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1979

  • Cat No: BALMAT19
  • updated:2025-12-30

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2x12inch 6690 JPY

MIKE PARADINAS, aka µ-ZIQ — head of PLANET MU and a reigning icon of intelligent techno — returns to Spain's new age specialist label BALMAT for the first time in two years. Picking up where his last record left off, exploring electronics rooted in classical electronic music studies through his own singular lens, this is a synthesizer journey that bottles up the sound of golden-age IDM and braindance along with deeply personal emotion.

Since his arrival, the roster has also come to include MINOR SCIENCE, NICK LEÓN, and STEPHEN VITIELLO. Here's a new release from BALMAT, the vital label that has taken new age and ambient as a starting point and pushed avant-garde electronic and experimental music forward across a wide field. It marks the return of µ-Ziq, the needs-no-introduction figure who revolutionized leftfield electronic music. As the title suggests, this second album carries a clear continuity with its predecessor. It reflects the spiritual inspiration and emotions he took away from visiting Ávila and Majadahonda, the Spanish towns his family comes from. From the voice-driven abstract electronics of "Majadahonda at Dawn" to the meditative ambient of "Galletas," and with a return to the dancefloor on the full-scale breakbeat cut "Houzz 14." Beyond the meditation on process and electronics found on '1977', this one weaves in his own turf as well, making for an all-range collection of electronic music. You can preview every track from the tracklist! (Original Japanese text by Akie)

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