Jega is the recording name of the

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

-based

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...

artist, Dylan Nathan. Jega has released records on the

Planet Mu Planet Mu is an eclectic English electronic music record label created and run by Mike Paradinas. The label started out as a subsidiary of Virgin Records then Paradinas set up the label independent of Virgin. After releasing intelligent dance ...

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and Skam record labels.

Career

Jega released his first EP in 1996 in Manchester on Skam records. His first LP, ''

Spectrum A spectrum (plural ''spectra'' or ''spectrums'') is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary, without gaps, across a continuum. The word was first used scientifically in optics to describe the rainbow of colors ...

'', was the first release on

Mike Paradinas Michael Paradinas (born 26 September 1971), better known by his stage name μ-Ziq (pronounced "music" or mu-zik), is an English electronic musician from Wimbledon, London. He was associated with the electronic style intelligent dance music (ID ...

/µ-Ziq's

label. Paradinas and Jega studied architecture together in London 1991–1994 on the same campus as Aphex Twin. ''Spectrum'' is a fusion of the breakbeat and intelligent dance music sound coming out of London at the time. His second album, ''

Geometry Geometry (; ) is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. It is concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is ...

'', reflects his electronic roots, avoiding samples and venturing more into synthesis. Jega was named by

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as an influence on Radiohead's 2000 album ''

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''. Both ''Spectrum'' and ''Geometry'' were later licensed to Matador Records for release in North America, resulting in extensive tours of the United States. Despite only making six copies, in 2004 a demo of Variance was leaked to the Internet, resulting in him postponing the release. ''Variance'' was released on Planet Mu Records in 2009, as a double album comprising ''Variance'' volumes 1 and 2. Jega toured with Autechre in 1997.

Discography

EPs *''SKA006'' (1996, Skam) *''SKA009'' (1997, Skam) *''Type Xer0'' (1998, Planet Mu) Albums *''

'' (1998, Planet Mu) – #155

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Radio Top 200, #12 CMJ RPM *''

'' (2000, Planet Mu) – #15 CMJ RPM *''

Variance In probability theory and statistics, variance is the expectation of the squared deviation of a random variable from its population mean or sample mean. Variance is a measure of dispersion, meaning it is a measure of how far a set of numbe ...

'' (2009, Planet Mu) *''

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'' (2016, Skam Records)

References

External links

Official websitePlanet Mu Jega page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jega Living people Intelligent dance musicians Musicians from Manchester English electronic musicians Year of birth missing (living people) Planet Mu artists