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This shit is madness.

Nice ambient track mike

It's growing on me fast, been on repeat these past days!

Great album, even if it sounds a bit more samey than his other albums. I've been big into his music again these past weeks. This'll be in rotation for a while

That sounds great

This shit is fucking awesome.

I'd say rival dealer and truant / rough sleeper are his best works so don't stop!

Love to have him back on Tresor. The trilogy he released on the label in the 90's, and especially Force + Form, were insanely good. Been getting back into them a lot recently. Those albums bang incredibly hard and I feel like this label fits his stuff the best.

Nice single, never heard of the man but this track is sounding promising. Maybe I'll dive into his discog.

Never liked datf punk

Out april 7th. Pre-order: https://nathanfake.com/album/crystal-vision Single:

Subcultures is a banger! So much better than the 'techno' that gets played at these festivals/ parties the tiktok youngsters go to these days.

This sounds great!

Apparently he released another album yesterday.

Some of them are still waiting for the drop to this day.

Why is this actually pretty good

Out april 7th. Pre-order: https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/1977 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.

Nice track! So far im still excited

Not a live act guy usually but it's pretty cool to see some activity from phex.

I'm not into this at all, i don't know if this'll grow on me. I've never really been an orbital guy to begin with.

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