u-ziq & others

Go Hawaii

It's Very Sunny

Go Plastic

Tommib

My Fucking Sound

Amber

Nine

Hangable Auto Bulb

Arched Maid Via RDJ

Polygon Window - Bike Pump Meets Bucket(2023729)

I like to add Latin rhythms to dance tracks, but I barely do so. This track starts with with typical house organ sound, but then it's Samba! It's still electronic music, of course.

Electro Samba New Mix (Organ louder)

Drukqs

Taking Control

Pangolin

This is a sample edit. The full version of the track is available to buy from iTunes at
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/remixes/id1135867675

Bi Numbers (Mike Paradinas Old Skool mix)

https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/74321-mike-rich-expert-knob-twiddlers

A collaboration between Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) and µ–Ziq (Mike Paradinas), Mike & Rich - ’Expert Knob Twiddlers’ was made back in 1994. Richard edited the tracks into shape later in 1996 with his new Apple Mac computer and it was released later that year on Rephlex, the label he co-owned and which released the first two albums by µ-Ziq.

This new reissued version has been carefully cleaned up, re-edited and remastered from the original DAT tapes, put into a more fitting order and, more excitingly, seven new bonus tracks and alternative versions have also been added.

The album was recorded over a few days during the 1994 World Cup, back when Richard lived in a big shared flat in Stoke Newington. Richard had tried to collaborate with a few other likeminded artists but something clicked when Mike and Rich worked together and the sessions have a unique feel; playful and at times actually drunk. These are fun experiments in the spirit of lighthearted moog pop and ripe 70s British TV themes, standing out from the po-faced electronica of the time with a garish glee.

The record was made on what is now seen as pretty primitive gear - an Atari, Roland MKS-80, Memorymoog, Roland R8 and a handful of samples on a Casio FZ-10M - but it’s to their credit that it resonates well with the hardware workouts coming out today. There's a broadminded but sloppy funk to the record, even whistling, singing and harpsichord in 'Reg' and wonky beat pile-ons in 'Jelly Fish'. There's latin piano and wheezy drunken techno in ‘Vodka’, or the sleepy spaced out ambience of ‘Bu Bu Bu Ba' with its barely contained laughter which seems to reflect the absurdity. 

The new versions and bonus tracks are an absolute delight and well worth the purchase - from a trancier version of ‘Vodka' to the wonky bounce of ‘Portamento Gosh', The 3/4 dub of 'Waltz,' the banging door bass of' Brivert and Muonds', the creepy seasick atmosphere of 'Clissold Bathroom' and finishing with the strangely graceful and serious 'Organ Plodder'. A generous and welcome return to the racks.

Exper Knob Twiddlers

Vodka (Mix 2)

11 Vodka (Mix 2)

https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/74321-mike-rich-expert-knob-twiddlers

1. The Sound Of The Beady Eyes (unreleased version)
2. Clissold Bathroom
3. Brivert & Muonds
4. Vodka (Mix 2)
5. Jelly Fish (Mix 2)
6. Portamento Gosh
7. Organ Plodder
8. Upright Kangaroo (Mix 2)

Mike & Rich

A rework of Polygon Window - "If It Really Is Me" , aka APHEX TWIN. The track is from 1993 with a sample of " the young and the restless ".

Free Download

Polygon Window - "If It Really Is Me" ( La Decadanse Rework ) COV-EDIT 04

BOOKING: warren.morris@theplayground.co.uk

11 Vodka (Mix 2)

µ-Ziq

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