Morel’s Pink Noise
Richard Morel (Pink Noise) has established himself as a perennial force in dance music with his spirited remixes that combine deep and progressive house rhythms. Morel scored his sixth #1 Billboard Club Play Chart single with his remix of Nelly Furtado’s “Promiscuous” (Universal) . His other number one club singles are: Seal's "Killer"( Warner Bros.) , Vivian Green “Tired” (Columbia), .t.A.T.u. 's "Not Gonna Get Us" (Universal Records) , Depeche Mode's "Dream On" (Mute/Warner Bros./ Reprise) and The Collaboration's (Peter Rahufer +The Pet Shop Boys) "Break 4 Love" (Star 69 Records ). Other remixing credits include , Mariah Carey, Beth Orton, New Order,The Killers, The Pretenders, Pet Shop Boys, Ananda Project, Fischerspooner, and Yoko Ono to name but a few.

As a high profile fixture in the electronica underworld Morel has been a long time collaborator with house music superstars Deep Dish. His work with Deep Dish includes mixing and engineering credits to their Grammy Award-winning remix of Didos “Thank You”, co-writing, singing and performing on their critically acclaimed debut album “Junk Science” as well as singing and co-writing three songs on their recent 2005 release, "George is On".

In addition to the Pink Noise remixes. Morel is working on a Pink Noise cd of all original material. Set to be included on the Pink Noise cd is a collaboration with Daniel Ash ( Bauhaus + Love and Rockets) called "Freedom I Love", a collaboration with Ute Lemper called “Stop Me” and the deep tribal song ‘Freakish Blue” that Morel produced with Saeed Younann.

Morel is also half of Blowoff, a duo with punk rock pioneer Bob Mould (Husker Du / Sugar). Blowoff throws a monthly underground DJ party at D.C’s premire 9:30 club and have just released their debut cd .

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Morel is currently finishing up his new cd "The Death Of the Paperboy".

2004 "Lucky Strike" Yoshitoshi Records

Recording artist Richard Morel (aka Morel) continues to make quite a stir in the music scene .
On "Lucky Strike" ( 10-19-04), Morel once again pushes the limits of just what electro-pop can be. Taking the best elements of both, he conjures up seductive lounge exhales and breakneck kick drum chases that never isolate the heads need to bang or the asses longing to shake. "Lucky Strike" is at once a continuation of the 2002 debut Queen of the Highway (which spawned the three hit club singles Cabaret, True and Funny Car) as a dramatic leap forward for his unique style of progressive house music. "There's definitely more of a band (guitarist John Allen, drummer Rob Black, bassist Pat Flood and percussionist/vocalist Dwayne Tyree) feel on some of these tracks," explains Morel. "On this one I wanted to make the rock more rock and the disco more disco." Almost every track on Lucky Strike is a constantly morphing chameleon. A cut like "Cheerful", with its caroming bi-polar disorder, drags the listener through string interludes and sly piano breakdowns before shoving them through the final few minutes with a propulsive snare. There's even two versions of the song "I'll Do What I Can Not To Touch You"--one an almost dirge-like dirty soul song; the other a percolating dance floor lament.

And for those hard-core Morel fans, the airy vocal and guitar driven Escape (Driving To Heaven) his dance-floor masterpiece with 16B that originally appeared on Deep Dishs Global Underground .021: Moscow emerges again on Lucky Strike and is also making waves in Mitsubishis current TV ad campaign in Europe. More importantly--and more groundbreaking in the realm of dance music--people are actually listening to the words ducking and diving between the pounding beats. "People come up to me and say they love my lyrics," he says with a laugh, "Then they proceed to quote something that's not at all what I said, but I wish I'd had." Queen of the Highway (Morel's first Yoshitoshi release) produced three hit club singles Cabaret, True, and Funny Car, which went to .4 on the Billboard Club Play Chart and included a remix by Hydrogen Rockers aka Grammy Award Winning act Dirty Vegas. The album was nominated as the Best New Artist Album at the 2003 Dancestar awards.