µ-Ziq – Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995)

Label: Planet Mu
Catalog#: IQ300
Release date: 25-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 311 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Electronic

Tracklist:
Somerset Avenue Tracks Vol. 1

A1 Jewel Tea
A2 Vinxel
A3 Trail Quest
B1 Toy Gun #2
B2 Spooky Tooth
B3 Air
C1 Pollux
C2 Str06
C3 Diala
D1 Airto
D2 Johnson’s Q-Fab
D3 Green Lanes

Somerset Avenue Tracks Vol. 2

1 Toss
2 Boistron
3 Preero
4 Victor’s March
5 Ischjgt Mmp
6 Billy Bellsium
7 Boilig
8 Sinc
9 Poc
10 Ropt
11 Oh
12 Melodion

Edition of 300. Spot-gloss gatefold jacket with double wide spine. Includes download code redeemable for the 12-track Volume. 2** Celebrating 20 years of influential operations, Mike Paradinas marks Planet Mu’s 300th release with a collection of unheard µ-Ziq dating to the early ’90s. This was arguably his most cherished era of productions, hailing from a time when he, alongside the ranks of The Black Dog, AFX, and Autechre, among others, were realigning ambient techno and electronica along new, proggier vectors equally inspired by Hip Hop, jungle and new age composition. Compiled by his wife and partner in Heterotic, Lara Rix-Martin, ‘Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995)’ traverses 12 tracks taking in Mike’s signature, sweet-toothed melodies on the Roedelius-like ‘Air’ and the gorgeous P.L.U.R techno orchestrations of ‘Vinxel’, or to a bluer degree in the Suzanne Ciani-esque ‘Pollux’, beside the ‘Tango & Vectif’-era synths of ‘Diala’, contrasting with the hyper cut-up breakbeats of ‘Airto’ from ’95, and finishing at two poignant moments from his ’92 Peel Session, ‘Johnson’s Q-Fab’ and ‘Green Lanes’. It’s a lovely dose of niceness for all the nostalgia-bots…