Monday, 25th of November, 2002

One of the most excellent of the indie electronica labels to come out in the last few years is Morr Music, purveyors of melodic contemporary electronica of a very high quality. They recently released a double-CD compilation tribute to early-’90s Creation Records shoegazers Slowdive, called Blue Skied An’ Clear. Featuring pretty much everyone, from Future 3, Lali Puna and so on, to Múm even. The first CD is all Slowdive covers. Highlights are the amazing Limp cover of “Souvlaki Space Station”, B.Fleischmann & Ms. John Soda’s “Here She Comes” (an awesome song anyway), Ulrich Schnauss’s version of “Crazy For You” and Hermann & Kleine’s cover of “Dagger” (with vocals by Ariane Hensel, who also sang on the fabulous “Blue Flower” cover on their latest album). Plenty of other great stuff though. Styrofoam is a current Morr favourite of mine, with a lovely recent 7″ and various other releases to follow (couple of earlier albums I don’t have). The second disk is sortof songs “in the style of”, and is very lovely too. Ulrich Schnauss turns in a beautiful track, as does Styrofoam, and Guitar, who I’ve never heard of, do a very nice indie-meets-electronic pop song.
A highly recommended comp from a highly recommended label.

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