Published
Thu, Jan 29, 2015, 04:35
- Jonathan Valentine had help from Mike Paradinas in revisiting his 2007 album Lifeshake.
Planet Mu will look into the past by finally releasing an unfinished 2007 album by Chevron, due out on February 9th.
Lifeshake is part of the UK label's 20th-birthday µ20 celebration, where they intend to release never-before-heard music from their decades-long history that, for whatever reason, never made it to store shelves the first time around.
Chevron, real name Jonathan Valentine, was a regular appearance on Planet Mu in the early 2000s. Lifeshake was meant to be the follow-up to his 2005 full-length Everything's Exactly The Same. The files "languished on [Valentine]'s hard drive," according to the press release, but over the past few months, label boss Mike Paradinas AKA µ-Ziq helped him "put together an approximation of how the finished album would have sounded."
The record comprises music that Valentine made between 2002 and 2007. Inspired by the Prodigy and that band's own set of influences (which he cites as The Specials, Rasmus and Kool Keith), the LP touches on a number of sounds and styles, including the then-emergent threads of grime and dubstep. Lifeshake features vocals from Valentine himself and Brian Greene, along with Chris Cook playing sitar and spots from bhangra MCs Metz and Trix. Planet Mu reports that Valentine currently is "pottering away in his central London-based studio ready for more releases this year." You can stream clips over at the label's website.
Tracklist
01. The Ballad Of Rave
02. Soul Cellar
03. Lyrical Dungeon
04. Sitari ST
05. Bangalore Torpedoes
06. Gravitas
07. Shimoda
08. Free
09. Breytingar
10. Elizabeth I
11. Unstoppable Bullshit
12. Sex Knives
13. Guilt Without Reason
14. Luton Airport Parkway
Planet Mu will release Lifeshake on February 9th, 2015.