Pantha du Prince: This Bliss [Dial]

"Pantha du Prince signed to Rough Trade Records. New album Black Noise to be released on Rough Trade on the 8th of Febuary 2010.

Black Noise includes collaborations with Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem. Prepared instruments played on location in Swiss by Joachim Schütz, Stephan Abry and Hendrik Weber. "

Intrigued, at the very least. The last single - "Behind The Stars" wasn't that engaging, but given that "This Bliss" still delivers sublime listening (even if xpost kinda sullied the whole thing with pointing out the trick) and is even now frequently listened to, I'm looking forward to the new album.

Dear Pantha,

Please get Panda Bear the fuck off this thing right now.

Yours,

Matt DC

^ totally agree.

Actually as long as he's not singing I don't much mind.

"Prepared instruments" - like John Cage style or something?

major w00tage until i read about panda bear, ugh

still looking forward to this album though my excitement has turned into skepticism

it's always nice when one can cut down one's to-listen list so easily i guess :(

yeah, def. won't have to waste my precious megabytes on this one.

Question: remember how, like, last year, when I had just seen James Holden and was looking for reccomendations of other "minimal meets nu-gaze textural stuff" NOT A ONE OF YOU repped this album to me?

Coz this is pretty much a dictionary definition of this.

yeah, def. won't have to waste my precious megabytes on this one.

Presumably Panda Bear will only be on one track and the rest of it could be incredible. Bit early to dismiss the whole record isn't it?

It's a bad sign when the guest appearances start to crop up.

(will I get a beatdown if I ask the question, why are German minimal producers so damn hott? They're just really... sculptural. Is that why they make such sculptural, minimal music, to match their cheek bones and their dress sense?)

It's a bad sign when the guest appearances start to crop up.

I hope it turns out to be the best record ever and you never hear it.

Hey, it could be worse. It could be like when Ulrich Schnauss got that wanker from Longview to come and sing over every damn track so it became bloody painful to ever see him live. I doubt PandaBear will be touring with him.

I bet you 5 to 1 odds, when ILM polls the Pantha albums next year, whatever this new one is finishes below This Bliss. I'll still download it from mediafire but I didn't really like his last 12" and can't imagine pairing with Indie Fucks is going to improve his sound.

(will I get a beatdown if I ask the question, why are German minimal producers so damn hott?

haha some of them are just mad-eyed casualties and def not hott. villalobos, väth et al. hottest for me is ben klock for real

vleurgh, we have such different tastes. Klock just looks like GI Joe to me. Way too built. I like the skinny androgynouse ones. Sorry, we should just start a ROLLING HOTT BOYS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC thread but, erm... nah, I found this Berlin compilation that Pantha du Prince had a new track on, on Spotify, and I was just casually flicking through the first few artists - and all of them were just these sculptured cheekbone dudes. Like, you wouldn't actually want to do anything with them, they're just too beautiful to even touch. You'd wanna put them on a shelf and admire them.

sorry sorry sorry for derail.

not a derail when it comes to PduP, every girl i know lusts after him. and how could you not:

http://www.panthaduprince.com/img/photos/photo5.jpg

would rather talk about that than be reminded of ::shudder:: panda bear, at any rate

I'll stop the hate now. This Bliss gave me endless hours of joy and I was so excited to find Diamond Daze on cd at my local shop so I'm def. hoping the new one is enjoyable.

they're the same guy dudes... pantha/panda... think about it

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.

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::

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"...

Newly signed to Rough Trade for the UK

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!

ha ha, I just looked on last.fm and the Lex's last 3 tracks and mine were exactly the same.

all the German minimal dudes seem to have a Johnny Greenwood thing going on

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.

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?

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.

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?

All is lost, don't you see?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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))

Butterfly Girl was the only thing I really liked from Diamond Daze. Maybe due a re-listen.

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.

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.

this dude is completely savage

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/pantha_.jpg

album cover, apparently

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, 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...

^ uh you guys talking about the new one?

I was talking about Diamond Daze. Haven't heard the new one yet

oh, ok then! i thought maybe...

but anyhoo, This Bliss is fantastic.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This Bliss reminded me why I like music in the first place.

errr... like

Oh man, that is an actual bad album cover.

I *really* like it, since I already imagine Pantha du Prince as a Teutonic Alpen thing.

came here hoping this was now on spotify

Oh, the sampling of this is apparently why it's not available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT4arTGagPs

(Possibly old news).