Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995), by µ-Ziq

Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995)

by µ-Ziq

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Subterranean Entrance The true essence of the mu-ziq sound when I first discovered his work in the early mid 90’s. Pure experimental idm. The golden days.

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1.	Jewel Tea 04:37	buy track
2.	Vinxel 07:18	buy track
3.	Trail Quest 05:58	buy track
4.	Toy Gun #2 04:41	buy track
5.	Spooky Tooth 06:21	buy track
6.	Air 06:27	buy track
7.	Pollux 03:36	buy track
8.	Str06 05:29	buy track
9.	Diala 05:06	buy track
10.	Airto 07:33	buy track
11.	Johnson's Q-Fab 07:07	buy track
12.	Green Lanes 04:50	buy track
13.	Toss 05:02	buy track
14.	Boistron 03:44	buy track
15.	Preero 07:52	buy track
16.	Victor's March 05:23	buy track
17.	Ischjgt Mmp 03:44	buy track
18.	Billy Bellsium 06:03	buy track
19.	Boilig 05:10	buy track
20.	Sinc 07:17	buy track
21.	Poc 04:29	buy track
22.	Ropt 04:32	buy track
23.	Oh 06:43	buy track
24.	Melodion 07:18	buy track

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To celebrate 20 years of µ-Ziq, and Planet Mu's 300th release, Mike Paradinas, owner of Planet Mu has prepared this carefully compiled, limited edition album charting his unreleased productions from the start of his career in the early nineties. Curated by his wife and partner in the band Heterotic, Lara Rix-Martin, the twelve tracks on this double album run the gamut of his various styles from the placid, evocative ambient rhodes of 'Air' to the syncopated industrial techno of 'Toy Gun #2' and lots more inbetween.

The album opens with the woozy yet elegant counterpoint of 1993's 'Jewel Tea' which swiftly descends into distorted HR-16 drum machine chaos. 'Vinxel' switches to a more stately mood with it's woodblock bassline and measured 4/4 pulse keeping pace with one of those patent µ-Ziq melodies you'd swear you've heard somewhere before. Both 'Trail Quest' and 'Spooky Tooth' continue in this melodic vein until the aforementioned 'Air' slows it all down with a much needed breather.

The second half of the album goes into darker territory with the detuned piano of 'Str06' duelling it out with a low-slung hip hop beat. 'Diala' sustains the reverb drenched mood while adding a sweeter edge as a synth line makes an appearance straight out of his 1993 album Tango N'Vectif. 1995's 'Airto' brings some Marimba pierced, dark, cut-up jungle and the album starts to approaching the final stretch with the Peel Session tracks 'Johnson's Q-Fab' and the classic 'Green Lanes'.

The second disc comprises a further 12 tracks from the µ-Ziq DAT archive.

Dedicated to Neil Jones R.I.P.

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released February 25, 2013

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