Rich Morel is a singer/songwriter, producer and remixer crafting records for a list of artists including Cyndi Lauper, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Depeche Mode, Yoko Ono, The Killers and Neneh Cherry. Morel has had over 25 number one remixes on Billboard’s club play chart. Morel is also known for his collaborations with Grammy Award winning house music pioneers DEEP DISH (“Stranded,” “Mohammed is Jesus” and “Sacramento”) and for his eponymous band’s club hits “True”, “Cabaret” and “Under A Disco”.
HYPER-ROMANTIC
Morel wanted to write about romanticism – in both a musical and lyrical sense – and by the start of the 2018, he had written and recorded several new songs that would become the basis for an exciting new project he envisioned as a collaboration with different artists and musicians.
Hyper-Romantic’s first release “Millennial Heart” features inimitable “trip-hop” siren and Tricky/Massive Attack collaborator Martina Topley-Bird. Topley-Bird’s captivating vocals envelope the song’s minimal house production.
“Millennial Heart” is a song about different generations coming together in these unstable times. The accompanying video, with animation by Scott G. Brooks, brings the point home. Fascist trains, corporate mechanical cock roaches shitting on the planet and Gestapo police men made of bricks and hammers are all derailed by millennial hearts.
Morel plans to collaborate with Brooks on all future Hyper-Romantic releases to create an ongoing audio/visual conversation and audience engagement with the various themes and moods the project will explore.
MOREL- DJ
As a DJ, Morel is one half of BLOWOFF (alongside partner BOB MOULD). The pair’s bi-monthly ‘Blowoff” residency at Washington DC’s 930 Club has become one of the city’s most celebrated club nights earning them equally successful residencies in NYC and San Francisco, San Diego, and Chicago. Rich Morel’s Hot Sauce party in DC has included live performances by artists he is working in addition to Morel’s dj sets. Hot Sauce is now happening every 2 months in Baltimore as well.
DEATHFIX
DEATHFIX is Rich Morel’s collaboration with Brendan Canty (Fugazi). DEATHFIX started when the two of them were in Bob Mould’s band, and has flowered under the dim lights of Brendan’s toasty warehouse. DEATHFIX released their debut album on Dischord records in 2013 and are on a US and European tour through the fall of 2013.
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