*digital album available via Mike's own Bandcamp page:
mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/bantha-trax-vol-3
All tracks written and produced by Mike Paradinas
Art by SODA
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Photo by Diego Imakarum Caponetto
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Original Tusken Raiders tag by Ben Drury, photographed by Will Bankhead
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Handstyle track titles by REQ TDK
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Layout by Joel Harrison
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Mastered and cut by Shawn Joseph @ Optimum, Bristol
Compiled by The Fissure Family
SR085
Further skirmishes at the Tosche Station from Planet Mu label boss Mike Paradinas, whose first Tusken Raiders EP on the Clear label 25 years ago brought an infinitely more-dusty-than-digital vibe, delivering a rugged, electro-infused uptake of the type of battered machine funk produced and enjoyed by Tatooine's indigenous, Bantha-riding tribespeople.
Hailing from the latter part of Mike's 'Lunatic Harness' sessions in 1998, these 8 previously unreleased, largely breakbeat tracks deliver a salvo of scuffed sonic rinse outs and mutant house jams from a figure who has done so much to bring about and support experimental electronica, breakcore and footwork scenes over the past three decades.
- Climbie Fissure
released August 20, 2020