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  • DJ Manny 'Hypnotized' Vinyl LP

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    DJ Manny 'Hypnotized' Vinyl LP

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    Planet Mu Records

    DJ Manny 'Hypnotized' Vinyl LP

    £21.99

    DJ Manny's 'Hypnotized' is full of fresh ideas which push the footwork format of 160bpm hyper-rhythmic music in really enjoyable new directions. He builds on the romantic themes of his last album 'Signals In My Head' and evolves them with shades of blue, taking very natural sounding experimentation into new moods and musical colour while never making the album inaccessible.

    Arguably this is a fine successor to the ground broken by DJ Rashad's 'Double Cup' album, which of course Manny also worked on. 'Hypnotized' solidifies Manny's style, from relaxed r'n'b rollers to moments of romantic distress - like 'WTF Goin On' and the reflective 'You N You (ft. DJ Phil)', to more intense moments like the dubstep inflected 'Ooh Baby' from the vaults, co-produced by DJ Rashad himself.

    Other tracks like 'Want U Bad' retool Robert Hood style minimal techno
    whereas dark, nervous belters like 'Turn Me Up' sound like Paul Johnson at his most wild but welded to footwork rhythms and a pumping jump up drum & bass-line.

    There are also moments of enjoyably
    hype daftness like the acid and diva head-fuck of 'Opera' or the old school Bukem style jungle homage 'Lost In Da Jungle'. 'Hypnotized' is an album that expands footwork's template with natural ease and outstanding skill.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A
    1. Hard Drive
    2. WTF Goin On
    3. Hypnotized
    4. Ooh Baby (ft. DJ Rashad)
    5. I Can Luv U
    6. You N You (ft. DJ Phil)

    Side B:
    7. Overnight Flight
    8. Want U Bad
    9. Turn Me Up
    10. Opera
    11. Lost In Da Jungle
    12. Deep In My Mind
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  • Jlin 'Akoma' PRE-ORDER

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    Jlin 'Akoma' PRE-ORDER

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    Jlin 'Akoma' PRE-ORDER

    £26.99

    Release Date: 22/03/2024

    Jlin’s detailed and meticulous exploration of rhythm’s inner and outer reaches has made her one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices within both the electronic and classical music worlds. Her compositions are consistently appealing and have an accessibility to them, yet often defy expectations. She exists within her own locus solus - no matter the collaborator, no matter where sounds ultimately lead her.

    Whatever the situation – from composing the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted ‘Perspective’ for Third Coast Percussion, to ‘Godmother’ her AI-powered collaboration with Holly Herndon, Jlin always expresses her outlook to the fullest.

    Her new album ‘Akoma’ sets a new benchmark in her personal road map, not only since the album features guest appearances from Björk, Philip Glass and Kronos Quartet but for her continued sonic persistence and resistance.

    Jlin does what Jlin does and it’s beloved across genres, across scenes and across generations. ‘Akoma’ is a new entry point into her sound and a new approach for both those who have been following diligently and those who are just now entering her world.

    So how did she get here? Here’s a rundown for those looking for the facts.

    She was both a math nerd and a steel factory worker. She got inspired by Footwork and started making tracks with mentorship assistance from RP Boo and DJ Rashad, but her music was far from typical for footwork from the get-go. In 2011, she released her first track ‘Erotic Heat’ on the Planet Mu anthology ‘Bangs & Works Vol.2.’

    Fashion designer Rick Owens heard it and invited her to soundtrack his Paris Fashion Week show. Already before an EP or an album Jlin was in new cutting-edge territory. And it hasn’t stopped since. Everyday Jlin wakes up early and clocks into her home studio working hard on new music. Her discipline and craft-like approach means that those who would try to copy her sound simply can’t get to the level she is at.

    Since ‘Erotic Heat’ she has released two bold albums, 2015’s ‘Dark Energy’ and 2017’s ‘Black Origami.’ She has also released her soundtrack to Company Wayne McGregor’s dance piece ‘Autobiography’ (2018) and most recently (2023) the mini-album ‘Perspective.’

    She’s remixed µ-Ziq, Factory Floor, Ben Frost, Max Richter, Björk, Martin Gore and others. She’s collaborated with Holly Herndon and the late SOPHIE. She’s worked with visual artists Kevin Beasley and Nick Cave. She composed a string quartet for Kronos Quartet and performed with them live in a tribute to Philip Glass. She also recently completed a tribute to Sun Ra with Kronos. ‘Perspective’, her very well received percussion work for Third Coast Percussion has further opened doors for her in classical music. She’s even thinking of one day writing an opera. She had a residency at MassMoca Museum earlier this year (2023).

    She’s performed live at Pitchfork Festival, Unsound Festival and too many others to mention. She’s also worked with Indian dancers, Company Wayne McGregor and renowned choreographer/MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham. There’s more but you get the picture - she’s working in contexts and in ways that few of her peers are able to. ‘Akoma’ is the next step - all these paths have led to this. We encourage you to tune in.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A
    1. Borealis (ft. Björk)
    2. Speed Of Darkness

    Side B
    4. Summon
    5. Iris
    6. Open Canvas

    Side C
    7. Challenge (To Be Continued II)
    8. Eye Am
    9. Auset

    Side D
    10. Sodalite (ft. Kronos Quartet)
    11. Grannie's Cherry Pie
    12. The Precision Of Infinity (ft. Philip Glass)
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  • Meemo Comma 'Loverboy' Vinyl LP

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    Meemo Comma 'Loverboy' Vinyl LP

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    Meemo Comma 'Loverboy' Vinyl LP

    £21.99

    Planet Mu welcomes back Meemo Comma for her third album 'Loverboy'. 'Loverboy' is a shift in gear from Meemo Comma’s previous works, speeding up the tempos and rhythms, it's set in the nineties with trance, breakbeat hardcore and jungle as some of the influences.

    After playing a club gig in Spain as lockdown rules were loosening, Rix-Martin was reminded of the power music and people coming together creates. ‘Loverboy’ is peppered with influences from
    friends past and new as well as artists that have transformed the sound of Meemo Comma over the years, including Autechre, Guy Called Gerald, Orbital and Shitmat as well as others.

    On this journey we follow ‘Loverboy’ through the club as the night builds and different characters are met, from dropping the first pill to a euphoric ‘Cloudscape’ whilst waiting in the queue, to meeting some shady sorts in ‘
    Loneheath’.

    The album changes pace throughout with different rooms of the club being explored which add to the brevity of Rix-Martin’s production style on tracks such as 'Kyle' and 'AK47'.
    What started as a personal joke about Rix-Martin’s background formed a narrative for some darker, cheeky breaks that echo back on title track ‘Loverboy’, a track that Rix-Martin describes as “working class gender euphoria”.

    Maybe the mask has come off, and the shackles of pseudo-intellectualism have been put to rest for an honest, fun and ‘propa cheeky’ rave album instead.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Cloudscape
    2. Loneheath
    3. Bit Of A Boy
    4. Whitehawk
    5. Ignite
    6. Kyle
    7. AK47

    Side B:
    8. Loverboy
    9. The Rush
    10. Crisis
    11. Andro
    12. EX-P1
    13. Bubble Bag
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  • Jlin 'Autobiography (Music from Wayne McGregor's Autobiography)'

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    Jlin 'Autobiography (Music from Wayne McGregor's Autobiography)'

    £11.49

    By now, the story of how Jlin went from working in a steel factory in Gary, Indiana to being one of the most widely appreciated electronic musicians is well known.
    'Black Origami' was one of the most reviewed and lauded albums last year.

    Seriously prolific and seriously hard-working, she has toured constantly since its May 2017 release and despite being involved in a wide range of projects, still manages to find a balance and 'do some personal healing and growing.'

    Here we are over a year later with 'Autobiography,' the score for her collaboration with renowned British choreographer Wayne McGregor arranged by Unsound. This isn't technically her third album (that's due to arrive in 2019 or 2020), but the soundtrack stands up on its own with all the emotional peaks and troughs of a well-sequenced longplayer.

    For Jlin, making music for dance is the fulfillment of one of her lifelong dreams - and remarkably, Company Wayne McGregor's performance was the first show she'd ever seen. She describes the process of working with Wayne: 'We first met face to face in October 2016 in a downtown Chicago hotel, talking for about a solid two hours. Immediately, I saw Wayne was very friendly and energetic. He's brilliant, witty, and knows exactly what he wants; an absolute gem to work with.

    Before I even started composing for Autobiography, Wayne told me so gently that he trusts me completely with my direction of creating the score. That was the best feeling in the world. I would wake up at two in the morning and work until six in the evening until I completed all the pieces. We were both very happy with the outcome. Creating the score for an impeccable piece of work such as Autobiography changed my life as an artist.' 'Autobiography' is a highlight in an evolving and growing career.

    During the last year, Jlin has also become an in-demand remixer, securing her place among a roster of music heavyweights. Unsurprisingly, given her positive and outgoing nature, she also developed friendships with the artists she has remixed such as Björk, Max Richter and Ben Frost. Jlin will be touring with Company Wayne McGregor performing 'Autobiography' this year in addition to completing a commission for the Kronos Quartet titled 'Little Black Book.'

    She still approaches every performance 'with the same attitude of doing my best to execute a good show, no more, no less. Doing my best is what's most important to me.' She also still lives in Gary, Indiana, which keeps her grounded. She notes with her typical humility, 'The local community is a little more knowledgeable of me now. But I don't mind my community taking its time.'

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. 1st Overture (Spiritual Atom)
    2. Annotation
    3. Carbon 12

    Side B:
    4. Unorthodox Elements
    5. Anamnesis (Part 1)
    6. The Abyss Of Doubt
    7. Mutation

    Side C:
    8. First Interlude (Absence Of Measure)
    9. Permutation
    10. Kundalini

    Side D:
    11. Anamnesis (Part 2)
    12. Blue I
    13. Second Interlude(The Choosing)

    CD:
    1. 1st Overture (Spiritual Atom)
    2. Annotation
    3. Carbon 12
    4. Unorthodox Elements
    5. Anamnesis (Part 1)
    6. The Abyss Of Doubt
    7. Mutation
    8. First Interlude (Absence Of Measure)
    9. Permutation
    10. Kundalini
    11. Anamnesis (Part 2)
    12. Blue I
    13. Second Interlude (The Choosing)

    Release Date: 28/09/2018
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  • Ital Tek 'Bodied'

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    Ital Tek 'Bodied'

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    Ital Tek 'Bodied'

    £11.99

    Follow up to his acclaimed 2016 album 'Hollowed'. Stepping in a different direction from that album, It's as if Hollowed's detailed world has been fleshed out and filled with the spectre of human voices.

    As on his last album, the sounds on 'Bodied' are highly designed, but this time barely a whisper of dance music remains. Instead it's built around acoustic elements and ghostly choral arrangements, refracted and transformed into atmospheric, alien forms which are given the time to settle and transform. Rhythm is used only as a tool to give his world a sense of dark, mechanical momentum.

    Alan explains: 
    "After completing 'Hollowed' I had over a year away from writing any of my own material. I was working, composing music for a video game and a number of different projects. I needed to find a way back in and I rediscovered the joy of music being a release as opposed to a job. I was getting up really early and sketching out lots of ideas very fast, squeezing in quick bursts of writing at the beginning or end of long studio day spent working on other musical projects."

    "It was important for me to define the world that the album was going to inhabit before taking it any further, so I put a much greater focus into the sound design and palette than I had before. I wanted to make the music sound very physical, geometric, and monolithic, as if it inhabited a physical space."

    "On 'Bodied' the music focuses on the interplay between the minuscule and the vast, beauty and brutalism. With this album I was much more concerned with dynamics and the discipline of holding tension; the use of space and silence to provide a counterpoint to the intensity."

    "Most importantly, I was keen for there to be a human acoustic foundation, so I did a lot of live recording of cello, violin, harp and guitar - anything I could get my hands on. I was certain that I wanted there to be a greater vocal presence - nothing lyrical or at the forefront but to give it an underlying organic quality - to impart some humanity into the music.

    "As Ital Tek moves further from his roots, he's creating new sounds and spaces in which his music can exist. It's up to the listener to decide what kind of world 'Bodied' evokes, but it's certainly one that's beautiful and rewarding to spend time in.

    Tracklisting:
    2xLP
    Side A:
    1. Adrift
    2. Become Real
    3. Cipher

    Side B:
    4. Lithic
    5. Isolation Waves
    6. Vanta
    7. Across Time

    Side C:
    8. Hymnal
    9. Blood Rain
    10. Prima

    Side D:
    11. Fragility
    12. Bodied
    13. The Circle Is Complete

    CD:
    1. Adrift
    2. Become Real
    3. Cipher
    4. Lithic
    5. Isolation Waves
    6. Vanta
    7. Across Time
    8. Hymnal
    9. Blood Rain
    10. Prima
    11. Fragility
    12. Bodied
    13. The Circle Is Complete

    Release Date: 07/09/2018
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  • Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones 'Vicious Circles' Vinyl 12

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    Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones 'Vicious Circles' Vinyl 12"

    £15.49

    Planet Mu are very happy to be releasing 'Vicious Circles', the debut EP by Sinjin Hawke and Zora Jones, who aside from producing music also run the audio-visual production unit 'Fractal Fantasy'.

    Zora released several collaborations on last year's 'Visceral Minds 2' including 'Dark Matter' with Planet Mu's Jlin, while Sinjin has collaborated with DJ Rashad, Just Blaze and MikeQ, and also produced music for monoliths like Kanye West and Frank Ocean. Remarkably, given the breadth of their work, 'Vicious Circles' is their first collaborative EP, and the first time either have released a vinyl record too.

    The EP is a great showcase for the duo's emotional, maximalist chimeras of abstract pounding beats. From the punchy, circular, grandiose build-ups of opener 'Vicious Circles', to the unyielding melancholy of 'God' with its sinister Bulgarian choir sample against a peak Timbaland-era rhythm, the record's potent synths and manipulated vocals are both simultaneously fierce and friendly.

    'Source of Conflict' is a poised dance between pulsing ambient textures and drilling beats, while 'Lurk 101' pits a volley of abstracted juke toms up against a hammering drumline. 'BabyboySosa' feels like drum-less drill, manipulating vocals into strange alien shapes over a bassline before spiraling toms and hi-hats start to form a forceful march.

    The EP concludes on the love anthem 'And You Were One' with a chipmunked vocal running through its wonky chorus of bent notes and chords.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Vicious Circles
    2. God
    3. Source Of Conflict

    Side B:
    4. Lurk 101
    5. Solace (Interlude)
    6. BabyBoySosa
    7. And You Were One

    Release Date: 03/08/2018
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  • RP Boo 'I'll Tell You What!'

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    RP Boo 'I'll Tell You What!'

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    RP Boo 'I'll Tell You What!'

    £11.99

    While notorious in the Chicago streets, RP Boo's music had been unfairly confined to a few white labels and self-released mixtapes until his two archival Planet Mu LPs Legacy and Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints introduced broader audiences to his sonic history, some of it fifteen years after it was first recorded.

    I'll Tell You What! is the next step in his mission, and the first time he's released an album of contemporary material. The title, a favorite maxim of his, welcomes listeners to sit down and let him narrate in the unforgettable abstract fashion he's known for. He explores familiar motifs such as the cosmos, movement, and opposition, using densely interwoven vocals, unpredictable percussion, and evil humming bass as his tools of choice.

    RP Boo's music doesn't follow the traditional rules that most compositions do. Layering decades of samples from yesteryear to the present over his commanding vocal cut-ups, he transports the listener to their own realm of the space-time continuum.

    The main difference between this record and his prior work is now we hear Boo tell new stories about preaching his gospel outside of Chicago, from his experiences frantically touring the globe over the last five years. The words 'things ain't been the same / since I hopped the plane' are repeated on top of engine sounds and rumbling bass on Flight 1235, a glorious paean to his new jet-setting adventures.

    The spirit of competition runs through RP's veins as much as blood does, something you can't unlearn when you've been making music for Chicago's footwork circuit as long as he has. The local culture has served as a shelter from the violence that has plagued the city, pitting kids against each other with their feet rather than weapons. On At War Boo reminds us 'we are at war in the streets', a double meaning to both the mayhem in this world and the sweetness of rivalry on the dance floor.

    Another battle-themed track Cloudy Back Yard, one of the spacier moments on this album, is an abstract on the state of footwork's home. Chicago remains the backyard of this artform even though it's left the porch and traveled to new neighborhoods worldwide.

    Back at home though, competition among the DJs and dancers continues, and as the man himself says, 'with all this hate, there's smoke, and it's cloudy'. I'll Tell You What! throws more than a few curveballs into the mix.

    Footwork has always borrowed from hip-hop, and many vocal tracks are almost condensed raps, dating back to the street chants pioneered on Dance Mania Records in the ghetto house days. On Bounty, Boo grabs the mic and brazenly lays down a full-on verse of terror over a thick atmosphere of his signature sweltering low-end and erratic Roland R-70 patterns.

    While he's most famous for his confrontational battle anthems, his melancholy moments are just as powerful. You get the best of both of those worlds on U-Don't No, with soulful samples finishing his own cocky sentences, one of the most elegant tracks RP has made to date.

    Deep Sole closes the record out, with the words 'It's always beautiful at the end' looping over waves of hypnotic synthesis, confidently looking death straight in the eyes.

    Tracklisting:
    Vinyl 2xLP

    Side A:
    1. No Body
    2. Back From The Future
    3. At War

    Side B:
    4. Cloudy Back Yard
    5. U-Don't know
    6. Earth's Battle Dance

    Side C:
    7. Work The Flow!
    8. Bounty
    9. Flight 1235 (ft. DJ Phil & Crossfire)

    Side D:
    10. U Belong
    11. Me 02 Wicked'Bu
    12. Deep Sole

    CD:
    1. No Body
    2. Back From The Future
    3. At War
    4. Cloudy Back Yard
    5. U-Don't know
    6. Earth's Battle Dance
    7. Work The Flow!
    8. Bounty
    9. Flight 1235 (ft. DJ Phil & Crossfire)
    10. U Belong 2 Me
    11. Wicked'Bu
    12. Deep Sole

    Release Date 06/07/2018
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  • Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois 'S/T' PRE-ORDER - Cargo Records UK

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    Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois 'S/T'

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    Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois 'S/T'

    £18.99

    An appetite for the unknown" - Daniel Lanois

    No collaboration is unlikely when the end goals are the same. A meeting of two artists who illustrate different corners of the musical landscape, come together to create a new statement that takes their collective strengths to higher elevations and encompasses new terrains.

    So it is on the first collaborative journey of Canadian musicians Venetian Snares and Daniel Lanois. What started as mutual respect for one another's work, led to several years of a creative germination resulting in an eight-track full-length exploration released May 4th on Timesig/Planet Mu.

    The path began in 2014, after Lanois reached out to Venetian Snares (Aaron Funk) as a fan of his work. The project started to take root in Summer of 2016, after Funk hung around Toronto between shows. Taking his gear to Lanois'studio, the two began to play for the first time together in what would prove to be a formative moment in their creative journey together.

    'I love making music with Dan, he has a real understanding of how to create a world and build what may exist within that world. Bassdrums are trombones and they are a colossal whale which floats on clouds of leaves speaking to the blast furnace feeding the mammoth. A small painting of forest horses hangs in the cranium of the sea horse.' - Aaron Funk

    Recorded live in a former Buddhist temple-turned-studio in Toronto,
    'Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois' travels to new zones in what Lanois describes as 'a body of work driven by exploration'. Like all the best collaborations, it's brought something new out of both musicians. Equipped with their production acuity, they let their natural workflow guide them through uncharted waters. Funk laid the groundwork with drums while Lanois rode the pedal steel, weaving their sounds together in a new sonic tapestry. The two ultimately landed at their destination, their work ready to be shared with those willing to explore.

    In Daniel Lanois 'own words:
    "To come upon a new form reassures the head that frontier lives on The unlikely pairing of Venetian Snares and Daniel Lanois may very well have provided us with a nice new pair of shoes to walk to new sonic frontier A melange of gospel and electronics As madness of the world trips over its heels these Canadian sonic innovators prepare for travel A body of work driven by exploration, brings to us in our modern times what we remember and admire from the Jazz explorations of the 50s A splintering An appetite for the unknown"

    Tracklisting:
    Vinyl LP:
    Side A:
    1. Mag11 P82
    2. HpShk5050 P127
    3. United P92

    Side B:
    1. Bernard Revisit P81
    2. Best P54
    3. Mothors Pressroll P131
    4. Night MXCMPV1 P74
    5. Ophelius 1stP118

    CD:
    1. Mag11 P82
    2. HpShk5050 P127
    3. United P92
    4. Bernard Revisit P81
    5. Best P54
    6. Mothors Pressroll P131
    7. Night MXCMPV1 P74
    8. Ophelius 1stP118

    Release Date: 04/05/2018
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  • µ-Ziq 'Challenge Me Foolish' - Cargo Records UK

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    µ-Ziq 'Challenge Me Foolish'

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    µ-Ziq 'Challenge Me Foolish'

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    Challenge Me Foolish' is an almost lost album of µ-Ziq material circa 1998-99, an era that saw Mike Paradinas release Royal Astronomy'on the now defunct Virgin subsidiary Hut records, and also tour with Björk.
     
    It's an era of his music that's definitely worth re-exploring, in which Mike went against the grain by producing music that was baroque, melodic and whimsical, while the IDM movement he was lumped with made instrumental music that was often neurotic and complicated. His taste for melody and dreamy beauty above roughness and intricacy confused people who were hanging on too tightly to the rules. He even brought in Japanese vocalist Kazumi, adding an extra human touch.
     
    Challenge Me Foolish' is something of a companion to the Royal Astronomy record; arguably even better given the fresh ears selecting the material. It's imbued with a confident sense of pastoral colour, and a gentle optimism, utilising bells, studied orchestral arrangements and airy synthesisers that sit the album somewhere between, Jean Jacques Perrey (the French electronic composer whose whimsy was always balanced with serious innovation and chops) and the colourful, optimistic soundtracks of Joe Hisaishi. There's a strange sense of the old and new throughout, the sentimental and utopia, with nary a hint of darkness. Even when the album dips into the hyperkinetic rhythms of jungle, the melodies and mood still retain a sense of gentle warmth. Dive into peak time Paradinas.

    Tracklisting:
    Vinyl 2xLP
    Side A:
    1. Inclement
    2. Undone
    3. Challenge Me Foolish (ft. Kazumi)

    Side B:
    4. Bassbins
    5. Robin Hood Gate
    6. Perhaps
    7. Durian (ft. Kazumi)

    Side C:
    8. Ceiling
    9. Lexicon (ft. Kazumi)
    10. Perfame
    11. Playbox

    Side D:
    12. Sad Inlay (ft. Kazumi)
    13. Peek Freans
    14. DoDaDu (ft. Kazumi)
     
    CD:
    1. Inclement
    2. Undone
    3. Challenge Me Foolish (ft. Kazumi)
    4. Bassbins
    5. Robin Hood Gate
    6. Perhaps
    7. Durian (ft. Kazumi)
    8. Ceiling
    9. Lexicon (ft. Kazumi)
    10. Perfame
    11. Playbox
    12. Sad Inlay (ft. Kazumi)
    13. Peek Freans
    14. DoDaDu (ft. Kazumi)

    Release Date: 13/04/2018
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  • East Man 'Red, White & Zero' - Cargo Records UK

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    East Man 'Red, White & Zero'

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    East Man 'Red, White & Zero'

    £11.99

    East Man is a new project from Anthoney Hart and its material predates his previous work as Basic Rhythm.

    His unique take on grime reduces the sound to its steely fundamentals, bringing in influences from dancehall, drum and bass and techno to gird the voices of the MCs he works with.

    His own name for this hardcore continuum mongrel is 'Hi Tek'.Anthoney struck a friendship with the academic and theorist Paul Gilroy, who wrote the album introduction.

    Vinyl LP:
    Side A:
    1. East Man - East Man Theme
    2. East Man & Saint P - Can't Tell Me Bout Nothing
    3. East Man & Darkos Strife - Cruisin'
    4. East Man & Killa P - Mission
    5. East Man - Stratford
    6. East Man & Irah - War

    Side B:
    7. East Man - Drapesing
    8. East Man & Eklipse - Safe
    9. East Man & Lyrical Strally - Mmm
    10. East Man & Kwam - Tear Down
    11. East Man & Darkos Strife - Look & Listen
    12. East Man - And What? (Blood Klaat Version)
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  • Ziúr 'U Feel Anything?' - Cargo Records UK

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    Ziúr 'U Feel Anything?'

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    Ziúr 'U Feel Anything?'

    £11.99

    Ziúr is one of the most exciting producers to come out of the fringes of Berlin club music in the last few years. A new generation is breaking out of the techno mould and creating in a spirit of freedom and experimentation, taking seemingly incompatible influences and balancing them into a new and exciting sound. Ziúr is also the founder and resident DJ of 'Boo-Hoo', a night championing diverse lineups, reflecting it's creative audience, bringing through the cream of the experimental dance underground.

    Planet Mu are proud to release Ziúr's debut album 'U Feel Anything?' in collaboration with Objects Limited, a label run by Lara Rix-Martin which releases music by women and non-binary people. For someone who has previously released just two EPs, the vision of Ziúr's music is advanced and precise. It's music which beckons you into an alternate world; wonderfully alien pop music that eschews conventions.

    She creates eldrich atmospheres that balance gentle melody and warm pop, in which strange elfin voices sing from other worlds and spiralling rhythms feel like entire structures moving. In the latter half of the record these harden into a pounding, martial symphony of steel, and introduce the kind of rough electronic riffs and guitar samples that betray her background in punk.

    'U Feel Anything?' was written as a way to think about music as a tool of enlightenment, a de-conditioning force and the kind of yin and yang that can be summed up in the title of one of the songs 'Laughing and Crying are The Same Things', a track which features Swedish pop singer Zhala, whose vocals straddle twisting beats, space and staccato strings.

    The album also features a collaboration with Aïsha Devi on the epic 'Body of Light', in which Aïsha's vocals are pitched up and down, manipulated and distorted into wispy angelic tones, setting the tone for the first half of the album.

    There's a process to Ziúr's music that's informed by this wish to get beyond the small things. She says "Putting a relation on what's big and small and certainly meaningless behind our existence; how nothing is everything at the same time etc... it's something that I try to explore again and again by putting myself into a thought process, rather than having everything already formulated.

    "It's a record of powerful, emotional twists and turns and mind-flipping contrasts that resonate with depth. As Ziúr says "I believe you can only tell that something is harsh when you have a soft side to compare it to. If everything is amazing then nothing is, right?"

    Vinyl LP Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Human Life Is Not A Commodity
    2. U Feel Anything?
    3. Soaked
    4. Body Of Light (Ziúr & Aïsha Devi)
    5. Cipher
    6. Moonlight

    Side B:
    1. Rituals Of Passage
    2. Don't Buy It
    3. Laughing And Crying Are The Same Things (ft. Zhala)
    4. Drawn
    5. Arise
    6. Fractals

    CD Tracklisting:
    1. Human Life Is Not A Commodity
    2. U Feel Anything?
    3. Soaked
    4. Body Of Light (Ziúr & Aïsha Devi)
    5. Cipher
    6. Moonlight
    7. Rituals Of Passage
    8. Don't Buy It
    9. Laughing And Crying Are The Same Things (ft. Zhala)
    10. Drawn
    11. Arise
    12. Fractals

    Release Date: 06/10/2017
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  • Claude Speeed 'Infinity Ultra' - Cargo Records UK

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    Claude Speeed returns to Planet Mu, two years after the 'Sun Czar Temple' EP, with his second album 'Infinity Ultra'. He describes the record he's been creating since he started making computer music as one "conceiving an interior territory: an abstract space to process the oppression, confusion and insanity of the contemporary age; and to formulate an honest emotional and artistic response - a psychic jumping off point into an uncertain future."

    'Infinity Ultra' takes inspiration from sleep paralysis, monumental artworks, children's anime, abandoned places, ghostly rave pasts and terrifying silicon valley futures, and the limitless anger of the digital present.

    These influences have been channelled into an impressionistic burst of varied creativity: Shimmering VSTs; monolithic noise; euphoric blocks of colourful sound; trance stabs and the citrus rush of hardcore; towering drones, and skynet math rock - all rendered against cold, sinister space and nostalgic synth melodies.

    The album reveals the artist's Scottish roots, viewed at a hazy distance from his Berlin home - a series of memories of Glasgow's experimental psychedelic underground, its DIY rock scene and defiant club hedonism.

    These genre relationships are blurred and at times they contrast with audible brutality; the result is a hybrid, sculptured way of rendering music - minimal specifics, maximum emotions.

    Tracklisting:
    2LP:
    Side A:
    1. BCCCC
    2. Serra
    3. Windows 95
    4. Ambien Rave

    Side B:
    1. Alternate Histories (ft. Kuedo)
    2. Moonchord Supermagic
    3. 800 Super NYC
    4. XY Autostream

    Side C:
    1. Fifth Fortress
    2. VZJD
    3. Entering The Zone
    4. Center Tech

    Side D:
    1. Spirits
    2. Contact
    3. Dreamdream

    CD:
    01. BCCCC
    02. Serra
    03. Windows 95
    04. Ambien Rave
    05. Alternate Histories (ft. Kuedo)
    06. Moonchord Supermagic
    07. 800 Super NYC
    08. XY Autostream
    09. Fifth Fortress
    10. VZJD
    11. Entering The Zone
    12. Center Tech
    13. Spirits
    14. Contact
    15. Dreamdream
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  • Ekoplekz 'Bioprodukt' - Cargo Records UK

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    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.

    2LP
    Side A:
    1. Elevation
    2. Consequences

    Side B:
    1. Expedition
    2. Acrid Acid
    3. Slipstream

    Side C:
    1. Calypzoid
    2. Transience
    3. Descent

    Side D:
    1. Low X-Over
    2. Denier Daze

    CD:
    1. Elevation
    2. Consequences
    3. Expedition
    4. Acrid Acid
    5. Slipstream
    6. Calypzoid
    7. Transience
    8. Descent
    9. Low X-Over
    10. Denier Daze
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  • Mr. Mitch 'Devout' - Cargo Records UK

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    It's about love, loyalty, family and the start and end of relationships, with an overarching theme about becoming a father, all delivered with warmth and emotion.

    Miles even sings and so does his eldest son Milo on one track. About the theme he says, 'we all know the stereotype of the black dad with multiple children from multiple partners who is absent from the child's life, we see it consistently in popular culture. I want to champion the alternative, which to me is just normal.' As well as being a producer Miles is the co-founder of the Boxed nights, which have been a tight incubator of a music scene dedicated in the main to re-thinking and expanding what grime means, especially instrumental grime.

    Mitch has always taken it further than most in a unique direction, defining his music led by his own personality rather than deferring to a scene consensus. An early example was his development of peace edits'in response to the aggressive war dubs'craze amongst other grime producers, around the time of his first album.

    Production-wise Mr. Mitch has always been a minimalist at heart, pushing detailed sound and melody around in space, but on Devout everything is more ambitious, emotive and polished, taking his music in an epic and well defined pop direction, albeit from a sideways angle, re-imagining what an album by an underground producer can be. Devout's cast of male and female allies, MC's and singers each deliver songs that cast perspective around the album's theme.

    Mr. Mitch sets the scene with the graceful honesty of the piano led intro, then P Money drops a heartfelt and emotional lyric about the charge of love and responsibility experienced on becoming a dad. Denai Moore's song Fate'is open about being sceptical in allowing yourself to fall for someone at the start of a relationship, while Palmistry's track VPN'explores his feelings after separation.

    The warm centre of Devout'is My Life's heart-tugging Sakamoto-like melody and bent keys, with Miles gently intoning 'It's yours' and final song Oscar'tells a newborn his brother will be an elder brother. Devout is a beautiful, grown-up pop record with its foundation in grime.

    Tracklisting:
    2LP

    Side A:
    1. Intro (ft. Milo and Oscar)
    2. Priority (ft. P Money)
    3. Lost Touch (ft. Duval Timothy)

    Side B:
    1. Fate (ft. Denai Moore)
    2. If I Wanted
    3. VPN (ft. Palmistry)

    Side C:
    1. My Life
    2. Pleasure (ft. Py)
    3. Honor Oak

    Side D:
    1. Our Love
    2. Black Tide
    3. Oscar

    CD:
    1. Intro (ft. Milo and Oscar)
    2. Priority (ft. P Money)
    3. Lost Touch (ft. Duval Timothy)
    4. Fate (ft. Denai Moore)
    5. If I Wanted
    6. VPN (ft. Palmistry)
    7. My Life
    8. Pleasure (ft. Py)
    9. Honor Oak
    10. Our Love
    11. Black Tide
    12. Oscar
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  • Jlin 'Black Origami' - Cargo Records UK

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    Planet Mu are very excited to announce Jlin's long awaited second album 'Black Origami'.

    A percussion-led tour de force, it's a creation that seals her reputation as a unique producer with an exceptional ability to make riveting rhythmic music. 'Black Origami' is driven by a deep creative thirst which she describes as 'this driving feeling that I wanted to do something different, something that challenged me to my core.

    Black Origami for me, comes from letting go creatively, creating with no boundaries. The simple definition of origami is the art of folding and constructing paper into a beautiful, yet complex design. Composing music for me is like origami, only I'm replacing paper with sound. I chose to title the album "Black Origami" because like "Dark Energy" I still create from the beauty of darkness and blackness.

    The willingness to go into the hardest places within myself to create for me means that I can touch the Infinity.'  Spirituality and movement are both at the core of 'Black Origami', inspired largely by her ongoing collaborations with Indian dancer/movement artist Avril Stormy Unger whom she met and collaborated with at her debut performance for the Unsound festival - 'There is a fine line between me entertaining a person and my spirituality. Avril, who collaborates with me by means of dance, feels the exact same way. Movement played a great role in Black Origami.

    The track "Carbon 7" is very inspired by the way Avril moves and dances. Our rhythms are so in sync at times it kind of scares us. When there is something I can't quite figure out when it comes to my production, it's like she senses it. Her response to me is always "You'll figure it out". Once I figure it out it's like time and space no longer exist.'

    Similar time shifting/folding/disrupting effects can be heard throughout the record - especially on 'Holy Child' an unlikely collaboration with minimalist legend William Basinski. She also collaborates again with Holly Herndon on '1%', while Halcyon Veil producer Fawkes' voice is on 'Calcination' and Cape Town rapper Dope Saint Jude provides vocals for 'Never Created, Never Destroyed'.

    Jlin will be touring extensively this year and is currently lining up appearances including Sonar festival. Later this year she will be collaborating in London with acclaimed UK choreographer Wayne McGregor who played her music recently on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs and described her music as 'quite rare and so exciting".

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Black Origami
    2. Enigma
    3. Kyanite

    Side B:
    1. Holy Child
    2. Nyakinyua Rise
    3. Hatshepsut

    Side C:
    1. Calcination
    2. Carbon 7 (161)
    3. Nandi

    Side D:
    1. 1%
    2. Never Created, Never Destroyed
    3. Challenge (To Be Continued)

    CD:
    1. Black Origami
    2. Enigma
    3. Kyanite
    4. Holy Child
    5. Nyakinyua Rise
    6. Hatshepsut
    7. Calcination
    8. Carbon 7 (161)
    9. Nandi
    10. 1%
    11. Never Created, Never Destroyed
    12. Challenge (To Be Continued)
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  • Teengirl Fantasy '8am' - Cargo Records UK

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    Teengirl Fantasy, the duo of Logan Takahashi and Nick Weiss, return with 8AM', their first full-length since 2012's Tracer'. 8AM'is music that replicates that headspace when you've seen the sun come up, but sleep is still way off. It's music of the in-between time, between tonight and tomorrow, when you're not ready to let the feeling of right here and right now go.

    Your body is spent, but your spirit holds on to the memory. A new energy or a different route. The album takes the dream-state of Teengirl Fantasy's 2010 album 7AM'deep into the next day, stretching ambient themes in multiple directions, scattering with the morning light.

    8AM'is Teengirl Fantasy's most introspective and abstracted work so far. It still pulses with the muscle memory of house and disco, slow-motion sub bass, chiming synth melodies, and the airy, perfumed chords of early techno, but takes a line of flight away from songs, immersing the listener in a gently invigorating space.

    Pieced together from evocative fragments and longer beat-driven tracks, the music is melodic and dreamy, yet sharp and clear. The only vocal comes from Khalif Jones (f.k.a. Le1f) who draws the album back from its gentle turbulence into a time and place on 'Seeds'.

    8AM'places the listener in a chilled delirium; one saturated with light, like when the glare from the sun's too bright but you can't stop squinting at it.

    Tracklisting:
    2LP
    Side A:
    1. Glare
    2. Crash Soft
    3. Telepaths
    4. We Out
    5. It was already light out
    6. Where I Went
    7. All of the Time

    Side B:
    8 Star-rise
    9 Don't
    10 Seeds (ft. Khalif Jones)
    11 En Route
    12 Wet Eyes and Exhilaration

    CD:
    1. Glare
    2. Crash Soft
    3. Telepaths
    4. We Out
    5. It was already light out
    6. Where I Went
    7. All of the Time
    8. Star-rise
    9. Don't
    10. Seeds (ft. Khalif Jones)
    11. En Route
    12. Wet Eyes and Exhilaration
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  • Herva 'Hyper Flux' - Cargo Records UK

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    Few artists have the ability to totally seduce over a few spins like Italy's Herva.

    What may seem messy at first listen starts to fall into sharper definition and Hyper Flux'makes a very strong case for being his most seductive and mature record yet. The album has dismantled the broken beats of his early records and drifts, dives and shivers, its beats blended into the haze, everything approached from unusual angles with none of the music sounding entirely digital as it smudges between manipulated live instrumentation and field recordings coupled with synthesis and space - there's a warm heart at the centre of this music. Of making the album he says 'I challenged myself to play real instruments. I have a lot of guitars and weird acoustic instruments at my home and also my Dad's.

    He's primarily a guitarist and an inventor of instruments, so I have lots of those. Anyway I'm not a pro but I'm able to play drums quite well and I'm not that bad on guitars and bass too, but the weirdo instruments are the best, you are even more free to reinvent how to play them since no one else knows how to.'

    The deep ambience of the albums opener Esotic Energy'melts into the shivering 4/4 pulses of Jitter'. Nasty MF'pits a sludgy house beat against rough vocal samples whose aggression is disarmed by bell-like melodies, matching one earthiness for another.

    Rule The Sun'melts pattering drums and distorted chords with distant piano, while 'Multicone'takes things down with relaxing undulating chords and clicks and cuts.

    The centrepiece of the album is the space cruise of Lly Spirals'which sounds like early 80s boogie blasted into the stratosphere. Things start to get weird with Solar Xub's drifting jazz, punctuated with scratchy beats and noise.

    Cops Twerk'is a rattling piece of uptempo techno with flickering rave chords and a vocal that sounds like police radio whereas Peach'is a bristling piece of ambient house, all reverbed hits and reversed stabs over a scuttling broken drum kit.

    Dedicated'featuring the vocals of Mar G. balances loose chords and a reversed break against her plaintive, striking vocal.

    Hyper Flux finishes the way it started, with the distorted chords of Zykmed', echoing dust and hiss played out over a gentle nostalgic melody.

    2LP
    Side A:
    1. Esotic Energy
    2. Jitter
    3. Nasty MF

    Side B:
    1. Rule The Sun
    2. Multicone
    3. Lly Spirals

    Side C:
    1. Solar Xub
    2. Meta Wave
    3. Cops Twerk

    Side D:
    1. Peach
    2. Dedicated (ft. Mar G)
    3. Zykmed

    CD:
    1. Esotic Energy
    2. Jitter
    3. Nasty MF
    4. Rule The Sun
    5. Multicone
    6. Lly Spirals
    7. Solar Xub
    8. Meta Wave
    9. Cops Twerk
    10. Peach
    11. Dedicated (ft. Mar G)
    12. Zykmed
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  • Jlin 'Dark Lotus' - Cargo Records UK

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    Jlin returns with the first fruits of her new work since last years Free Fall'EP. 'Dark Lotus'is a transition between 'Dark Energy', her debut album, and her forthcoming Black Origami'full-length.

    A-side 'The Return of the Blvck Rxbbit (ft. Avril Stormy Unger)'is the more traditional of the two tracks, starting off proceedings with a constantly switching rhythmic structure and a stop-start sweeping hoover stab panning between the speakers, descending bleeps and Avril's vocals cut into shapes and pushed through effects.

    B-side Nyakinyua Rise'races headlong into uncharted territory, with a fierce barrage of djembe drums over pounding bass, punchy war cries and jubilant uluations that paint a tension between hot aggression and weightless ecstasy.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    The Escape Of The Blvck Rxbbit (ft. Avril Stormy Unger)]

    Side B:
    Nyakinyua Rise
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