Gold Panda – You 7″ and Tour
Gold Panda: You 7"
What makes Gold Panda stand out from other artists creating digital music from found sounds, manipulated samples and blips? Musically I’m not sure – it has a rawer texture, perhaps, it is rhythmically slightly more pressed, maybe. Emotionally though, the Chelmsford producer’s music is something of a revelation, taking the introspection of Burial and Four Tet and mixing it with the collective ecstasy of The Go! Team or M.I.A..
At times his music are the words you only ever wrote for yourself, at others it is the love you irrevocably spilled in nightclubs, in parks, in bedrooms. At times his music is the pulse of late night suburban pavements swathed in an orange glow of street lights, at others it is a rainforest.
Gold Panda featured in the BBC’s list of nominees for the Sound of 2010 award, something he should feel honoured to have missed out on if we are to judge by Ellie Goulding’s strangely vacuous music and success. He followed this success with the brilliant Quitter’s Raga 7” and Before. His music has been influenced by, variously, living in Japan, B movies on VHS and minimal techno.
His single ‘You’ on his own NOTOWN label is to be released on 7” vinyl with the B-side ‘Before We Talked’ on 10th May and the digital version will see his contemporaries create those annoyingly ubiquitous and unexceptionally uninteresting remixes that fill up the EPs on iTunes Store.
Appropriately, Gold Panda will support Caribou across Europe as well as performing at various festivals.
UK Live Dates:
May
15th Brighton, Great Escape
21st Liverpool – Sound City
22nd Glasgow – Stag & Dagger
July
30th Dorset – Camp Bestival
31st London – Field Day
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