Nico thanks for joining us. What was the motivation for you to start your own imprint? The motivation was all the unfinished music I had that needed a proper home and to combine this with the artworks from Melina Pecharki,my partner, she´s in charge of all graphic works, covers, and also a bit of A&R. I showed many different tracks to her and she selected 4 and I finished those. It took me a while to find the right mixdown for each track and specially with Logan´s Dream, that has so many different sounds, it was hard to make them fit together.
So main motivation was to make something that goes together music and artwork, we also work in the same space, and exchange and discuss a lot the projects we have in mind and then check how we would like to present it, cover materials, finishing’s, how many tracks we put on vyinl, A side or B side.
What is the ethos behind the label? To champion new music? Our idea is to combine good artworks with good music, but we´re not following any trend or style, we just want to release the stuff we really like. Every cover will be different and every release will be different and we try to keep each record very special. And to release a nice package of well done covers and good sounding vinyls. We decided to put 3 tracks on vinyl as the A side Logan´s Dream track sounds better and more open in 45 RPM and takes the whole A side, that´s why we had to leave the track Slow Burner to digital exclusive. We could do 2 EP´s with 2 tracks each but we preferred to do this way, because the 4 tracks together works better than splitted and it tells the whole story that is resumed on the artwork cover.
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The first release 'Logan's Dream' is produced by yourself - but what's coming up? Can you reveal anything about future releases and plans? Im working on a second release, We´re selecting the tracks as I did many unfinished stuff and recorded sessions, then I need to arrange them and mix. It will be on a different direction. And next releases could be by other artists but we need to find the right music, it doesn’t matter style and it doesnt have to be on the same sound or direction as the first release.
The new EP is being described as a your most melodic work yet and your influences are cited as New Order and Giorgio Moroder - what is it about this period of music that interests you and offers inspiration? Its not about a certain period that interest me, I always listen music from many different periods so it affects me in a certain way. Every track has a different inspiration, Logan´s Dream has guitar feedbacks atmospheres that could relate with New Order,but not in the same way, really. I was listening a lot The Smiths, and I became instantly a big fan of Johnny Marr, his way of playing guitar its so melodic, arpeggiated, and beautiful, that really captured me. I´ve always been fascinated by those artists who made everything we hear right now.
Finally, while you're running this label, can we expect to see more productions from you on the lieks of Curle and Crosstown? Right now I'm focused on finishing the tracks for the next ep on Art Of Memory but could it be in the future. I never planned too much ok i´ll release here or there, I prefer to finish the tracks and then if it swits certain label I like then i´ll send to them too.
Taking care of the label consumes me a lot of time, also doing the music, and checking every step from vinyl manufacturing, check the masters, check the test pressings, contracts,etc.It´s exciting, stressing and I will learn a lot of this difficult to understand market.