every boy in his "similar artists" profile on last.fm is a STONE COLD FOX
http://www.last.fm/music/Pantha+du+prince
two clicks got me to...
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/20547767/Onur+zer+onurzer.jpg
who is just the super hottest amazing cheekboned boy I've ever seen.(except he's not actually German, he's Turkish. even better.)
I don't know what his music sounds like, but the idea of Turkish minimal makes me orgasm just thinking about it.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, this dude... WOW
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/603389/Onur+zer.jpg
Sorry. I mean, yeah. Pantha du Prince.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Pantha_du_Prince.jpg
::falls off chair::
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
onur özer is amazing, search "red cabaret (overture)" and "halikarnas" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0fcZr7n65s
and for more turkish minimal, check out tolga fidan's "tanbulistan"...
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Newly signed to Rough Trade for the UK
― ithappens, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I found Orion first, and it's mind-blowing. It's got darboukas on it. The sound of darboukas to me is like bongos to the balaeric beardo dudes. It's like catnip. Plus, it's about SPACE. WHy isn't he on any of my "club sounds of Istanbul" comps? MAN!
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
ha ha, I just looked on last.fm and the Lex's last 3 tracks and mine were exactly the same.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
all the German minimal dudes seem to have a Johnny Greenwood thing going on
― Malcolm Money, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Ben Klock, physically, is the Henry Rollins of techno.
Maybe this is my heterosexuality talking, but I imagine that in itself would be a deal-breaker.
Similarly, Onur is the Vinni Reilly of Techno, which would be a total deal-maker.
― EDB, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, before we talk about Panda Bear ruining Pantha du Prince, lest we forget what the latter did to Peacebone, i.e. pretty much the remix of 2007?
― EDB, Thursday, 12 November 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I really dig "Behind The Stars". I am terrified of these collaborations, no matter what you say, EDB.
But yeah, brotherlovesdub, even if it is a wonderful album, it will probably finish below Bliss because it's not a shocking great album from nowhere.
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
im not really sure i see panda bear ruining the album either, at least not necessarily - i mean, the guy obviously has some respect for electronic music (basic channel's in his liner notes iirc), is there any reason to think he doesnt like This Bliss for the same reasons you do?
― lucas pine, Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link
All is lost, don't you see?
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 12 November 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
it's more just about the basic fact that he's singing. unless that voice is heavily, heavily treated, it will ruin whatever it's on.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Is he actually singing? oh noes. that worries me. I was hoping he'd be making some doingy doingy noises or something. nonononononooo.
it's Longview syndrome, all over again.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, Panda Bear is so not hot. And we are only having hott techno boys on this thread.
http://www.electronicbeats.net/var/eb/storage/images/events/event-calendar/pantha-du-prince/51285-1-eng-GB/Pantha-Du-Prince_header_image.jpg
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
If he's not singing I really don't mind if he's on there. I would totally take an instrumental version of Merriweather Post Pavilion.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 November 2009 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link
PANTHA DU PRINCE signs to Rough Trade-New album Black Noise to be released on Feb 8th, 2010
Rough Trade is very pleased to announce the signing of electronic musician and producer, Pantha du Prince. His new full length, “Black Noise” will be released on February 8th, 2010. Pantha Du Prince fuses house, techno, shoegazy electronica and psychedelic electro-acoustic soundscapes into music that is at once both beautiful and bewitching.
He has released several recordings to date through the respected German label Dial Records, which is run by and for its artists. His previous album This Bliss, was a bittersweet take on techno, which appealed to both dancefloors and living rooms alike and was hugely successful. As a result he has become an in-demand remixer and has done tracks for Depeche Mode, Animal Collective, Bloc Party, Phantom/Ghost, The Long Blondes and many others.
On his new album, Pantha Du Prince, who lives in Berlin and Paris, claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible what is unheard and unheard of: black noise, a frequency that is inaudible to man. Black noise often presages natural disasters, earthquakes or floods; only some animals perceive this “calm before the storm.” Black noise is something archaic and earthy. The music on Black Noise balances precariously on the slippery threshold between art and nature, between techno and folklore, which lends it a certain spectral and intangible aspect.
Black Noise also features a couple of special guests – Noah Lennox of Animal Collective sings on “Stick to my side” and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem plays bass on “The Splendour”.
Geoff Travis, the founder of Rough Trade, signed Pantha Du Prince and said the following about the newest addition to the label: “When Rough Trade started we were very much involved with the first wave of do it yourself electronica, with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle amongst our early releases. It is nice to be able to return to the fray with one of the most musically eloquent practitioners in this field, Pantha Du Prince.”
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 November 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
currently d/l Diamond Daze which is supposed to be the really shoegazy one, right?
x-post UGH UGH UGH NO NO NO SINGING UGH IT'S LONGVIEW SYNDROME ALL OVER AGAIN
(though apart from that it sounds really really intersting)
((that's so weird about the black noise thing, though, as one of my fictional characters in a story about 6 months ago was working on music based on earthquake samples and the like. get out of my brane, hot sound artist))
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 10:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Butterfly Girl was the only thing I really liked from Diamond Daze. Maybe due a re-listen.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Thursday, 12 November 2009 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm two songs in, and yes, this really is my sort of thing. It's kind of very close and almost claustrophobic, quite radiophonic in its quiet spookiness. Lots of whirring clockwork noises and quite a "under the covers, in the dark, as the nights draw in" feeling to it.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:02 (fourteen years ago) link
So you know, go and search all of Lawrence's early albums, and all his stuff up until 2004 or so, just so you don't blame me later for not mentioning it.
― EDB, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
this dude is completely savage
― Michael B, Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/pantha_.jpg
album cover, apparently
― GEDDY LEE JAZZ MINT (Future_Perfect), Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Thursday, November 12, 2009 11:02 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
This really describes it for me, too. It's earworm-high sustained syntesizer tones and "off" harmonies give it an eerie, alien feel. It has a strange, ataxic rhythm, too...
― Dan S, Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
^ uh you guys talking about the new one?
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I was talking about Diamond Daze. Haven't heard the new one yet
― Dan S, Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, ok then! i thought maybe...
but anyhoo, This Bliss is fantastic.
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 19 November 2009 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This Bliss reminded me why I like music in the first place.
― EDB, Thursday, 19 November 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
errr... like
Oh man, that is an actual bad album cover.
― come to mummy (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I *really* like it, since I already imagine Pantha du Prince as a Teutonic Alpen thing.
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
It looks like a Thomas Kincaid painting!
― come to mummy (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
It doesn't!
I'm going to listen to Saturn Strobe right now, just to spite you!
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Thursday, 19 November 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/images/stories/easygallery/thumbs/46/pantha-main.jpg
Whatever happened to faceless techno bollocks?
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Friday, 27 November 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
RA News: Pantha Du Prince preps Black Noisehttp://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=11370Rough Trade will release Black Noise on February 8th, 2010. article includes interview
― djmartian, Friday, 27 November 2009 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
going to see him live in glasgow tomorrow.
― jed_, Friday, 27 November 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
^jealous
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Friday, 27 November 2009 15:43 (fourteen years ago) link
not going to see him live in glasgow tomorrow because i suck and didn't know he was playing and now have plans (>_<)
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Friday, 27 November 2009 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
has this bliss showed up on any of these best-of-decade lists? because it oughta. (i imagine it'll place on the inevitable ilm poll.)
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 27 November 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah dude the album is incredible.
― Michael B, Friday, 27 November 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
jim, he's not playing til midnight or so. he's playing at men and machines in stereo which opens at club time (11.00?)
― jed_, Friday, 27 November 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I hate to interrupt all the speculations on why his new album is going to bear a panda-bear filled disaster, but you can listen to his new single
Could very have very well been on This Bliss, which is obviously not a bad thing. I hear some Walden in there, too. Nevertheless, I'm still of the belief that Pantha can do whatever he goddamn pleases after making TB.
― EDB, Monday, 7 December 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
FACT had This Bliss at No. 8 on their best albums of the decade list. Well done them.
― Number None, Monday, 7 December 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
As kind of scattered as their list was, This Bliss is no doubt one of the best albums of the 00's.
― EDB, Monday, 7 December 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't believe I left Dial out of my one published "Best of the decade" list. I hang my head in shame ...
― djh, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
not going to see him in glasgow cos I didn't know he ws playing. how ws it?
― SKATAAAAAAAAAAA (cozwn), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
and here's the pandabear track: http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/2009/12/mp3-pantha-du-prince-stick-to-my-side.html
― Kate 'Impeach' Bush (Future_Perfect), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
That's pretty good actually, Panda Bear hardly gets in the way at all.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this Pantha/Panda Bear song. The soft little explosions of noise add drama and depth to all those plingy, pinging sounds. And the vocals give the song a nice focus (songs like this too often become background music for me when they are instrumental tracks).
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 8 December 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I too scared to listen to the Panda Bear track. Listened to The Splendour this morning and it just made me want to get onto the first half of This Bliss.
I really was disappointed with Behind The Stars - lacked the prettiness, iciness of This Bliss and went on for too long. I'm fearful for my mood if the Panda Bear track fails.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Tuesday, 8 December 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link