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- Summary: The latest full-length release for electronic producer Pantha du Prince features live instruments as well as field recordings.
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- Record Label: Modern Recordings
- Genre(s): Electronic, House, Techno, Club/Dance, Experimental Techno, Tech-House, Microhouse
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Aug 30, 2022Garden Gaia is a varied presentation of the different routes Pantha du Prince has taken over the years, but its different styles contrast more than they conflict, offering up some of the project's most captivating material to date.
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Aug 30, 2022For the first time in awhile, however, the energies he has expended have converged into a proper piece of art.
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Aug 30, 2022It's both humble and ambitious, wonderfully arranged in some places and slightly clumsy in others (the Popol Vuh-isms of "Start A New Life" kill the album's momentum just three tracks in, and I've yet to be convinced by Weber's humdrum vocals). But for an artist who has always been earnest and upfront about big melodies, Garden Gaia feels like the logical next step, freeing him from his techno past.
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Aug 30, 2022The music on Garden Gaia is inspired by the idea of Earth as a self-regulating system, and it’s heartening in that context to hear Weber let his machines fall into disrepair. But Garden Gaia sounds best when they’re swallowed up entirely.