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So I like most of the stuff I've heard from CCO and Morr (perhaps lumping them together is a bit unfair, but, y'know -- I'm following the example set by Warpmart), but I've only heard a couple of albums - where next?

(I realise their compilation albums are probably a good place, so that's not helpful.)

― clive, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

search: arovane- tides on cco

― todd burns, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Morr: i love all the I S A N records.. The Piano Magic remix EP was rather lovely. Plus the two recent singles by B Fleischmann and Other People's Children are both ace as well.. (excuse the OPC conflict of interest - they're my Australian labelmates)..

CCO: the only release i know is the Remote Viewer single which is pretty decent.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By - C.C.O.
Sweet electronics, but don't listen to it too hard, you might break them.

― K-reg, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The City Centre Offices compilation from last year is superb, a great introduction, (cashier escape route)other than that a lot of teh 7inches they had out are good.. opiate = did some stuff on the new bjork album skanform= 8bit sounds

MORR... the putting the morr back in morrisey comp is as good as the CCO one ,ISAN is a bit dull, morr musics childish BOC style melodys work really well sometimes but get a bit twee. Lali puna, the clear cut bomb the bass single is very good, as are the albums. generally two very good dependable labels
CCO is run buy a guy from http://www.pelicanneck.com and someone at de-bug magazine in germany ..

― jk, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

there was a zorn 7" on CCO which was good. to be honest i think both these labels put out lots of boring stuff, in the main, with occasional flashes of interest: ie isan, who are the only good thing on morr for me.

― ambrose, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Paging Melissa W...

― Mark, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh, well, tried to get fancy with a link. What I meant to say was that Melissa is very knowlegeable about these labels, & I'd be interested in reading what she had to say (if she feels like posting).

― Mark, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Only things I have from these labels are Manual, Lali Puna, Schnauss, and the Bill Vanloo single. All are great, so I'd definitely like to know abt more Morr and CCO myself.

― Andy K., Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Morr Music Search: Lali Puna - Scary World Theory, Tridecoder; ISAN - Lucky Cat; Styrofoam - The Point Misser, A Short Album About Murder; Tied & Tickled Trio - ea1 ea2 rmx; Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey; F.S. Blumm - Mondkuchen; Wechsel Garland - s/t; Phonem - Hydro Electric
City Centre Offices Search: Arovane - Tides; Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
There's not much to destroy...the worst of these labels is just kind of dully pretty and derivative, but not immensely terrible.
The four best are probably Lali Puna, Styrofoam, ISAN, and Tied & Tickled Trio. Lali Puna are my favorites, rather like an IDM inflected Young Marble Giants. Styrofoam is melodic IDM melancholy...minimal and lo-fi, but affecting. ISAN are more wistful sounding, almost cheerful. Their analog ethos can get a bit dull though. The Tied & Tickled Trio remix disc is the strangest, with their jazz-leaning sound being remixed by Morr Music's roster...it's a forceful, schizophrenic sound. The best cut is probably the Wechsel Garland remix.

― Melissa W, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

morr: lali puna, isan, herrmann & kleine - actaully most of the stuff on the label is decent if not always memorable///

― g, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

cheers - that's rather comprehensive and should keep me busy for the next while. both labels have 3 tracks each on the 'hotel stadt berlin' compilation released a couple of months ago. I don't have it here, helpfully, and can't remember exactly what's on it. anyhow - ta.

― clive, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

who is looking forward to this ! me !

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place

News Alert >>>

One of the leading European electronic artists of recent times, Ulrich Schnauss will release a new album: A strangely isolated place on City Centre Offices in May.

this will be out in may on city centre offices, towerblock 013, dlp / cd.

ulrich schnauss
a strangely isolated place

* gone forever
* on my own
* a letter from home
* monday - paracetamol
* clear day
* blumenthal
* in all the wrong places
* a strangely isolated place

written & produced by ulrich schnauss at schöneberger insel
vocals by judith beck
guitar on track six by paul davis

Source: IDM-M Yahoo Group

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 14 February 2003 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

search: lali puna, manual, limp
destroy: isan, wechsel garland

― arjun (arjun), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Swap Limp w/ Isan there and you're on the right trail.

Whoever said to search Arovane's Tides = OTM.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 14 February 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search the snd 7" (my favorite of what they've done but maybe because the format doesn't allow me to get as bored as I would otherwie) and the zorn one as well. Both on CCO. Everything else (which I've heard) on both labels, I find a bit too wishy-washy.

― original bgm, Friday, 14 February 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

melissa - what is it you like about that wechsel garland rekkid?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 29 February 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

I enjoy the putting the morr back in morrissey comp and i just bought that last Lali Puna album which i need to listen to more before i have anything to say about it, but at the record store i noticed the morr slowdive comp/tribute. Is it all that? I love Slowdive and all, is it a no-brainer? is it greatness or goodness or what? I look to you. ILM.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 9 May 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

it's one disc of slowdive covers and one disc of originals. it's aight.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link

the GUITAR track "house full of time"(?)is a big standout.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

guitar are probably morr's best artist, with styrofoam following close behind. i don't go for all that lali puna stuff

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Sunday, 9 May 2004 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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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