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Recommended by us on 12th March 2010
...according to our Ant on Thu 11 Mar, 2010.
Riding the current wave of Pantha Du Prince's successful Rough trade long player, Dial have reissued his second album on CD. It was originally issued in 2007 but feels a lot like his recent work in terms of pristine production and all the percussive layers. Generally speaking though the overall vibe is a little darker. From what I've read Hendrik Weber is quite conceptual with his ideas. Here even using small samples from Popul Vuh's soundtrack to a Werner Herzog movie. There's probably too much going on here to really call this minimal techno but certainly fans of Kompakt's techy house stuff should give this a whirl. I usually like this sort of stuff a little rawer sounding but in this case I quite like the polished sound.* Re-released due to high-profile new album on Rough Trade label.
* Inspired by esoteric minimalist Wim Mertens, Pantha du Prince has managed to pull out all the stops, "This Bliss" sounds like a trip to the end of the world (and the night).
* The sophisticated and minimal track "Moonstruck", a homage to Terry Riley, is definitely a club track. "Silent War" is how Hendrik Weber describes the zone where chaos and order, war and peace, silence and noise merge together. The track "Eisbaden" is more a movie soundtrack that accompanies this disorienting experience for body and mind. The way Weber uses unknown material blurs the boundaries between inside and outside, between self and others. "Saturn
Strobe" is a cover version of a track from contemporary composer Robert Skempton. But due to the reversed phases, the strings do not remind of the original version anymore, but rather of a surreal invention. For "Steiner im Flug", a will-o'- the-wisping homage to Werner Herzog's movie on the bizarre ski jumper Steiner, Pantha du Prince used microscopic
micro elements from the soundtrack by composer Popol Vuh. "Seeds of Sleep" tries to blur the limits between the sound concepts of Neu! and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
* TRACKLIST: 1 Asha 6:31 2 Saturn Strobe 7:27 3 Walden 2 10:32 4 Moonstruck 5:36 5 Eisbaden 7:04 6 Urlichten 12:09 7 White Out 6:18 8 Florac 6:04 9 Steiner Im Flug 6:30 10 Seeds Of Sleep
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