To mark the start of 2011 Planet Mu release a compilation showcasing their current crop of artists. Featuring four exclusive new tunes, '14 Tracks From Planet Mu' reveals the depth and quality of their recent releases … and all for the price of a 12” EP. Oriol is first up with the exclusive 'Solar', a beautiful shimmering track with many layered vocals. He released his album ‘Night And Day’ in the summer of 2010 to great praise. The timing was right and the album perfectly reflects Oriol’s musical background as a trained musician whose musicality was refreshed by the dance music he grew up with, and with its summery mood it was a very timely release. Solar Bears released their debut album ‘She Was Coloured In’ in late 2010. It was a chilled affair, combining prog-like, melodic instrumentation with warm analogue synths to create an album that straddled comparisons with the best of the modern cosmic disco scene and Boards Of Canada simultaneously, garnering much praise in the hip press. Here they give us the exclusive 'To Be With Her'. Floating Points is Sam Shepherd, creator of shimmering, soulful takes on house and techno, who released ‘K&G Beat’, his first single on Planet Mu in 2009. Tropics is a new artist on Planet Mu who released his first single in late 2010, and is currently working on his debut album. His music is airy, slo-motion house music, a kind of pared down, beautiful electronic take on cosmic disco and dream pop. The Internal Tulips was a one off project from Brad Laner and Alex Graham, two Planet Mu veterans who worked on their slowburning ‘Mislead Into A Field...’ album, where the worlds of late period Beatles and Dennis Wilson’s ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’ pop met delicate digital reconstruction, resulting in an album that was recognisable as pop music but with a strange disorientating modern twist. Boxcutter is Barry Lynn’s longterm project. He’s released three popular albums on Planet Mu and his innovative, off-kilter music mixes live instruments and electronics in a way that predates the notion of ‘post dubstep’. 'Ufonik' featuring vocals from Brian Greene is an exclusive preview from his forthcoming 2011 album. Kuedo is Jamie Teasdale, who was one half of dubstep pioneers Vex’d. His new productions are a masterclass in melting down dubstep and hip hop and manipulating something new from the strange goo that’s left behind. His productions have been idiosyncratic and daring, pushing dance floors in interesting directions. Ceephax Acid Crew’s ‘Topaz’ neatly summarises two of C.A.C.’s greatest strengths : his ability to write complex melodies with analogue synths and combine that with a natural freshness and attitude that counteracts any overwrought retroisms. Slugabed remixes Starkey & Anneka's delicate 'Stars' in his own inimitable style, dicing the original into strange shapes and rubbing it into the dirt, ending up with a multicoloured splatterfest that’s like a rollercoaster for your ears. Falty DL’s music has been developing in his New York based musical laboratory over two albums on Planet Mu. His music is indebted to hip hop and also dubstep’s bass and rhythms, but retains at its core, a glossy New York house feel, illustrated perfectly in ‘Endeavour’. Rossi B & Luca are long time DJs and producers who’ve always crossed genres both on the decks and in the studio, and their heavy 'E10 Riddim' shows them melding martial, funky house-like drums with hard grimey chord stabs, to make one of the most dramatic tracks of 2010. Swindle is one of a growing group of new producers committed to evolving grime instrumentals, and ‘Airmiles’ was an anthem for the new breed in 2010, on which he mixes grime’s tough riddims with an undeniable energy and good humour. Ikonika’s album on Hyperdub in 2010 was one of the finest dance LPs of the year, and her singles have been amazing. ‘Dckhdbtch’ mixes powerful, nostalgic melodies with hard kicks and claps and pummelling bass. Rudi Zygaldo's album ‘Great Western Laymen’ came out in the first half of 2010, a few months before a number of less interesting post dubstep auteurs with vocals started to appear on the scene, but the new and exclusive track ‘Hooray For Captain Balding’ shows off his psychedelic, dubstep inflected puzzle-pop off at it’s best. TRACK LIST : 01. Oriol – Solar 02. Solar Bears - To Be With Her 03. Floating Points - K&G Beat 04. Tropics - Give It Up 05. The Internal Tulips – Parasol 06. Boxcutter ft Brian Greene – Ufonik 07. Kuedo – Starfox 08. Ceephax Acid Crew – Topaz 09. Starkey ft Anneka - Stars (Slugabed Did A Remix) 10. Falty DL – Endeavour 11. Rossi B & Luca - E10 Riddim 12. Swindle – Airmiles 13. Ikonika – Dckhdbtch 14. Rudi Zygadlo - Hooray For Captain Balding