City Pages looks at Stand Up! records, a local label that specializes in comedy recordings: STAND UP! RECORDS’ storage room is tucked into the basement of an unassuming northeast Minneapolis warehouse. The dilapidated brick exterior and exposed piping drip with a palpable DIY ethos. Hundreds of cardboard containers the size of shoeboxes have been stacked along the walls of the rectangular, warehouse-like room. In the far corner, Schlissel sits behind a desk conducting business.
“I can’t really edit here, because my neighbor is a cabinet maker,” he says. As if on cue, unidentifiable machinery across the hall ratchets up its agonized scream before finally puttering silent.
2 Reader Comments
2:46 pm
Dan’s a great guy. I worked with him in my short stint as an internet DJ at the now defunct junobeach.com.
10:50 am
Some long-overdue recognition for someone who busts his ass and has probably the 2nd largest independent label in Minnesota behind Rhymesayers. Dan’s been responsible for pretty much every awesome comedian that’s come through recently, and I greatly appreciate him for it.