1977, by µ-Ziq

1977

by µ-Ziq

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Brad Rose This album was featured on the May 30, 2023 episode of Foxy Digitalis Daily: foxydigitalis.zone/2023/05/30/foxy-digitalis-daily-5-30-23-%c2%b5-ziq/ Favorite track: 1977 (ft. Meemo Comma).

Ihlcare just in awe. absolutely beautiful and amazing. astonishing music. loving this album Favorite track: Lime Aero.

really Hour long mix of Lime Aero please (which already sounds like a love letter to AFX’s Tha). I’ve listened to this album almost everyday since it came out and still keep finding new corridors of awe. Total masterpiece.

Star_Aces86 This album is quite nice! Has the ambient feel throughout some of the tracks with nice blend of songs that made it exciting to listen especially the last song of the album Froglets. I throughly enjoyed this album after I listened to it. It truly made my birthday a bright spot that I say thank you very much! Great job! Favorite track: Froglets.

Stuart Chalmers Superb, some of his best material to date.

doktorwer this is amazing and I love it

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1.	4am 04:13	buy track
2.	Éire 06:22	buy track
3.	Allegro 04:33	buy track
4.	Houzz 13 05:03	buy track
5.	Belt & Carpet 03:58	buy track
6.	Marmite 06:27	buy track
7.	Asda 02:48	buy track
8.	1977 (ft. Meemo Comma) 05:36	buy track
9.	Xolbe 3 05:59	buy track
10.	Burnt Orange 03:18	buy track
11.	Lime Aero 04:31	buy track
12.	Reference Gravy 02:34	buy track
13.	Mesolithic Jungle 04:16	buy track
14.	Pillowy 03:08	buy track
15.	Froglets 04:58	buy track

about

When we established Balmat in 2021, neither of us could have imagined that within two years, we’d be putting out an album by one of our musical heroes: Mike Paradinas, aka µ-Ziq. The British producer has been an inspiration to label co-founders Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne since the 1990s. In fact, his album-length remix project The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq was one of the very first pieces of electronic music that Philip bought, way back in 1994. To have the opportunity to release his music now feels like a real full-circle moment.

Paradinas, of course, needs no introduction. Under a slew of aliases, chief among them µ-Ziq, the British artist revolutionized leftfield electronic music in the 1990s—coincidentally, this year marks the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Tango N’ Vectif, for his friend and sometime collaborator Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label—and his label Planet Mu has built up a formidable catalog of visionary, forward-looking records, mapping virtually every corner of the electronic spectrum. With 1977, he turns the clock backward in a sense, and not just with the album’s title: Rooted in classic ambient and electronic sounds, these 15 tracks evoke the anything-goes spirit of the early ’90s, before the tools and tropes had calcified into cut-and-dried styles.

There’s no shortage of familiar sounds on 1977. There are echoes of raves and chillout rooms and transmissions from the fringes of techno; there are detuned synths and glistening reverb tails and, above all, gauzy vox pads, the eerie glue that holds it all together. The title, he says, is meant to invoke a general sense of nostalgia, bookmarking a year in his boyhood when he became more self-aware. More than anything, 1977 sounds like µ-Ziq distilled: Stripped of his signature breakbeats and customary chaos, Paradinas’ first-ever strictly (well, mostly) ambient album presents the essence of his music in a whole new light.

Along the way Paradinas touches on dark-ambient drones (“Marmite”), horror-film themes (“Belt & Carpet”), jungle breaks (“Mesolithic Jungle”), and even house music (“Houzz 13”), which marks the first bona fide dance-floor moment on Balmat to date). Yet the album never—to our ears, anyway—feels expressly retro. Rather, Paradinas plucks timeless sounds out of the ether and gives them a gentle tap, spinning them into unexpected new orbits. At times, 1977 feels like an experience of extended déjà vu: When we first listened to it, we had the sense that we already knew this music. It was as though we had heard it years ago, perhaps on a battered cassette tape lent to us by a friend, and been searching for it ever since. We hope you feel the same.

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released April 7, 2023

Written, produced and performed by Mike Paradinas.
Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Cover artwork by José Quintanar.
Designed by Basora.
Published by Planet Mu Publishing

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