Michu Records

How the archive works

One number per record

Every record enters the archive with a catalogue number — MCH-00001, MCH-00002 — and keeps it for good. Numbers are never reused. A record sold exclusively stays in the archive, stamped SOLD.

MCH-00001MCH-00002MCH-00003…MCH-18420

The cover is the record

Covers are not decoration. Each one is drawn by one rule from the record’s own data. The series gives the colours and the kind of mark; the record’s tempo and key shape it. No two records share a cover.

MCH-18420IDPulse129
G

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1Catalogue number
2Series code
3Title
4Tempo and key
5The mark, drawn from the tempo and key

Eleven marks

Every series draws one of eleven marks. Here each one is shown on the cover of a series that uses it.

MCH-00100IDIRON DECADE128
Em

MCH-00101VCVOLT CHAPEL132
Em

MCH-00102NSNEON SPANDEX126
Em

MCH-00103RCRED CLAY RADIO112
Em

MCH-00104DWDELTA WIRE104
Em

MCH-00105KRKALEIDO ROOM110
Em

MCH-00106WHWHIPLASH180
Em

MCH-00107CLCABIN LIGHT92
G

MCH-00108BHBANJO HILL118
G

MCH-00109OMOPEN MIC NIGHT96
G

MCH-00110BNBLUE NOTE ALLEY92
F

A hundred series

Every style has its own series and a two-letter code: ID is Iron Decade, seventies classic rock; BU is Blue Notebook, vocal jazz. Each series is also a YouTube channel.

IDIRON DECADE VCVOLT CHAPEL NSNEON SPANDEX RCRED CLAY RADIO DWDELTA WIRE KRKALEIDO ROOM GCGLASS CATHEDRAL PMPAPER MOON SOUND FSFLANNEL STATIC MEMILLENNIUM ECHO RTRAIN CITY TAPE CSCONCRETE SKY NQNORTHERN QUARTER LELOWER EAST SIDE CWCARDIGAN WEATHER BSBASEMENT SHOW COCOLD WAVE SOCIETY WTWIRE & TEETH SPSAFETY PIN HPHALF PIPE SNSUBURBAN NOISE PHPAPER HEART BCBROKEN CROWN PLPORCH LIGHT TBTAPE BLOOM CTCOTTON SKY SSSLOW SUNDAY HLHORIZON LINE FCFEEDBACK CHURCH BTBRIGHT SIDE TAPE SLSTADIUM LIGHTS FRFM RADIO CLUB AMAFTER MIDNIGHT ROOM HIHIGHWAY 61 MSMARINA SUNSET CCCHROME CANDY TPTHE POCKET LSLONG SET PIPIER 1959 BVBLACK VELVET ROOM MBMURDER BALLAD SMSUNDAY MORNING KEYS OTODD TIME DADESERT AMP LCLAUREL CANYON DRDIRT ROAD DEMO URUPRIGHT ROOM BFBLUNT FORCE ICIRON CHAPEL WHWHIPLASH DTDROP TUNED GSGHOST SIGNAL BRBREAKDOWN CITY SBSLOW BURIAL WOWINTER ORCHESTRA GFGOTHENBURG FIRE POPOLYRHYTHM DHDRAGON HALL FTFROST THRONE BOBONE SAW PEPIT ENERGY CLCABIN LIGHT BHBANJO HILL OGONE GUITAR OMOPEN MIC NIGHT WSWHISKEY STREET TLTWO LANE HTHONKY TONK HOUR BABACKROAD FM NANASHVILLE SKYLINE TRTAILGATE RADIO BLBLUE RIDGE BDBEACH DAY CRCROSSROADS BNBLUE NOTE ALLEY NHNORTHERN HEART RRRHODES & RAIN VHVELVET HOUR GRGROOVE FACTORY MIMIRRORBALL SUSUNDAY SERVICE SHSILK HOUR QSQUIET STORM SRSMALL ROOM BUBLUE NOTEBOOK BEBRUSHES LNLATE NIGHT FM SKSOUTH LONDON KEYS BMBALLROOM 1942 SGSAD GIRL WINTER PAPAPER LANTERN CACRATE STATIC CHCHIPMUNK SOUL RO1994 ROOM SASAD GUITAR BIBRISTOL FOG GPGRAND PIANO ROOM STSTRING HALL HAHARPSICHORD ODONE DROP ROOM

Recorded instruments

Records are played with recorded instruments — guitars, basses, drum kits, pianos, strings, horns — through amplifier models and recorded rooms.

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