Doubtful guest's Libby Floyd is a classically trained opera singer who's wrestled the acid nightmares from her 303s and let them writhe over doomcore menace, dublicious breakstep, ardcore mentalism and dread-filled gabba.

The Doubtful Guest is Libby Floyd, a trained vocalist who, for her Planet Mu debut, chooses to create an all-instrumental album of neo-Acid. Much travelled and with musicanaly family background, she found ultimate happiness dancing for ten hours straight at 90's Chicago warehouse raves. Hence Acid Sauna - but this is Acid with its strobelights and glowsticks ruthlessly confiscated, its Smiley face turned upside down. "Under heavy manners" references abound - King Tubby on "Tubby" ...more

Barry Lynn is a sneaky fellah, and I must admit, he almost slipped this release unnoticed by my watchful eye of his usual releases under the Boxcutter moniker. Thankfully he didn’t drift too far, and comfortably settled on his home label, Planet Mu. Well, Barry, what have we here? A delicious collection of abstract glitchy IDM, with an occasional dub track and even some breakcore - must you make me mention Squarepusher in this writeup? Ah, but I guess it all makes sense: Balancing ...more

Will the real Barry Lynn please stand up? Under the moniker Boxcutter, 22 year old Lynn has already released two albums of effortlessly micro-produced, virtuosic, hyper dubstep entitled 'Oneiric' and 'Glyphic' respectively. Prior to Oneiric's release in 2005, however, he was still honing his production skills, sending hordes of demos of eclectic, frenetic experimentalism to Mike Paradinas at Planet Mu. These tracks, produced from 2002-2005, comprise 2008's retrospective 'Balancing ...more