Dishing on Deep Dish
RS: Very cool. What's it like, working with Deep Dish?
Richard Morel: That's a long question. I mean I've worked with Deep
Dish for a long time. When I originally started working with them, I
was mixing and engineering, and then was on their label, and then we
did three songs on their first album, and then three songs on their
second album. They're a complex duo. I have an ability to deal with
them. Between the two of them, they may have conflicts and resolutions
when they're working on the projects, but I was always the third guy
who was kind of easy to work with. So, you know, it was never really
that difficult.
RS: You were like the affair, the mistress.
Richard Morel: Yes, I would come in and do my thing and we made some
great records. That's the thing – the stuff I did with Deep Dish I'm
really proud of. Especially Junk Science, because when that record
came out with "Mohammed is Jesus" and "Stranded," there was really no
one who was doing that in house music.
RS: Going back to the 'Paperboy' CD, the artwork is kind of dark,
to fit the mood. What inspired that?
Richard Morel: Jack Pierson did the photography. I talked to him a
lot and I'd given him the cuts of the record, and he just tapped into
this kind of place, visually, that I thought really corresponded with
the record. The record has kind of a 70s vibe to me, at least in its
sensibility. I don't know why, but it just does. I let him go on his
own, and he'd send me photographs and we pulled it together. But it
was basically his creative vision on top of the music he was hearing.
I think it came out beautifully.
Pink Noise?
RS: I'm not the biggest musician in the world but I know what
white noise is – what exactly is pink noise?
Richard Morel: White noise is a full sound spectrum and pink noise is
defined by certain frequencies within the spectrum.
RS: Did you choose that because of the sound it makes or because
pink is gay?
Richard Morel: Well, the first time I used the name was on the Pet
Shop Boys' mix, the "Se a Vida e" mix, and I chose it because I
thought it was kind of funny. I knew that it was an engineering term,
a technical term, but it's also like – pink noise, meaning gay people
making noise. Since it was a Pet Shop Boys' record and I was doing the
mix I thought it was kind of light and funny. Then I stuck to it,
because now I'm doing mixes under that name.
RS: OK. Is there anything you'd like to say to all your fans out there?
Richard Morel: Just keep listening to music, all music. Keep the
music going, actually, because it's harder and harder these days.
Posted November 11, 2008
