pantha du prince: the triad

Since his first 12” as Pantha Du Prince in 2002, Hendrik Weber has steadily built himself a career as a progenitor of the organic, humanistic branch of minimal techno that has helped the genre – and experimental electronic music more broadly – earn itself the place at the cultural table that it now has. And with his first proper solo Pantha Du Prince LP in 6 years, coming after 2010’s beloved, now-canonical Black Noise (and his acclaimed 2013 collaboration with The Bell Laboratory, Elements Of Light), Weber has further refined and advanced his uniquely naturalistic style into a sweeping and grand, but detailed and absorbing album, whose tracks evoke the tides’ crashings as much as the orchestra’s chamber, a cool night in a damp, mossy forest as much as the thrum of the dancefloor. A brilliant addition to an already spectacular career, The Triad is Pantha Du Prince’s most far-reaching statement yet, and a testament to the deeply human, enchanting potential in electronic music.