7/11/2023 0 Comments The music shelf magazine![]() The first lockdown was insane, the effervescence that there was within all the artists’ projects had never been so intense : there were lots of videos, lots of digital live shows … And there are artists that I have spotted like that, like Baume for example, I discovered him through an interview he had given for White Label Radio, and the explanation of his project, his lifestyle, his music style and his thinking process, I really found myself in it, so I contacted him. You were already working with artists before, so I imagine that spotting the artists who are on these two compilations was quite easy for you ?īasically, during this first lockdown, I spent a lot of time on SoundCloud and on social media. The image of the ghost in “the ghost of the shelf” however represents the label’s project, the idea is to get the artists out of their comfort zones, to bring out certain sounds and tracks that were left in a corner, and for me the corner is the shelf. I like making puns and references, just like any other 25-year-old who’s seen too many movies and ads (laughs) ! The name comes from “Ghost In The Shell”, the animated manga. What about the name of the label, where does it come from ? And it was the first artists of the first compilation who motivated me to go back to my roots ! Then the craze around crowdfunding, the support from friends … after all of this, the label became a reality ! Also I wished to create a particular artistic framework, I wanted to cultivate differences without putting too many tags on it… I will talk about it more later on, but that is also what really motivated me. During the first lockdown, I told myself that I had to do something, not only did I miss what I was doing before, but I had given up on a project before the pandemic and I wanted to get back to it. Before leaving the collective, the idea of setting up a label had already settled in my head. Hello ! I’m Alexandre, I’m the curator, the label owner and the boring guy who takes care of the paperwork ! I was managing an event organization collective in Lille, North of France, called “Neyrath”, until the end of 2019. Can you first introduce yourself and tell us what made you want to create the label that is Ghost Of The Shelf ? ![]() Hello Alexandre ! Thank you for answering our questions today. ![]() ![]() After barely a year of existence, they have already released two compilations and an artist’s EP, and it is the latest compilation to date, “From the Shelf 002”, released on February 16, which we are focusing on today.Īnd as the label itself intrigued us a lot, we went to ask Alexandre, its founder, a few questions in order to understand their vision and the overall project of this new label a little better. The young label has decided to take on an adventure dozens of artists that all have strong and unique music signatures, by giving them a challenge : produce a different type of music, no matter how far from theirs, while still incorporating in the new track their uniqueness. With two cutting-edge compilations & around twenty artists that have pushed themselves beyond what they thought were their limits, the label has found the winning formula to spark the interests of its listeners. Ghost of the Shelf is a mysterious label at first glance.
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