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Unseen keys and piano vibes

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Saturday Paperwork

Scurlage

Blauwasser

μ-Ziq - Ltd. SonShine

Aphex Twin - D-scape (µ-Ziq Remix)

https://www.mixcloud.com/TheVinylFactory/vf-mix-63-aphex-twin-by-μ-ziq/

AFX - Analogue Bubblebath (μ-ziq remix)

https://www.discogs.com/release/6989530-%C2%B5-Ziq-%C2%B5-Ziq-Theme-Original

µ-Ziq - µ-Ziq Theme (original)

Pangae, King Britt & more reminisce about Aphex Twin. Read the feature here: http://boilerroom.tv/mindphuqed-by-rich-digging-deep-into-the-aphex-twin-archives/

µ-Ziq "Mucky Puppy" *Exclusive*

Slice w/Quartet

Verve Remixed

Spanish Grease (Dorfmeister Con Madrid De Los Austrias Muga Reserve Mix)

Buy the exclusive collaboration on Bleep: https://bleep.com/release/73657-mark-pritchard-x-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-nownow-absolut-collaboration

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We believe that « everything is a remix »

Remixes are a major part of the electronic music history. The club culture take off on remixes, some of the greatest dance hits where made from remixing original tracks.
Our primary purpose is to highlight this exercise by offering the opportunity to artists to either work on a remix or offer a track to be remixed by an artist they admire. It is overseen and curated by independent music lovers and supported by The Absolut Company, a brand that is permanently involved in the field of contemporary arts and creation with a tradition of supporting artists such as Keith Haring and Andy Warhol at their very early stage of their career. The Absolut Remix project is dedicated to the art of combining or editing existing materials, to produce something new.

As a start, every last Thursday of the month, we will unveil a new remix, from a newcomer or a legend, from disco to techno or IDM and house music. And more to come...

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
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Absolut Remix
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Buy on Bleep

Mark Pritchard x Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Now:Now (Absolut Collaboration)

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)

This is my favorite movie Soundtrack
→ Piano Improvisation Track 09. Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki OST
オヨステ・アイナ おおかみこどもの雨と雪
Take your headphones, close your eyes, enjoy! (´∀｀*)


Oyosute・Aina - Piano Improvisation 「 Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki」

µ-Ziq - PC5

µ-Ziq - Olé

From the new Ekoplekz LP 'Bioprodukt' out 16th June 2017

Ekoplekz returns with his fourth album for Planet Mu, in the shape of 10-tracker "Bioprodukt". The unique lo-fi, woozy sound of Bristol's Nick Edwards stays intact while he veers towards the nineties for inspiration: the bleep and bass sound of the north of England is one touchpoint and the acid gurgles of the 303 are another.

While the murky lo-fi production levels and evocative melodies remain, they are now bolstered by a more muscular rhythmic chassis. Snappier kicks and snares mingle with dense layers of percussion and deep undulating sub-basslines adding a funkier edge, as typified by opening track "Elevation" where playful beats interlock with breezy keyboard flourishes to create something uncharacteristically upbeat. Similarly, the gentle, fluid motion of "Slipstream" and "Calypzoid" represent some of the most appealingly chilled grooves in the Ekoplekz canon to date.

But the darker-edged material remains. "Expedition" has a pensive, percussion-heavy feel whilst "Acrid Acid" is a dirt-encrusted slow-mo techno meltdown. "Transcience" displays the Ekoplekz trademark dub-fx in full flight over a driving lo-end, before "Descent" leads down to the final section, where the beats fade out, replaced by rippling layers of spectral ferric ambience on the epic "Low-X Over", before finishing with the radiant looped stasis of "Denier Daze".

The albums shifting, imperfect patterns and muted colours are visually mirrored in the beautifully realised sleeve by the Print Project.

Bioprodukt

Ekoplekz - Acrid Acid (16th June)

Buy: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/challenge-me-foolish

Mike Paradinas returns to his µ-Ziq moniker after five years. Inclement is a lumbering, spooky, peak-time Paradinas melody from 1998, it's arpeggios intertwining to make more than the sum of it's parts.

From the album "Challenge Me Foolish" out 13th April

Challenge Me Foolish

Inclement (from the album 'Challenge Me Foolish" 13th April)

Reminiscent electronics from a British pioneer. 

Download and tracklisting: https://www.xlr8r.com/podcasts/2018/03/podcast-533-µ-ziq/

@mikep
@planetmurecords

XLR8R Podcast

Download & Tracklist

XLR8R Podcast 533: µ-Ziq

We are super excited about µ-Ziq's new album "Challenge Me Foolish" on @planetmurecords, and lucky for you and us, Mike Paradinas has given us an exclusive bonus track "Vinchlo" created in the same period of the album. 
It is on here for your ears and your feet, and if you buy the digital album on Bleep, the track is yours to keep. 

https://link.bleep.com/Vinchlo-Bonus-Track

Challenge Me Foolish sees Mike Paradinas's µ-Ziq alias digging deep into his archive and giving new life to these soon to be cherished recordings circa 1998-99. Recorded around the time of his Autumnal Acid classic Royal Astronomy, released via the now-defunct Virgin subsidiary Hut records (hard to imagine these days but Richard Branson once ran a very fwd thinking record label!) and also a tour with Björk. It takes on some of the times most outwardly approaching electronic music, whilst also showing glimpses of a future-proofed prediction for the following decade's forays into 2 step, dubstep, grime and footwork.

µ-Ziq - Vinchlo

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Free Download

Monika Brodka & A_GIM - Wszystko Czego Dziś Chcę (dj refresh club edit)

Solo Steinway 2020

30/07/20

Improvised and produced by Robin to Roxel.

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Music by Jeff Gburek 'Madludzi 935' https://soundcloud.com/jeff-gburek/madludzi-935
Sonopoetry and mixing by I.Boffa
Pic by I.Boffa

Tidy Up poem

'January

Tracts of land, unploughed
The eye’s attempt to tidy up

Month of beginnings and 
transitions, January

stores fatigue and anticipates
sowing

So many Januaries'

Tidy Up, Madludzi 935 (J.Gburek&I.Boffa)

BOOKING: warren.morris@theplayground.co.uk