Ron Morelli

Over the last 13 years, Ron Morel­li has become a major and influ­en­tial fix­ture in the world of con­tem­po­rary elec­tron­ic music. The New York­er has sin­gle-hand­ed­ly carved out a unique path of his own, with his often-imi­tat­ed, rarely dupli­cat­ed L.I.E.S. Records label. Morel­li has, in his own words, ​“unin­ten­tion­al­ly” shak­en things up in the elec­tron­ic music world with his son­ic aes­thet­ic which orig­i­nal­ly evolved from a tight-knit group in his local NYC scene. Now glob­al­ly recog­nised and reach­ing far beyond New York, Morel­li is looked to as a cen­ter­piece of this wave, con­tin­u­ing to con­found expec­ta­tions with each new move, always evolv­ing and nev­er stay­ing stagnant.

Hav­ing gained cult sta­tus as time has passed, it’s no won­der the pub­li­ca­tion Pitch­fork pro­claimed, ​“the rise of L.I.E.S. is one of the most sig­nif­i­cant and encour­ag­ing devel­op­ments in Amer­i­can under­ground elec­tron­ic music in years”

DJing since the late-90s, Morel­li has toured all over the globe play­ing near­ly every major club and fes­ti­val world­wide. Nev­er fol­low­ing the trends and tak­ing his vast knowl­edge from work­ing behind the counter at NYC’s leg­endary A1 Records, Ron can be found play­ing across the board on any giv­en night… from 80s NY house to Detroit tech­no to ita­lo dis­co to wave, it’s all game when the time is right, always with a style of his own.

On the pro­duc­tion front, Morel­li has worked close­ly with New York label Hos­pi­tal Pro­duc­tions over the years, as well as with Phase Fatale’s BITE Records, record­ing numer­ous LPs and 12 inch­es for both labels.

With 2023 on the hori­zon, Morel­li is set to release his first full-length on his own L.I.E.S. label, titled ​“Heart Stop­per”, where he revis­its his love and obses­sion for clas­sic, old-school 80s house, bring­ing his sound full cir­cle. Emo­tion­al, raw, and from the gut, ​“Heart Stop­per” is poised to be his most antic­i­pat­ed ​“dance music” work to date.

Reach­ing far out­side the world of con­ven­tion­al elec­tron­ic music, Morel­li has over the years col­lab­o­rat­ed among the likes of French visu­al artist Cyprien Gal­liard, Japan­ese cult fash­ion brand Under­cov­er, chore­o­g­ra­ph­er Damien Jalet, and cloth­ing brand Cav Empt on var­i­ous large-scale projects. 

All of this is a tes­ta­ment to Ron Morel­li and L.I.E.S. Records, tire­less work and com­mit­ment to putting the music first, as they con­tin­ue to reach far and wide with a long-last­ing and huge­ly influ­en­tial pres­ence in the world of mod­ern elec­tron­ic music and beyond.