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µ-Ziq Gets Back to the Bangers with "Hyper Daddy"

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PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2024

Free your mind from the pretentiousness of "IDM" and embrace the "weird bangers" of 'Grush,' Mike Paradinas's forthcoming album as µ-Ziq...

Mike Paradinas Treats µ-Ziq's 'Lunatic Harness' to 25th Anniversary Edition

PUBLISHED May 5, 2022

Mike Paradinas will not only release a new album as µ-Ziq next month, but will also celebrate 25 years of Lunatic Harness, his fourth album...

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Challenge Me Foolish

PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2018

In 1999, Mike Paradinas (aka µ-Ziq) followed up his genre-defining opus, Lunatic Harness, with the coolly received Royal Astronomy, an albu...

Mike Paradinas Unearths "Lost" µ-Ziq Album 'Challenge Me Foolish'

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2018

While we haven't had a proper µ-Ziq LP in ages, IDM hero Mike Paradinas is once again brushing off a "lost album." The record is titled Ch...

Aphex Twin and µ-Ziq Treat 'Expert Knob Twiddlers' to Expanded Reissue

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2016

Aphex Twin (a.k.a. Richard D. James) and µ-Ziq (a.k.a. Mike Paradinas) came together in 1996 to release Expert Knob Twiddlers, a collaborat...

µ-ziq Announces 'Rediffusion' EP

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2014

Considering the vast, diverse output of his Planet Mu imprint, we're frankly surprised that electronic musician Mike Paradinas finds the ti...

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Somerset Avenue Tracks (1992-1995)

PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2013

Released a week after his return-to-form eighth solo LP, Chewed Corners, and just months after Love & Devotion, by Heterotic (a superb coll...

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Chewed Corners

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2013

Planet Mu is one of the most forward-thinking record labels operating right now, championing burgeoning new sounds and scenes from across t...