Stream: two tracks off Heterotic's forthcoming Planet Mu release, Love & Devotion (featuring Gravenhurst)

Taking their holy union to another level, husband and wife production duo Mike Paradinas aka µ-Ziq and Lara Rix-Martin introduce listeners to their complexly magical world of synthesized fusion. Releasing their forthcoming album, Love & Devotion on the label he founded, heralded producer, µ-Ziq unearths a fine-tuned magnetism with his latest project. Craftily reinventing what we understand to be new wave, pop and electronic under the pseudonym Heterotic, this distinct brand of musical inspiration has progressed music forward in one clean swoop.

On Heterotic’s opening track, ‘Bliss,’ charming, unwarranted melodies creep up around wisps of airy vocals, as a warming bassline floods your senses and butterfly flecks of piano and harp-like notes imprint their mark across a club-worthy beat. On ‘Blue Lights,’ how we conceptualize and process experiences, now long in our past are explored through the drifting vocals of Warp Records’ folk artist, Gravenhurst. Those languid vocals are paired with an intricate grab bag of vintage effects, blips of techno-inspired futurism, and a throbbing beat, all melded together by sharp pricks of thick, pulsing synth.

The handsome love child of New Order meets Minimals Waves Tapes with a lineage leading back to Kraftwerk, Hecterotic creates the perfect balance between a visceral nostalgia and electronic evolutionism, all steeped in a conceptual cloak worn by musical visionaries.

Heterotic’s Love & Devotion (Feat. Gravenhurst) is out digitally March 25th via Planet Mu.