Machinedrum signs to Planet Mu

Machinedrum - Room(s)

due July 2011

no tracklist available yet

Aw man... Planet Mu? That means either Mike has updated his artist signing criteria again, or this Machine Drum album is not going to be going in the direction I hoped he would go.

wow. i expect much from this.

very excited for this

great news indeed!

  On 4/6/2011 at 7:31 AM, usagi said:

  On 4/6/2011 at 6:54 AM, ganus said:

Aw man... Planet Mu? That means either Mike has updated his artist signing criteria again, or this Machine Drum album is not going to be going in the direction I hoped he would go.

 

What direction are you hoping he'll go in? I think it's steadily been changing since his early days but it'll remain hiphop-centric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPR3-cYHHn8

  On 4/6/2011 at 7:31 AM, usagi said:

What direction are you hoping he'll go in? I think it's steadily been changing since his early days but it'll remain hiphop-centric. edit: unless it's more like the stuff he's done under his other monikers (Syndrone/Tstewart), which it could well be

Well, it just makes me nervous, because Mu has been releasing almost exclusively footwork and dubstep recently, and I just have a feeling that this album is going to be like Want To 1 2 with grime in it. I want him to keep being experimental, and heavily hip-hop oriented, and who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised ultimately.

the last thing i heard from his was extremely wonky-ish and not really in an original way

Bloody Planet Mu

  On 4/6/2011 at 7:31 AM, usagi said:

the guy is a pioneer imo

How's he pioneering?

I only have Urban Biology and Half The Battle but I have listened to those albums a shit ton. I was looking to get some more original Machine Drum but mostly all I've seen online is his remixes of mainstream rap etc.

I investigated him a few years ago and decided he was boring, what stuff should I listen to? I remember a track called Stevie Bam Jackson that had an amazing cover by Landau Orchestra and also a Kettel remix which both seemed to blow the original out of the water

Sweet.

http://forum.watmm.com/forum/16-new-%26-upcoming-releases/

I'd be interested in anything he's done that isn't hip hop, rap or downtempo. Can you direct me?

Syndrone is pretty good, very confield or phonecia brownout-ish. I would not recommend Urban Biology to someone who hasn't heard machinedrum, i think it's probably one of his weakest works of what i've heard. I like his later stuff that isn't so stutter/edit heavy. Although on Syndrone i think a lot of that stuff is done very well almost psychedelic. the whole technique of just throwing glitchy fills on a too clean almost sterile breakbeat sound with not much meat on it never really appealed to me

  On 4/6/2011 at 6:54 AM, ganus said:

Aw man... Planet Mu? That means either Mike has updated his artist signing criteria again, or this Machine Drum album is not going to be going in the direction I hoped he would go.

Sacred Frequency EP clips

  On 4/8/2011 at 6:39 PM, esaruoho said:

  On 4/6/2011 at 6:54 AM, ganus said:

Aw man... Planet Mu? That means either Mike has updated his artist signing criteria again, or this Machine Drum album is not going to be going in the direction I hoped he would go.

 

Sacred Frequency EP clips

I read the description before I actually listened to the tracks, and I was facepalming, but the samples actually sound pretty damn good. Although I have to say, I will be skipping Flycatcha sometimes when I listen to this EP probably.

first track on that sounds great

  On 4/8/2011 at 11:13 PM, Awepittance said:

first track on that sounds great

Absolutely. Sounds like a Hudmo + Rustie + Lone collaboration more than it sounds like him lol. Not that that's a bad thing.

i would love to see Machinedrum merge the Syndrone and this style together. I feel too often artists who under so many different compartmentalized monikers play it too safely. ok cunts lets have some syndrone juke!

Have none of you heard Sepalcure? :D

not I, i could probably look it up but ill let you tell me what it is

edit: just checked some of it out, sounds like a much more dancefloor friendly Burial inspired wood blocky garage thing, is this him or something?

not really feeling it

Sepalcure = Machinedrum & Praveen.

yeah first track sounds really great

indeed it does

i think they all sounded pretty fresh, gonna have to check this out!