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u-ziq - challenge me foolish - planet mu - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

1. Inclement
2. Undone
3. Challenge Me Foolish
4. Bassbins
5. Robin Hood Gate
6. Perhaps
7. Durian
8. Ceiling
9. Lexicon
10. Perfame
11. Playbox
12. Sad Inlay
13. Peek Freans
14. DoDaDu

‘Challenge Me Foolish’ is an almost lost album of µ-Ziq material circa 1998-99, an era that saw Mike Paradinas release ‘Royal Astronomy’ on the now defunct Virgin subsidiary Hut records, and also tour with Björk.

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‘Challenge Me Foolish’ is something of a companion to the Royal Astronomy record; arguably even better given the fresh ears selecting the material. It’s imbued with a confident sense of pastoral colour, and a gentle optimism, utilising bells, studied orchestral arrangements and airy synthesisers that sit the album somewhere between, Jean Jacques Perrey (the French electronic composer whose whimsy was always balanced with serious innovation and chops) and the colourful, optimistic soundtracks of Joe Hisaishi. There’s a strange sense of the old and new throughout, the sentimental and utopia, with nary a hint of darkness. Even when the album dips into the hyperkinetic rhythms of jungle, the melodies and mood still retain a sense of gentle warmth. Dive into peak time Paradinas.