Description:	12" inc Noah from Animal Collective & Four Tet mix!!
	Format:	12" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Techno
	Label:	Rough Trade
	Price:	£4.79
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Business Lady on 11 March 2010.

Stick to my side is a total tune and one of the highlights of Pantha Du Prince's Black Noise LP thanks to an excellent vocal line from Noah Lennox of Animal Collective. Here we get three mixes as well as the original tune (which sounds as good as it did on the LP so i won't go on about it here). The Efdemin mix applies a little of the Four Tet formula to emote a naturalist techno feel from the original. Noah's vocal drifts around a mix of solid bass beats and some tasteful use of chimes and bells. Kieran Hebden's effort sounds less like Four Tet than the Efdemin mix (?) but it's easily the best of the tracks here. Drums are treated with some crazy phase and wild arpeggios are added creating a lively, danceable mix making great use of the vocal. Not sure who Lawrence is (sorry Lawrence) but his version strips the track down to the fundamentals and introduces hand claps and minimalist vibes to great effect. All in all these are some tasteful mixes well worth pursuing and a testament to Pantha Du Prince's original source material. Ace.

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What their label says...

Pantha Du Prince releases single ‘Stick To My Side’ featuring Noah Lennox of Animal Collective on vocals, on March 8th on Rough Trade Records. The Single is supported by mixes by Four Tet, Efdemin, Lawrence & Walls. It follows the release of his new album, “Black Noise” which was released on February 8th. 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.  The prelude to recording the album included a visit to the Swiss Alps to record sounds and next to where he was staying was a huge pile of debris, the remnants of a huge landslide that had buried an entire village. This inspired the concept of the album, with the idea that ‘Black Noise’ is something of a sonic warning heard before momentous natural events.

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.”