Morphius Records

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BALTIMORE CITY PAPER | 7/30/2003

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Morphius Records and David Andler Celebrate 10 Years of Keeping the Music Coming

Review by Bret McCabe

Sitting in the conference room of the 12,000-square-foot lower Charles Village building that serves as Morphius Records headquarters, label founder David Andler doesn’t look like the average small-business executive—whatever that may be. Wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and a shadow of stubble—having just returned from an all too brief beach day trip—he looks more like the guy who grew up playing drums rather than the businessman who has turned a label into an independent-music hub. But he’s learned that the business keeps the music going, like it or not, and that means these days Andler oversees a decade-old small business with 12 employees that puts out its own Morphius releases, distributes itself and other independent labels, and manufactures CDs.

“I didn’t want to supervise a bunch of people,” Andler says. “I don’t really like the aspect of it that has to do with how much of a numbers game it is. I came into doing the business end out of necessity because the art end of it couldn’t continue to exist without the business end of it.”

Balancing the two has turned out to be the reason for Morphius’ longevity and steadily increasing business success—often despite prevailing winds in the indie industry. Andler started the label in 1993 as a 24-year-old drummer who just wanted to put out music by bands he or his friends were in. So from his Venice, Calif.
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