Ssion’s New Label Running Into Trouble

You haven’t been reading The Pitch if you don’t know about the Ssion or Murderbot. Murderbot, aka a young DJ named Chris, recently relocated to Chicago and founded Sleazetone Records, on which he has released the latest Ssion single on CD and vinyl. However, Chris is having trouble getting the release out on the DJ-friendly digitial distro site Beatport. Below is the e-mail we received this morning from Chris. It’s both a good primer on the Ssion’s recent accomplishments and it contains a dilemma of which everyone who wants to dance to the Ssion at clubs should be aware.

“Hi, my name’s Chris, and I just want to release a record by the Ssion.”

From: “Chrissy Murderbot / Sleazetone”

Subject: A favor for Murderbot / Ssion / Sleazetone — THIS IS IMPORTANT!

As many of you know, I recently started a second record label called Sleazetone. The initial release, a CD & 12″ single by a really wonderful band called Ssion came out on Feb 12. There’s been a lot of critical acclaim — features in Better Propaganda, Big Stereo, Fluxblog, Gorilla vs. Bear, Imageyenation, Missing Toof, Music For Robots, Palms Out Sounds, Paper Thin Walls, Pitchfork, Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, RCRD LBL, Slutty Fringe, Stereogum, Pitch Weekly, GBH.tv, Pensatos, Vice, the Village Voice, XLR8R, a nice big feature in Urb’s new Next 100 issue, and forthcoming reviews in Ghetto Blaster & Pitchfork. It has also been charting well in CMJ (Top 200 & RPM charts), and the live shows have been getting an EXCELLENT response. Cody (the lead singer) has just done a new video for Tilly and the Wall, in addition to his previous video and art design work for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, The Faint, Black Dice, etc. Basically, this is an amazing project.

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