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Pantha Du Prince’s Bio

Rough Trade is very pleased to announce the signing of electronic musician and producer, Pantha du Prince. His new full length, Black Noise will be released on February 9th, 2010. 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.

Black Noise also features a couple of special guests – Noah Lennox of Animal Collective sings on “Stick To My Side” and Tyler Pope of !!! and LCD Soundsystem plays bass on “The Splendour”.

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.”

Influences:

arvo pärt, this heat, pan sonic, ride, slowdive, susumu yokota, j.s. bach, wim mertens, robert hood, moose, durruti column, earth 2, workshop, carl craig, baby ford, mad mike, chain reaction, eight miles high, la monte young, annette von droste hülshoff, neal stevenson, michael hanneke, claire denis, caspar david friedrich, bruno dumont