Richard Morel
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Richard Morel is an American
United States
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 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

, DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

, remix
Remix
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er and record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 from the suburbs of Boston
Boston
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, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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. He has worked extensively with Washington D.C.-based duo Deep Dish
Deep Dish
Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle,...

, co-writing, co-producing, performing and singing on many of their tracks, most notably on their albums Junk Science
Junk science
Junk science is a term used in U.S. political and legal disputes that brands an advocate's claims about scientific data, research, or analyses as spurious. The term may convey a pejorative connotation that the advocate is driven by political, ideological, financial, or other unscientific...

and George Is On
George Is On
George is On is the second album by dance music duo Deep Dish. It features their recent Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart hit "Flashdance" , as well as a remake of the classic Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams", for which Stevie Nicks provided new vocals...

.

As a dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 producer and remixer, he has released an extensive number of club hits using the names Morel and Pink Noise. Notable artists he has provided remixes for include Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...

, t.A.T.u.
T.A.T.u.
t.A.T.u. was a duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consisted of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova.Their debut single "Ya Soshla S Uma" was released in December 2000. The single had a huge success in Russia and Eastern Europe...

, Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

, Tina Turner
Tina Turner
Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

, New Order
New Order
New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...

, Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

, Filter
Filter (band)
Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released five studio albums, the most recent being The Trouble with Angels, which was released on August 17, 2010....

, Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

, Seal
Seal (musician)
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...

, The Killers, Blaqk Audio
Blaqk Audio
Blaqk Audio is an American electronic music duo formed by current AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget under Interscope Records. Their debut album CexCells was released on August 14, 2007 and reached number eighteen on the Billboard 200.-Origins:...

 and Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

.

In 1995 Morel started his own independent record label called Outsider Music. He released "Peterbilt Angel" and the "4-Track" CDs on Outsider. Morel has collaborated with Ute Lemper
Ute Lemper
Ute Lemper is a German chanteuse and actress renowned for her interpretation of the work of Kurt Weill.- Biography :Born in Münster, Germany, Ute Lemper was raised in a Roman Catholic family. She joined the punk music group known as the Panama Drive Band at the age of 16...

 and Daniel Ash
Daniel Ash
Daniel Gaston Ash is the guitarist for Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, and solo projects.-Life and work:After going to concerts in his teenage years, Ash made a decision to be on a stage in some way...

  for Outsider Music releases. In 2007 Michael Alago (A+R maverick who signed Metallica and White Zombie) began working with Morel at Outsider Music.

In 2002 he released Queen Of the Highway on Deep Dish's Yoshitoshi
Yoshitoshi Records
Yoshitoshi Recordings is a dance music record label which is owned and operated by house producers Deep Dish. It was founded in 1994. While pigeonholed as a progressive label, its releases in fact cover a broad spectrum of modern dance music, reflecting the eclectic tastes of its owners...

 label. The album, which contained not only house music
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

 tracks but also had modern rock
Modern rock
Modern rock is a rock format commonly found on commercial radio; the format consists primarily of the alternative rock genre...

, pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 and hip-hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 elements throughout, impressed many critics. Queen Of the Highway is an audio portrait of punk photographer Mark Morrisroe
Mark Morrisroe
Mark Morrisroe was a performance artist and photographer. He is known for his performances and photographs, which were germane in the development of the punk scene in Boston in the 70's and the art world boom of the mid to late 80's in NYC...

 whom Morel befriended. The autobiographical and introspective lyrics helped to earn the album its critical praise. Included on the record are some of his past club hits: "True (The Faggot Is You)," "Funny Car (Love Is Dead)" and "Cabaret." Technically, the album is released by a band also called Morel, fronted by Richard.

Also in 2002, he began running a monthly dance event with friend and veteran punk
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

/alternative/indie
Indie rock
Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 icon Bob Mould
Bob Mould
Robert Arthur "Bob" Mould is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s.-Early life:...

, titled Blowoff. Blowoff is also the name of an electronic duo that Morel and Mould have been recording an album under.

After several more club hits and remixes, Morel returned with a second album, Lucky Strike, in 2004. Again praised by critics, the follow-up was an extension of sounds and lyrical content of his first. Included here are his club hits "If You Love Me," "Under a Disco" and "Escape (Driving To Heaven)," a collaboration with producer 16B.

In 2005, Morel became part of Bob Mould's new touring unit (along with another notable DC musician, Fugazi
Fugazi (band)
Fugazi is an American post-hardcore band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band's continual members are guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty....

 drummer Brendan Canty
Brendan Canty
Brendan Canty is an American musician, composer, producer and film maker, best known as the drummer for the band Fugazi....

), formed to support the release of Mould's Body of Song
Body of Song
Body of Song is the sixth solo album from punk/indie/alternative rock veteran Bob Mould . It is his first studio album under his own name since 2002's controversial Modulate.-Album history:...

album. Morel also contributed remixes of the track "(Shine Your) Light Love Hope" to the bonus disc included in the limited edition version of the album.

Morel co-produced and co-wrote several songs with Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

 for her 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink
Bring Ya to the Brink
Bring Ya to the Brink is Cyndi Lauper's tenth studio album and was released on May 27, 2008 in the United States. The song "Set Your Heart" was released as a promo-only single in Japan in early 2008 and "Same Ol' Story" was the first official single released worldwide on May 6, 2008...

including the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

 #1 single "Same Ol' Story
Same Ol' Story
"Same Ol' Story" is a Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1 single released by Cyndi Lauper from her 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink...

".

In 2010, Richard Morel produced Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

's new EP I'm Coming Up
I'm Coming Up
"I'm Coming Up" is a song by French singer Amanda Lear, released in 2010 by Edina Music and Outsider Music.-Song information:The song was the third and the last single from Lear's 2009 EP Brand New Love Affair. It was released as the maxi single containing no less than 7 versions of the title tracks...

.

Albums

  • Peterbilt Angel (1995)
  • Four-Track (1997)
  • Queen of the Highway (2002)
  • Lucky Strike (2004)
  • The Death of the Paperboy (2008)

Singles

  • "Flawed" (2008)
  • "If You Love Me" (2005)
  • "Stoning Of Steven" (2004)
  • "Cabaret" (2003)
  • "Funny Car" (2002)
  • "Dreaming of LA" (2001)
  • "Wake-Up" (1998)
  • "True (The Faggot Is You)" (1998)

Collaborations

[with Deep Dish]
  • "George Is On" (2005)
  • "Junk Science" (1998)
  • "Stranded" (1997)


[with 16B]
  • "Escape (Driving To Heaven)" (2001)

Remixes

[as Pink Noise]
  • Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono
    is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

     "Move on Fast
    Move on Fast
    "Move on Fast" is a song by Yoko Ono, originally released in 1972 on the album Approximately Infinite Universe, and on the B-side to the single "Now or Never"...

    " (2011)
  • Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono
    is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

     "Wouldnit (I'm a Star)
    Wouldnit (I'm a Star)
    "Wouldnit " is a song by Yoko Ono, originally released in 1995 on the album Rising. A remix of the song appeared on Ono's 2001 album Blueprint for a Sunrise.-Background:...

     (2010)
  • Amanda Lear
    Amanda Lear
    Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

     "I'm Coming Up
    I'm Coming Up
    "I'm Coming Up" is a song by French singer Amanda Lear, released in 2010 by Edina Music and Outsider Music.-Song information:The song was the third and the last single from Lear's 2009 EP Brand New Love Affair. It was released as the maxi single containing no less than 7 versions of the title tracks...

    " (2010)
  • Cyndi Lauper
    Cyndi Lauper
    Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

     "Same Ol' Story
    Same Ol' Story
    "Same Ol' Story" is a Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1 single released by Cyndi Lauper from her 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink...

    " (2008) [#1 Billboard's Club Play Chart]
  • Cyndi Lauper "Set Your Heart
    Set Your Heart
    "Set Your Heart" is a song written and produced by Cyndi Lauper and Richard Morel for Lauper's 2008 album Bring Ya to the Brink. The song was released in early 2008 as a promo-only single in Japan, where it received considerable airplay....

    " (2008)
  • Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono
    is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

     "You’re the One
    You're the One (Yoko Ono song)
    "You're the One" is a song by Yoko Ono, originally released in 1984 on Ono's and John Lennon's duet album Milk and Honey. The song was also on the compilation albums Onobox and Walking on Thin Ice.-Composition:...

    " (2007)
  • Cyndi Lauper "True Colors
    True Colors (song)
    "True Colors" is a song written by songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, additional lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. It was both the title track and the first single released from Cyndi Lauper's second album. It was the only original song on the album that Lauper did not help write...

    " (2007)
  • Blaqk Audio
    Blaqk Audio
    Blaqk Audio is an American electronic music duo formed by current AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget under Interscope Records. Their debut album CexCells was released on August 14, 2007 and reached number eighteen on the Billboard 200.-Origins:...

     "Stiff Kittens
    Stiff Kittens (song)
    "Stiff Kittens" is the first track on Blaqk Audio's debut album CexCells, released on August 14, 2007. On June 13, 2007, "Stiff Kittens" was released on the band's MySpace profile...

    " (2007)
  • t.A.T.u.
    T.A.T.u.
    t.A.T.u. was a duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consisted of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova.Their debut single "Ya Soshla S Uma" was released in December 2000. The single had a huge success in Russia and Eastern Europe...

     "Friend or Foe" (2006)
  • Stellastarr "Sweet Troubled Soul" (2006)
  • Coldfeet "Boom, Clang" (2006)
  • Nelly Furtado
    Nelly Furtado
    Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy...

     "Promiscuous"
  • The Killers "All these things That I've Done" (2005)
  • Leela James
    Leela James
    Leela James is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter. James cites singers James Brown, Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Gladys Knight, Mavis Staples, and Stevie Wonder as her influences...

     "Music" (2005)
  • Vivian Green
    Vivian Green
    Vivian Green is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter and pianist.-Early life:Green was born May 22, 1979 in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and took an interest in singing, playing the piano, and songwriting at a very young age. At the age of thirteen, she...

     "Tired" (2005) [#1 Billboard's Club Play Chart]
  • Esthero
    Esthero
    Esthero ,born Jenny-Bea Englishman, is a Canadian singer-songwriter who currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney...

     "Fast Lane" (2005)
  • New Order
    New Order
    New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...

     "Krafty" (2005) [#2 Billboard's Club play Chart]
  • Le Tigre
    Le Tigre
    Le Tigre is an American electroclash band, formed by Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman in 1998. It also featured Sadie Benning from 1998 until 2001, and JD Samson for the rest of the group's run...

     "After Dark" (2005)
  • Seal
    Seal (musician)
    Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...

     "Killer"(2005) [#1 Billboard's Club Play Chart]
  • Luke Wan "The Wish" (2004)
  • Pretenders "Time " (2003)
  • Pink
    Pink (singer)
    Alecia Beth Moore , better known by her stage name Pink , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress....

     "Get The Party Started"
  • Yoko Ono
    Yoko Ono
    is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...

     "Give Me Something
    Give Me Something
    "Give Me Something" is a song by Yoko Ono, originally released in 1980 on John Lennon and Ono's duet album Double Fantasy. The song appeared in Ono's off-Broadway musical New York Rock and her compilation albums Walking on Thin Ice and Onobox...

    "(2003)
  • Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey
    Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...

     "The One" (2003)
  • t.A.T.u.
    T.A.T.u.
    t.A.T.u. was a duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consisted of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova.Their debut single "Ya Soshla S Uma" was released in December 2000. The single had a huge success in Russia and Eastern Europe...

     "Not Gonna Get Us" (2003) [#1 Billboard's Club Play Chart]
  • Clare Quilty "Tremble" (2003)
  • Daniel Ash
    Daniel Ash
    Daniel Gaston Ash is the guitarist for Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, and solo projects.-Life and work:After going to concerts in his teenage years, Ash made a decision to be on a stage in some way...

     "Burning Man" (2002)
  • Filter
    Filter (band)
    Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released five studio albums, the most recent being The Trouble with Angels, which was released on August 17, 2010....

     "Where Do We Go From Here" (2002)
  • Jade Anderson
    Jade Anderson
    Jade Anderson born May 26th 1981 is a singer/songwriter, currently living in Los Angeles.Youngest daughter of singer Jon Anderson and Jennifer, Jade Anderson's earliest musical work is on projects with her father, including appearances on his solo albums 3 Ships , Change We Must , Angels Embrace ,...

     "Sugarhigh" (2002)
  • Lydia Rhodes "Dreams" (2002)
  • Bernard Leon Howard III feat. 80 "Marscarter" (2002)
  • Lo-Fidelity All-Stars "Sleeping Faster" (2001)
  • Ananda Project feat. Heather Johnson "Breaking Down" (2001)
  • The Collaboration (Peter Rauhofer
    Peter Rauhofer
    Peter Rauhofer is a DJ, remixer and producer who formerly went under the moniker Club 69 as well as Size Queen. A native of Vienna, Austria, he is famous for his remixes of a number of Madonna's songs including "Nothing Really Matters", "American Life", "Nothing Fails, "Nobody Knows Me", "Get...

     + Pet Shop Boys
    Pet Shop Boys
    Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

    ) "Break 4 Love
    Break 4 Love
    "Break 4 Love" is a song written, produced and recorded by house-music group Raze. The song, the group's only significant U.S. hit, featured vocals by Keith Thompson. The single peaked at number 28 in the UK Singles Chart and it topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1988...

    " (2001) [#1 Billboard's Club Play Chart]
  • Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

     "Dream On" (2001) [#1 Billboard's Club Play Chart]
  • New Order
    New Order
    New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...

     "True Faith" (2001)
  • David J. "Mickey Rourke Blues" (2000)
  • Orgy
    Orgy
    In modern usage, an orgy is a sex party where guests engage in promiscuous or multifarious sexual activity or group sex. An orgy is similar to debauchery, which refers to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures....

     "Opticon" (2000)
  • Ali Damisi "Begin 2 Rise" (2000)
  • Clare Quilty "Secret Sharer" (1999)
  • Clare Quilty "Roses" (1999)
  • Divine Comedy "Marvelous Party" (1997)
  • Pet Shop Boys
    Pet Shop Boys
    Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....

     "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)" (1996)
  • Tina Turner
    Tina Turner
    Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...

    "Wildest Dreams" (1996)

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