10 key Planet Mu releases
Mike Paradinas picks out the records that changed the game
3 VEX’D ‘DEGENERATE’
“One of the first full-length dubstep albums and the point at which everyone realised that the concept works”
4 MARY ANNE HOBBS ‘WARRIOR DUBZ’
“A snapshot of the UK scene in 2006. This was massive critically and commercially”
5 ‘BANGS & WORKS VOL 1’
“Footwork was the most exciting music since dubstep for me”
6 MACHINEDRUM ‘ROOM(S)’
“Machinedrum is so strong melodically that he always keeps his own sound”
7 KUEDO ‘SEVERANT’
“A lovely, emotional album with a great
arc;it works as Kuedo’s personality is in the music”
8 JOHN WIZARDS ‘JOHN WIZARDS’
“This was a key release as it presented a different side of Planet Mu”
9 MR MITCH ‘PARALLEL MEMORIES’
“His sound is so interesting that when I got the demo it was a no-brainer”
10 JLIN ‘DARK ENERGY’
“It sounds completely modern and alien,
and that’s what Planet Mu records is about”
