mu-Ziq Planet Mu Listening Club

[Rubin Farr]

I used to just listen to the AFX track relentlessly

[perunamuusi]

Switch Hardflip by Elton Fastbrook is the best track ever released on planet mu

[Guest]

Great comp. Elton Fastbrook is deffo a fav.

 

The original Point Blank - Eternally is one of my fav Jungle records of all time. Not a fan of the Mike P remix. Probably the only track on the comp I'll skip every time.

[KovalainenFanBoy]

My favs would be the Animals On Wheels track, Jega's and Fastbrook's. Always liked this album, flows really well for a compilation. Mike even managed to make Mr. Angry slightly less annoying for this.

 

Also, never bothered looking up who these artists are, didn't know this comp was so Spymania heavy

[YangYing]

Switch Hardflip by Elton Fastbrook is the best track ever released on planet mu

I wonder.. was it made before or after hasty boom alert? they both feel like parallell ideas in a sense to me, just curious..

 

great album, lovely track.

[KovalainenFanBoy]

according to the 20th anniv. book, this 'album [made out] off dodgy cassettes' was mixed in a 'ridiculously posh studio' with 'U2 literally in the next room'

[KovalainenFanBoy]

ZIQ001
Jega
Type Xer0
Released 01-06-1998

Planet Mu site: https://planet.mu/releases/type-xer0/
Planet Mu Store: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/68996-jega-type-xer0-ep
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6KRuJo7AqTtBk5haI3RgOk?si=2xFSWlWfQtqM7HEP_My7XQ

ZIQ002
Jega
Spectrum
Released 06-07-1998

Planet Mu site: https://planet.mu/releases/spectrum/
Planet Mu Store: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/68971-jega-spectrum
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7IBOfirxOAdTmxxiydEWso?si=DOMlqQXhSEiz2OoQOawlWQ

About the album(s):

Type Xer0
However ugly the term, drill’n’bass still sounds perfect for Dylan “Jega” Nathan and hisjarringly abstract machine-gun beat collages. Sometimes his ultra-precise work is easier to appreciate as engineering rather than music, but here he’s fired up and on cracking form. Taken from his imminent “Spectrum” album, “Pitbull” is a layered confection of elegant cinematic melody, bruising hip-hop breaks and sense-shredding metallic junglism. The stealthy, spring-loaded clatter of “Carbon 60” seems to be fashioned out of ulta-light alloy, while “Intron V” and “Naem” are Aphex-tinged collisions of randomised rhythm and kindergarten melody. It no doubt all makes perfect sense to Nathan, but it remains disturbingly beautiful to untuned ears.
Spectrum
Weather Report and Aphex Twin. Jean-Michael Jarre and Atari Teenage Riot. Not names I’d ordinarily associate, but in a few instances, Jega manages to bring these un-conceived pairings to mind. Jega, aka Dylan Nathan, is a protégé of Mike Paradinas, and according to British Press is a pioneer of the aptly-titled “drill ‘n’ bass” scene. “Red Mullet” has a jazzy swing to it that belies the electronic analog sounds powering the song. The subsequent “Nia” could easily pass for an Aphex Twin remix. “Gemini” cools down some burning jungle with a smoke-colored spy bassline and sly organ stabs. Some really interesting music here.

Tracklist:

Type Xer0
1. Pitbull - 5:11
2. Carbon 60 - 5:25
3. Intron.v - 5:47
4. Naem - 5:20
Spectrum
1. Phalanx - 5:10
2. Kid Sista - 3:36
3. Musical Chairz - 3:50
4. Red Mullet - 4:55
5. Nia - 6:38
6. DMC - 8:01
7. Brad's Garden Maintenance - 4:40
8. German - 2:26
9. Intron.IX - 5:46
10. Mai - 3:13
11. Pitbull - 5:10
12. Gemini - 5:03
13. Ephem - 3:26
14. Bikini Ski Boat - 2:51
15. Manic Minor - 3:30

[Extralife]

These have aged really well, actually. Still listen on the regular (w/1995)

[Hugh Mughnus]

Spectrum still gets heavy rotation around here. Red Mullet is prob my fav track off it!

 

I don't seem to have Type XerO for some reason =/

[Extralife]

Honestly prefer Jega’s stuff from this era to his later albums.

[Hugh Mughnus]

I think Variance (Unreleased) had some good moments. Prefer it to the official release tbh. 

 

But agreed, overall I think his older stuff has aged better.

[auxien]

So where does one hear the Mealtime comp? Spotify and Bandcamp don't seem to have it...I'm guessing a YouTube playlist? I ain't seeking no souls here either so sorry

[YangYing]

So where does one hear the Mealtime comp? Spotify and Bandcamp don't seem to have it...I'm guessing a YouTube playlist? I ain't seeking no souls here either so sorry

I mean.. wasn't that what ss was for in the first place... (getting hold of music u couldn't get elsewhere)

[Guest]

I think Variance (Unreleased) had some good moments. Prefer it to the official release tbh

Never listened to the unreleased version. Are there decent quality rips available?

[KovalainenFanBoy]

So where does one hear the Mealtime comp? Spotify and Bandcamp don't seem to have it...I'm guessing a YouTube playlist? I ain't seeking no souls here either so sorry

there's no way to 'legally' download or stream the comp besides buying a second hand CD afaik

[Hugh Mughnus]

 

I think Variance (Unreleased) had some good moments. Prefer it to the official release tbh

Never listened to the unreleased version. Are there decent quality rips available?

 

 

I think so, yes. 

 

Not sure the rules on sharing something like that here since it's literally not available for purchase anywhere?

 

lol looks like I posted the same thing back in 2014 in the Variance thread

 

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Posted 24 February 2014 - 07:33 PM

I almost prefer the "unreleased" version of variance that leaked years before the official release."

[BaggerMcGuirk]

Spectrum is easily my favorite Jega record.  I never really got into the later stuff, but I really should go back and give 1995 another try.

[Extralife]

Spectrum is easily my favorite Jega record. I never really got into the later stuff, but I really should go back and give 1995 another try.

Love 1995.

[Guest]

 

 

I think Variance (Unreleased) had some good moments. Prefer it to the official release tbh

Never listened to the unreleased version. Are there decent quality rips available?

I think so, yes.

 

Not sure the rules on sharing something like that here since it's literally not available for purchase anywhere?

 

lol looks like I posted the same thing back in 2014 in the Variance thread

 

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Posted 24 February 2014 - 07:33 PM

I almost prefer the "unreleased" version of variance that leaked years before the official release."

Right. I don’t use ss or anything like that so never come across it. Might know someone who has it so will have a dig.

[Hugh Mughnus]

 

[KovalainenFanBoy]

I can see why mike p would be so keen to release this, very muziq-esque album in some ways, very of its time. Some of the more dnb tracks I can see myself coming back to, but I doubt I'll be playing the album front to back again anytime soon. I quite liked the Skam EPs and 1995 though, more so than this album, cant pinpoint why. It's a different mood I guess.

[KovalainenFanBoy]

also I really like the architecture-ish artwork on the skam releases and the mecha imagery on type xer0

[KovalainenFanBoy]

ZIQ005
Slag Boom Van Loon
Slag Boom Van Loon
Released 26-10-1998

Planet Mu site: https://planet.mu/releases/slag-boom-van-loon-album/
Planet Mu Store: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/68783-slag-boom-van-loon-slag-boom-van-loon
Bandcamp: https://slagboomvanloon.bandcamp.com/album/slag-boom-van-loon
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3PDDAGslkx6wj6T5Fdgl3w?si=Or9KfdOMTEiqXb_BzRfQuA

ZIQ007
Slag Boom Van Loon
So Soon
Released 21-05-2001

Planet Mu site: https://planet.mu/releases/so-soon/
Planet Mu Store: https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/68917-slag-boom-van-loon-so-soon
Bandcamp: https://slagboomvanloon.bandcamp.com/album/so-soon
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6lIoTCMQApX6cDYexMG1ua?si=zjeIhBXLTrS7q6ZD3M64xw

About the album(s):

Slag Boom Van Loon
One might have expected this team-up between electronic prankster Mike “Mu-ziq” Paradinas and breakbeat convert Jochem “Speedy J” Paap to end in abject failure. After all, a similar collaboration between Paradinas and like-minded experimentalist Richard D. James produced little inspiration but plenty of tiresome pastiche. Instead of studio sniggering or art-school excess, though, “Slag Boom Van Loon” offers us 11 compositions that consistently balance playfulness with gravity, innovation with structure. Serene washes of melody float atop fidgety, yet subdued rhythms. Ambient, world music and musique concrete exert equal influences, yet the results sound undeniably singular. It’s quite an old trick to let crunchy beats play off pretty synths, but here the keyboards unsettle just as often as the sampled and sliced-up “percussion.” On “SPC-CH-PN,” a mournful piano loop ambles around a dusky cyber-cafe while a distant horn figure slowly morphs into a human groan. “Butch” translates the irregular breakbeats of post-dancefloor jungle into dinky little Casio and kazoo sounds – cash registers conversing quietly in the night. The pinball-machine funk of “Broccoli,” the pastoral acid of “Poppy Seed” and the fractured pomp and circumstance of “Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium” – all suggest glorious accidents set in motion by a sorcerer’s apprentice. Really, they’re the work of two accomplished tinkerers whose noisy sides cancelled each other out, leaving only hypnotic reverie.
So Soon
In 1998, two unlikely allies, Mike Paradinas (aka Mu-Ziq) and Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) recorded a self-titled record under the name Slag Boom Van Loon. This phrase was not exactly loaded with meaning, but the album contained some highly unorthodox analog sounds, from the sitar-heavy ‘Light of India’ to the slippery, 3/4 tempo of ‘Broccoli’. Three years later, Paradinas unearthed the source material and invited a range of electronic underground celebrities to re-work the album from top to bottom. And the group has done his bidding. Many “IDM” operatives will visit this CD merely for the fact that it contains two remixes by Boards of Canada. The CD opens with the BOC mix of “Poppy Seed,” which sees the aforementioned Warp artists applying their pastoral effects: slow, bubbling basslines and the bucolic sounds of the British countryside. Planet Mu artist Leafcutter John does an expert job hacking up the originally peaceful ‘Broccoli’. In fact, he mimics the sound of a dozen chefs chopping vegetables and feeding them into the Cuisinart. Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet (whose new album is due this week) applies his crisp, live drumming sounds to the otherwise calm ‘Sutedja,’ which becomes more dynamic and melodic in his able hands. The most unsettling, and satisfying piece, here is Coil’s retooling of the nine-minute ‘Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium.’ A tiny, repeating chord sequence which anchors the track to the earth’s surface while Coil scrape sheets of aluminum over the surface of the mix and drive high frequency settings to the level of a dog whistle. A circular bassline begins to emerge halfway through, but it’s contained by Coil’s nearly human shrieks. This is quite simply a piece of music you cannot ignore.
About the artist:
I met Jochem Paap (aka Speedy J) at a rave in Scotland in late ’94 and we have been firm friends ever since. I never really thought about collaborating with him until he suggested it in early ’97. I had already remixed his “Ni Go Snix”, his original version is still one of my favourite tracks, and had heard what was to become “Public Energy No 1”. So I accepted his invitation and flew to Rotterdam for a couple of weeks in November 1997. As you can hear (mp3 alert!) the results were not what you would expect from a meeting of the worlds foremost abrasive techno practicioners. The place where we worked well together was altogether more ambient and flowing… like, new age man. His studio was fucking great though, it looked like the bridge in Star Trek (60’s version) and had all the old analogue synths so you can hear a lot of the Roland System 100, SH-101 and EMS Synthi on this album. The idea of a remix album came soon after the original was released. Unfortunately it has taken over 2 years to get it all together but I guarantee it was worth the wait. Those who have heard “So Soon” say it is some of the most beautiful rewarding electronica (it’s ok to use that term in the UK btw) they have heard.

Tracklist:

Slag Boom Van Loon
1. Light Of India - 9:25
2. Spc-Ch-Pn - 4:57
3. Casual - 8:17
4. Butch - 3:46
5. Broccoli - 3:33
6. Bromtollen - 1:34
7. Poppy Seed - 5:20
8. Mooshy - 2:05
9. Sutedja - 4:42
10. Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium - 10:27
11. Pedals - 4:20
12. Moon Base Alpha - 4:13
So Soon
1. Poppy Seed (Boards Of Canada Remix) - 6:55
2. Spc-ch-pn (µ-Ziq Remix) - 4:08
3. Broccoli (Leafcutter John Remix)
4. Butch (Tipper Remix) - 6:05
5. Pedals (Horse Opera Remix) - 4:09
6. Sutedja (Four Tet Remix) - 8:04
7. Casual (Pole Remix) - 7:29
8. Moon Base Alpha (Matmos Remix) - 4:39
9. Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium (Coil Remix) - 9:42
10. Poppy Seed (Reprise) (Boards Of Canada Remix) - 3:02
11. Light Of India (Múm Remix) - 3:41
12. Butch (Speedy J Remix) - 4:56 (from the µ20 comp)

didn't leave much time for jega but you're free to comment on mealtime, jega or whatever the fuck you want to talk about
these 2 will be up til next monday
happy mu year

[Extralife]

Light of India...one of my favorite electronic songs ever.

[KovalainenFanBoy]

from what little speedy j i've listened to I wasn't expecting at all for this album to be so sparse and (relatively) subdued. Really liked it, from start to finish. The SAWII-esque ambient/drone elements are all so well done

havent paid much attention to the remix album but on first listen only the Pole and ziq remixes stood out to me. The rest were nice enough though