#experimental-electronic

#experimental-electronic

Who better to release obscure UK drum juggler Ship Sket's first album than legendary UK electronic music outpost Planet Mu? Since its founding by Mike Paradinas (aka μ-Ziq) in 1995, the label has established itself as a pillar for some of the UK's most deranged dance music: It codified Aphex Twin and μ-Ziq's Chuckle Brothers fuckery, typeset Luke Vibert's acid-sodden liner notes, and unleashed Venetian Snares' miasmic orchestral breakbeat.

The sounds are microscopic and synthetic, either glowing like LEDs or gleaming like cold steel, but they leave sizzling craters on impact. Melody and rhythm merge into a rapid-fire spray that makes a mockery of musical modes and scales even while he works within them, thanks to Max/MSP devices that the English artist designs himself. It can feel solitary, almost maddening-the work of an artist obsessively trying to one-up himself.