Pantha Du Prince - Versions Of Black Noise - 12" Vinyl

Sterling versions from Moritz Von Oswald, Animal Collective, Hieroglyphic Being, The Sight Below and Die Vogel. Pantha Du Prince's 'Black Noise' was by far one of 2010's most refined, luxurious and pop-spirited Techno albums, providing many riches for the appointed remixers. To 'Welt Am Draht' Herr Von Oswald diffuses the vocals into spiralling stereo swirls around pendulous, padded subbass and brittle, spraing percussion, contrasting with the repetitious Reichian phrasing of Die Vogel's version and Animal Collective's gaseous expansion into ritualistic rhythmic psychedelia. In his The Sight Below guise, Rafael Anton Irisarri revises 'A Nomad's Retreat' as a sulkier beast, clothed with his signature distended harmonics and propelled by murkier bass, but the best of all is Hieroglyphic Being's subtly engrossing organisation of clumped loops and VHS mirage treatments.