Richard Juzwiak chats with Environ label head Morgan Geist about his new Unclassics mixed CD at Stylus Magazine. Is Unclassics the inverse of Mixed Up in the Hague? Could Purple Flash and Plutons and Humanoids be the same person? Is the Cybernetic Broadcasting System responsible for ruining the disco vinyl market? What does Geist think about unlicensed bootleg series like Automan and why does he no longer release charts? These and other secrets revealed at StylusMagainze.com.

I found Geist’s conflicting attitudes about “success” and media attention interesting. In the interview he reveals that both him and Darshan Jesrani as Metro Area were uncomfortable with the amounts of mainstream hype that Metro Area received, yet Geist seems defeated when he predicts that only music nerds will actually care about the Unclassics release. He ditched his original idea of re-mastering and releasing all of the tracks unmixed with liner notes and photographs, and he dismisses the idea of a co-producing a Plutons and Humanoids album because only ‘like four people” would be interested. I hope the Unclassics mix will prove to be a financial success, if not a mainstream one, so that Geist will be encouraged pursue some of these “crazy” ideas, and at minimum, keep the the Unclassics series alive and well for a while.