The most striking cut on Ghostly-signed Gold Panda’s DJ Kicks is its its severe opener, “An Iceberg Hurled Northwards Through Clouds.” Ignoring the Eggers-ready title, the track delivers on it’s arctic intentions. It is snow blinding minimal techno, except with steel drums and odd bell ringing.
Peaking Lights dope it, dragging things out to an opiated crawl and smothering the beat in goth-dub vocals. The end result sounds like a fairly funky Bavarian ski lodge, where people ignore mountain sports for morphine hits. To be fair, Gold Panda’s real name is actually Panda. He is British-born, of South Asian ancestry, and he channels German techno. The remix is handled by a Wisconsin band who deconstruct music from Jamaica, while releasing records on a Los Angeles bedroom label. You are reading this on the Internet, sitting down where ever. None of this should make sense, but we’ll figure it out.
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MP3: Gold Panda: “An Iceberg Hurled Northwards Through Clouds (Peaking Lights Vocal Mix)”
Stream: Gold Panda original verson
An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds by Gold Panda
