Pantha du Prince – Stick To My Side (Four Tet Version)
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. As I’ve talked about before, I saw Pantha du Prince warm up for Animal collective last year. Huddled behind the decks, covered in a black hoodie, he played a set of his own releases that the indie crowd didn’t fully understand. The setting definitely wasn’t the right for melancholic techno, but when he shows up at Dunkel in a couple of weeks, I bet we’ll get a better opportunity to appreciate his music. Four Tet seems like the opposite. From the first beat of his remix of Stick To My Side the hi-hats kick off the groove and are immediately followed by a relentless arpeggiator line. Where Panda Bear‘s vocals were the favourite part of the original, the role they play on Four Tet’s remix is much less important. Like most of Four Tet’s production, this is strictly about the groove, and as long as that groove is solid, we will all come back for more. Graphic high five via Lark About Similar ramblings:
