Track Listing 1. Scaling 2. Hwicci Song, The 3. Autumn Acid 4. Slice 5. Carpet Muncher 6. Motorbike Track, The 7. Mentim 8. Fear, The - (featuring Kazumi) 9. Gruber's Mandolin 10. World of Leather 11. Scrape 12. 56 13. Burst Your Arm 14. Goodbye, Goodbye - (featuring Kazumi)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Kazumi | | Producer: | Mike Paradinas | | Distributor: | Caroline Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
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... Spin (09/01/1999)
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. Q (09/01/1999)
...[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+ Entertainment Weekly (07/30/1999)
...[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. CMJ (07/26/1999)
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... Alternative Press (09/01/1999)
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... Mojo (09/01/1999)
...a bold work, scattered with exotic surprises....he slings mud at sickly schmaltz melodies, spraying them with beats forced throuigh a tarpit of effects. The Wire (09/01/1999)
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... Muzik (09/01/1999)
Ranked #31 in Mojo Magazine's Best of 1999 Mojo (01/01/2000)
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