The last time rising UK producer Gold Panda made an appearance around these parts, it was for "You", his then-single and now-opening track to his forthcoming full-length debut, Lucky Shiner. The track was built on a particularly neat trick; that is, taking a singular, minuscule element-- that looped-and-chopped titular vocal tic-- and repeating it until the song's other elements all seemed to revolve around it. So we know he's got a talent for capturing that "Big Moment". The subsequent tastes from Lucky Shiner, meanwhile, have revealed his more meticulous, textural side.
"Snow & Taxis" takes an endlessly repeated loop or two and lets them slowly dissolve into a ghostly, bell-laden thumper, while new single "Same Dream China" takes the route of finding bliss through disorientation a step further. The opening irregular pattern of malleted melody (which vaguely recalls Steve Reich's "Nagoya Marimbas") lasts a relative while-- just enough to vibrate inside your headspace one last time before a smacking beat breaks it up. This stuff is pretty dreamy, too-- but the title doesn't get it all right, since Panda's far from a one-trick pony.
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