#30 Feat. Banner in Ambient / Experimental

Planet Mu welcomes new signing Rev also known as 26 year old Raymond Hu from Chongqing in South West China, a city best known musically for its thriving rap scene. This scene initially inspired Raymond to produce music, but unable to find a satisfactory vocalist/songwriter to complete his sound, he started to build his own by cutting up, reordering and editing mostly feminine pop vocals instead of working with a rapper. Its a process with an element of chance, a proxy that balances the familiar and the uncanny. In turn, these characteristics carry across to Revs artist name too. He says Among my friends Im often called Lai Fu (来福), which is the direct phonetic rendering of Rev into Mandarin, and in Chinese it literally means Get Lucky. But also, Rev is short for Reverse, playing something backwards, an editing technique he uses, where the sound of the familiar and uncanny mix. Revs six track Planet Mu debut Stay, Nomad is sparse and deeply felt, composed with a graceful sense of weightlessness and space. Rhythms crack and bounce around melody, effects and reverb which suck air in and out of the sound design, while vocals thread through this mix like eerie holograms. Opener Mind Game which was on the Planet Mu 30 compilation and also appears here with a mind-bending remix from Chewlie, starts with a naked piano, opening up into something that glows with disembodied vocals yearning over dub-like phrases, that lift and dissipate like fireworks. In contrast, first single Stutter builds up slithers of choir-like and chipmunked vocals into strange shapes over fuzzy piano, until saw-like drums cut in half way through giving the serene mood a fearful, nervous edge. We hope you enjoy this new EP as much as we do.

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#30 Feat. New Releases in Ambient / Experimental

Planet Mu welcomes new signing Rev also known as 26 year old Raymond Hu from Chongqing in South West China, a city best known musically for its thriving rap scene. This scene initially inspired Raymond to produce music, but unable to find a satisfactory vocalist/songwriter to complete his sound, he started to build his own by cutting up, reordering and editing mostly feminine pop vocals instead of working with a rapper. Its a process with an element of chance, a proxy that balances the familiar and the uncanny. In turn, these characteristics carry across to Revs artist name too. He says Among my friends Im often called Lai Fu (来福), which is the direct phonetic rendering of Rev into Mandarin, and in Chinese it literally means Get Lucky. But also, Rev is short for Reverse, playing something backwards, an editing technique he uses, where the sound of the familiar and uncanny mix. Revs six track Planet Mu debut Stay, Nomad is sparse and deeply felt, composed with a graceful sense of weightlessness and space. Rhythms crack and bounce around melody, effects and reverb which suck air in and out of the sound design, while vocals thread through this mix like eerie holograms. Opener Mind Game which was on the Planet Mu 30 compilation and also appears here with a mind-bending remix from Chewlie, starts with a naked piano, opening up into something that glows with disembodied vocals yearning over dub-like phrases, that lift and dissipate like fireworks. In contrast, first single Stutter builds up slithers of choir-like and chipmunked vocals into strange shapes over fuzzy piano, until saw-like drums cut in half way through giving the serene mood a fearful, nervous edge. We hope you enjoy this new EP as much as we do.

REV

#30 Feat. Banner in Ambient / Experimental

Planet Mu welcomes new signing Rev also known as 26 year old Raymond Hu from Chongqing in South West China, a city best known musically for its thriving rap scene. This scene initially inspired Raymond to produce music, but unable to find a satisfactory vocalist/songwriter to complete his sound, he started to build his own by cutting up, reordering and editing mostly feminine pop vocals instead of working with a rapper. Its a process with an element of chance, a proxy that balances the familiar and the uncanny. In turn, these characteristics carry across to Revs artist name too. He says Among my friends Im often called Lai Fu (来福), which is the direct phonetic rendering of Rev into Mandarin, and in Chinese it literally means Get Lucky. But also, Rev is short for Reverse, playing something backwards, an editing technique he uses, where the sound of the familiar and uncanny mix. Revs six track Planet Mu debut Stay, Nomad is sparse and deeply felt, composed with a graceful sense of weightlessness and space. Rhythms crack and bounce around melody, effects and reverb which suck air in and out of the sound design, while vocals thread through this mix like eerie holograms. Opener Mind Game which was on the Planet Mu 30 compilation and also appears here with a mind-bending remix from Chewlie, starts with a naked piano, opening up into something that glows with disembodied vocals yearning over dub-like phrases, that lift and dissipate like fireworks. In contrast, first single Stutter builds up slithers of choir-like and chipmunked vocals into strange shapes over fuzzy piano, until saw-like drums cut in half way through giving the serene mood a fearful, nervous edge. We hope you enjoy this new EP as much as we do.

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#63 Top Releases in Bass / Club

Anyone with a passing interest in footwork and juke will know of Traxman. Corky Strong has a long history of deep involvement in Chicago house, first releasing on the legendary Dance Mania label in the mid nineties, and since then splitting his productions between ghetto house, juke and footwork, releasing alongside Steve Poindexter and Fast Eddie and the late DJ Deeon and DJ Rashad, including an seemingly endless supply of self-released juke edits of whatever direction his deep knowledge of Black American music takes him. The third volume of Da Mind Of Traxman is his first since 2014. In the intervening years hes kept things rolling, DJing regularly, releasing lots of music, becoming a grandfather and being a mentor for younger artists coming up in the scene. This new album was crafted with the help of fellow Planet Mu artist Sinjin Hawke, who took on A&R duties to collate the best from hundreds of tracks dating back to 2005. Sinjin holds Traxmans status in high regard; This album series is important and holds real documentarian value—working on it feels like the modern equivalent of curating a piece of Miles Daviss catalog in the 60s and 70s. Volume 3 showcases Traxmans uncanny ability to take old music into the future without losing the feeling and energy of his samples and influences. He knows how to add a hi-definition modern chassis with the skill of someone who deeply and intuitively understands the craft of dance music. These are some of the purest, most innovative ideations of Chicago footwork.

Traxman, Bobby Skillz, Sinjin Hawke, DJ Twan