There are many incredibly passionate and talented people working in the underground music world these days, despite it paying dirt and being a labor of unrequited love more often than not. Still, men like Thor Malliet manage to uncover studio-quality demos recorded by Japanese highschoolers, esoteric crucibles of psycho-acoustic wonder from German singers, and digi-demon outbursts from avant-garde soul singers howling over home recordings in order to put them in the hands of musical gormandizers like yours truly. He has unearthed, shined, and delivered numerous irreplaceable gems under the moniker Fish Prints since 2018 and you'd probably have to bury him alive up to his neck in the Sonoran desert to keep him from doing it again. Now I'm a curious cat, and Thor is a generous fellow, and because of these compatible circumstances, he agreed to open the vault of his collection as well as the stored knowledge in his brain to answer a barrage of questions from me about the connections he's made through the label, the joys of releasing music on MiniDisc, the personal touch he gives every releases, and so much more. You can check out Fish Prints's full catalog at https://fishprintsinc.bandcamp.com/ while you listen to our conversation below.
