Track Listing
1. Scaling
2. Hwicci Song
3. Autumn Acid
4. Slice
5. Carpet Muncher
6. Motorbike Track
7. Mentim
8. Fear
9. Gruber's Mandolin
10. World Of Leather
11. Scrape
12. 56
13. Burst Your Arm
14. Goodbye Goodbye
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Mu-Ziq: Michael Paradinas.Additional personnel includes: Kazumi (vocals).
Editorial Reviews
7 out of 10 - ...is his most ambitious work to date....[takes] pomo weirdness back to the old-world parlors from which it once ran shreiking...Entertainment Weekly (7/30/99, p.75) - ...[Mu-Ziq] crafts knotty compositions out of everything in reach....[pitting] slapstick against pathos, pastoralism against urban paranoia....the thrill is always fun. - Rating: B+Q (9/99, p.110) - 4 stars (out of 5) - ...there's a not unpleasant sense of the beats disappearing into a syncopated lattice of melody and counter-melody - as if this really were the next step in dance music's evolution.Mojo (1/00, p.30) - Ranked #31 in Mojo Magazine's Best of 1999Mojo (9/99, p.112) - Mike Paradinas graduated from the Aphex Twin school of techno weirdry...[shifting] at random, between hazy beauty and ear-serrating noise....everything falls neatly into place...Alternative Press (9/99, p.108) - 4 out of 5 - ...one of the finest electronica releases you'll probably never hear a peep about....ROYAL ASTRONOMY is the most cuddly and accessible work of [Paradinas'] career...The Wire (9/99, p.53) - ...a bold work, scattered with exotic surprises....he slings mud at sickly schmaltz melodies, spraying them with beats forced throuigh a tarpit of effects.Muzik (9/99, p.76) - 3 stars out of 5 - ...weirdo sonic avant gardism...he comes up with some of his most immediate work yet by turning to classical orchestration for inspiration...CMJ (7/26/99, p.3) - ...[Michael Paradinas'] most accessible release to date...an extraterrestrial touch that allows its creator to reside in a galaxy far, far away from his contemporaries.
Spin (09/01/1999)
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