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Posted by SMC on Jul-27-2009 20:44:

Pantha du Prince

Today i've listened twice to the "Diamond Daze" album, so i felt like making a thread.

He has become one of my favorite contemporary electronic artists. I've been listening a lot to his music and it's very much on my wavelength. It's warm and atmospheric but a bit cold and monochromatic at the same time, a balance i very much enjoy in music. It avoids sounding overly joyous and "bright", it's darkish, slightly bleak but subtly emotional. I connect really well with it on grey, rainy days (as i do with most of my favorite music).

I also think his work is quite original, i'm not gonna say what he does is revolutionary, but it has a subtly unique flavour i haven't heard anywhere else, not even on the Dial label that is home to other artists i enjoy. He mentions a very intresting set of artists as influences, the inspiration from shoegaze among other things is quite evident.

Crackles, noises, bells, pads, quirky melodies, mysterious bits of sound, tasteful minimalistic drum/rhythm work. There are moments of no-nonsense groovy beats and others that are blissful and emotional. The production is interesting, at times naked but never too obvious, always intriguing.

Also he feels like a proper artist, one who puts out proper albums, with nice, classy artwork and focuses on quality. (That goes for everything and everyone on Dial.)

Ok, that's enough. What do you guys think?

Posted by d-miurge on Jul-27-2009 20:48:

Re: Pantha du Prince

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Originally posted by SMC

What do you guys think?

It's even better live!

Posted by TranceArmstrong on Jul-27-2009 21:39:

yup he's awesome

my favorites are Saturn Strobe and his remix of Solomun - Keep Control

Posted by Adam420 on Jul-27-2009 22:17:

Love "This Bliss"

Posted by sljiva on Jul-27-2009 23:35:

Heard just This Bliss a couple of times at the time it was released and if I remember correctly it was one of those albums which are kinda interesting and different while you're listening to it, but as soon as you hear something not so forced and more complex and varied, your opinion about it starts to decline drastically. Efdemin's self-titled album had the exact same effect on me.

Posted by SMC on Jul-27-2009 23:53:

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Originally posted by sljiva
Heard just This Bliss a couple of times at the time it was released and if I remember correctly it was one of those albums which are kinda interesting and different while you're listening to it, but as soon as you hear something not so forced and more complex and varied, your opinion about it starts to decline drastically. Efdemin's self-titled album had the exact same effect on me.

Maybe you should give Diamond Daze a try, it's more toned down compared to This Bliss.

Posted by sljiva on Jul-28-2009 00:05:

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Originally posted by SMC
Maybe you should give Diamond Daze a try, it's more toned down compared to This Bliss.

Maybe, but I kinda gave up on techno/tech house albums (especially if they're newer date). I really don't want to listen to 10 dancefloor oriented tracks with microscopic variations between them (which was the case with This Bliss). Would it kill some of those techno producers to step away from 4x4 for a couple of tracks and concentrate on something else? For fucks sake, it's an album format, experiment a little bit!

Posted by lenazi on Jul-28-2009 00:31:

How do you get booked if you don't make people dance?

I am not saying you are wrong slijva, but if a guy wants to make money doing this he has to cater to his audience in hopes of being able to make a living while possibly being free to do some "exploration" after this fact.

Posted by SMC on Jul-28-2009 00:40:

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Originally posted by sljiva
Maybe, but I kinda gave up on techno/tech house albums (especially if they're newer date). I really don't want to listen to 10 dancefloor oriented tracks with microscopic variations between them (which was the case with This Bliss). Would it kill some of those techno producers to step away from 4x4 for a couple of tracks and concentrate on something else? For fucks sake, it's an album format, experiment a little bit!

"microscopic variations between them" is unfair. And i say that as someone who likes variation and who is not 4x4-centric, at all. In fact i don't listen to much 4x4 music but when i do, like when i put on a Pantha du Prince album, i don't mind having an hour or so of it. I wouldn't mind more variation in terms of tempos and programming, but in this case i don't feel the lack of something other than 4x4 detracts anything from the experience. I too get bored with albums where i feel the tracks, and the beats in particular, are too samey. Maybe we approach this stuff differently.

Posted by enydo on Jul-28-2009 03:11:

I picked up Asha a few days ago and I really like it, I need to check more of his stuff out.

Posted by Demoted on Jul-28-2009 03:12:

I liked his remix of Animal Collective's Bonefish. His other stuff's solid too.