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Planet Mu is an electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 run by Mike Paradinas
Mike Paradinas
Michael Paradinas , who works primarily under the name μ-Ziq in addition to a large number of aliases, is a British musician in the field of electronic music.-History:...

 (also known as µ-Ziq). It was based in Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...

 until March 2007, then moved to London
London
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 and has recently relocated to Broadstairs
Broadstairs
Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about south-east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St. Peter's and had a population in 2001 of about 24,000. Situated between Margate and...

, Kent. The label started out as a subsidiary of Virgin Records
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

, until in 1998 Mike Paradinas set up the label independent of Virgin and was distributed through SRD
Southern Studios
Southern Studios is a recording studio in the Wood Green area of London. It was founded in 1974 by John Loder, and came to be the recording studio of choice for Crass and their record label Crass Records. Southern Studios Ltd. continues to grow its label and provide label management and...

.

Artists

  • µ-Ziq
  • Ambulance
  • Anti-G
  • Benga
  • Bit Meddler
    Bit Meddler
    Bit_Meddler is the alias of experimental musician Matt Anderson. His musical compositions incorporate glitch and mashup styles.He worked for the design agency Soft Gold U.S.A...

  • Bizzy B
  • Bong-Ra
    Bong-Ra
    Bong-Ra is the performing name of Dutch breakcore musician Jason Kohnen from Utrecht. Formed in 1996, initially producing and DJing jungle music...

  • Boxcutter
    Boxcutter (musician)
    Boxcutter is the pseudonym for Barry Lynn , an electronic musician from Northern Ireland whose work, due to its bass-led and rhythmically 2-step nature, is often categorised as dubstep, although in style and idiosyncrasies has more in common with IDM artists such as Squarepusher and µ-Ziq.-...

  • Breakage
  • Burial
    Burial (musician)
    Burial is the stage name of William Bevan, an electronic musician from London. His music contains elements of dubstep, 2-step garage, ambient and house music. His eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim...

  • Capitol K
    Capitol K
    Capitol K is the name under which Kristian Craig Robinson works as a musician combining electronica, found sounds and indie-pop. Born in Malta and raised in Dubai, Brunei and England, and now based in London, Capitol K is best known for the single Pillow which scraped into the top 100 UK Singles...

  • Ceephax
  • Chevron
  • Darqwan
  • Datach'i
    Datach'i
    Datach'i is the pseudonym of Joseph Fraioli, an electronic musician based in New York City. Datach'i's music places an emphasis on complex drum programming and elaborate timing.-Biography:...

  • dDamage
    DDamage
    dDamage are a French hip hop and electronic music duo. The group currently consists of two brothers, Jean-Baptiste and Frédéric Hanak.They feature numerous artists on their albums, such as French rappers La Caution, James Delleck, TTC or Americans .On the last album Aeroplanes, they also worked...

  • Decal
    Decal
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  • Distance
  • DJ Hekla
  • Dolphin
    Dolphin
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  • Doormouse
    Doormouse
    Doormouse is an alias of electronic musician and breakcore producer, live performer and DJ Daniel Martin born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, now living in Miami, Florida. He sometimes appears as Dan Doormouse. He began making music and DJing in the 90s. In 1997 he founded Addict Records "to explore...

  • Duran Duran Duran
  • Dykehouse
  • Ed Lawes
  • edIT
    Edit (musician)
    Edward Ma, better known under the recording name edIT is a Los Angeles electronic producer and DJ. His second full length album titled Certified Air Raid Material was released October 9, 2007 and features notable Hip-hop artists such as Busdriver, TTC, and The Grouch of Living Legends.-Early...

  • Eero Johannes
  • Eight Frozen Modules
  • Electric Company
    Electric company
    Electric company can mean:*Electrical power industry*Electric Company *The Electric Company *The Electric Company...

  • Electronic Music Composer
  • Equinox
    Equinox
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  • FaltyDL
  • Few Nolder
  • FFF
  • Frog Pocket
    Frog Pocket
    Frog Pocket is the recording name of John Charles Wilson, a Scottish electronic music artist. He is currently signed to Mike Paradinas' record label Planet Mu.-Full length albums:-EPs:-Compilations:- External links :* * at Discogs* at Planet Mu...

  • Frost Jockey
  • Guilty Connector
  • Hatcha
  • Hawerchuk
  • Hellfish
  • Horse Opera
    Horse opera
    Horse opera refers to a western movie or television series that is extremely cliched or formulaic . The term, which was originally coined by silent film-era Western star William S. Hart, is used variously to convey either disparagement or affection...

  • Hrvatski
    Hrvatski
    In Croatian, hrvatski is the masculine adjectival form meaning "Croatian", used in the same form for plural and singular. Feminine forms are hrvatska and hrvatske...

  • iTAL tEK
  • Jake Slazenger
  • Jamie Vexd
  • Jansky Noise
  • Jega
  • Jo Apps
  • John B
  • Joseph Nothing
  • Julian Fane (Canadian musician)
  • Kettel
    Kettel
    Kettel is Reimer Eising , a self-described "elixir-brewing, camping-loving and musicmaking sorcerer-to-be." He is well-known for his playful, spontaneous melodies and organic folk sounds similar to Aphex Twin, Jega, and Plaid....

  • Kid Spatula
  • Kyler
  • Last Step
  • Leafcutter John
    Leafcutter John
    Leafcutter John is the recording name of John Burton, a UK-based musician and artist. He makes frequent use of Max/MSP in his compositions. Much of Burton's style is based in computer music and use of samples of everyday sounds. However, he also has roots as a folk musician, and this influence...

  • Lexaunculpt
  • Local
    Local
    Local usually refers to something nearby, or in the immediate area.It may be used in many ways, some of which are related to this general meaning, others which are not:* Local, local anesthesia* Local, a.k.a. union local or local union* Local, a.k.a...

  • Luke Vibert
    Luke Vibert
    Luke Vibert is a British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronic music. Vibert began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions...

  • Mary Anne Hobbs
    Mary Anne Hobbs
    Mary Anne Hobbs is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. She launched a new Primetime show on Xfm on 9 July 2011-Early career:...

  • Meat Beat Manifesto
    Meat Beat Manifesto
    Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK...

  • Milanese
    Milanese
    Milanese is the central variety of the Western Lombard language spoken in the city and province of Milan....

  • Mileece
  • MRK1
    MRK1
    Mark Foster, known as MRK1 , is a dubstep and grime producer from Manchester, England, originally a drum n bass artist. He is known especially for his work with the Virus Syndicate, including MCs Goldfinger and Nika D, which he produces and provides instrumental tracks for, and his fusion of both...

  • Mrs Jynx
  • Nautilis
    Nautilis
    Nautilis is Texan electronic music artist Skyler McGlothlin. His music is released primarily through the UK based Planet Mu label. While studying at the University of North Texas, he experimented with different musical elements and focused on an Advanced Audio and Multimedia degree...

  • Neil Landstrumm
  • Nicole Elmer
  • o9
    O9
    O9 may refer to:* USS O-9 , an O-class submarine of the United States Navy* Douglas O-9, a variant of the Douglas O-2, a 1920s American observation aircraft...

  • OOO
    OOO
    OOO may refer to:* OpenOffice.org, an office application suite* Out-of-order execution, a paradigm in microprocessors* Out Of Office, a day off, holidays* Limited liability company OOO may refer to:* OpenOffice.org, an office application suite* Out-of-order execution, a paradigm in microprocessors*...

  • Parson
    Parson
    In the pre-Reformation church, a parson was the priest of an independent parish church, that is, a parish church not under the control of a larger ecclesiastical or monastic organization...

  • Phthalocyanine
    Phthalocyanine
    Phthalocyanine is an intensely blue-green coloured macrocyclic compound that is widely used in dyeing. Phthalocyanines form coordination complexes with most elements of the periodic table...

  • Pinch
    Pinch (dubstep musician)
    Rob Ellis, better known as Pinch, is a dubstep artist from Bristol, United Kingdom noted for his fusion of styles such as Reggae, World Music, and Dancehall with dubstep. He released his first album, Underwater Dancehall in 2007, on Tectonic records, which he founded...

  • Ra
  • Remano Eszildn
  • Remarc
  • Rude Ass Tinker
  • Rudi Zygadlo
  • Shitmat
    Shitmat
    Shitmat is the performing name of Henry Collins, aka Henry Collinz, a breakcore artist from Brighton, England.-Biography:His music, sometimes referred to as "Mashcore", is known for the humorous use of samples atypical of "serious" electronic artists and deliberate use of clichés...

  • Sileni
  • Slag Boom Van Loon
  • Solar Bears
    Solar Bears
    Solar Bears are an electronic music duo from Ireland, composed of John Kowalski and Rian Trench.Solar Bears' members hail from Dublin and Wicklow. The band's name is taken from the film Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky...

  • Soundmurderer
  • Speedranch
  • Starkey
  • Subjex
  • Sum One
  • Sunken Foal
  • Syntheme
  • The DJ Producer
  • The Doubtful Guest
  • The Gasman
    The Gasman
    The Gasman is the recording name of Christopher Reeves, an English electronic music artist. He is currently signed to Mike Paradinas's record label Planet Mu, as well as his own record label, GasmanMusic.-Albums:- External links :* at Discogs...

  • The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
  • The Teknoist
  • Terror Danjah
  • Tim Exile
    Exile (artist)
    Tim Exile is the recording alias of Tim Shaw, a producer and performer of electronic music spanning drum and bass, IDM, breakcore and gabber.-History:...

  • Tim Tetlow
  • Tom Burbank
  • Transformer Di Roboter
    Transformer di Roboter
    Transformer di Roboter is a Berlin-based electronic pop music duo consisting of Alexander Kloster and Johannes Malfatti. They have released several EPs and have contributed to compilations on labels such as WMF Records, Planet Mu, Deco, Diamondtraxx, Rock Machine Records, Klangkrieg, and L'Âge...

  • Tusken Raiders
    Tusken Raiders
    Tusken Raiders are fictional creatures in the Star Wars universe. They are characterized as a nomadic warrior race that lives on the planet Tatooine.-Appearances in Star Wars media:...

  • Uniform
    Uniform
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  • Urban Myth & Steve Beresford
  • Various Production
  • Venetian Snares
    Venetian Snares
    Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk .From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures...

  • Vex'd
    Vex'd
    Vex'd are a British Dubstep duo signed to Planet Mu Records consisting of Jamie Teasdale and Roly Porter. As of 2010 they have released 2 full albums, as well as several EPs and singles.-Singles:* "Function" * "Lion/Ghost"...

  • Virus Syndicate
    Virus Syndicate
    Virus Syndicate are a British grime collective from Manchester, centered around DJ Mark One and the MCs Goldfinger, JSD and Nika D. They often supply the vocal accompaniment on Mark One's solo recordings, specifically on his debut LP, One Way...

  • Weaver001

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