Being a somewhat lackluster releases week, I know I can trust in electronic music compilations. This album contains various artists from XL Records doing their best to alter Pantha Du Prince's Black Noise. Originally released in 2010, Black Noise was the minimal techno product of German producer Hendrik Weber. Some have criticized Weber for not keeping up with the times and current trends of electronic music, but for me, his debut with This Bliss in 2007 was a breath of fresh, repetitive air. Perhaps his style is a turn off for some critics because they just don't want to admit that electronic music was BETTER in domain of Underworld/Orbital/Chemical Brothers' late-nineties into the early 2000's. Such is why any connoisseur of that epoch of music will find Pantha du Prince as suitably reminiscent of a synthesizer sound and mixing style they know very well.
As a whole, the XL mixes are decent, although not all are stand out tracks. In some cases the remix is more interesting than the original. A few stand out artists are Hieroglyphic Being, Four Tet, and Animal Collective, whom I would not expect to be remixing Pantha du Prince! Their take on "Welt Am Draht" interests me the most because they bring a 2011 sensibility to a potentially dated sound, incorporating spacey, beachy vocals.
Take a listen to "Welt Am Draht (Animal Collective mix) here.
Get your own copy of XL Versions of Black Noise here.
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