Gold Panda - TON UP Basement Influences from everyday listening –

Influences from everyday listening – from Brazilian music and electronic records to film soundtracks – remain deliberately submerged

The fusion of Caribbean rhythm elements into an R&B context demonstrates Connors’ willingness to experiment with global sounds while keeping things soulful and danceable

Smoke Signals    [6:40]

his punching voice puncturing dimensions and acting as a vessel that expresses unity with the multiplicities of the creative communities he’s involved with

the man bringing strings to rock and roll

Gold Panda - TON UP Basement Influences from everyday listening –Gold Panda returns with TON UP, a brilliantly stubborn new album for Studio Barnhus: eight rough hewn dance tracks and two cozy little service station interludes, all crafted with the robust determination of a producer who knows that 140 bpm is not so much a tempo as a way of life. Made with Derwin Dickers unmistakable sampler bashing touch, the tracks on TON UP carry the raw knock of old school hip hop instrumentals, pushed through pumping house