Pantha's a lot more prominent than he was when This Bliss came out though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 December 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
listening to black noise for the first time in a few months and TOTALLY noticing a drukqs vibe― best poast - crazy 4 ya (diamonddave85), Monday, October 4, 2010 12:41 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark
― best poast - crazy 4 ya (diamonddave85), Monday, October 4, 2010 12:41 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark
Listening to it now and totally noticing a Severed Heads vibe, epecially on "Stick to My Side". Sure this has been noted elsewhere though.
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
'XI Versions Of Black Noise' to be released on April 18th, 2011reworking of 'Black Noise' album by contemporaries
Rough Trade Records are excited to announce the release of ‘XI versions of Black Noise’ by Pantha Du Prince, an album of reworkings of tracks originally on his album ‘Black Noise’ by friends and contemporaries including amongst others Animal Collective, Moritz Von Oswald, Four Tet, Efdemin and North American audio pioneer Hyroglyphic Being.
The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. MORITZ VON OSWALD THE ONE VERSION OF „WELT AM DRAHT“
2. DIE VÖGEL VERSION OF „WELT AM DRAHT“
3. LAWRENCE VERSION OF „STICK TO MY SIDE“
4. FOUR TET VERSION OF „STICK TO MY SIDE“
5. THE SIGHT BELOW VERSION OF „A NOMAD´S RETREAT“
6. EFDEMIN VERSION OF „STICK TO MY SIDE“
7. HIEROGLYPHIC BEING VERSION OF „SATELLITE SNIPER“
8. CARSTEN JOST VERSION OF „STICK TO MY SIDE“
9. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE VERSION OF „WELT AM DRAHT“
10. PANTHA DU PRINCE „LAY IN A SHIMMER“ FATA MORGANA VERSION
11. WALLS VERSION OF „STICK TO MY SIDE“
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
^^FUCK OFF WHY WON'T YOU FUCK OFF
props for getting die vögel on a remix though! "petardo" was amazing.
― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
FIVE versions of Stick To My Side? Would have been good to have followed the order of the original album.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Those all were already available on last year's digital release of the "Stick To My Side" single
― willem, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm loving the remix album. It's not absolutely incredible or anything, but I just keep ending up reaching for it, which is its own kind of litmus test. I do wish the Animal Collective track wasn't on it, too...
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I really like the AC track; it regularly pops up in my head apros of nothing. Like the Four Tet remix of it, too; is that what's on the remix album?
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
The remix album contains that Four Tet remix of the track that Panda Bear sings on, yeah, but it also contains a separate Animal Collective remix of a different track called "Welt am Draht"... I just don't like the flow and shapelessness of it very much. But I too find myself singing the Panda Bear song from Black Noise to myself all the freaking time, entirely randomly!
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 24 May 2011 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Aha. So the remix album is worth getting, you think?
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
wait 'til you find it used/cheap i'd say?
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I throw it on quite a bit... I bought the vinyl version, which is only 5 versions, but you get a free high-quality DL of the full 11. I should note that I pretty much buy anything Moritz von Oswald is on without question, though.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 24 May 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
URSPRUNG (pantha du prince and stephan abry) record is definitely worth a listen: some nice ambient passages, motorik, and noodly guitar a la göttsching
― deadcandace (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
err motorik isnt the word i was looking for. whatever that sequenced beat in autobahn is called
― deadcandace (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
The Christian Loeffler album is really good, but so obviously in debt to Pantha Du Prince that it might qualify as a tribute album in places.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 28 June 2012 09:17 (eleven years ago) link
PANTHA DU PRINCE & THE BELL LABORATORY, ELEMENTS OF LIGHT, TO BE RELEASED ON 14TH JANUARYWork Composed by Pantha Du Prince Features a Three-Tonne, 50-Bell Carillon, Percussion and Electronics
Over the course of three albums—and as an in-demand remixer of artists ranging from Animal Collective to, most recently, Philip Glass—the Berlin-based musician and producer Pantha Du Prince (Hendrik Weber) has been celebrated for pushing the envelope of electronic music. His newest effort, Elements of Light, a collaborative project with The Bell Laboratory, is doubtless his most ambitious to date: The work is a symphony for electronics, percussion and bell carillon, a three-tonne instrument comprising 50 bronze bells. The genesis of the project began in Oslo in the summer of 2010, when Weber was having lunch with the local curators Mattis With and Håkon Vinnogg and heard, in the distance, one of the concerts that are played multiple times daily on a bell carillon inside the city hall. Weber was struck by how the frequencies and overtones unfolded unpredictably, influenced one another, and resonated, more or less, throughout the Norwegian capital. With and Vinnogg suggested he compose for the carillon, which was developed in China 3,500 years ago, during the Shang Dynasty, and made its way to Europe during the Middle Age. Weber began collaborating with the Norwegian Lars Petter Hagen, who served as arranger and conductor. For the recording, a bell carillon was shipped from Denmark to Germany, where Vegar Sandholt, the same carillonist that Weber had heard during his stay in Oslo, played it. A separate session, in Oslo, brought together a variety of percussionists, including Weber; Martin Horntveth, of Jaga Jazzist, Killl and The National Bank; Erland Dahlen, of Nils Petter Molvaer Trio, Susanne Sundfør, Madrugada, Xploding Plastix, and Kaada; the researcher and performer Håkon Stene, who teaches at the Norwegian Academy of Music; and Heming Valebjørg, of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. They contributed numerous tubular bells, marimba, xylophone, cymbals, chimes, handclaps, finger snaps and other percussion. The album is a single continuous work, although it has been broken down into five tracks named for elements of light: “Wave,” “Particle,” Photon,” “Spectral Split” and “Quantum.” Sonically, the work is a fusion of electronic music and classical composition, and draws on house and minimalism, jazz and new music, gamelan and western sacred music. Influences include John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Steve Reich, LaMonte Young and Moondog.Elements of Light is a natural next step in the Pantha Du Prince oeuvre. Bells figured prominently on his last album, the highly acclaimed Black Noise, which Rough Trade Records released in 2010. In a Best New Music review of Black Noise, Pitchfork said, “each track is its own micro sound world with enough rich detail to draw you back for deeper investigation.”Elements of Light live performances are being planned for late 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87rx_1xFgvg
YES
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
I was quite excited upon reading that and the track is really nice but it does sound almost exactly like most of the last two albums but with live percussion. I still find myself wishing he'd stretch himself more either melodically or texturally.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, saw mention of this earlier. Looking forward to it.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Matt DC you misspelled "wishing he'd keep re-making the same album forever because they're basically dopamine release levers for humans instead of rats"
― hot slag (lukas), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh, I quite like the youtube with live bells. It does seem to lift it above the "more of that same album he makes every years" thing. I'm not sure what exact envelope he's supposed to have been pushing exactly.
I didn't get around to listening to the remix album for Black Noise, maybe it will help me get into that record more. Magical words "Four Tet remix" appear in there.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:56 (eleven years ago) link
I have that FT remix somewhere, WCC. I'll try and dig it out for you.
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:58 (eleven years ago) link
No need! It is on the remix album. Which I am listening to right now. But thanks.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
His music is lovely but he doesn't "push the envelope" at all, that's just press release bollocks.
I mean when you read things like a fusion of electronic music and classical composition, and draws on house and minimalism, jazz and new music, gamelan and western sacred music. Influences include John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Steve Reich, LaMonte Young and Moondog then it's reasonable to expect a greater departure. Maybe the rest of the record will provide that.
Probably looking forward to the live performance more than anything right now.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 October 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not really a fan of pdp's music but saw him live at the dial night at netil house last month and was actually pretty good
― suare, Thursday, 18 October 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
Dunno if it's just the effects of the snow, but this record is sounding pretty great right now, if essentially the same as his previous albums. 'Spectral Split' is amazing.
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 January 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking of "Es Schneit" earlier today. Might have to give Black Noise a listen as I journey across the tundrous wastes of N London after work.
― Neil S, Monday, 14 January 2013 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
The live bells don't really sound that different to his sampled bells but this is really good, very wintery sounding. The sense stillness at the start of Spectral Split is really striking (excuse the excess alliteration).
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 19 January 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
buildup on 'spectral split' is great
― 乒乓, Monday, 28 January 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
This record making a tedious grey morning in a pokey little office seem infinitely more bearable.
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:29 (eleven years ago) link
it's a gorgeous record, very cocooning, very suitable for this current weather
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:18 (eleven years ago) link
Its brevity is a virtue as well, I lose interest in both This Bliss and Black Noise in their final third because his sound palette is consciously limited, but this is exactly the right length for one sitting.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
Very much looking forward to picking this up at the weekend.
― i would never inflict the process of making a sandwich on myself (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
I held the LP in my hands last weekend but chose not to buy it, largely because of what Matt DC says - the Pantha thing is often too much to take in the form of an album. Its supposed brevity makes me reconsider though...
― willem, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
love this album
― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
did anyone else go to the live show last night? INCREDIBLE experience. spellbinding
― lex pretend, Saturday, 16 February 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
Did he/they basically play the album in order?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 16 February 2013 12:16 (eleven years ago) link
pretty much, but for the encore did reworked older Pantha material (Eisbaden among them)
the ravey/percussiony bits were way more intense than on record, and it was really visually compelling too - the lights, the shadows, the weirdly robed musicians (at first I thought it was a religious thing - the whole thing sounds so devotional) - but their costumes were actually scientists' lab coats; also, the actual act of playing bells is oddly fun to watch
― lex pretend, Saturday, 16 February 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
So jealous.
― errant flynn, Saturday, 16 February 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
ya. i stupidly missed them when they were here in chicago — and it looks like he won't even be playing in the states for the rest of the year :C
― crimson hexagon sonned (clouds), Saturday, 16 February 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
jealous too
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 18 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
elements of light a godsend today
― dat neggy nilmar (wins), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
In the mood for a new Lawrence album.
(Couldn't find a Dial thread).
― djh, Sunday, 17 March 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
have been loving efdemin's s/t lately
― mimosa pudica (clouds), Sunday, 17 March 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
Feeling like I should love "Elements of Light" ... but I don't.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
^^
― eris bueller (lukas), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
the human bell-players aren't as tight as machines + he doesn't get to play with timbre the same way
― eris bueller (lukas), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Had a late night Dial Records shopping spree ... Phantom Ghost, Ursprung and Christian Naujoks albums now in the post.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
x-post: maybe. i usually love hearing people hitting bells and usually love pantha du prince but i like the * idea * of it more than the actual result.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
The new Lawrence single is making me want a new full-length too. But Elements Of Light is plenty sufficient.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 4 May 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link