Saturday, August 01, 2009
Animal Collaborations
Ratatat are a band I didn't even realise I'd heard anything by until just a few days ago. I stumbled upon what I can only describe as their wigged out electronic Hip House sound through a remix by the mighty Animal Collective. Upon viewing their myspace page I actually found I recognised one of their tracks, 'Wildcat'. It was a case of "hmmm where have I heard this before?"The Animal Collective remix of their latest single 'Mirando' can only be described as 10 mins of glitched-up wonky ambient electronica that just takes you to another dimention with its blissful aural soundscapes. You have to hear it to understand what I'm trying to describe here.
Ratatat - Mirando (Animal Collective Remix) // XL Recordings Buy
Continuing with the Animal collaborations theme, the whole blogging world went nuts when news broke of the new single from Atlas Sound, the solo project from Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear from Animal Collective.
Considering these have been my favourite two bands of this year, to which my friends will no doubt attest to given me banging on about them at every opportunity, this collaboration seemed very special indeed. And I wasn't disappointed. 'Walkabout' is every bit uplifting as any Panda Bear/Animal Collective record and also has elements of Deerhunter's finest moments.
A summer record to savour indeed.
Atlas Sound - Walkabout (Feat Panda Bear) // 4AD
Labels: Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Panda Bear, Ratatat, XL Recordings
Monday, March 31, 2008
Endangered Species
Following on form RAW's Panda Bear post (Isn't that just the greatest LP), we had a comment from Dan expressing the wonderous virtues of a Pantha Du Prince remix of Animal Collective (of which Panda Bear is a member).Well I can gladly say that I have indeed sought out said remix and it is indeed wonderous. So I present it to you now. 10 minutes of deep, deep Techno in the typical Pantha Du Prince style. Exquisite.
Animal Collective - Peacebone (Pantha Du Prince Remix) // Domino (Buy)
Labels: Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Pantha Du Prince
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Rare Breed
The subject of today's post will be old news to many of you being as it's based on an album that came out the best part of a year ago and by an artist that's been putting out stuff since the back end of the 90s. However, Panda Bear only came to my attention after I noticed his Person Pitch album riding high in many of 2007's 'best of' charts.Having never heard of Panda Bear, I just assumed that Person Pitch was going to be another collection of tasty dancefloor delights but upon giving it a listen it sounded more like it had been stuck in a time warp for the last 40 years. In fact, the initial listen was akin to rummaging through your parent's record collection and finding a discarded gem from their youth. Numerous others have already made reference to the similarities with Brian Wilson's sound so I shan't harp on about it here as 60s music isn't exactly my speciality and I'd probably end up spouting even more rubbish than usual. Instead I'll simply leave you with a track from the album and a link to pick up a copy of your own.
Panda Bear - Take Pills //Paw Tracks
I'll also leave you with a tasty (unofficial) remix we were sent of the opening track from the album which juxtaposes the retro sounds with some modern day electronics. The man behind this runs Exponential records and it's well worth checking out his label over at www.antipop.net
Panda Bear - Comfortable in Nautica (Ernest Gonzales Remix)
Labels: Ernest Gonzales, Exponential Records, Panda Bear
