Mike & Rich album turned 20 years old [Planet Mu Reissue]

back to "topic"  Waltz is amazing

 

also, yes Caze, you are correct,  Mike already released it  as "µ-ziq waltz" in the soundcloud dump, from '94.

Edited September 5, 2016 by hayhook

  On 9/5/2016 at 4:01 PM, JUVITH SITH said:

Why has no one been selling these cassettes?

 

Got the cd today and totally forgot this was a double album, now i need to buy another one as i always have separate case's and artwork for double albums. Therefore i will have 2 extra disc's if any one want's them.

 

Edited September 5, 2016 by FinePrimitiveSounds

Got my blue vinyl today. Woot! Lush loungey weirdness commence.

I had totally forgot how good expert knob twiddlers is.. and now with extra trax!

Tanx Mike & Rich

Vodka is clearly a remix of this song or at least uncannily similar, probably already obviously known (I recognized it from Happy Gilmore)

 

Wow. Wasn't expecting to have as much fun as I did with this. The bonus disc is well pukka too. Happy days indeed

  On 9/6/2016 at 11:17 AM, JUVITH SITH said:

 

  On 9/5/2016 at 4:29 PM, FinePrimitiveSounds said:

 

  On 9/5/2016 at 4:01 PM, JUVITH SITH said:

Why has no one been selling these cassettes?

 

Got the cd today and totally forgot this was a double album, now i need to buy another one as i always have separate case's and artwork for double albums. Therefore i will have 2 extra disc's if any one want's them.

 

 

 

 

On the verge of madness, but hey i'd rather spend money on another cd than a joints worth that does nothing.

 

 

you could honestly save your money and just buy it once 

  On 9/5/2016 at 4:01 PM, JUVITH SITH said:

Why has no one been selling these cassettes?

 

Got the cd today and totally forgot this was a double album, now i need to buy another one as i always have separate case's and artwork for double albums. Therefore i will have 2 extra disc's if any one want's them.

 

cases

 

discs

 

wants

  On 9/5/2016 at 4:01 PM, JUVITH SITH said:

Got the cd today and totally forgot this was a double album, now i need to buy another one as i always have separate case's and artwork for double albums.

lol

did anyone receive their poster too? my cassette came, but no poster! :\ :/

  On 9/8/2016 at 11:01 PM, chomp said:

did anyone receive their poster too? my cassette came, but no poster! :\ :/

Same thing happened to me but the poster came the next day in a tube. Confirmed with bleep support the previous day, so hang tight!

you're supposed to get a poster with casette off planet mu bleepstore?

No, I ordered it in addition to the cassette which is what I assume chomp did as well.

 

I know this is really dumb to complain about but why the heck did they change it to The Sound of "THE" Beady Eyes on this reissue?? Doesn't quite roll off the tongue anymore

  On 9/8/2016 at 8:41 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 9/5/2016 at 4:01 PM, JUVITH SITH said:

Got the cd today and totally forgot this was a double album, now i need to buy another one as i always have separate case's and artwork for double albums.

lol

 

lol's

Goddammit, the vinyl is triple!

Finally got the cassette, it's beautiful!!! 

Still waiting for my Blue vinyl, contacted them earlier in the week and was told a glitch in the system meant it was never sent, they sent Wednesday but still no sign =(

wish i bought the cassette rather than the blue vinyl

Really nice to have the chance to sit down and revisit this unappreciated release, I can't have listened to it more than 10 times since I first heard it 15 or so years ago. I always quite enjoyed it but some of the good feeling was tarnished by a very arch mid-90s easy-listening and almost big beat vibe and the nagging feeling that both artists were just noodling about here and selfishly saving their best melodies and ideas for their own later solo releases.

but now a combination of factors, (the aggressive remaster job, the charmingly dumb bonus tracks, finding out it was actually made in 94) have really made me enjoy it a lot more. I can hear Perrey-Kingsley in there, and similar ground to the soundcloud trax of that era.

Mikes strange little reverbed sine melodies playing utopian supermarket musak mixing in with Aphex's sloppy crunchy distortion works a treat. Mr Frosty sounds like Jake Slazenger remixing Acrid Avid Jam Shred, Eggy Toast is subdued but with a serpentine AFX lead. It is very tongue in cheek insofar as Mike & Rich both know thier listeners know these synth lines are cheesey as fuck, but I believe now it comes from a real non-ironic love of cheesey as fuck synth lines.

  On 9/7/2016 at 10:19 PM, cern said:

I had totally forgot how good expert knob twiddlers is.. and now with extra trax!

 

Tanx Mike & Rich

Blue vinyl is sweet, cheers Mu

  On 9/10/2016 at 12:06 PM, JUVITH SITH said:

wish i bought the cassette rather than the blue vinyl

 

PM me and we can trade if you like.

anyone else getting Alberto Balsalm vibes from Organ Plodder? this is already becoming my go-to for ICBYD vibes without getting the feelz (and then moving to bu bu bu ba when i do want the feelz <3)

Its got that effortlessly sweet Aphex melody, but being played on an organ preset, and with those lo-res drum samples lacks the kind of care and attention to put it up there with Alberto. certainly a nice curio and one of the highlights of the bonus tracks though.

love this album more than I thought I would do, and the bonus disc is tip-top

 

I'm a very very happy punter, cheers Mike and Rich