Name: Kuedo - Hourglass (µ-Ziq Mix) by µ-Ziq
Duration: 6 min 29 s
Description: Hourglass is one of my favourite tracks off his new album 'Slow Knife' - so I had to do my own version of it to work out his melodies...

the leading pad fitts in an almost uncanny manner ! well fit in frequency!!! 

wish this would've gotten a release. so beautiful

I will never forget picking up 'Trance Europe Express 3' comp in 1994 and hearing 'Roy Castle' for the first time, so emotional and a magical moment for me.   Thanks Mike!

Dear brother of imagination, your inspiration appears, or should we say, halted for a few moments in time. This soul shaking piece earns for more of your talented input. Your brillance still shines within the chambers of time. Masterful composition. PEACE

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/secret-garden

In Spring 2021, Mike Paradinas (µ-Ziq and the owner of Planet Mu) spoke to long time friend and past label signing Hannah Davidson (Mrs Jynx) about the therapeutic power of writing music when times are tough. Both had recently been dealing with the loss of a parent due to cancer, and fresh from writing Scurlage, Paradinas suggested a collaboration.

“I’ve always thought Hannah’s melodic sensibilities chime well with my own," says Paradinas, "and I've wanted to collaborate with her for a long time, since [her 2010 album] 'Shark Carousel' in fact, because she'd written some melodies that I wish I had.”

In a matter of weeks the two collaborated online, sending stems back and forth, each encouraging the other and fitting perfectly together. 

“After about ten days we had ten tracks we were happy with." adds Davidson, "It was exciting to hear what Mike would do with the stems I sent, and equally exciting to see what he thought of my additions to his stems.”

Overall the result is an opus of deeply personal moments of grief, depicted in a feeling of serene, misty tranquility that makes it easy to get lost in. Davidson and Paradinas settled on the title 'Secret Garden' due to the melodic vista which unexpectedly opened up before them on the final track. The album truly is a melodic exploration that is so often missed in this genre. 

There are twists and turns in mood, from the pastoral loveliness of 'Jynxiq' and 'Unheard Melodies' which fall away to the dubby beats of 'Hi Jynx'; the sadness of 'Loss' leading into the beatless forlorn 'The Ballad of Darth Vader. The album ups the pace with the muffled kicks and warm atmosphere of 'Afternoon Sunshine', which sets the tone for the happier mood of the second half. This all leads up to the album's denoeument in final track 'Secret Garden' whose naïve meandering synth melodies, orchestral accompaniment and glockenspiel end the album in happy resolution.

µ-Ziq & Mrs Jynx - The Secret Garden

µ-Ziq - 4am

Cylob – Zattrday 
Aphex Twin – end E2 
Kettel – Alacasa 
Lanark Artefax – Touch Absence 
Anstam – Observing The Patterns 
Denial of Service – Onryo 
Brainwaltzera – Mixolydian Transition 18
Steve Reich – It’s Gonna Rain 
dBridge – Rendezvous 
Luke Vibert – Don’t F**k Around

Brainwaltzera Guest Mix for Tom Ravenscroft BBC Radio 6 (September 22, 2017)

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Hourglass is one of my favourite tracks off his new album 'Slow Knife' - so I had to do my own version of it to work out his melodies...

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Not Waving combines with Romance on the free-floating grandeur of ‘Eyes Of Fate’ : nine tracks of mythological, Old Testament ambient.

The first new music from Not Waving since 2019 and the first pairing with label mate Romance 'Eyes Of Fate’ explores the fertile territory between secular and religious music that has long fascinated artists, allegories on the divine and existential bliss and terror in equal measure. 

From the curdled invocation of opener ‘I Bowed On My Knees’ to the enrapturing devotional of ‘While My Heart Still Beats’ to the final judgement of ‘Kneel For Mercy’, the album wrenches highly emotive textures utilising a blend of centuries-old chant styles and orchestration consisting of  chamber strings, tape loops and plangent processed sounds.

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