Pantha du Prince: This Bliss [Dial]

Cozen. is that playlist to big to transcribe over here? Spotify is not available in my country and I loved your picks upthread.

it's pretty much just the same stuff above (tracks and albums, incl. three or four other tracks I remembered when putting it together)

K thanks cozen.... here is a tracklist I arranged some months ago with a similar mood:

Gui Boratto - Atol
Mathew Leutwyler - Jovencitas
Sascha Funke - Mango
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Jet
The Rice Twins - for Penny and Alexis
Stephan Bodzin - Kerosene
Pantha du Prince - Asha
The MFA - The difference it makes
Nightguy - Pretty Face
Raz Ohara and the Odd Orchestra - Kisses (Pantha du Prince remix)
Sennh - I am with you
Ellen Allien - Sehnsucht
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M
Moonbeam - Slow Heart
Flying Lotus - Auntie’s Lock / Infinitum
Shigeto - Winter Thaw
Mujuice - Over the Rainbow
Ezekiel Honig - More human than human
Paul Kalkbrenner - Aaron
Son.sine - Upekah
Paul Kalkbrenner - Since 77
Arc Lab - Versions
Four Tet & Burial - Moth
Jesse Somfay - Amo Alucinor
Stimming - The Kiss
Broker/Dealer - Every Other Sunday
Closer Musik - Maria
Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
Triola - Neuland

I thought this was "just okay" at first, something of a retread... but it's getting more and more awesome with each listen. Probably in my top 3-4 of the year so far, along with Four Tet and a couple other greats.

yeah i really like the broken music box acoustic sounds that pop up seemingly out of nowhere on this record. reminds me a little of anthony collins stuff.

Conveniently, it's on Spotify so I can make up my mind.

and, like This Bliss, sounds even better on vinyl!

http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/4073-pantha-du-prince-stick-to-my-side-rough-trade

ok you bastards this is pretty damn good altho admittedly i have only heard 1 1/2 songs from it thus far

in an hour i will have enjoyed the whole thing

will presumably treat myself to 'this bliss' afterwards

http://roughtraderecords.com/files/sticktomysidefourtetversion_panthaduprince.mp3

Four Tet remixes Pantha Du Prince.

let me guess mr mouthy you are about to tell me to listen to the four tet album

that is generally how these things go

It is great.

this album seriously bangs, 'satellite snyper' is HUGE

~seriously bangs~

this isn't really that good apart from about one track, the one that has a vocal that may be someone american but i didn't check....it's like about 10 per cent of older better german emo techno eg kompakt.

it's not as good sonically maximalist as ulrich schnauss, that's for sure

but there's good, intricate work at play here, and arresting songs

my problem with techno is that i never know where to start

i'm trying not to needlessly just criticise a record but basically i listened this and thought it sounded like everything dial have done for years, like really years. not bad but i personally would love to hear some techno that overrides brain over heritage/soul but it'd be better if it was done in a new way.

I listen to german techno about once a year so this fits my needs...

I would like to know more about superpitcher though. guess I'll do some diggin

black noise would appear to be the techno dilettante's album of choice '10

ronan it is your mission to unveil unseen delights in a non-oh-my-god-it's-full-of-stars way - a couple of shit-hot recommendations, rather than a cataract of fabric mixes and all the doubtless great but highly specialised ephemera that constitute the techno scene

just search superpitcher in spotify....no means a comprehensive selection but basically a primer of high quality.

from the (not at all reflective of how good superpitcher is) results start with the remix of "along the wire"

do they have spotify in hong kong?

no :(

I hereby petition the british parliament to mandate that all services available exclusively to residents of the UK also be made available to residents of all of the queen's former colonies as well

hard luck chum, enjoy yr 'independence'

:( TAKE US BACK

black noise would appear to be the techno dilettante's album of choice '10

Yeah, I can't even qualify as a techno dilettante (I am sub-dilettante in regard to techno) and I love it. It does make me curious to hear more along these lines, but I'm happy to just enjoy it as possibly a one-off techno album I somehow happen to like a whole lot.

(As mentioned before, I didn't even know what genre it was when I downloaded it.)

ok cool dyao we're sending over our top agent to try and convince the chinese that they need more british potentates to tell them how to make tea

don't you mean british... MANDARINS

*dum dum dum*

http://www.greenexpander.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/a-mandarinduck.jpg

REQUIEM

I guess this is the de facto Pantha Du Prince thread?

Anyway this video is like what I picture when I listen to Black Noise, only there's no Jim Hensonesque puppet in my vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYp91WftFqQ

I was alerted to this via the Facebook fan page which made it seem like it was new, but thinking about it and considering video views it is very likely it is not, but I liked it anyway

http://vimeo.com/10773105 there's this too

Oh, why not? http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=125676131

Didn't write the headline, comments are o_O, apologies for self-promo.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125676131 is the actual written piece, notably different from the radio one.

Didn't realize until last week that "Welt am Draht" is a reference to Fassbinder's film by the same name - that uses Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross" (as featured in the KLF's Chill Out & the Köhncke/Heimermann cover) as end titles music.

Oh, why not? http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=125676131

Didn't write the headline, comments are o_O, apologies for self-promo.

― Please Do Not Swagga Jack Me (Matos W.K.), Monday, 19 April 2010 22:55 (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha!! I put that comment in there with the link to a Kenny Larkin YouTube link after being bewildered that someone referenced the shittiest of shit as "techno". Should have been more vitriolic in my despair!

hahaha I was thinking more of the "Oh yeah, it's ambient!" stuff. and I hadn't seen Phil's comment till after I linked it here.

Sherburne sorts 'em out.

I tried This Bliss (after liking Black Noise) but the techno/house rhythms that normally bug me felt too upfront on that one. I may have tried too hard to like it, because now on returning to Black Noise I'm not enjoying it so much any more. I still like aspects of it a lot, but am having trouble getting back my visceral dislike of the primary beats on it. Maybe the whole thing was just a fluke for me. I also didn't like some of the cosmic synth sounds on This Bliss (which reminded me of the mostly German electronic I moved away from after the 80s), but that may have mainly been on one track. I definitely still like Black Noise comparatively more than This Bliss, mostly, I think, because there are more other rhythmic things (beside the core beats) going on that I find interesting. Also, I like the inclusion of more organic environmental sounds.

Nice insert in the CD package for this album. (I already had this on order by the time I started to lose some of my enthusiasm for it, so I'm hoping I haven't lost my appreciation completely.)

Please, please tell me this isn't another complaint about techno that is inherently worse because it doesn't have complex rhythm.

I just dislike techno rhythms themselves, on a gut level. I'm definitely not interested in an argument about it. I only posted to this thread because I liked Black Noise, and some of my comments are my attempts to figure out why.

Well, you can't blame a techno producer for having techno rhythms.

Rudi, I'm curious what you think of Christian Prommer's instrumental covers of various techno/house classics, if you know them...

I don't know them. The whole Pantha du Prince thing maybe have been a fluke and I probably shouldn't have even posted on this thread. I will look around for the Christian Prommer though, since you've mentioned it.

Oh you just linked to some, duh.