mu-Ziq Planet Mu Listening Club

  On 11/26/2018 at 4:37 PM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Chinese Bakery <3

no, not that one

=(

I still love it though. lol

Ok gonna sit out til we get a non mike p alias

  On 11/26/2018 at 3:21 PM, span said:

 

 

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Tusken Raiders

Bantha Trax

Released 06-03-1995

 

Bleepstore: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/69084-tusken-raiders-bantha-trax

Bandcamp: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/bantha-trax

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1GiuBgaqhIVXBjWiuhF17V?si=neXBUDwyT9WJoRQ_ABqGvQ

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01 Raider Beetz

02 Tatooine Sunset

03 Gaderffii Stick

04 Sexy Sandpeople

05 Beatnik #3

 

 

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March 1995 first release of the Tusken Raiders alias

 

 

 

 

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Jake Slazenger

Makesaracket

Released 05-06-1995

 

Bleepstore: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/69231-jake-slazenger-makesaracket

Bandcamp: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/makesaracket

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7xmx7MUqcgb4QYjvnqEg54?si=x0fVvGAARFaI2Ovdn0r_wg

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01 Megaphonk

02 Get Up R

03 Stupid Wanker

04 Gary’s Birthday

05 Daytime Kiss

06 Erp

07 Wyatt

08 Flod

09 Bolus

10 Feet

11 Five Alive

12 Lux

13 Spry Bat*

14 Acid Pope*

 

*Bonus tracks

 

 

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1995 release, #1 in the UK Indie Charts. Includes the vinyl only tracks ‘Spry Bat’ and ‘Acid Pope’

 

 

 

 

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Jake Slazenger

Megaphonk

Released 11-09-1995

 

Bleepstore: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/69226-jake-slazenger-megaphonk

Bandcamp: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/megaphonk

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/15bYiAb5mxQbvAVUnCbt5Y?si=B7NQqLvtRn67FoyvXs-Q6w

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01 Megaphonk (alternate version)

02 Hyperjunk

03 Muddy Tractor

 

 

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Originally released in 1995 as a limited edition white label of 500 copies on Clear Records, original 12″ also featured ‘Supafunk’ which is now available via Warp Records on Das Ist Ein Groovy Beat Ja

 

 

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I managed to get 3 of those transparent vinyls that Clear Records put out; Tusken Raiders, Jedi Knights, and Plaid. Classics.

I still have a big soft spot for old Mike P, especially the crunchy/clanky beat stuff. Looking forward to Jega and Vibert. Oh and the Tetlow, Lexaunculpt, 8FM, there's def some hidden gems

  On 11/26/2018 at 11:46 PM, Tricone RC said:

 Lexaunculpt

Amazing album on pmu. It's such a shame he disappeared.... Does anyone know what happened? (I've searched but  yeah, couldn't find any info).

Bluff Limbo is amazing. I've listened to most of the Mu catalog, and there's a bunch of hidden gems. Some favorites:

Mu-ziq, Lunatic Harness

Mu-ziq, In Pine Effect

Mu-ziq, Chewed Corners

Mu-ziq, Somerset Avenue Tracks

Mu-ziq, XTLP

Mu-ziq, RY30 Trax

Mu-ziq, Aberystwyth Marine

Kid Spatula, Meast

Heterotic, Love and Devotion

Heterotic, Weird Drift

Capitol K, Island Row

Capitol K, Sounds of the Empire

Tim Tetlow, Beauty Walks a Razor's Edge

Joseph Nothing, Dreamland Idle Orchestra

OOO, Upon Cycles

dDamage, Radio Ape

Chevron, Everything's Exactly The Same

Luke Vibert, Lover's Acid

Venetian Snares, Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett

Pinch, Qawwali

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble

Boxcutter, Oneiric

Tom Burbank, Famous First Words

Few Nolder, New Folder

Jamie Vexd, In System Travel

Kuedo, Dream Sequence

Kuedo, Severant

DJ Rashad, Itz Not Rite

FaltyDL, You Stand Uncertain

FaltyDL, Love Is A Liability

Vezelay, Lyre

Machinedrum, Room(s) / Sacred Frequency EP

i thought i was going to hate makesaracket since that vibert-ish funky midtempo electronica just bores me to tears usually, but was pleasantly surprised. Prob enjoyed it more than the previous 2 albums, overall. Few duds though, it's funny how mu is known for Mike's curation yet all his early albums so far have been around 90 minutes

the Tusken Raiders ep reminded me a lot of deejay selek, it's uncanny. Remove the background melodies and it's straight up out of aphex's EP. Really liked it

  On 11/23/2018 at 3:40 PM, MIXL2 said:

fuck yeah

 

amongst the first idms I ever heard still one of my favs I think...ethereal murmurings, sick porter and hectors house are in rotation constantly

couple things

thing #1: switching the schedule to 3 albums a week (mon, wed, fri) cause otherwise this is gonna take forever

thing #2: if you, like me, are embarking on this OCD-ish, strictly chronological adventure, now would be a good time to listen to the unearthed Tusken Raiders EP from '94, released just a couple months ago: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/inchstar-static. There's also the stuff on his dump conveniently tagged by year https://soundcloud.com/mikep/tracks. This is a planet mu retrospective and not a mike p retrospective but, you might as well

FLATSCD 18
µ-Ziq
Salsa with Mesquite
Released September 1995


Bleepstore: N/A
Bandcamp: N/A
Spotify: N/A

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µ-Ziq
In Pine Effect
Released October 1995


Bleepstore: N/A
Bandcamp: N/A
Spotify: N/A

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ok maybe listening to all of muziq's huge as fuck backlog of early music in a month wasnt the best way to start this. It'll be over in december 14th in case anyone's still reading this. it feels silly writing these half baked, no-insight-at-all reviews nobody could possibly give half a fuck about but I'm committed to the bit now. Think of it as a diary of sorts. Oh boy

Anyway I just went through the releases from the past few days and pretty much confirmed my feelings: both first albums are to me grab bags from which, for every 3 or 4 tracks, I'd save one for listening when on the mood and throw the rest away forever. Bantha Trax is still my fav of the bunch, partly because the drums arent as ear splitting and just punchy, and partly maybe because he just goes balls to the wall with it. No forced melodies or trying to make a journey out of 8 minutes of compressed as fuck beats. I dunno, it's a very different mood from the other aliases and I love it. Same with the Slazenger album, overall I just dont like the direction or the... pretense? of the mu-ziq albums. It just feels forced somehow, even though probably mike didnt feel forced at all making them. They just feel too square

and re: salsa and in pine... it's just more of the same but made, paradoxically, a bit more boring by virtue of mike getting better at making music. It all sounds more... formal? I dunno, it's all very similar to the first 2 LPs compositionally but with more experience and extra elements like the brass sections (enjoyed Roy Castle and Dauphine, pretty much the only tracks i'd like to come back to), vocal samples (never want to hear Mr Angry again), but I dunno, it just feels like i'm listening to a more boring ICBYD at points. Quite disappointing, this one. I just have to accept mu-ziq isn't for me I guess. Oh well, only... 8 more LPs to go

Span, specifically "Salsa and Mesquite". What did you make of that?

time to switch in to booze-ziq listening club

in IPA effect

  On 12/1/2018 at 1:59 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

Span, specifically "Salsa and Mesquite". What did you make of that?

I quite liked Happi and the title track, but the rest did pretty much nothing for me

  On 11/30/2018 at 10:10 PM, span said:

ok maybe listening to all of muziq's huge as fuck backlog of early music in a month wasnt the best way to start this. It'll be over in december 14th in case anyone's still reading this.

*marks calendar*

within a sound and phiesope... love em..

  On 11/27/2018 at 3:11 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

 

  On 11/26/2018 at 11:46 PM, Tricone RC said:

 Lexaunculpt

Amazing album on pmu. It's such a shame he disappeared.... Does anyone know what happened? (I've searched but  yeah, couldn't find any info).

 

Can vouch for this.

  On 11/27/2018 at 3:11 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

 

  On 11/26/2018 at 11:46 PM, Tricone RC said:

Lexaunculpt

Amazing album on pmu. It's such a shame he disappeared.... Does anyone know what happened? (I've searched but yeah, couldn't find any info).

he was also half of this duo: https://planet.mu/releases/the-internal-tulips-mislead-into-a-field-by-a-deformed-deer/

Thx Span!

  On 12/1/2018 at 12:42 PM, MIXL2 said:

within a sound and phiesope... love em..

Within a sound... Yumm!

REFCD5

Kid Spatula

Spatula Freak

Released 06-11-1995

Bleepstore: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/69230-kid-spatula-spatula-freak

Bandcamp: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/spatula-freak

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/15OkNtTVHqRqtjPBjLPaj9?si=1UOF5zsnTLq6h3Lj7GgpbA

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Classic 1995 release, originally on San Francisco’s Reflective label.

ahem so... more old mike p... I dug the first track til the afro sounding beat came in, sounded like music from an old tv show for kids or something. It gave me some kind of non-specific nostalgia. Chisholm sounds like American Beauty OST and the percussion comes out of nowhere, pretty funny. Cheesy as fuck brass on xvon.. and from there on the same old muziq from the last few releases. Liked it better than In Pine, gotta give him that, but overall, eh. Dude was making tracks by the dozen back then, fuck me. There's a shitton of them

This came out around the same time as Tri Repetae and hangable auto bulb...

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µ-Ziq
Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995)
Released 25-02-2013


Planet Mu site: https://planet.mu/releases/µ-ziq-somerset-avenue-tracks-1992-1995/
Bleepstore: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/69291
Bandcamp: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/somerset-avenue-tracks-1992-1995
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1ogjUhGjQUoaV0QFmv98od?si=XUVEjRTVTq2ftTBrf6rxZQ

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CAT027 / ZIQ369
Mike & Rich
Expert Knob Twiddlers
Released June 1996 / 02-09-2016


Planet Mu site: https://planet.mu/releases/expert-knob-twiddlers/
Bleepstore: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/74321-mike-rich-expert-knob-twiddlers
Bandcamp: https://mikeandrich.bandcamp.com/album/expert-knob-twiddlers
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3AeR7vn3ZkHCKgHgjNxeQK?si=C8afvVIXQ7eXT1x8gG5tCg

About the album:

Putting these 2 together to get it over with

I was very pleasantly surprised by Somerset vol. 1. Lara did a great job at selecting tracks, ended up with probably my favorite of mike p's early releases. It feels strangely cohesive, kind of subdued. Volume 2 is more of a mixed bag, but compared to how little I enjoyed In Pine or Spatula Freak as a whole, it's good enough

And then there's EKT with which I can't be objective at this point, although it sure makes me wish Mike had done tracks while drunk more often. The only bonus trax worth keeping imo are Waltz and Jelly Fish mix 2. Gr8 albumu