10 key Planet Mu releases
Mike Paradinas picks out the records that changed the game
Exciting news landed this week that Planet Mu are re-releasing Aphex Twin and Mike Paradinas' 1996 collaborative album 'Expert Knob Twiddlers' with some added exclusives.
For over 20 years Planet Mu has been releasing forward-thinking and game-changing records, with 'Expert Knob Twiddlers' marking one example from that rich archive. The imprint was profiled in our Label Focus magazine feature last year, for which bossman Mike Paradinas picked out 10 key releases from Planet Mu's vaults.
Check out his picks below.
1 REMARC ‘SOUND MURDERER’
“Our first retrospective and the first time I released work by one of my heroes”
2 VENETIAN SNARES ‘ROSSZ CSILLAG ALATT SZÜLETETT’
“It just kept selling and selling”
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”
