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How is the Guitar My Bloody Valentine tibute thing? Since I'm asking about electronic reconfigurations of classic shoegaze.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

i didn't know they'd done one - what is it on?

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I don't know if Guitar even uses MBV music at all on it, but the Morr catalog describes *Sunkissed* as: "an update (and tribute to) My Bloody Valentine's sonic blueprint." But I'm guessing its more of a homage or I probably would have heard more about it on ILM :)

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link

oh ok. no, it's not a homage, in fact it's no more MBV than anything else which has been compared to MBV over the last 10 years. but it does have some nice fuzzy guitars

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

it's more like manitoba really

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

So what you are saying is: Morr Music blurb writers are big fat liars. Those bastards.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

the vocals ont he guitar record are a letdown.
the new remote viewer mini-lp on cco is their best record yet, remote viewer's that is not cco. might be because of nicola on vocals. it's like an empress record that isn't dull as paste.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 10 May 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link

ISAN are really the only band on Morr that I have time for.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 10 May 2004 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link

the new christian kleine is so far so good.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 10 May 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it? I listened to the samples on boomkat.com and was quite impressed - but have tended to find recent Morr/CCO records subject to serious diminishing returns. There seems to have been a move towards more typical song-structures and using less electronic trickery, which sounds like a good idea but is often boring.

I haven't heard the new Lali Puna album, though. Changed my mind on the new Remote Viewer mini-alb: it is actually dull apart from the final song, which is fab.

― clive (Clive), Monday, 10 May 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

guitar fucking suck. god i hate them.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 10 May 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

I've just realized, while listening to this Go Find record, that if I ever did a solo album, I think it might sound like something on Morr. Which is to say nothing of the quality, but those might be the elements I'd be subconsciously striving for, only because I'm a sucker for them (electronic beats, burbly synths, the occasional delicate/clean guitar, fey vocals, sad and pretty melodies, etc.).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i like the populous album i got in the mail. on morr.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Boomkat currently doing pretty much all the Morr Music cds for £4.99 (including those two great 2cd compilations). so, er, given that i already have all the isan, what should i get?

― koogy wonderland (koogs), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i would get (if i didn't have them already) all the styrofoam, go find and ms john soda discs

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i can take or leave the rest, really. i have the electric president and masha qrella discs but they both washed over me

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link

"nothing's lost" by styrofoam = best album morr have released

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Marsen Jules on CCO is excellent by the way.

― Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Sytrofoam's 'I'm What's There to Show That Something's Missing' is really rather lovely, not usre it was on MORR tho'.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:42 (seventeen years ago) link

it was

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The Manual/Ulrich Schauss neo-shoegaze stuff is what I still put on.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm all for isan.
lali puna do it for me, too.

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

sale now in it's last week. i went with:

SOLVENT - Solvent City
B.FLEISCHMANN - Welcome Tourist
MS. JOHN SODA - No P. Or D.
MUM - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

five years pass...

'far away trains passing by' is really beautiful

― Lamp, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link

five years pass...

Weird. Can't decide whether to buy the Sin Fang, Sóley & Örvar Smárason album. Can play the same tracks (on the internet) and sometimes they sound genius and sometimes they sound ignoreable.

― djh, Friday, 2 March 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

I stumbled upon this little interview with Thaddeus Herrmann about City Centre Offices on the ASIP site, and I am currently enjoying its accompanying Spotify playlist.

I never really liked this stuff back in the day with the exception of Christian Kleine, Casino Vs Japan, and some Schnauss; but a lot of stuff on this playlist is sounding good to me now. Maybe 'cause I'm old now.

― beard papa, Thursday, 17 October 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link

Thanks so much for this, the playlist is working nicely with a rainy Friday morning!

― Maresn3st, Friday, 18 October 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link

The ASIP interview is a good read. I stopped following the CCO label as an entity in the early 2000s, which meant that I hadn't noticed that Remote Viewer, Swod, Dictaphone and Gentlemen Losers were all CCO artists. I've much love for these, esp the latter two.

― doug watson, Friday, 18 October 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link

... and I've just realized that I too have convoluted Morr Music and CCO

― doug watson, Friday, 18 October 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link

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