The Hove, UK producer and Planet Mu label head Mike Paradinas is about to hit us with another album of hyperactive IDM under the µ-Ziq alias. Grush is dropping in June, and its lead single “Hyper Daddy” lives up to its name. Busily skittering programmed drums and a cacophony of rippling piano and synth melodies coalesce into...

Mike Paradinas, the Planet Mu founder who has long put out music under the name μ-Ziq, has had a productive year. In April, he put out an EP called Goodbye, in June he released n album called Magic Pony Ride, and that was all leading up to a 25th anniversary reissue of his 1997 album Lunatic Harness. He has one more project to go in this stretc...

Mike Paradinas, the Planet Mu label boss who records music under the name µ-Ziq, has announced a new album called Secret Garden with Hannah Davidson, aka Mrs Jynx. “I’ve always thought Hannah’s melodic sensibilities chime well with my own,” Paradinas says, “and I’ve wanted to collaborate with her for ...