Artist:	SOLVENT
Title:	Solvent City
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 013CD

Repressed. Hello, and welcome to Solvent City. 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, 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 otherworldly 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 bass lines 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.

Artist:	TIED & TICKLED TRIO
Title:	EA1 EA2 (Remix)
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 014CD

2000 release. Since the mid-'90s, more and more boundaries between rock, electronica, and jazz have been broken down. The
       Tied & Tickled Trio is known for pushing genre mix-ups even a bit further. Combining sampling and editing
       techniques with traditional (collective) improvising, this band works like a strong but sophisticated machine. Several
       layers of soundscapes and (programmed as well as drum stick driven) beat patterns are created for elaborate jazz
       saxophone tunes to surf on top of them. The tenor sax provides an edgy element that typical post-rock outfits lack in
       their featureless instrumental crawl through wide spread sound textures. The Tied & Tickled "Trio" consists of more than
       three musicians. There are six permanent members. Apart from the acclaimed jazz saxophonist Johannes Enders, who
       comes from a rather academic background, they can be seen as the core group of a Weilheim, Germany based music scene,
       which in the course of the last decade has established a rich and promising DIY-avant garde. Bands like The
       Notwist, Village of Savoonga, Potawatomi, Console or Loopspool, to name but a few, worked
       out very individual approaches to indie-rock, noise, jazz and electronics. When the Tied & Tickled Trio's first album
       appeared on Kollaps/Payola three years ago, it coincided with a general atmosphere of open-mindedness. Back then, more
       and more people had started to be interested in all kinds of musical styles and genres and their ears tended to cope with
       all sorts of strange and abstract noises. Re: EA1 EA2 (Remix) -- usually a remix results from rather extended
       editing sessions, but in the end it can be compared with an improvised version of an "original" track, whose elements,
       structures and textures it re-works and re-uses. As the Tied & Tickled Trio is very much involved in jazz aesthetics and
       improvising techniques, a remix compilation seems to fit extremely well in the band's discography. EA1 EA2 was
       released in 1999. Several producers were asked for a reinterpretation of the material. Confronted with the density of
       the original tracks, they had no choice but either translating the complexities of the collective powers of concentration
       into complexities of loop layers, or simply concentrating on and pointing out single elements. Remixers include
       Opiate, Christof Kurzmann, Max.Ernst, Console, Wechsel Garland, Kandis and Gustavo
       Lamas.

Artist:	GARLAND, WECHSEL
Title:	Wechsel Garland
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 016CD

2000 release. Jörg Follert was Wunder, now he is Wechsel Garland. Great expectations? ("Große
       Erwartungen") One can easily trace the atmospheric relationship between the two projects -- the synthesis of lightness
       and deep melancholy. A combination that is nearly impossible. How then? ("Wie Also?") Like an airplane, a butterfly
       ("Falter") glides through the valley of deep sounds in the beginning, only to take a rest between melodic-percussive
       patterns made of minor scales later on. In a more accelerated and abstract way Steve Reich achieved that before,
       but here the music is much slower and far more intimate. It says: Come! ("Komm") There! -- softly pointing at YOU with
       its forefinger. Deep inside your body there's a resonance. That's the place where the floating and ringing sounds of the
       marimba, the Fender Rhodes piano or the xylophone can vibrate. Their echos will remain. Like insects ("Wie Insekten")
       bass sounds buzz, like dust in the light ("Staub Im Licht") flutes, Hammond B3 and melotrone cover a soundscape that can
       be overlooked from any perspective. A peculiar idyll. With no star ("Ohne Stern") in the sky, nameless, removing, but
       even more real ("Wirklicher"): at least Wechsel Garland's music isn't based on samples anymore as with Wunder. There's no
       driving beats, but it's all rhythmic. Can you dance to it? Originally the music was composed due to an order from
       choreographer Gabrielle Staiger and had its première under the title "This Very Moment" with the Arazzo dance
       ballet at the Brotfabrik, Bonn, in February 2000. By later extending the tracks, adding important details and inventing
       ingenious song titles, the debut of Wechsel Garland was finally born. It's music you'll find between the shelves in
       record stores; music that has to create its listeners -- and that is only a small step along the way ("Viertel des
       Weges").

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Salle D'Isan
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MORR 017CD

2001 release. ISAN is Robin Saville and Anthony Ryan, who met in sunny circumstances in Leicester,
       UK. The term ISAN stands for "Integrated Services Analog Network," and beside other reasons it reveals their interest in
       using dodgy old keyboards to make dodgy old noise. But with their new 6-track on Morr music, even the listeners who are
       new to the ISAN network will soon recognize that the definition of dodgy old noise and analog synth-sounds becomes a
       completely new dimension. ISAN's music is a kind of ambivalent thing: simple but pure, noisy but clear, strange but true,
       to mention only a few. Another important merit of ISAN is maybe to completely calm you down because every piece of Robin
       and Anthony's music creates an amazing feeling of being distant to every unnecessary thought, so just sit back, relax and
       let yourself go. The intention of ISAN to ignore common four-to-the-floor dance-patterns doesn't prevent you from finding
       yourself on a ship of its own rhythm; sometimes it steams and rolls and later on it just seems to slide over a sea of
       melodies and all around you things just disappear and fade away.

Artist:	BOMB THE BASS/LALI PUNA
Title:	Clearcut
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 018EP

Vinyl version, CD is deleted. Tim Simenon of Bomb The Bass joined forces with Lali Puna to produce "Clearcut,"a track with up-tempo, hip-hop-inspired beats, a bouncy bass line and a deep, dubby vibe topped with the wonderful warmth of Valerie Trebeljahr's voice. Morr music friends Arovane, Herrmann & Kleine and Opiate couldn't wait to get their fingers on the track to deliver four delicate remixes located somewhere between distorted breaks, shining melodies and hip-hop influenced elektronika.

Artist:	MANUAL
Title:	Until Tomorrow
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 019CD

2001 release. After an amazing release on the Hobby Industries label, Manual brings us with his debut on Morr
       Music even further melodies and reasons for picking up the guitar from the corner (again). Indeed, Manual masters it
       amazingly well and overwhelms the listener with strong and soft melodies, soundscapish fragments and fluffy noises which
       remind us of bands like To Roccoco Rot, and the Chicago scene. The combination of classical acoustic instruments,
       his skills on the guitar/bass/piano, the droning and sweeping synth sounds and crackling electronic beats fixes broken
       pieces together and lets you drift away in memories. Manual songs are downtempo with plenty of space for the big melodies
       he presents. Listening to it, we are reminded of dewy asphodels in the spring. Sunny and dreamy, Manual draws a flowery
       picture of overwhelming color within his well-structured songs. No doubt, he has the potential to convince fans of modern
       electronica and Hoboken neo-folk and bring them all together to smell the buds of spring in the garden of Jim
       O'Rourke.

Artist:	MUM
Title:	Please Smile My Noise Bleed
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 020CD

Features two new songs by Múm and six remixes by Styrofoam, ISAN, Phonem, Christian
       Kleine, Arovane and B. Fleischmann. Not to be confused with the Múm Remixed album on Thule. 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 Morr. This record came to be raw for Múm,
       like a raw carrot. In a way, their machines wrote the music 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. Christian
       Kleine's old mountain radio is playing a steady diet of old school electro pop. Eight-bit snare drums and a deep
       massaging sub-bass manage to put a 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 hip-hop action with 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.
       ISAN contribute their dark and brooding "Cantena" mix -- all deep analog bass and persistently ringing bells with the
       original melody making only the vaguest of appearances.

Artist:	F.S.BLUMM
Title:	Mondkuchen
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 021CD

2001 release. Frank Schültge aka F.S.Blumm presents a multitude of lovely pop songs and atmospheric
       soundscapes. Mondkuchen seems like a colorful picture transformed into music, telling little stories in many
       layers. Its tension covers a wide field from crushed acoustic sound experiments to perfect pop tunes. Ingredients of his
       sound-kitchen are mainly acoustic instruments like piano, kalimba, vibes or guitars or more rare ones like an accordion.
       The musical result is in a way original, so that the popular namedropping doesn't help that much to describe F.S.Blumm's
       music. We still try it because we think there is a parallel to bands and projects like Gastr Del Sol or others who
       work on the combination of improvised elements with pop-approached structures. Likewise, when thinking about Wechsel
       Garland, it's hard to believe that F.S.Blumm is a one-man-project. It shows the many skills of a
       multi-instrumentalist, but the best thing is that he manages to sound like a perfectly tuned in orchestra, homogenous and
       well balanced. F.S.Blumm works with melodious sound, with deep buried memories and inner-mind visions, but at the same
       time his music is determined by timeless elegance and an amazing facility. The correlation of different instruments and
       beautiful simple melodies rule the sound. Experimental ideas just communicate with accessible and friendly music and
       Mondkuchen is a good example of how deep this combination can be without losing tension and humor.

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Lucky Cat
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 022CD

Released in 2001. ISAN love old analog electronic devices to make music, instruments from a time when synthesizers
       were developed in attics in air-conditioned offices, where hundreds of coding-slaves would program new organ-presets,
       were still an unknown phenomena. Equipment you not only need screwdrivers for, but also furniture polish. Synthesizers
       and drum-boxes, which were affordable even when they were manufactured and which rock bands with mellotrons and modular
       walls laughed at. Robin and Antony prove that these machines are capable of great things, too. With
       numerous releases -- preferably on 7" of course -- they managed to book reservations for front row seats in our record
       racks. Little melodies appear, dragging you along on their journey towards dawn, slowly unveiling their real inner-self,
       and banishing evil ghosts. Everything sounds more self-evident, lighter, more familiar, more personal and especially more
       lovable and adorable. It almost sounds like the happy studio cat.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Scary World Theory
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 023CD

Released in 2001. Valerie Trebeljahr has been quietly whittling away at her very own blueprint of pop music.
       Steering well clear of prevalent harmless geniality, her aim is to cleverly and intelligently dissect our perception of
       the world around us. Lali Puna have now become a fully-fledged band, carefully selecting band members (from
       Console, The Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio, Iso68, Fred Is Dead). Following their album
       debut Tridecoder, Scary World Theory achieves the perfect combination of pop and (personal) politics.
       Behind ostensibly shy, almost withdrawn vocals, Valerie is by no means coy about confronting the world's ambivalent
       status quo, bluntly documenting current conditions underneath putative fragility. And the music, too, demands our full
       attention. Between hummable chords and sometimes soothing, almost hypnotic monotony, each repetition discloses
       multi-layered complexity as well as cleverly hidden counterpoints. No matter if atmospheric, exuding classical warmth or
       quietly breathy -- again and again Lali Puna tear heartbreaking harmonies from the sparsest of arrangements.

Artist:	PHONEM
Title:	Ilisu
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 024CD

Ilisu is not an expansion on Phonem's previous output, nor a move towards greater complexity, but rather a
       purification, a clarification of what Phonem's previous releases were trying to communicate. Crispy crystal beats and
       minimal synth melodies don't battle it out but merely exist next to each other, like natural elements keeping each other
       in balance. And a perfect balance it is. Perfectionism also shows in Phonem's grainy sound design and carefully
       programmed beats, steeped in classic hip-hop rhythms but somehow always carefully balancing on the brink of collapse. A
       delicate balance. Seeping through the cracks are Phonem's never ending melodies. Steering away from classic song and
       theme structures, allowing melodies to develop in a linear way, free from their own history, no need to return. Melodies
       that are sometimes cold and icy, often clear and liquid. Something to hold onto while they bring the beat down. Since the
       release of Hydro Electric, Elliot Perkins has been playing live sets all over the planet, both as Phonem
       and as part of the expanded Beta Bodega collective, including appearances in the USA and Japan. Perkins has also released
       a 12" on Beta Bodega (as Spike) and a collaborative album with Berlin's Arovane on UK label Vertical Form.
       Ilisu could be considered the final part in a trilogy that started with Phonetik (Phonem's first release
       for Morr) and was expanded upon with Hydro Electric. Ilisu is a detailed album that demands detailed
       listening.

Artist:	LIMP
Title:	Orion
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MORR 025LP

2002 release. LP version. Limp are inspired by intelligent electronica and Chicago rock, and are also self-confessed admirers and recyclers of "rock and pop elements from the '80s and '90s" (a universal red flag for any conscious human being) and innocently cite stadium largesse and touching pop moments of mainstream-compatible alternative phenomena as a way as to quell any critical protest in its infancy. Orion displays the fresh and differentiated influence of four musicians with their own electronica projects (Manual, Aerosol, Syntaks) in this perfectly-balanced interplay of classical instruments and digital aids. Ostensibly relaxed and dreamy, simultaneously as epic and stratified as Mogwai or selected snippets from Slowdive to Boards of Canada, Orion is not afraid to exploit incredible melodies for minutes on end. Contrasts blend and forget about their origin to lend the six tracks a continual narrative structure that sneakily conjures up vivid images.

Artist:	HERRMANN & KLEINE
Title:	Our Noise
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MORR 026LP

2002 release. LP version. You know what it's like. You wander aimlessly through the streets, maybe trying to forget something, when all of a sudden the sun breaks through the clouds and turns everything into gold. In an instant, your mind will be completely absorbed by this light and you will have forgotten everything you wanted to forget. Our Noise has exactly this same effect. There are crucial points in these ten tracks where luminescent melodies appear from out of nowhere, pushing everything else aside. Subtle bass lines and beat structures perpetually move into rhythmic chaos, not bothering to conceal the fact that this is nothing less than glorious pop. Around this momentum swirls a dizzying complex of beats that range from calm to pulsating and September-warm. Right in the middle of this ever-flowing whole, you'll find a shining cover version of Slapp Happy's "Blue Flower," previously saved from obscurity by the likes of Mazzy Star and Pale Saints. On a blissfully piercing bed made out of thousands of guitars, sits the majestic and modest voice of singer Ariane Hensel. Thaddeus Herrmann and Christian Kleine prove that a sum consists of more than just the contents of its parts. This music comes from directions as diverse as hip-hop, '80s synth-pop and classic indie-rock. But it's not about an easy formula -- this is more like an interstation on a long personal path.

Artist:	MANUAL
Title:	Ascend
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 027CD

2002 release. Ascend, the title of Manual's second album, shows the way this music is going. At any time it
       is uplifting in a melancholic way, it directs into the inner self or into some far distant nowhere. All these emotional
       paradoxes stand in a tradition of many a great sound-sculptor starting with 4AD-acts such as Cocteau Twins, the
       swathing surrealism of My Bloody Valentine, the intense lethargy of Talk Talk up to the sheer beauty of
       Slowdive. With these traditions in mind, the music is carefully transferred into here and now while never losing a
       certain sunken quality. All those soothing, opalescent sounds may come from out of old analog synthesizers, but
       Jonas' indie-heart is still beating on the right side. One or the other subtle guitar part bears witness to that.
       Same goes for Limp, Jensen's other project in which he shares his vision with three friends to follow a similar
       path with different measures. Their debut album Orion is the perfect companion to Manual's body of work.

Artist:	ISAN
Title:	Clockwork Menagerie
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 028CD

Repressed. This compilation of early material coming from long-out-of-print singles and compilations was a long time
       coming. Mostly because there should be many more people out there who should be able to listen to these tracks than those
       lucky few who were able to get the original copies in the short while they were available. These tunes seem to come from
       a different era when small labels like Earworm, Liquefaction Empire, Bad Jazz or Wurlitzer Jukebox were continually
       presenting interesting and exciting new bands, mostly on neatly packaged limited edition 7"s. The music ranges, depending
       on from out of whose vintage analog equipment it comes, between simple melodies on swinging, feather-weight beats and
       rhythmically complex and transparent sound installations. May this be the right balance between pop and art. Maybe like
       an unlikely mixture of Plone and Seefeel.

Artist:	MS. JOHN SODA
Title:	Drop = Scene
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MORR 029CD

On their album No P. Or D., Ms. John Soda have taken unusual steps towards a new pop direction, where the
       melody, clarity, emotional directness and timelessness of song structures supersedes the importance of aural
       experimentation. At the same time they wanted to employ classical instruments such as bass, guitar, drums and keyboards
       and they wanted to rock with a constant glance at the careful balance between instruments and electronics. Now the EP
       Drop = Scene is a straight continuation of this idea, and like no other track, the heated "Go Check" distills the
       basic gist of this album. The "Elusive" remix was done by Max Punktezahl (Contriva) and Florian
       Zimmer (Lali Puna, Iso68), or rather their joint project, Jersey. A small epic, almost twice as
       long as the original, defined by the inimitably fragile sound of Punktezahl's guitar and loop-based, lavish electronica.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Blue Skied An' Clear - A Morr Music Compilation
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MORR 030CD

Repressed. With his second, very intimate grasp of music's status quo (after Putting the Morr Back Into Morrissey)
       Thomas Morr again delves deep into his own musical history. Now that many electronic musicians have begun to
       (re-)discover guitars and especially the clever layering of My Bloody Valentine's finest tracks, Blue Skied an'
       Clear presents us with a truly loving homage to all-time favorites Slowdive. CD1 of this compilation allows
       label acts as well as guests (Komeit, Skanfrom, Múm etc.) to breathe new life into shoegazing with
       their carefully-crafted cover versions. Here long-time fans as well as new believers rediscover these damn fine songs,
       mingling them with their own substance while offering ample room to the ethereal, the audible silence of the originals.
       Inspired by Slowdive's output, even sworn instrumentalists like ISAN unearthed hidden vocal talents and CD2, with
       its collection of original tracks by Morr Music artists, hints at a similar return to classic band techniques. Other
       artists include: Future 3, ISAN, Lali Puna, Ulrich Schnauss, B.Fleischmann & Ms. John
       Soda, Limp, Solvent, Styrofoam, Manual, Herrmann & Kleine, Guitar,
       Populous and Icebreaker.

Artist:	MS. JOHN SODA
Title:	No P. Or D.
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 031CD

Ms. John Soda are Stefanie Böhm and Micha Acher, both part of the creative sphere around notable
       German label and distributor Hausmusik. It soon became clear that Ms. John Soda would become their "pop project": the
       melody, clarity, emotional directness and timelessness of song structures would supersede the importance of aural
       experimentation. At the same time they wanted to use classical instruments such as bass, guitar, drums and keyboards and
       they wanted to rock with a constant glance at the careful balance between instruments and electronics. If the need should
       arise to label Ms. John Soda "indietronics," then we should also resurrect the capital "I" in "Indie." Because it is here
       that one of the genre's sound ideals, "to rock without rocking" has been carefully, but determinedly, unearthed. This
       undoubtedly makes Ms. John Soda a Morr Music band project that dares to venture further out of the safe harbor of aural
       abstraction than any other and fulfills the old claim of creating a truly touching pop record.

Artist:	GUITAR
Title:	Sunkissed
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 032CD

2002 release. This much is known: Guitar, a culture junky relocated to the green void of the German Sauerland,
       requires neither introduction nor statement and uses this moniker with a healthy distance and dose of irony for his by
       now third musical project (besides majorly-distributed club hymns and his classically-influenced experimental output) to
       exhaustively experiment with guitar sounds. At the same time, with Sunkissed, he created an enthusiastic homage to
       My Bloody Valentine's Loveless period. A secret fan of the classic utopian thinkers, Guitar, too, explores
       the geography of expanses and shifting horizons in his output, keeping a distance to life while cherishing a fascination
       for even the smallest detail. He allowed the music of two years to boil down and evaporate, to reduce and grow again.
       Garnished with a generous portion of pop and lightened by the heavenly sighs of Donna Regina and Ayako from
       Tokyo, Sunkissed translates and transports its references into a euphoric presence.

Artist:	POPULOUS
Title:	Quipo
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 033CD

2002 release. Andrea Mangia comes from a small town in South-Apulia, an area which might be known better as the
       Italian boot's high heel. Using the PC, Andrea starts organizing and fusing his musical influences. Rock gradually falls
       into oblivion, making room for hip-hop and a subtle sensitivity about pop mechanics. After a while, Mangia's music moulds
       into a precise and reduced version of abstract electronica owing to Andrea's all time faves A Tribe Called Quest
       as it does to Phoenicia or Phonem. Looking for an artist moniker, the tiny adjective "populous" grabbed
       Andrea's attention, not because of its actual meaning, but rather its onomatopoeic qualities. "I loved that word
       immediately. It just sounded nice: two p's, two u's, two o's, including the word 'pop!'" Populous' personal
       Quipo now consists of the "ones and twos" a hip-hop DJ uses to rearrange the popcultural "goods in storage." It
       also consists of the "zeros and ones" used by a computer to synthesize new compounds from those elements. Thus, Populous'
       abstract soundscapes, his fragile melodies contrasted by quite physical beats add a new flavor to the Morr Music pie,
       which cannot be summed up by a convenient and bloated category like "indietronics" anymore, anyway.

Artist:	OPIATE
Title:	Sometimes EP
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MORR 035CD

2003 release. Thomas Knak has managed to come up with an EP of almost cinematic proportions, striking us all with
       a perfectly balanced relation of organic sounds, sampled instruments like acoustic guitars, flutes and piano as well as
       subtle digital manipulations and intricate beat programming. Knak knows how to provide his music with a spatial quality
       that clearly comes from his experience with dub as a production technique. At the same time, Opiate never runs the
       risk of drenching his compositions in confusing layers of delay and reverb. On the contrary: the EP's six tracks are as
       organized as they are emotionally touching.

Artist:	LALI PUNA
Title:	Left Handed
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MORR 037CD

Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher present Left Handed. The title track sees Lali Puna shift
       from their delicate, electronic sound to the use of an instrument which, until now, was never heard in their music --
       namely the sound of distorted electric guitars. Valerie is not shy in admitting that the guitars pay homage to her idols
       Sonic Youth. However it must be said that Max Punktezahl, guitarist in Contriva and The
       Notwist tour-member will undoubtedly carry some of the credit for this new sound as he was heavily involved in the
       recording. Compared to the introversive works that single out Lali Puna's previous releases, Left Handed is, for
       want of a better adjective, a very expressive number. "Left Handed" is followed up by "Left Handed Dub," a version
       assembled from the original "Left Handed" sounds. The closing track is a cover version of The Human League's
       "Together In Electric Dreams."

Artist:	GUTHER
Title:	I Know You Know
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 038CD

2003 release. This band manages to update the kind of lo-fi indie-pop reminiscent of labels like Teen Beat or Slumberland.
        But Guther are definitely not a lo-fi outfit. The means of electronic production -- a computer, a synthesizer and
       a drum computer -- have clearly left their traces in their sound. Listening to the ten songs from Guther's debut, all of
       them display a certain immediacy, which on the one hand clearly comes from the very private setting I Know You
       Know has been recorded in. On the other hand, it also comes from the really short and spontaneous production process.

Artist:	TIED & TICKLED TRIO
Title:	Observing Systems
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	MORR 039CD

2003 release. With their third studio album Observing Systems, the Tied & Tickled Trio has delivered their
       most complex self-portrait of a freely-operating music collective. Altogether, the 15 pieces on Observing Systems,
       some of them not more than highly elaborate and articulate "ideas," form a very tight system itself -- based on musical
       references, different modi operandi and scientific research -- which reaches less and less for an unconditional formal
       unity. With Observing Systems, the Tied & Tickled Trio does refine the idea of "space," both sonic and spiritual,
       in which experiences and emotions echo, in a new and ultimately refreshing purity. Suddenly, what you hear becomes as
       important as the blanks in the music. In these regions of ruptures and uncertainties, a fantastic vision evolves, which
       leads the Trio through an intense and continuously inspiring musical past. In these ruptures, music history becomes
       lively again. Observing Systems is music without a center. As in the architectural concepts of "Tensegrity" by
       Buckminster Fuller, each track represents one component in this self-suspending, durable construction, a structure
       whose strength increases with lightness rather than the heaviness of its components: the album as a whole.

Artist:	MS. JOHN SODA
Title:	While Talking
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MORR 040CD

Ms. John Soda are Stefanie Böhm (Couch) and Micha Acher (The Notwist, Tied &
       Tickled Trio). While Talking is both the study and result of constant exchange between human beings and it
       deals with communication in numerous ways: conversations that work and sometimes don't, contradictions, misunderstandings
       and the incapacity to make oneself understood as well as to fully understand someone else. The opener presents itself
       almost defiantly. Compared to the debut, the song's calm sections appear more epic, whereas the expressive elements seem
       to be even more "in your face." The spectrum of Stefanie Böhm's and Micha Acher's musical influences is more varied than
       before. They use anything ranging from distorted punk bass to psychedelic twang sounds. "If Someone Would Know," for
       example, is reminiscent of cruising through a desert by night just like in a David Lynch film. "I Think It Could
       Work, Marilyn" reanimates Marilyn Monroe and Elvis taking a walk up in the mountains. Although Ms. John
       Soda's expression has become more varied, Stefanie Böhm's charismatic and beguiling voice remains the central element in
       all the songs. Their ability to transform the entire range of human emotions into musical expression is breathtaking.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	Welcome Tourist
Label:	MORR MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MORR 041CD

Welcome Tourist is not just a political statement. It also is a document of growth and refinement. Despite a more
       instrumental approach (in the classical sense), you will still find Bernhard Fleischmann hunched over his tiny
       groovebox, creating the most sumptuous harmonies. On this record, however, he lets his musical talents unfold (you'll
       hear him on piano, drums and vibraphone) and engages the support of others, which turns the once solo artist into a band
       frontman. In harmony with this functional shift, the music also undergoes a change, which shines through on "Le Desir"
       and "Sleep," which have been previously released, but now feature new vocals by Charhizma label owner, Christof
       Kurzmann. Compared to Bernhard Fleischmann's earlier work, Welcome Tourist might not appear as accessible.
       Bursts of noise and distortion have now become as important as the trademark melodies circling through his songs.
       Bernhard does not want this to be seen as a (political) expression of uneasiness. Rather, it just refers to his ongoing
       love affair with noisy guitar bands. Working with different musicians had a direct influence on the outcome of each song.
       Usually, a groovebox composition by Bernhard marks the start of the mutual working process. The initial composition
       retreats more and more during the development of the final piece until there's nothing left but a shadow, a blurry trace,
       that nonetheless leaves its mark on the result.