Description:	2xLP on Rough Trade
	Format:	Double LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Techno
	Label:	Rough Trade
	Price:	£15.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Brian on 04 February 2010.

Been liking this here Pantha Du Prince CD on Rough Trade. He seems to have hit on the middle ground between Keiran Hebden's twinkly organic post-housescapes and the uber-talented James Holden's euphoric electro-tinged floor burners. He's got that whole smooth European techno sound sewn up, a sort of funky cerebral electronica that can blur the lines between the widescreen 4/4 of Trentmoller with the playful sub-bass experiments we've come to expect from Sam Shackleton - see the excellent track 'Abglanz'. So this 'Black Noise' is a collection that is concurrently minimal, inventive & fresh whilst coming across as familiar & surprisingly soothing (given its misleading title!!) Consisting of the sort of electronica that quite does it for me these days, a class act that will appeal to both yr modern indie brethren & yr Kompakt kidz!

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Sound clips for Black Noise by Pantha du Prince: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. Double LP (vinyl), Rough Trade, RTRADLP544, £15.99.

What their label says...

•    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 reworked tracks for Depeche    Mode,    Animal    Collective,    Bloc    Party, Phantom/Ghost and The Long Blondes, amongst many others.

•    ‘Black Noise’ also features special guests Noah Lennox of Animal Collective and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem.

•    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”.