#Ron Morelli

[grrlmusic]

Ron Morelli - Rhythm Master

[still-single]

Records I Am Glad to Have Found in 2023: Part 1

Instead of rufflin' whatever (feather) maybe it's better that there's just a place where I can tell you that my life is better for having found these records and having them within reach. Maybe you might wanna reach for them as well. Up to you! Maybe feel fortunate that I want to engage with Tumblr at all, but the 16 or so accounts who said (anonymously) that they miss my review content may get a kick out of all this, and see where my head's at now.

New records, not-new records, things I bought, things that were sent to me, things I bartered for. Fair play.

First up, this Beau Wanzer record that I wrote up a while back. I feel exactly the same about it. It's new as of January and there aren't many releases out there like it at the moment. Undead, shufflin' Beau hours. One of my favorite DJs and electronic musicians in Chicago, he really does not seem to walk any path other than his own.

Al B. Sure! - In Effect Mode LP (Uptown/Warner Bros., 1988)

Growing up in my early teens, two songs from Al B. Sure!'s debut album were more or less inescapable: the masterful slow jam "Nite and Day," and the more uptempo quasi-diss track "Off On Your Own (Girl)." I never owned the record (why would I, this always seemed like a "why buy the cow" situation), and it never seemed to turn up used, something I better understand now.

This thing is great! It's short, mindful of our time and Al's. Side 1 contains four slow jams (the Nite! side), kicking off with the classic "Nite and Day" (so much rooftop glare and World Trade Center fixation in the vid) and cascading down into the whisper/falsetto/snap percussion ballad "Oooh This Love Is So" (kinda like an older brother NKOTB slow jam, really well arranged, FM synths cresting over top with some tasteful guitar buried underneath). His take on Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly" is doctor's office soft, but works where the Fugees' take doesn't, as Al seems to know there's no improving on the original, and he's lucky just to put it in his framework. "Naturally Mine" is like the shadowy flipside to the majesty of the opener, and doesn't come close, but also doesn't need to; the Teddy Riley guitar work does a lot on its own.

Side 2 (the Day! side) turns on the lights for some more uptempo New Jack Swing template jams. Opener "Rescue Me" sounds like two songs that were somehow merged into one, but that may just be the tonal difference between the intro and verse structure.

"Off On Your Own (Girl)" is neatly, nearly perfect, with quiet, pressurized syncopation, Al's bellyache storytellin' (sits by the phone a lot, it seems), and a delivery, particularly in the chorus, which says so much more than the title states. I'm particularly enamored of his switching between judgmental sing-speak/orchestra hit stress and his bracing falsetto. On the stremf! He even throws us a Slick Rick impression in a bridge. Last two tracks seem interchangeable but that's fine; you don't serve surf after the turf, even if you're coming in hot with bass pounds.

Uptown is generally a welcome sign of quality for this time and place; from Al to Heavy D., Guy to Jodeci. Andre knew what was up. Cool cat logo too.

Honestly there are probably other Al jams worth seeking out, and of course his performance in New Jack City when he fingers Ice-T as a narc with those Bert eyebrows of his. Most people don't hit this sort of success right out of the gate, and that's the needle he threads so effortlessly here.

Ron Morelli – Heart Stopper 2xLP (L.I.E.S., 2023)

Ron was one of the first people I met when I moved to NYC in 2000, and for a while I was regularly having lunch with him, Steve Roche, Adam Paterson, and Matt Smith at the Uptown Juice Bar in lower Manhattan, when we were all working in some sort of office and/or dot-com capacity, going to ABC No Rio and the like. I'd fall in and out of that orbit for a while over the next 6-7 years, as bands formed and broke up, people worked up their DJ chops, etc. At some point Ron moved down to Philly and was grinding in a more formal club DJ capacity before coming back to NYC and starting L.I.E.S., living in the trap, and working at A-1 in the East Village. It wasn't easy, even in that orbit, to find the L.I.E.S. releases, but the quality was always there.

I fell off a bit due to life and the like, missed a lot of Ron's Hospital output (as well as a lot of later L.I.E.S., again due to life stuff; the last one I gripped from the initial run was Florian Kupfer's Lifetrax), and last I knew he had relocated to Paris. Living in Chicago has given me more of an opportunity to interface with house music as it happened, with proximity to the records and DJs in clubs, to where it started to click with me. Heart Stopper retains this same sort of focus, drilling down on the repetition and stress/release of the foundational cuts of the initial era. My fave here is "Tangled Trap of Love," a big nod to Master C & J's "Face It," but I've found myself putting this record on and letting it roll to the close more often than most I've favored this year. Didn't make it to the Podlasie Club back in May, but I did appreciate this (paywalled) interview in the First Floor Substack, the guy I remember so well playing stoically to the bozos up front, dialing down style to the horizon where it meets substance and accepting nothing less.

(Doug Mosurock)

[ourladyofomega]

Murder 01-05 from Murder Records; a series of vinyl-only Industrial-techno / EDM label compilations featuring Silent Servant, Ron Morelli, Zanias, JK Flesh, Orphx, Crystal Geometry, and more.

[omegaplus]

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Omega Radio for August 26, 2023; #357.

Augustin Fievet: Lens Flare For The Dead Astronaut"

Blackdown: "Crackle Blues"

Andy Stott: "Violence"

Bandshell: "Bison Down"

Varg: "Anti Everything"

Carlo Giustini: "Manifestazioni"

Skin Teeth: "Tapestries (Rugged)"

Christoph De Babalon: "I Trusted You"

Grove: "Ring A Roses"

The Idealist: "Courage Dub (For Stanislav Deev)"

Helm: "Olympic Mess" (N1L RMX)

Epoch: "No Dread"

Mono/Poly: "Transit To The Golden Planet"

Nevermen: "Mr. Mistake" (Boards Of Canada RMX)

Paper Dollhouse: "Swans"

Free Love: "All The Same To Me" + "I Become"

The Bug: "Sickness"

Viviankrist: "Tear"

Ron Morelli: "Subway Shootout"

Ulver: "Of Wolves And Vibrancy"

Nazar "Arms Deal"

R Beny: "The Stars Are Veiled"

Deluxe electronics, drone, ambient, and techno.

[omegaradiowusb]

AUGUST 26, 2023 (#357)

Augustin Fievet: Lens Flare For The Dead Astronaut" Blackdown: "Crackle Blues" Andy Stott: "Violence" Bandshell: "Bison Down" Varg: "Anti Everything" Carlo Giustini: "Manifestazioni" Skin Teeth: "Tapestries (Rugged)" Christoph De Babalon: "I Trusted You" Grove: "Ring A Roses" (***NEW) The Idealist: "Courage Dub (For Stanislav Deev)" Helm: "Olympic Mess" (N1L RMX) Epoch: "No Dread" Mono/Poly: "Transit To The Golden Planet" Nevermen: "Mr. Mistake" (Boards Of Canada RMX) Paper Dollhouse: "Swans" Free Love: "All The Same To Me" + "I Become" (***NEW) The Bug: "Sickness (Slowly Dying)" (***NEW) Viviankrist: "Tear" Ron Morelli: "Subway Shootout" (***NEW) Ulver: "Of Wolves And Vibrancy" Nazar "Arms Deal" R Beny: "The Stars Are Veiled"

Summer has come to an end, and so is Omega Radio's current broadcasting season. Here's two hours of new, current, and relevant sounds from our favorite artists as well as new discoveries for everyone. It's our final broadcast of our hottest 13 weeks, and this is our sundown.

Our fourth and final season (Autumn) of Year 11 starts in September. We'll have plenty of music to close it out. See you in two weeks.

September 9, 2023 (10PM New York City): first deluxe Autumn Omega

September 23, 2023 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

October 7, 2023 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

October 21, 2023 (10PM New York City): deluxe Omega

November 4, 2023 (10PM New York City): final deluxe Autumn Omega + Year 11

[radiophd]

ron morelli -- house music revenge

[occultamusica]

Ron Morelli - Is The Stock Market Open On Good Friday? (in Betting On Death, 2020)

[nerds-yearbook]

Appendix: Marvel New Universe Imprint:

To celebrate Marvel's 25th anniversary, then Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter had hoped to create a new seperate comic universe, with a more realistic world, less fantastic heroes, with a month time passing between each issue, and utilizing top tallent. However, money and internal politics hampered it before it even started and it quickly became an in- house project and half of the first titles cancelled within the first year. The whole line finally folded within three years.

DP7 (32 issues, 1 annual)

The Draft (Graphic Novel)

Justice (32 issues)

Kickers, Inc (12 issues)

Mark Hazzard: Merc (12 issues, 1 annual)

Nightmask (12 issues)

The Pitt (One Shot)

PSI-Force (32 issues, 1 annual)

Spitfire and the Troubleshooters/Spitfire/Codename: Spitfire (13 issues)

Star Brand/The Star Brand (19 issues, 1 annual)

The War (4 issue limited series that concluded the line)

[smashpages]

Courtesy of Archie Comics, here's a preview of World of Betty & Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #27, which comes out July 19.

One of two new stories in the digest is an homage to the already classic killer-doll-run-wild movie M3GAN, as the Little Archies call in the Boy Buddies to help them stop M1N3RVA 2.0, a doll Little Dilton brought to life with an AI upgrade. This one is by Ron Robbins, Steven Butler, Bob Smith, Glenn Whitmore and Jack Morelli.

[graphicpolicy]

Preview: Betty & Veronica Friends Forever: Game On!

Betty & Veronica Friends Forever: Game On! preview. A BRAND-NEW STORY kicks off this collection of tales of video games, digital drama, and virtual reality realness! #comics #comicbooks

[ourladyofomega]

Alternate version of Ron Morelli's Heart Stopper.

[omegaremix]

Winter 2019 mixtape:

Boy Harsher “Face The Fire”

KVB, The “Afterglow”

Silent Servant Shadows Of Death And Desire

Void Vision “The Source”

Lebanon Hanover “Babes Of The ‘80’s” (Tobias Bernstrup RMX)

Ron Morelli Disappearer

Daylyt Let There B Light

Kanga self-titled

Nas “Simple Things”

Masta Killa & Inspectah Deck & GZA “Silverbacks”

Schwefelgelb Dahinter Das Gesich

Cash McCall “Omega Man”

Wild Man Fischer “I’m Working For The Federal Bureau Of Narcotics”

Dick Walter “The Fat Man”

Firefall “Strange Way”

Ice Cube “Arrest The President”

Figure Study “Wait”

Fontaines D.C. “Too Real”

Adrian Belew “Big Electric Cat”

Azar Swan Savage Exile

Primitive Weapons “Keep The Lights On”

Chandra Transportation

End Of A Year / Self Defense Family “Alleta”

Mirrors For Psychic Warfare “Tomb Puncher”

Body Of Light “Holding You”

Vatican Shadow “Tonight Saddam Walks Amidst Ruins”

Adult. “Lick Out The Content”

Molly Nilsson “A Slice Of Lemon”

Broken English Club “Channel 83”

Urochromes “Night Bully” (Boy Harsher RMX)

Strahinja Arbutina “You Don’t Need This In Your Life”

White Ring “Leprosy”

Cabaret Nocturne “Blind Trust”

Natural Assembly “She Walks In Beauty”

Drvg Cvltvre “I Look For Your Face In The Neon Lights”

Soft Moon “Like A Father”

Primitive Weapons “Negative Mass”

Drvg Cvltvre “Blood Eagle Brigade”

Soma Sema “Artificial Heart”

Grun Wasser “Limits For Limits”

Undertheskin “Cold”

Emptyset “Dissolve”

Pink Turns Blue “I Coldly Stare Out”

Soko “Ocean Of Tears”

Billy Cobham “Tenth Pinn” (live)

[still-single]

Halfway Point 2023

halfway 2023 best ofs baker's dozen:

Wireheads – Potentially Venus (Tenth Court)

Meg Baird – Furling (Drag City)

FACS – Still Life in Decay (Trouble in Mind)

Connections – Cool Change (Trouble in Mind)

The Tubs – Dead Meat (Trouble in Mind)

Beau Wanzer – A Dead Person's Monologue (iDEAL Recordings)

Ron Morelli – Heart Stopper (L.I.E.S.)

Life Expectancy – Decline (Iron Lung)

Sharp Pins – Turtle Rock (self-released)

Jana Horn – The Window Is the Dream (No Quarter)

Water Damage – Two Songs (12XU)

Chain of Flowers – Never Ending Space (A L T E R)

Ulrika Spacek – Compact Trauma (Tough Love)

reissues/archival lucky 13:

Milford Graves – Children of the Forest (Black Editions Archive)

The Particles – 1980s Bubblegum (Chapter Music)

HEAVY METAL – IV: Counter Electrode Iron Mono (Total Punk)

Arthur Russell – Picture of Bunny Rabbit (Audika)

Shizuka – Heavenly Persona (Black Editions)

The Sheaves – Excess Death Cult Time (Minimum Table Stacks)

Tyvek – Blunt Instrumentals (Gingko/Doubles Tapes)

Tolerance – Divin / Anonym (Mesh-Key)

Comet Gain – Mess Music for Bruised Hearts (self-released)

Laurie Styvers – Gemini Girl: The Complete Hush Recordings (High Moon)

The Dark – Dressing the Corpse (Scat)

The Flowerpot Men – 1984 (Demon)

The Toms s/t (Feel It)

(Doug Mosurock)

[thetuesdaytapes]

THE TUESDAY TAPES MARTEDÌ 30 MAGGIO 2023 1) B.E.F. feat. TINA TURNER > Ball of Confusion 2) JAMES ELLIS FORD > Golden Hour 3) MICHAEL IAN CUMMINGS > Oldest Troubles 4) EYES OF OTHERS > Safehouse 5) RON MORELLI > House Music Revenge 6) PALE BLUE > No Words 7) HOPSCOTCH > Look at the Lights Go Up 8) WORLD OF OZ > Willow’s Harp 9) KATHE GREEN > Primrose Hill 10) BEGINNING OF THE END > That’s What I Get 11) DISSEMBLANCE > Sagittarius 12) ULRIKA SPACEK > Compact Trauma 13) DAVE EDMUNDS > Girls Talk Ascolta su MIXCLOUD Ascolta su SPREAKER Guarda su YOUTUBE

[marvelman901]

The Infinity War 1 (1992) . Chthonic Maneuvers . Written by Jim Starlin Penciled by Ron Lim Inked by Al Milgrom Colors by Max Scheele and Ian Laughlin Lettered by Jack Morelli Edited by Craig Anderson . Eternity was found in a catatonic state by Galactus and Nova (Frankie Raye). Thanos witnessed this in the shadows and managed to trace the cause to the Magus and an evil doppelganger of Thanos. Several other evil doppelgangers showed up on Earth to attack their counterparts... . #infinitywar #ronlim #thanos #wolverine #xmen #avengers #fantasticfour #alphaflight #galactus #captainamerica #adamwarlock #misterfantastic #spiderman #silversurfer #90s #eternity #magus #scarletwitch #ironman (at New City, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdiF2ulMJDF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=