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footage dates back to around 2000 ... ...

For those who want to get an idea of the label and its sound can also start from the seminal double-CD compilation Rate-Bazza "Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey."
The following is an interview with the deus ex machina of the label, Thomas Morr, conducted via e-mail the brave Jukka Reverberi Gardens and Miro originally appeared http://www.insound.com and here translated into signed by the Italian Giovanni Gandolfi.
Who are you? ... Presented to our readers.
In one way or another are more than ten years that I deal with music as a DJ from 18 to 24 years, as local concert promoter, as a clerk in a record store and I took care of a mailorder catalog.
Then I started working for a small distributor in Germany called Hausmusik, where I deal with exports and purchases of securities electronically.
In addition, I studied history and German for some years, but without success. Markus
the summer of 1998 of the Notwist and Wolfgang Hausmusik asked me if I would like to take care to schedule a new independent distribution in Monaco, so I started to Hausmusik
Shortly after we started this new job started to have in our catalog most of the smaller British labels and I liked the most.
doing so we became part of a sort of network formed around labels such as Hobby Industries, City Centre Offices, Atomic and Din.
In this case it was a network where he had shared the same interest in the electronic melodies, the complexity of programmed beats and sounds inspired by 'abstract hip-hop, with the result of the birth of friendships and contacts at the international level, expanding and linking up the anime and the concepts behind it were more or less geographically distant bedroom-studios, offices and living room shelves of records.
When and why you founded the label?
After a couple of months that I worked for the distribution Hausmusik I was sure it was the right time to start the label. B. Fleischmann, the first artist to be released on Morr, I was presented through a radio host and by Austrian Markus Archer (a component of Lali Puna - Notwist - Tied & Tickled Trio as well as my roommate for a time) in a period in which I had already been confirmed out of Lali Puna and Isan.
I have been in contact with Bernhard (Fleischmann), and then things have developed very quickly.
What is the basic idea behind the label?
guess the same ideas that often lead to the birth of a new label. First of all I was a
fan and a collector of labels such as Wurlitzer Jukebox, Static Caravan, Skam - labels who work largely as a "project-label."
Since I was a part of this "scene" of collectors I could get my hands on the most attractive stocks, but I realized that most of the artists had a higher limited edition of 750 copies and, although still I like the idea of unique and individual tracks, Morr is focused more on the entire album. By
still part of the network where there are already many great labels of individual British became natural that I try to reach more people with outputs that would still remain in print even if exhausted.
With ISAN I asked one of my groups "" favorites, they have agreed and so the idea became more concrete. The Morr Music
works a bit 'like this: on one hand as an "artist-label, trying to grow some musicians and possibly keep them in close contact with the label for several albums, making them" resident-artists " (groups that publish only a label). The Morr Music
certainly does not want to slow down the activities of its artists, but since most of them are also friends, discuss before any releases for other labels.
There is however too want to also be a "project label, which includes being able to promote new artists with a quick statement in the form of an EP, so as to put the new artists in a circumstances already recognized and recognizable.
Lastly, do not in order of importance, Morr is also characterized by the visual aspect, as my best friend is a graphic artist Jan Kruse and is responsible for "corporate" design covers the outputs Morr.
What is the aesthetic / ethic that drives the Morr? There is a thread that unites all your publications?


What I like, it's almost all here (ethics / aesthetics), when I do not like them cuts with the public.
It 's more a question about the future because so far I have chosen the artists for their music, assuming that would also cover them in my way of looking at the label, because I think they have preferences similar to mine in music and therefore I imagine that their tastes will develop in my own way. I imagine them to be chosen with great care, are all musically very open, not fixed on a single musical genre and a bit 'more informed of the majority of artists I know. Or something like that. They are people interested in what they do and also what others do. Very often a social approach to music (way of experiencing music with others) similar to mine. This is one of the most exciting of which label to worry about.
The city of Berlin and its electronic music scene have an influence on the outputs of Morr? And also give us your opinion about Berlin ...
We are putting together a collection of six labels in conjunction Berlin: DIN, CCO, lux nigra, hey rec, ADSR and morr music.
A sort of statement about how we see also Berlin though of course there are other labels such as Scape, Monolake and others that operate in an environment similar to ours, separated from the dancefloor-oriented 100%.
Why did you call your first compilation "Putting The Morr Back In Morrissey? It 'a play on words or a dedication?
I can only say that I was once asked by a French journalist to write a sentence about each of my artists.
Styrofoam (Morr Music 010, 015) I wrote that his vocal samples, vocals remind me of Mr. Morrissey.
I told Arne aka Styrofoam on the day before the burning of his album.
He said he has actually learned to sing songs of thanks to the Smiths and then the next night we listened with the Smiths, thinking about the carefree days when we were young and sad, realizing that you have a musical past in common with my artists.
I think actually that we all have in common key-disk.
Perhaps the title of the next compilation will be referred to the My Bloody Valentine and Seefeel or maybe the next one to Autechre. Oops! And to be honest this game of words with Morr (Issey) I did when I was 15 and it was fun to remember
The Smiths were important for my "socialization Music, "but were also the New Order, OMD and Soft Cell's so even if the title refers to that little anecdote with Arne there may be something more behind.
Maybe the same thing happened again 10 years later by the first releases of the Too Pure and Tortoise.
Your label is fast becoming the state of "cult label" ... .. It seems to me a kind of transposition of the label Sarah Records indie pop queen in electronics ... what do you think? (It is my belief, but ok when I buy the lp Wechsel Garland and see the graphics ... the photo of the bedroom ... you know ...) And
' Funny how the word "cult" has been part of all the interviews that I received via e-mail or by telephone.
I mean, I am honored, but it is more due to the fact that most of my pop artists are influenced by the index.
I would not say, however, Sarah & Co. and also no records of the labels of new indie pop that I do not like at all, since I do not like the easy listening that is a major DEEP balls you can imagine.
But I can think of the first things 4AD, Too Pure ... but this is certainly not new schmaltz of several retro labels that refer to Sarah. The cover of
Wechsel Garland is one of those which are not representative of the label. About
reminded me of The Smiths
in your catalog there are two discs of remixes. ... That of Tied & Tickled Trio is great, but why did you choose to publish an album of remixes of guitar bands like Piano Magic? I seem so far away from the things you do. ... There is some connection with the world of Indie Rock?
I still love the music groups and indie pop, but unfortunately not much is happening in that genre.
I lost interest in most of the labels and prefer still the originals rather than copies, from which we are overwhelmed now, even if they are popular.
I love Piano Magic, Low, Stereolab, and various other bands.
Obviously I'm also a big fan of the Tied & Tickled Trio and is the reason why we started to work together and therefore are very keen to hear their next album.
guess I could publish works by more bands, it's just that there are a few that I really like.
discs of Morr have their own visual style ... .. believe in some sort of connection between music and graphics?
As I said I am a collector and my best Jan's friend from school (the 08 design) is responsible for the thread that binds the various graphic outputs.
We discussed this before starting the label. I liked the image of labels like Touch and Mego, whose artwork has a clear identity and I wanted to do something.
We have already won an award for the design of copertime in 2000.
I see the various parts of the disks as a single thing, and I do not like the normal cover because I believe that every detail has its importance in a disk.
essentially discusses the past?
Autechre - everything Codeine - everything brian eno - music for airports, Mogwai - early releases, Mouse on Mars - the first album, My Bloody Valentine - All; Omd - First lp; Pan American - st; Pan Sonic - everything Sebadoh - Bakesale; Seefeel - Quique; Slint - Spiderland; Slowdive - Souvlaki, The Smiths - everything Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation; Stereolab - Space Age and the early albums; Tortoise - Gamera and the early albums, Talk Talk, Pavement, Ween, Yo La Tengo, Kraftwerk, so I am a true indie kid.
What is your favorite label?
are in the fortunate position that some of my friends run labels that I like very much.
The Hobby Industries of Opiate, the CCO Mr. Hermann is (Hermann & Kleine) and our friend who started a fantastic distribution for the United Kingdom called Baked Goods, Atomic is the Styrofoam and Din is of our friends at Hard Wax which also address the distribution .
Somehow we support each other and we became friends that way or you had known before.
In addition we worked with several labels, Miami and the west coast of America. It 's a friendly competition but let's add up our efforts and am making plans for a sub-deployment together with Christian Kleine (Hermann & Kleine) here in Berlin, to give our maximum label support with a common office and the idea of building new facilities for artists and labels we like.
I'm still a collector and then appoint some labels may lead to a long list!
I have appointed the most important before but I might add Schematic (us), Chocolate Industries (us), Static Caravan (UK), Warp, Vertical Form (uk), Hefty (us), Process (uk) Karaoke Kalk ( Cologne), ADSR (Berlin), in short I'm still a collector.
The future of music ... .. Thomas Morr?
In part I had problems for the speed with which the label was developing, why not just getting used to a situation, things had already changed.
Since I am still working on the distribution are actually busy with two jobs each of which should be done more than full time.
Christian Kleine has started working for the label in 2001 and I hope we can grow together with some of the artists and distributors with whom we have decided to work and decide.
Because of Morr artists have been some interest and have received offers from all major labels would be natural for me to try to take the next step but I'd do it within existing structures to maintain control.
Plus I'm 'making up' a company with a friend for copyright to be able to add another link in the chain of the music business. But
must be something more than simply collect mechanical royalties.
I started to look after the printing of records for some labels, especially with artists I was working with, as in the case of Opiate and his Hobby Industries Suction or Solvent and its records.
With labels, I think, to maintain a constant high standard.
I take care of printing discs and offer a catalog of these labels, together with the mine, where I turn to distributors.
's just a combined effort with people whom I have to reach more listeners.
And thanks to my job in export to Hausmusik is something you do every day anyway.
The next label will be to Orvar Mum from 'Iceland, certainly one of the best bands for some time now, and then a U.S. label debut with a double lp of Lexaunculpt. Perhaps other
later, we'll see.