Pantha du Prince: This Bliss [Dial]

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.

I like the kitchen.

I actually think that if you removed Saturn Strobe from This Bliss, then Black Love would be the better album, it's certainly more engaging throughout, now I've been living with it for a few months. Obviously the fact that This Bliss DOES contain Saturn Strobe lifts it way way above the new one.

Paul, those aren't so bad, I guess. "Groove La Chord" gets on my nerves a little, especially the snares, but mostly I don't really have a strong reaction to it overall. I don't know the originals in either case. The second has a samba feel to me and is a little more accessible.

I much prefer the originals but suspected you might not. I have a gut-level dislike of Latin-jazz grooves that's similar to your techno thing. Doesn't stop me from enjoying some music from that world (which is hugely diverse, after all); but it's an obstacle. So I can relate to what you were saying upthread.

Anyway, all the discussion about Black Noise finally prompted me to go back and check out This Bliss, which I've ended up liking quite a lot. I think I originally got it mixed up with Justice † because the album covers are similar. I like what I've heard off of BN as well and may pick it up someday.

The Prommer tracks do make me question whether it's really the rhythms themselves or a combination of the rhythms and the particularly instrumentation/timbre that normally go with them. I'm not 100% sure. I'm also not giving up on BN, and still definitely like some of what's going on there.

I think I originally got it mixed up with Justice †

This strikes me as really strange