Hendrik Weber, better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel and Glühen 4 is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 producer and DJ affiliated with Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

's Dial

Dial Records (1999)

Dial Records is a music label focusing primarily on post-minimalist dance music . It was founded in 1999 in Hamburg, Germany by Peter M. Kersten and David Lieske...

 music label and British label Rough Trade

Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...

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Career

Weber's style as Pantha du Prince evolved from the harder end of the house music

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...

 spectrum and minimal techno

Minimal techno

Minimal techno is a minimalist sub-genre of techno. It is characterized by a stripped-down aesthetic that exploits the use of repetition, and understated development. This style of dance music production generally adheres to the motto less is more; a principle that has been previously utilized, to...

 to something the artist himself describes as 'Sonic House', incorporating acoustic elements, electronically altered field recordings, and shoegazing

Shoegazing

Shoegazing is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted there until the mid 1990s, with a critical zenith reached in 1990 and 1991...

 references. He launched his Pantha du Prince identity in 2002, with the four-track 12" "Nowhere". His first full-length CD/double LP, Diamond Daze

Diamond Daze

Diamond Daze is the first album by the German minimal techno producer Pantha du Prince. It was released on January 26, 2004.Though the album went relatively unnoticed by the general public, Diamond Daze was well-liked by critics such as Andy Kellman at allmusic...

(2004), featured hard-edged club songs, with Weber sampling The Chills

The Chills

The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. In the 1980s and 1990s, they were one of the proponents of the Dunedin Sound.- History :...

’ "Pink Frost" on the track "Circle Glider". Writing for allmusic, Jason Birchmeier also detected an affinity for shoegaze bands

Shoegazing

Shoegazing is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted there until the mid 1990s, with a critical zenith reached in 1990 and 1991...

 such as My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive

Slowdive

Slowdive were an English shoegaze band that formed in 1989. The band formed in Reading, Berkshire and primarily consisted of Nick Chaplin , Rachel Goswell , Neil Halstead , and Christian Savill...

 as well as for the stylings of Detroit Techno

Detroit techno

Detroit techno is an early style of electronic music beginning in the 1980s. Detroit, Michigan has been cited as the birthplace of techno music. Prominent Detroit Techno artists include Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson...

 producer Carl Craig

Carl Craig

Carl Craig is a Detroit-based producer of techno music, and is considered to be one of the most important names in the Detroit second generation of techno producers and DJs...

. Weber’s 2005 remix 12" "Butterfly Girl Versions" and the 2006 "Lichten/Walden" 12" were again published on the German Dial

Dial Records

Dial Records has been the name of at least four different record labels in the 20th century:* Dial Records – a US based company.* Dial Records – a US based company.* Dial Records – a US based company....

 label.. In 2007, Weber released This Bliss

This Bliss

This Bliss is the second album by the German minimal techno artist Pantha du Prince. It was released on January 29, 2007. Two of the tracks, Urlichten and Walden 2, had been released prior to the album on the Lichten/Walden 12" single. It was named the 55th best album of the decade by Resident...

in which he explored travel, time, and the joy of forward motion. Commenting on the album’s juxtaposition of ethereal melodic elements and a dance music backbone, Tim Finney gave it 7.7 out of 10 in a review for Pitchfork. The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica described This Bliss as Pantha du Prince's "high-water mark", "a pensive, slender and tough album". In 2010, Weber switched labels to Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London. It was formed in 1978 by Geoff Travis who had opened a record store off Ladbroke Grove...

 before releasing his third album Black Noise

Black Noise (Pantha du Prince album)

Black Noise is the third album by the German minimal techno artist Pantha du Prince, and the first to be released on Rough Trade Records. It was released on February 8, 2010...

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Albums

• Diamond Daze
  Diamond Daze
  Diamond Daze is the first album by the German minimal techno producer Pantha du Prince. It was released on January 26, 2004.Though the album went relatively unnoticed by the general public, Diamond Daze was well-liked by critics such as Andy Kellman at allmusic...
  
  (2004)
• This Bliss
  This Bliss
  This Bliss is the second album by the German minimal techno artist Pantha du Prince. It was released on January 29, 2007. Two of the tracks, Urlichten and Walden 2, had been released prior to the album on the Lichten/Walden 12" single. It was named the 55th best album of the decade by Resident...
  
  (2007)
• Black Noise
  Black Noise (Pantha du Prince album)
  Black Noise is the third album by the German minimal techno artist Pantha du Prince, and the first to be released on Rough Trade Records. It was released on February 8, 2010...
  
  (2010)

Singles

• Nowhere (2002)
• Butterfly Girl Versions (2005)
• Lichten/Walden (2006)
• Behind The Stars
  Behind the Stars
  "Behind The Stars" is a single by Pantha du Prince. It was released on 12" vinyl on April 2, 2009. It was his first release since his second album, This Bliss, which was released in 2007. An edited version of the A-side was included on his 2010 album Black Noise...
  
  (2009)

External links

• Official Website
• Official Myspace
• [ Pantha du Prince] at Allmusic
• Pantha du Prince on Discogs
  Discogs
  Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...