14 Tracks From Planet Mu

To mark the start of 2011 Planet Mu release a compilation showcasing their current crop of artists. Featuring four exclusive new tunes, '14 Tracks From Planet Mu' reveals the depth and quality of their recent releases … and all for the price of a 12” EP.

Oriol is first up with the exclusive 'Solar', a beautiful shimmering track with many layered vocals. He released his album ‘Night And Day’ in the summer of 2010 to great praise. The timing was right and the album perfectly reflects Oriol’s musical background as a trained musician whose musicality was refreshed by the dance music he grew up with, and with its summery mood it was a very timely release.

Solar Bears released their debut album ‘She Was Coloured In’ in late 2010. It was a chilled affair, combining prog-like, melodic instrumentation with warm analogue synths to create an album that straddled comparisons with the best of the modern cosmic disco scene and Boards Of Canada simultaneously, garnering much praise in the hip press. Here they give us the exclusive 'To Be With Her'.

Floating Points is Sam Shepherd, creator of shimmering, soulful takes on house and techno, who released ‘K&G Beat’, his first single on Planet Mu in 2009.

Tropics is a new artist on Planet Mu who released his first single in late 2010, and is currently working on his debut album. His music is airy, slo-motion house music, a kind of pared down, beautiful electronic take on cosmic disco and dream pop.

The Internal Tulips was a one off project from Brad Laner and Alex Graham, two Planet Mu veterans who worked on their slowburning ‘Mislead Into A Field...’ album, where the worlds of late period Beatles and Dennis Wilson’s ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ pop met delicate digital reconstruction, resulting in an album that was recognisable as pop music but wi.......
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