pantha du prince: the winter hymn

late arrival. the first new music from Hendrik Weber – a.k.a Pantha Du Prince - since his 2013 collaboration with The Bell Laboratory, and the first proper Pantha Du Prince release in six years. Pantha Du Prince’s 2010 masterpiece, long-player Black Noise, is well acknowledged to have expanded both the sonic and emotional possibilities of minimal techno; the songs’ warmth, intricacy, and creative boundary-pushing, have earned him a seat in the Pantheon of modern electronic music, alongside contemporaries like Burial, Four Tet, or The Field. With his wildly-anticipated new music, Weber expands his scope: the crystalline delicacy of “The Winter Hymn” is deeply evocative of the track’s namesake season; “Post human palisades” finds him merging electronic and organic instrumentation into a delicate narrative of alienation and other, bolstered by a pulsing dance floor heartbeat; and “Dream Yourself Awake” is filmic and transfixing.