Mike Paradinas, aka µ-Ziq, can now be counted as a veteran in the sub-genre of artists whose monikers frustrate typesetters and layout editors.

A lot of electronic musicians have come and gone in the space between the start and the present of Paradinas’ career. What’s given µ-Ziq its staying power is a keen pop sensibility that knows how to self-censor enough not to scare off the normies. You can hear it in our highlighted track “1977” (feat. Meemo Comma). You know, no three-hour sandpaper record disco sessions.

But give him credit: he never fell down the lick-laden rat’s nest of a Moby or Chemical Brothers. 1977 is another album that treads the line between experimental pop and vacant New Age thrills, with plenty of guest spots.

Who’s Meemo Comma? Google it yourself.

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