Continuing to try and redefine the borders between the natural and the artificial, the dark and the light, Pantha du Prince brings us his third solo-album Black Noise. While releasing his previews two albums on Hamburg-based Dial Records, his third appears rather unusually on London’s Rough Trade. That however, does not mean he is sounding more like an indie band. Black Noise would still make a perfect addition to the Dial catalogue with its melancholic and dark interpretation of techno.
Making liberal use of elements such as the xylophone and glockenspiel and combining these with field recordings he collected in the Swiss Alps to build the base of the thirteen tracks on Black Noise, Weber creates a textured world with a thick fog of atmosphere. Adding heavy bass, intelligently arranged rhythms, spherical layers, vocals from Animal Collective’s Panda Bear or variations of Tyler Pope’s basslines, Weber creates his own definition of techno. This is on no small part down to inaudible frequencies, a phenomenon called black noise that gives the record its name.
Black Noise manages to sound both warm and cold, familiar and alien, organic and mechanical, complex and clearly structured, all at the same time. A musical paradox that is as enjoyable as it is confusing.
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